By Jim Lamson, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of War Studies, King's College London
Matthew Moran, Professor of International Security, King's College London
After three months of war with two of the world’s most technologically and militarily advanced countries, Iran has proved far more resilient than anticipated. Indeed, strategically at least, Tehran appears to now have the upper hand in the conflict. How has this situation come about?
When the United States joined Israel to launch the latest war with Iran in late February 2026, the prognosis did not look good for the regime in Tehran.
In attacking Iran, the US and Israel set up a highly…
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By Simon Mckeown, Professor of Art, School of Arts & Creative Industries, Teesside University, Teesside University
Hockney insisted that art is an experiment in seeing, never treating the act of looking as passive, continually adopting whatever helped him see.
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By Sergi Muria Maldonado, Professor de Didàctica de les Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona
Anton Aubanell Pou, Professor de l'Institut de Formació Continuada i professor jubilat de Didàctica de les Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona
Jordi Font González, Professor de Didàctica de les Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona
2026 marks 100 years since the death of Antoni Gaudí, the architect of the Basilica of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona. While the temple’s beauty is extraordinary in its own right, it becomes even more profound when we explore the numerical forms that lie behind its striking forms.
By contemplating the mathematical principles that underpin its structure, the visual harmony of the whole takes on a new dimension, endowing it with a renewed functionality, balance and coherence.
Mathematician Claudi…
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By Edwin Mutyenyoka, Senior Researcher, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
Franzisca Zanker, Senior researcher, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
Kenya’s new refugee policy seeks to shift away from a camp-based system to one centred on inclusion into the local economy.
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By Andreas Scheba, Associate Professor, University of the Free State
Judith Lehner, Senior scientist, TU Wien
Vienna’s experience provides a useful point of reference for reflecting on how social housing delivery might be accelerated in South Africa.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image In defiance of a ban on all Pride events in Istanbul and full police lockdown, demonstrators assembled in the backstreets of Nişantaşı neighborhood near Taksim, Istanbul, Turkey, June 25, 2023. © 2023 Deniz Bayram/Human Rights Watch As Hungary begins to close the chapter on its anti-LGBT era by dropping criminal charges against Pride March organizers, Türkiye is moving in a sharply opposite direction proposals to jail LGBT people. Turkish media reported in recent days that the Erdoğan government has circulated a brief to its Justice and Development Party…
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By Carmen da Silva, Macquarie University Research Fellow, Macquarie University
Rosalyn Gloag, School of Life and Environmental Sciences Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Vanessa Kellermann, Senior Lecturer, Ecological Plant and Animal Sciences Melbourne, La Trobe University
Bees have many different ways of building their homes.
Many people will be familiar with the hives of European honeybees, often found in tree cavities. But many other bees – including many of Australia’s roughly 2,000 species of native bees – build their nests underground, in plant stems or in wood cavities.
Our new paper published in Nature Communications shows…
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By Thomas Caffrey, Tutor/Lecturer in English Literature, Dublin City University
Such is the writer’s love of repetition that a game of Murakami bingo resurfaces every time he publishes a new book.
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By Ceri Fowler, Career Development Fellow in Comparative Politics, University of Oxford
With the Makerfield byelection approaching, polling suggests that Andy Burnham has a lead over Reform UK’s candidate Robert Kenyon. That lead, it appears, is stronger among women than men. Among women, Burnham’s lead stretches to 17 points, while among men is just two points.
One factor behind this may be the social media campaign being run by Reform. Analysis suggests that the party’s posts are targeted at (and…
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By Sam Illingworth, Professor of Creative Pedagogies, Edinburgh Napier University
A haiku builds a scene and then breaks it. Climate change has exactly that shape, which means the form itself can carry the science.
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