By James Wilsdon, Professor of Research Policy, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL
If we want to be reminded what real damage to a science system looks like, we only need to glance across the Atlantic.
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By Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Royal Society Newton International Fellow in Palaeontology, UCL
Around 80 million years ago, a stretch of tropical coastline in what is now north-eastern Italy was lashed by monsoon rains and tropical cyclones. Those storms swept dinosaur carcasses, crocodiles, plants and river mud onto a tidal flat, where the tides and a film of microbes sealed everything away with extraordinary preservation.
My colleagues and I have published a new study that reconstructs the violent tropical climate behind the Villaggio…
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By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
Fake and diverted medicines are reaching UK patients through cloned pharmacy websites and social media – here’s how to spot them.
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By Paul Hough, Lecturer Sport and Exercise Physiology, University of Westminster
Heat can relax tired muscles and briefly improve power, but current studies do not show that i infrared saunas speed the body’s repair processes.
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By Joe Árvai, Professor of Psychology, Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
What communities and businesses really need is information they can act on, with examples of what’s worked elsewhere and why – and what fails.
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By Tara Kolar Bryan, Associate Professor of Public Administration, University of Tennessee
Researchers found that while authorities have depended on nonprofits to deal with the refugee crisis, many nonprofit leaders had little say in planning and coordination.
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By Jordan Hyatt, Associate Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, Drexel University
C. Clare Strange, Assistant Professor of School Psychology, Special Education, and Sociology
Nathan Link, Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University
Brian Lawton, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
New research maps where legal financial obligations are concentrated – and finds they overlap with poverty, violence and racial inequality.
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By Jason M. Blazakis, Professor of Practice and Director of Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism, Middlebury College
Antifa is a scattered movement of local collectives that opposes fascism. It has no leader, command hierarchy, funding structure or record of deadly attacks.
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By Steve Strauss, University Distinguished Professor of Forest Biotechnology, Oregon State University
By identifying the genes and molecules crucial to resistance in American chestnuts and other species, researchers hope to use genomic techniques to breed trees that can flourish in the face of blight.
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By Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, Ph.D. Candidate in Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida
A new mission to save NASA’s Swift observatory shows why catching a satellite that was never designed for rescue is one of the hardest jobs in spaceflight.
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