By Huaying Wang, Researcher in Education, Cleveland State University
After my niece died by suicide, I began researching how Chinese immigrant families feel about their children’s mental health and why they often avoid care.
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By Ingrid A. Nelson, Professor of Sociology, Bowdoin College
A series of racist costume parties at Bowdoin shows the contradiction colleges have to navigate – encouraging open, reasoned debate, while creating a safe campus for all students.
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By Gideon Yoffe, Postdoctoral Fellow in Planetary Science, Weizmann Institute of Science
Future missions may be able to take only a small, damaged sample from space back to Earth. A simple analysis tool could help determine whether its contents suggest the presence of life.
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By Carrie McDonough, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
Virtually every living thing on Earth, from Patagonian penguins to newborn human babies, has been touched by the synthetic chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl…
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By Thomas Adam, Professor of Political Science, University of Arkansas
Over the past two centuries, soccer – or football, as it is called in much of the English-speaking world – has become a truly global phenomenon that connects fans on all continents. It is also, come World Cup time, a deeply nationalist affair that pits teams and their fans from various countries against each other.
Yet today’s deeply competitive…
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By Antonio R. Moreno Poyato, Associate professor, Universitat de Barcelona
Khadija El Abidi El Ghazouani, Professora Lectora d'Infermeria, Universitat de Barcelona
Sara Sanchez-Balcells, Enfermera especialista en salud mental
Being admitted to a mental health unit can be one of the most vulnerable moments in a person’s life. They often arrive in the midst of a crisis, and are fearful, confused and anxious. But in these situations, one thing can profoundly affect their experience: the relationship established with the nurses who attend them, especially in the first days.
While it may seem secondary to medical treatments or clinical decisions, the therapeutic relationship – meaning the collaborative bond between patient and nurse – has a greater impact than previously thought.
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By Oyewale Tomori, Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
As the news spread about the outbreak of Ebola in mid-May 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report about pandemics. The title was: A World on the Edge: Priorities for a Pandemic-Resilient Future.
The document was prepared by the WHO’s Global Preparedness Monitoring Board. It sets out why the world isn’t better prepared for pandemics a decade after Ebola exposed dangerous…
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By Mehebub Sahana, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Geography, University of Manchester
Bayes Ahmed, Associate Professor in Risk and Disaster Science, UCL
Bangladesh has just approved one of the largest river engineering projects its history: the Padma Barrage, a vast river-control project intended to restore water in the country’s drought-prone southwest.
It comes at a dangerous moment for South Asia’s rivers. China is building the world’s largest hydropower dam upstream on the Brahmaputra, India is accelerating its own dam-building…
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By Fiona Handyside, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Exeter
As we approach the centenary of Monroe’s birth, the image that endures in the public imagination has been largely stripped of voice and agency.
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By Nurbek Bekmurzaev
The North Aral is the only remaining heir to the once mighty and plentiful Aral Sea, deserving of every effort to save it - even without long-term assurances.
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