By Parveen Akhtar, Senior Lecturer: Politics, History and International Relations, Aston University
The new party’s first meeting was full of excited members passionate about change – but their ideological differences were evident.
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By Mehdi Chougan, Research and Innovation Associate at the School of Engineering, Cardiff University
Riccardo Maddalena, Associate Professor in Civil Engineering, Cardiff University
Lithium waste from electric vehicles could become a vital ingredient in low-carbon concrete, say researchers testing a new environmental solution.
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By Sandy Brian Hager, Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy, City St George's, University of London
Psychedelic medicine is surging back into favour in 2025, but the very features that make these drugs promising may be the hardest to commercialise.
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By Ravindra Jayaratne, Reader in Coastal Engineering, University of East London
When Cyclone Ditwah made landfall on November 28 2025, Sri Lanka experienced one of its deadliest environmental disasters in modern history.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake declared it the “largest and most challenging natural disaster in our history”. Torrential rains triggered widespread floods and landslides, leading to more than 350…
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By Rachel Woods, Senior Lecturer in Physiology, University of Lincoln
Kimchi has been enjoyed for centuries in Korea. But the spicy fermented cabbage dish has recently gained popularity in other parts of the world not only because of its delicious taste, but because of its potential to positively influence the many thousands of important microbes living in our gut as well as our overall health.…
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By Lachie Scarsbrook, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Greger Larson, Professor of Palaeogenomics, University of Oxford
Laurent Frantz, Professor of Palaeogenomics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Humans have moved plants and animals well beyond their native ranges, across barriers that normally prevent dispersal. As a result, people have increased the rates of hybridisation between populations that were once isolated for thousands, or even millions, of years.
Animal hybrids are a controversial issue among scientists, as they often suffer from health issues.
But our new study of Australian dingoes, published in…
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By Emma Humphries, Research Fellow, School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen's University Belfast
Elphaba’s insistence on correctness speaks to a broader challenge facing anyone positioned as an outsider: having to work that much harder to be accepted.
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By Hillary Burlock, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History, University of Liverpool
The ballrooms of Jane Austen’s Britain have been hailed in literature and period dramas as a marriage market where young men and women could meet and mingle. The ballroom set the scene for Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy’s first encounter at Meryton’s assembly rooms in Pride and Prejudice (1813), and where Catherine Moreland and Henry Tilney bantered in Bath in Northanger Abbey (1817).
Austen herself frequented balls in Basingstoke and Southampton. The ballroom was the place to see and be seen, the focal point…
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By Tara Lai Quinlan, Associate Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, University of Birmingham
Katharina Karcher, Senior Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham
The right to trial by jury dates back to at least the 12th century. The government’s proposals to limit it in England and Wales, many argue, run counter to the UK’s core democratic principles. And as others have pointed out, scrapping jury trials for some crimes is unlikely to solve the massive backlog in the crown courts.
Our…
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By Magnus Linden, Associate Professor of Psychology, Lund University
Claire Campbell, Lecturer in Social Psychology, Ulster University
Fredrik Björklund, Professor of psychology, Lund University
It’s often said that Donald Trump’s power base in the Maga movement has contributed to the radicalisation of the Republican party. Political scientists worry about the implications of this for the future of American democracy itself.
One example of that radicalisation was the attack on the US Capitol on January 6 2021 in an attempt to overturn the result. Exacerbating that radicalisation is the movement’s hostility towards much of the mainstream media. This is something that has been
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