By Audrey Rouyre, Enseignante-chercheuse en Management Stratégique, Montpellier Business School, Montpellier Business School; European Academy of Management (EURAM)
Paris’ International Space Summit was an opportunity to understand what and who Europe needs to reliably sustain its launch ambitions and become a world-class leader in Space.
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By Adam Taylor, Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
Men are turning to fillers to increase penis size. But the evidence is limited, the effects fade and complications can be serious.
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By Kartikeya Walia, Senior Lecturer, Department of Engineering, Nottingham Trent University
At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, a humanoid robot named Tiangong Ultra ran the 100-metre sprint in a staggering 8.64 seconds, shattering Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s legendary human world record of 9.58 seconds.
The internet laughed at the robots’ awkward, lurching finishes and spectacular falls – but the laughter masked a chilling reality.
Just two days after the games concluded the official…
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By Ken Valyear, Senior Lecturer in Sensorimotor and Rehabilitation Neuroscience, Bangor University
Surgery can restore communication between the hand and brain, but new research suggests the brain’s response to individual fingers may change.
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By Maria Lucia Passador, Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Bocconi University
For the past decade, most public debates about data have revolved around a familiar anxiety: too much of our personal information is being collected from our records and our online activity, and then shared and monetised. That concern has not gone away. But a shift is now under way – towards synthetic data.
Increasingly, data used by governments, hospitals, banks and technology companies to make decisions about the people they serve is not gathered directly from real people and events. It can be
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By Lisa Smith, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Essex
Rachel Rich, Reader in Modern European History, Leeds Beckett University
The stereotype of bland British food is notorious, and people mock the horrors of jellied eels and overcooked vegetables. Even roast beef and pudding are seen as uninspired compared to the cuisines of other nations. But British food is and has historically been complex, multicultural, and flavourful.
It was wartime rationing that damaged Britain’s culinary reputation. With our co-authors, digital humanities scholar Adam Crymble and historian Sarah Fox, we looked at the age of George III…
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By Pancho Lewis, Assistant Professor, Net Zero Transition, Durham University
Ewan Gibbs, Lecturer in Global Inequalities, University of Glasgow
Keeping global temperatures within safe limits is incompatible with new fossil fuel extraction, as stated by the International Energy Agency. This should be reason enough to oppose any new North Sea extraction of fossil fuels.
The UK oil and gas industry is already in terminal decline, producing just a fifth of the oil and gas it did at the turn of the millennium. New…
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By Laura Chamberlain, Professor of Marketing, Warwick Business School, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
“Resilience” is in danger of becoming a casualty of business buzzword bingo, but we know it matters. The World Economic Forum lists it as one of the most important skills for the future of work, and I’ve found it turns up on any list of key attributes, usually nestled under “attitude” or “personal effectiveness”.
Ask hiring managers which single quality determines success or failure in their new recruits, and many will cite resilience. One research interviewee said to me a lack of it is “the number one reason…
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By Carole Marxer, Postdoctoral Researcher in Gastrointestinal Epidemiology, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet
Jonas F. Ludvigsson, Professor, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet
A common fatty liver disease is increasingly being diagnosed in younger women, but its effects on pregnancy are still being understood.
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By Pawan Jain, Associate Professor of Finance, University of Michigan Flint
The phone rings, and it’s your grandson’s shaken voice. There’s been an accident, he says, and he needs money before anyone finds out. Except it isn’t him. It’s software that learned his voice from a clip posted online, run by a stranger working through a list of phone numbers.
For years, warnings about artificial intelligence and cybersecurity have focused on corporate networks and government systems. Those threats are real. But if you follow the money…
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