By José M. Muñoz, Principal Investigator in Neurotechnology, IE University
While it may sound like science fiction, earbuds that read brain activity are already on sale. Wearable technology company Neurable claims that its headphones, equipped with electroencephalography (EEG) sensors, can track your fatigue and reduce burnout. At night, NextSense’s Smartbuds pick up the electrical signals of your brain to chart your sleep. By day, the same EEG sensors help schedule demanding tasks for the hours when you are sharpest.
Interest is…
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By Ian Williams, Professor of Applied Environmental Science, University of Southampton
UK prime minister Andy Burnham has promised to clean up three of the worst illegal waste dumps in England and sign off new measures to tackle the problem more widely.
The pledge is bold, but it is also unlikely to solve the problem on its own.
Illegal waste sites and fly‑tipping is now widespread in the UK, and globally.…
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By Crispin Cooper, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University
Ana Fredrich, Department of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University
Wouter Poortinga, Professor of Environmental Psychology, Cardiff University
What kind of society would you rather live in: an equal one where everyone is just about getting by? Or an unequal one where most people are doing substantially better, but a small group consistently falls behind? Now imagine having to choose that society before you were even born, but with no idea of where you’ll end up in it.
Seen this way, inequality becomes a question of risk. Would people gamble on the unequal world, knowing they might be among the unlucky few? Or would they stick with a basic but adequate…
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By Katayoun Shahandeh, Lecturer in Museum Studies, SOAS, University of London
Cassia Hayward-Fitch, Associate Tutor, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of East Anglia
Colin Tyler, Professor of Social and Political Thought, University of Hull
Emily Zobel Marshall, Reader in Postcolonial Literature, Leeds Beckett University
Fareda Banda, Professor of Law, SOAS, University of London
Jade King, Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing, University of Lincoln
Lyn Jehu, Lecturer in Community Football Development, University of South Wales
Sarah Richmond, Honorary Associate Professor of Philosophy, UCL
Simon Hinde, Programme Director, Journalism and Publishing, University of the Arts London
Yi Wang, PhD Candidate in Education, University of Cambridge
Our beliefs aren’t fixed. They’re shaped, stretched and sometimes overturned by the ideas we encounter as we move through life. For many of us, memoirs are the moments where that shift happens, through an argument that unsettles us or an inspiring story that re-frames how we see the world. We asked 11 academic experts to share a memoir that challenged their assumptions and changed their thinking in a lasting way.
Read more: The…
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By Philip Broadbent, Wellcome Multimorbidity PhD Fellow & Public Health Registrar, University of Glasgow
As the government urges households to prepare for emergencies, the NHS faces a harder question: does it have the capacity to cope when the next crisis hits?
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By Ian Whittaker, Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
Nasa has named its latest flagship space telescope after the American scientist Nancy Grace Roman. Roman’s contributions to astrophysics should have made her famous, yet many people will never have heard of her.
For decades, astronomers have been spoiled with stunning data and imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched into Earth orbit in 1990. In 2021, the James Webb space telescope (JWST) was sent into space as Hubble’s successor. Since then,…
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By Asiye Uyghur
The official documents China's new cotton-quality regulation show how cotton production is being integrated into a system of land transfer, labor mobilisation, political instruction, and digital surveillance.
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By Nirajan Shiwakoti, Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
Could more lives be saved if people were trained to act immediately when a flood warning arrives? I believe the answer is yes.
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By Prashidha Khatiwada, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
A flash flood can transform a river within minutes. This is what communities near the Nepal-Tibet border witnessed on Wednesday.
A massive flash flood ripped through villages along the Bhote Koshi–Trishuli river system carrying mud, debris and fast-flowing water. It has claimed the lives of at least 469…
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By Danielle Thielke, PhD Candidate, Communications & Culture, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University
Kelly Jaunzems, Lecturer in Public Health, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University
We urgently need relationship and sex education that’s relevant to teenagers and focuses on reducing risks – not making them scared to seek help.
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