By Johanna Bard Richlin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Maine
Many migrants find community in evangelical churches in the U.S. – part of wider shifts in the country’s religious landscape.
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By Vanessa M. Conzon, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Boston College
Remote work does not necessarily mean that social connections break down. Instead, it can provide the spark for stronger and better relationships between co-workers.
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By Richard Brant, Senior Lecturer in Law, The University of Law
Nikos Skoutaris, Professor of European Constitutional law, University of East Anglia
The UK’s legal framework means the independence question can keep being asked – and continue to be kicked down the road.
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By David C. Gaze, Senior Lecturer in Chemical Pathology, University of Westminster
Photos of the face and tongue helped an AI identify heart disease with 98% accuracy, but screening the general public is a much harder task.
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By Alex Brown, Associate Professor of Medieval History, Durham University
Once the preserve of the aristocracy, rabbits became commonplace by the end of the Middle Ages as the world was turned upside down after the arrival of plague.
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to the growing number of reports that peaceful activists protesting the school hijab ban have been detained and that an activist who attempted to organize free online lessons for girls affected by the uniform regulations has gone missing, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director, said: “Mass arrests of peaceful protesters […] The post Azerbaijan: Stop denying access to education through discriminatory hijab restrictions and release peaceful protesters appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation
Starlink owner Elon Musk says it is the US government which controls the Starshield military satellite system and would have made the decision to throlttle it.
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By Ricardo Twumasi, Lecturer in Psychosis Studies, King's College London
Frederikke Hørdam Gronemann, Section for Data, Biostatistics and Pharmacoepidemiology Data scientist, Copenhagen University Hospital
Merete Osler, Senior Physician, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention
Schizophrenia is one of the most severe mental illnesses. This makes it an important test of how well countries support those with the most complex needs.
Schizophrenia can involve hearing voices, delusions and difficulties with thinking, motivation and everyday activities. It does not mean having a split personality and improvement…
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By Daniel Brown, Lecturer in Astronomy, Nottingham Trent University
A Japanese space mission is about to launch towards Mars. But it will not land on the planet itself. Instead, the Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission will focus on Phobos, the bigger of Mars’s two small moons.
The mission will lift off on Monday October 19 at 20:41 BST on an H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center, in the south of Japan.
This will start a five-year mission, during which the spacecraft will orbit…
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By Andrea Holck, Lecturer in English Literature and Publishing, City St George's, University of London
It’s news to no one that women have been consistently demonised in popular culture for a very, very long time. In her new book, Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women, feminist academic Eleanor Johnson takes us on a detailed and delightfully macabre tour of the history of female monstrosity.
Johnson maps the 4,000-year-old tradition of framing nonconforming women as murderous, monstrous anomalies. Her central argument is that the perennial monstrous bitch, in any of its many forms, is a spectre formed in response to the patriarchy’s fear of women and belief that they’re inherently…
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