By Paul Hunter, Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
Julii Brainard, Senior Research Associate, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia
A large trial found no evidence that Hepa air filters reduce respiratory infections in care homes, challenging assumptions about their role in infection control.
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By Remy Veness, Lecturer in Glaciology, Sheffield Hallam University
Built from stones weighing between 2 and 25 tonnes, the structure of Stonehenge demonstrates a scale of construction hard to imagine before the invention of the wheel. The mystery deepens when you consider that the stones are not from the local bedrock. So why these stones, and how did they get there?
Recent work I carried out with geochemist Anthony Clarke from the University of Curtin, Australia, might have an answer to these two questions for the most far travelled stone of Stonehenge – the Altar Stone.
The…
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By Nathan Abrams, Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
A quarter of a century ago, Steven Spielberg released one of the most unusual films of his career: A.I. Artificial Intelligence, a futuristic fairytale about a robot boy programmed to love.
Yet the movie’s origins lay not with Spielberg but another giant of cinema. For more than two decades, Stanley Kubrick had wrestled with the project, convinced it contained questions about technology, humanity and what it means…
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By Panka Bencsik, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society, of Economics (secondary) and of Public Policy, Vanderbilt University
George MacKerron, Lecturer in Economics, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
Richard Dickens, Professor of Economics, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
When a violent crime took place in a neighbourhood, it led to significant increases in the stress levels of local residents.
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By David Brydan, Senior Lecturer in the Modern History of International Relations, King's College London
Donald Trump has decided to put the dangers of communism at the heart of his campaign for the midterm elections in November.
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By Doug Specht, Reader in Cultural Geography and Communication, University of Westminster
A wildfire can be explained by today’s barbecue, yesterday’s wind direction, a dry spring, four decades of land use change, or a century of emissions.
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By John E. Jones III, President, Dickinson College
The U.S. Constitution gives states control of elections. An executive order by President Donald Trump aims to take away that control and limit mail-in voting. The Supreme Court will now weigh in.
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By Stephanie Brown, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Hull
No 10 North is historic – but not unprecedented. Medieval York shows England has governed from more than one centre before.
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By Pim Edelaar, Visiting Professor, Division of Biodiversity and Evolution, Lund University; Universidad Pablo de Olavide
To make sense of some characteristics that species exhibit from birth, you have to turn to an old discredited theory known as Lamarckism.
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By Solomon Greene, Executive Director of the Center for Housing Research and Innovative Solutions, University of Denver
In much of the United States, developers spend more to build an affordable apartment for a low-income family than a market-rate one just down the street – sometimes far more. It is one of the central paradoxes of the nation’s housing crisis: The affordable homes that lower-income renters need most tend to be the costliest to build.
Colorado is an exception. In a recent study…
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