By Christina Bouchard, professeure à temps partiel I Part-time professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Several housing developments are currently underway in Montréal incorporating community‑scale features, including walkable streets, lively commercial corridors, galleries and public spaces.
While building on infill sites already located in the heart of established cities offers many advantages, densification projects can also present complex challenges during implementation.
Drawing on my experiences working as an urban planner and teaching governance at the University of Ottawa, let’s examine emerging trends in urban development projects.
Building a neighbourhood…
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By Laura Botello Morte, Personal Docente e Investigador de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Jorge
Pedro Rodríguez López, Investigador Postdoctoral - Microbiología, Universidad San Jorge
From the moment raw ingredients are harvested to when you cook and eat a meal, an invisible process is taking place: the growth of antimicrobial resistance. This happens when microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, and so on) stop responding to antibiotics or disinfectants.
Often described as a “silent pandemic”, antimicrobial resistance is currently one of the greatest threats to global health.
Antimicrobial…
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By Anja Shortland, Reader in Political Economy, King's College London
It took less than three minutes for an organised crime gang to steal a Renoir, Matisse and a Cezanne painting collectively worth around €9 million (£7.8m) from a private museum near Parma, Italy in March 2026. This is the second high profile art heist in recent months, after the theft of jewellery worth €9.5 million (£8.25m) from Paris’s Louvre in October 2025.
The items stolen are clearly valuable. But, as an expert in the governance of criminal markets, I can tell you acquiring the goods is only the…
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By Can Cinar, Honorary Visiting Researcher, City St George's, University of London
On paper, the numbers look astonishing. The annual rate of inflation in Argentina has plummeted from 211% in 2023 to 31.5% by the end of 2025.
President Javier Milei is taking plenty of credit for the drop. And he spent some time on Wall Street last month, pitching his “chainsaw” approach to public spending as a triumph against inflation.
But as a political economist who has tracked the cyclical…
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By Lorenzo Stafford, Associate Professor in Psychobiological Psychology, University of Portsmouth
Have you ever suddenly gone off a food you used to love? This is something people on social media have been talking about – specifically when it comes to chicken.
Users report suddenly becoming disgusted by chicken, sometimes even mid-bite – despite having been able to eat the food just fine previously. The phenomenon is commonly referred to online as the “chicken ick”.
My research is centred on how our sensory system (mainly smell and taste) affects our behaviour. When it comes to the “ick”, it’s all about how we deal with our disgust response.
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By Andrea Luppi, Senior Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
Gustavo Deco, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Morten L. Kringelbach, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford
The potential to create personalised digital “twins” of your brain and body is a hot topic in neuroscience and medicine today. These computer models are designed to simulate how parts of your brain interact, and how the brain may respond to stimulation, disease or medication.
The extraordinary complexity of the brain’s billions of neurons makes this a very difficult task, of course, even in the era of AI and big data. Until now, whole-brain models…
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By Hager Ben Jaffel, Docteure en relations internationales spécialisée dans la sociologie du renseignement et de la sécurité, Institut catholique de Lille (ICL)
An International Relations specialist looks at how cooperation between intel agencies on both sides of the Atlantic is holding up under Trump 2.0 and unprecedented geopolitical turbulence.
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By Natalie Wall, PhD in English Literature, University of Liverpool
One of the largest book publishers in the US has pulled an upcoming horror novel from its scheduled release later this year following accusations that the author used artificial intelligence to write it.
Hachette Book Group was approached with what The New York Times claimed was evidence that Shy Girl by Mia Ballard was allegedly AI-generated. Following this, the publisher said its imprint Orbit was…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Soldiers near the presidential palace after a state of emergency was in Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 11, 2007. © 2007 Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images Bangladesh police have arrested three former army officers linked to the military-backed government that ruled the country from 2007 to 2009, when hundreds were arbitrarily arrested and many were tortured or killed in custody. As the new government of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman seeks to hold those responsible for past abuses to account, authorities should ensure due process, fair trials, and institutional reform to…
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By Zulker Naeen
An analysis of seventy-two pieces of AI-generated content, showed that AI was a powerful political weapon, and was used to manufacture false narratives and shape electoral outcomes ahead of Bangladesh’s national election.
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