By Teodora C. Hasegan
Cecilia Ixmukané works to enable young people to share their poetry, tongue twisters, jokes, riddles, and songs in their own language on social media.
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By Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol
Ice baths are everywhere in modern fitness culture. From professional athletes to weekend warriors, many swear by the post-workout plunge, hoping the icy shock will ease soreness, calm inflammation and help their bodies bounce back faster. But recent research from the Netherlands reveals a surprising downside: those freezing dips might actually slow muscle growth.
When you expose your body to cold, like during an ice bath, your blood vessels constrict.…
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By Emily Rowe, Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, King's College London
The new musical film Juliet and Romeo arrives on screen with lavish visuals, saccharine pop songs and a reworked Shakespearean plot that tries to dazzle. With its vivid colour palette and dreamy masquerade aesthetic, this is Verona as filtered through a Eurovision lens: glittering, melodramatic and frequently overwrought.
Writer and director Timothy Scott Bogart and composer Evan Kidd join a lineage of Romeo and Juliet adaptations that blend music with spectacle. Who could forget Harold Perrineau’s drag rendition of Young…
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By Alex Newman, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Sustainability Assessment at the Grantham Centre, University of Sheffield
The proposed Rivenhall greenhouses could burn all household waste but the project must prove its low-carbon credentials to be more than just hot air.
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By Francesco Grillo, Academic Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University
Europeans are still struggling to adjust to new conditions – and the conditions to which they need to adjust also continue to change dramatically.
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By Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini, Associate Professor, HEC Paris Business School
Military innovation requires a balance of secrecy and collaboration. Research shows how European defence firms can protect sensitive knowledge and maintain openness.
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By Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, Director del Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición (CINC) y Director de la International Chair in Cognitive Health (ICCH) en la Universidad Nebrija, Universidad Nebrija
Every single day, thousands of people around the world use dating apps to strike up conversations with strangers, with the supposedly mutual objective of finding a partner. However, placing blind trust in others’ intentions is the first mistake that many users make – the person on the other side of the screen might not actually be in search of true love, or anything resembling it.
In fact, several studies have highlighted that people use…
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By Roger Malcolm Harris Smith, Distinguished Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
A fossilised colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It’s the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived in the lowlands of what was then the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana (today the central Karoo), has been found to have lived and died communally in complex, underground burrows. Up till now, they have only been found as single specimens.
With a short neck, long body and long tail, the Procolophon…
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By Eric Y Tenkorang, Professor of Sociology,, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Intimate partner violence is controlling behaviour that results in harm to victims. This can be physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, economic or spiritual harm. Women are overwhelmingly the victims and survivors of intimate partner violence.
Globally, about one third of women have experienced some type of intimate partner violence. In Ghana too, one…
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By Scott Firsing, Senior Research Associate, University of South Africa
The African Space Agency was officially inaugurated in Cairo’s Space City in April 2025. The event marked a milestone in a process that had been in the works since the early 2000s. Drawing inspiration from the European Space Agency, it unites African Union (AU) member states to harness space technology for development. This is in line with the AU’s Agenda 2063, aimed at advancing Africa into a prosperous future.
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