By Eric Chi, Professor of Economics, University of Guelph
A newly proposed pipeline to B.C.’s coast promises tens of thousands of jobs and billions in GDP growth. But falling Asian oil demand and a track record of cost overruns complicate the picture.
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By Ana Isabel Terraes Huerta, Técnico medio de investigación de la Facultad de Química de Valencia, Universitat de València
Eva Soriano Vega, Técnica Investigación (Servei Central de Suport a la Investigació Experimental-SCSIE), Universitat de València
There are few pleasures greater than letting a piece of chocolate melt slowly on your tongue. Indeed, the proximity of chocolate’s melting point to our own body temperature is one of the reasons it is so widely appreciated.
But this quality also makes it go soft and lose shape when temperatures rise, making it hard to store and transport in warm climates. To overcome this limitation, the food industry has developed several ways to make heat-resistant chocolate.
But to understand how this works, we must first learn how chocolate is made – particularly the role that cocoa…
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By Devin Adams, PhD Candidate, Accessible Environments Research Cluster, University of Stirling
The Commonwealth Games, being staged this year in Glasgow, hold para events in the same place and at the same time as the general competition. Not only does this give equal opportunity to all athletes, but it also brings disability sport into the mainstream conversation.
The multi-sport competition has been held every four years since 1930, when they were known as the British Empire Games. At the 1994 games in Victoria, Canada, disabled athletes were included in exhibition events. But in 2002 in Manchester, England, para athletes were fully integrated into their teams.
This…
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By Trefor Bazett, Associate Teaching Professor, Mathematics, University of Victoria
As AI climbs on the shoulders of many mathematicians before it, humans are also able to reach further due to advances by AI.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Members of the Haitian community rally in support for the extension of TPS and against deportation in Miami, Florida April 26, 2026. © 2026 Carl Juste/Miami Herald/TNS via Reuters Fresh from a trip to Haiti, US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz offered the UN Security Council on July 20 a harrowing account of the “kill zone” he said Port-au-Prince has become. In unusually graphic detail, he recounted grotesque incidents, including one in which several Haitian national police officers were “were flayed alive in the streets [and] pinned to the side of their…
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By Sarah Whitmore, Associate Professor of Politics, Oxford Brookes University
Bettina Renz, Professor of International Security, University of Nottingham
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has dismissed the country’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi after a turbulent week in which he also removed his defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov. The dismissal of the popular defence minister, who is credited by many as the brains behind Ukraine’s successful drone strategy, brought thousands on to the streets in protest.
Despite the clear public pressure to fire Syrskyi, Zelensky has presented his removal as part of an overall restructuring…
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By Alex Brown, Associate Professor of Medieval History, Durham University
A heatwave lasting four months, followed by water shortages and crop failures. This is England in the 13th century, not the 21st.
What is often called the Medieval warm period saw elevated temperatures in many parts of the world between the 10th and 13th centuries.
These warmer temperatures were caused in part by an increase in solar irradiance. This is the amount of solar energy reaching Earth, which effects global…
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By Geraint Hughes, Reader in Diplomatic and Military History, King's College London
Martin Farr, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
Stephen Clear, Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Public Procurement, Bangor University
Summer 2001. Tony Blair had just won a second thumping election victory, promising opportunity for all. The new census showed a nation losing its religion, more inclined to live alone and more ethnically diverse. The maximum temperature was a tepid 32°C in west London in late June, while the twin towers rose tall and proud as always over the New York skyline.
Twenty five years on, we wanted to look at how the UK has changed. Welcome to the first of a six-part report from a group of 35 specialists, exploring all of the key developments in the intervening period.
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By Bo Petersson, Professor of Political Science, Malmö University
Russia’s war against Ukraine is not going according to Vladimir Putin’s original plan. The Russian president’s initial strategy called for the war to be won within ten days, but Ukraine’s spirited defence in the first months of the war robbed Russia of the initiative. Now, four and a half years later, the frontline inside Ukraine has remained largely static for months.
Meanwhile, the human cost continues to mount, particularly for the invaders. British intelligence estimates suggest that the number of Russian soldiers killed during the conflict is approaching…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to today’s appeal decision overturning the murder conviction of a woman who had a later abortion while reducing the sentences of medical staff, Amnesty International Korea’s Executive Director HeeKyoung Cho said: “While we welcome the court’s decision to acquit the woman who sought abortion, the court’s decision to uphold the convictions of medical staff […] The post South Korea: Appeal decision for abortion case exposes legal vacuum appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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