By Sara Uceda Gutiérrez, Profesora de Psicobiología, Universidad Nebrija
Manuel Reiriz Rojas, Psicobiología, Universidad Nebrija
It’s no accident that we spend a third of our lives asleep. It is essential to our health, and even animals for whom resting is complicated – such as aquatic mammals that need to surface to breathe, or birds that go up to 10 days without touching dry land – manage to sleep with surprising adaptations.
But while we sleep, the tens of trillions of microorganisms that live within us – known as the microbiota – follow their own rhythms. This microscopic colony,…
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By Amber Martin-Woodhead, Senior Research Associate in Design for Sustainability, School of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University
Saying no to kids who want to buy stuff can be tricky, but gifting experiences or opting for open-ended toys such as building blocks can help.
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By David Nally, University Senior Lecturer and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
Maggie O’Farrell’s exquisite new novel, Land, is a haunting tale of loss, endurance and renewal. Spanning generations and continents, O’Farrell traces the fragile threads that connect people and place: stories half remembered, names erased, objects carried forward like talismans against oblivion, ghosts that haunt the edges of memory, music that conjures grazed fields and the wind-scratched surface of water. Moving between intimacy and sweeping historical change, the novel reveals the land itself as a living archive of rupture, survival, and belonging.
Land…
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By Andrea Vaccaro, Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute
Rachel M Gisselquist, Professor in Governance and Development, and Director, Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, University of Birmingham
Global health funding cracks do not bode well for pandemic governance as recent disease outbreaks are reminding us. What does this mean for developing countries and how do they cope with health emergencies?
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By Karina Urbach, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Egisto Ott is no James Bond. But the stories the 63-year-old Austrian told a Viennese jury recently would make good plotlines. Ott worked as an intelligence officer in Austria’s now-defunct Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism. He was also moonlighting for the Russians.
Prosecutors say Ott, who was sentenced to four years in prison on May 20, handed over information to fellow Austrian Jan Marsalek, the fugitive…
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By Toby Mündel, Professor in Kinesiology and Canada Research Chair, Brock University
Samuel Penna Wanner, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Education, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
The heat stress players may face during the 2026 FIFA World Cup could negatively affect their performance and pose a threat to their health.
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By Nicholas Freymueller, Postdoctoral Researcher in Extinction Biology, Adelaide University
Damien Fordham, Associate Professor of Global Change Ecology, Adelaide University
New research used whaling logbooks to explain why only two of the four bowhead whale populations are bouncing back from whaling, which was abandoned a century ago.
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By Asher Kaufman, Professor of History and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Unable to defeat Iran, Israel shifts its focus to Lebanon, fearing U.S. negotiations with Tehran could limit operations against Hezbollah.
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By Mark Wickham-Jones, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Bristol
It is rare for former prime ministers to engage in debates about public policy nearly 20 years after they left office. Other than the most general observations, they tend to avoid interventions. So, when Tony Blair offered 5,700 words of criticism directed at the party he led for 13 years, it was obviously significant. Much – though not all – of his analysis was manifestly aimed at Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Claims in Blair’s…
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By Shahira Shahir, Senior Research Assistant, Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Shaista Noor, Senior Lecturer in Business, Teesside University
Xiaoni Ren, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Picture this: you have spent decades building a career. You have a master’s degree. You have taught hundreds of students. You walk into work every morning with a sense of purpose. Then, almost overnight, the gates close. You are told you cannot come back. Not because of anything you did, but simply because of you are a woman.
This is what happened to female academics across Afghanistan after the Taliban returned to power in August 2021.
We conducted interviews with 12 Afghan…
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