By Fiona Doherty, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Tennessee
On extremely hot days and in the aftermath of storms, people tend to hole up inside. Losing festivals, traditions and gathering places can worsen that loneliness.
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By James M. Thomas, Professor of Sociology, University of Mississippi
18-year old Nolan Wells’ death in Mississippi has raised again the importance of ‘the talk’ that Black parents have with their children. But what do white parents tell their kids about race?
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By Stuart I. Hammond, Full Professor in Developmental Psychology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Human infant helplessness is not a weakness to be outgrown. It is an evolved trait that may be central to our ability to care for others.
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By James Blinkhorn, University Research Fellow, Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool
Eleanor Scerri, Independent Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
The ability to cross oceans has long been a marker of human endeavour, but when did the seas change from being barriers to movement into the maritime highways we know today?
For many years the answer was thought to lie in the Neolithic period – the time when humans made the profound transition from hunting and gathering to practising agriculture and living in settled societies.
Our team’s discovery of the presence of European hunter-gatherers on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta,
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By Bareket Falk, Distinguished Professor, Department of Kinesiology, Brock University
Toby Mündel, Professor in Kinesiology, Canada Research Chair in Extreme Human Environments, Brock University
In Canada, Europe and around the world, temperatures are soaring and heat warnings are rampant. We are reminded to stay out of the sun and stay hydrated, and in extreme conditions, stay indoors.
We are also told that children are especially vulnerable to heat-related illness.
We…
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By Cyril Grueter, Adjunct Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia; University of Oxford
The first time I saw it, I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at. A northern white-cheeked gibbon at Shanghai Zoo was holding and caressing a mouse that had wandered into its enclosure. It wasn’t trying to eat it or chase it away. Instead, the gibbon treated the tiny rodent with remarkable gentleness. I couldn’t stop wondering why.
Years later, while studying wild black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys in the mountains of south-west China, I watched playful juveniles repeatedly trying to climb onto the backs of domestic pigs. Again, these weren’t the kinds of interactions I expected…
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By Ian Williams, Professor of Applied Environmental Science, University of Southampton
Christina Webb, Research Fellow in Sustainable Electronic Textiles., University of Southampton
Stephen Beeby, Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies, University of Southampton
Clever clothing that can sense health issues are not far off, but they could prove hard to recycle or reuse.
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By Veselina Stoyanova, Associate Professor in Strategy & International Management, University of Birmingham
Every year the festival attracts thousands of people to Scotland’s capital, but is the city able to harness this and improve it as a place to live?
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By Fatima-Zahra Aklalouch, Doctor in English Linguistics specialized in Political Discourse Analysis, Université Paris Cité
The White House’s controversial Aliens.gov portal dehumanises undocumented non-US citizens by blurring the boundaries between the term “illegal aliens”, or unauthorised residents, and extraterrestrials.
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By Muhammad Waqas Haider, PhD candidate in International Relations, Lancaster University
India and Pakistan fought an intense four-day war in May 2025. But while the media narrative was dominated by fighter jets, drones and missiles, the most consequential contest unfolded in orbit a few hundred kilometres up.
That short war was, arguably, the first between two nuclear-armed states to be shaped decisively by the use of satellites.…
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