By Mark Woolhouse, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh
The COVID inquiry focused on whether lockdowns came too soon or too late, but the more important question is could they have been avoided altogether?
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By Graham Taylor, Associate Professor in Viral and Tumour Immunology, University of Birmingham
Heather Long, Associate Professor, Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham
Around 5 million people worldwide live with the autoimmune condition lupus. This condition can cause a range of symptoms, including tiredness, fever, joint pain and a characteristic butterfly-shaped rash across the cheeks and nose.
For some people, these symptoms are mild and only flare-up occassionally. But for others, the disease is more severe – with constant symptoms
Although researchers know that lupus is caused by the immune system mistakenly attacking the body’s own tissues and organs, it…
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By Tracey Raney, Professor, Politics and Public Administration, Toronto Metropolitan University
Tuesday is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the beginning of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. It’s a global call to action by the United Nations to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls.
This year’s theme — “End digital violence against all women and girls” — aims to draw attention to the rapid rise of hate directed at women online. Sadly, this problem is all too common in today’s political…
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By Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Sydney
Moonika Widjajana, PhD Student, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Sydney
If you dissolve sugar in hot water and then cool it down, you’ll see pure sugar crystals form while impurities stay in the liquid. You can even watch the beautiful sugar crystals slowly grow in the water.
You can do the same thing with metals, though probably not in your kitchen.
At high temperatures, one molten metal can dissolve another. As the mixture cools, the dissolved metal begins to crystallise inside the melt, just like sugar forming crystals from water.
In new research published…
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By Daniel P. Aldrich, Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
Kiffer George Card, Assistant Professor in Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Guidelines for social well-being can help health care providers identify when someone is socially isolated and provide goals and standards for policymakers.
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By Alex McPhee-Browne, PhD student studying the American and global far right, University of Cambridge
In 1946, young men in khaki shirts marched through Atlanta performing Nazi salutes and promising racial vengeance. They lasted 10 months. Today’s fascists aren’t as easily banished.
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By Ken Hughes, Research Specialist, the Miller Center, University of Virginia
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s accounts of the notorious false flag operations proposed during the Kennedy years omit the most important part of the story. Hint: It’s a family affair.
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By Bethany Bradley, Professor of Biogeography and Spatial Ecology, UMass Amherst
Adrienne Wootten, Research Scientist, South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, University of Oklahoma
Ryan Longman, Associate Climatologist, Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii
The people who manage America’s aquifers, wetlands, shorelines and recreation areas rely on federal science as they face new and rising risks in a changing climate.
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By Katherine Fink, Associate Professor of Media, Communications, and Visual Arts, Pace University
Although advertising revenue largely sustained the news media in the 20th century, it’s been harder to come by in the digital age. News media outlets just aren’t as important these days for advertisers when they can reach potential customers so many other ways, including through social media.
Some news outlets…
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By Stephen DiKerby, Postdoctoral Researcher in Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com.
How will the universe end? – Iez M., age 9, Rochester, New York
Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home for a very, very…
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