By Nadine Wehida, Senior Lecturer in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Kingston University
Ahmed Elbediwy, Senior Lecturer in Cancer Biology & Clinical Biochemistry, Kingston University
Weight-loss jabs are the latest craze for shedding a few pounds. Their effect has been dramatic with drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy (semaglutide) causing users to lose up to 15% of their body fat on average.
Semaglutide, which is a glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1…
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By Anna Molnár, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Late Medieval Financial History of Central Europe, University of Reading
Retirement planning might seem like a thoroughly modern concern, with pensions, investments and annuities forming part of today’s financial toolkit. But these financial tools are much older than they appear. In the later Middle Ages, people were already exchanging lump sums for steady income streams – and, in cities like Vienna, these arrangements underpinned entire urban economies.
Less expected, perhaps, is who helped make this system work. Alongside merchants and elites, communities of nuns quietly emerged…
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By Sascha Stollhans, Professor of Language Education and Linguistics, University of Leeds
When an exam board for England, Wales and Northern Ireland recently clarified that students are now permitted to use gender-inclusive or gender-neutral forms in French, Spanish and German exams, it marked more than a technical adjustment to assessment criteria.
These updates highlight an important fact about the nature of languages. They are not fixed systems but evolving, social practices.
The exam board guidance…
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By Richard Brant, Senior Lecturer in Law, The University of Law
Nikos Skoutaris, Professor of European Constitutional law, University of East Anglia
Albertans will head to the polls in October for what has been referred to as a “referendum on a referendum”. They will be asked to choose between two options: should Alberta remain a province of Canada, or should their province begin the legal process to hold a binding referendum on whether Alberta should separate from Canada?
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By Dr Nekisa Zakeri, Senior Clinical Lecturer & Consultant Hepatologist, Group Leader Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London
Liver cancer is one of the fastest rising causes of cancer-related deaths in the UK, and the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide.
More than 6,000 people die from liver cancer in the UK each year. Its major…
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By Joshua M. Pearce, John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation and Professor, Western University
In Canada, agrivoltaics could produce enough electricity to eliminate the need for fossil fuels on the grid entirely, using less than one per cent of the country’s agriculture land.
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By Clara Macarena Ponce Romero, Profesora del área de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Adults need to guide kids’ interactions with AI, and teach the difference between talking to a machine and a human.
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By Shaila Jamal, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Human Geography, University of Toronto
Language barriers create a hidden but serious form of mobility exclusion, and the burden of adapting should fall on transit systems, not riders.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The emperor's 66th birthday at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan, February 23, 2026. © 2026 Louise Delmotte/AP Photo Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), along with its coalition partner Japan Innovation Party and the opposition Democratic Party for the People, and Sanseito, jointly submitted a bill on June 16 that would criminalize “publicly damaging, removing, or defacing” Japan’s national flag in a “way or situation that evokes significant discomfort or disgust in people.”The bill proposes penalties of up to two years in prison or a maximum fine…
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By Tom Sykes, Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Global Journalism, University of Portsmouth
I’ve been researching the myriad triggers of travel anxiety, inspired by my own experience of Generalised Anxiety Disorder. These are my favourite tips.
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