By Atta Addo, Senior Lecturer in Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Surrey
On a humid afternoon in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, a young trader in electronics pulls out his phone and opens Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform by trading volume. He’s not monitoring the Bitcoin market or chasing the next crypto craze. He’s paying a supplier in the Chinese port city of Guangzhou for 500 smartphones.
Like numerous other traders at the Lagos Computer Village, he has a Binance digital…
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By Vincent Tawiah, Assistant Professor in International Financial Reporting, Dublin City University
China’s economic footprint in Africa has grown fast over the last two decades. Across the continent, Chinese-backed mines, oilfields, railways and industrial zones have gone from being ambitious projects to central pillars of national development plans.
This has been made possible by over US$181 billion in infrastructure loans and about US$50…
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By Sally King, Visiting Fellow in Menstrual Physiology, King's College London
Viral hacks promise control over menstrual flow. But they reveal deeper gaps in education about vaginal health and the menstrual cycle.
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By David Campbell, Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Hans Peter Schmitz, Bob and Carol Mattocks Distinguished Professor in Nonprofit Leadership, North Carolina State University
Lindsey McDougle, Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University - Newark
The 50 American individuals and couples who gave or pledged the most to charity in 2025 committed US$22.4 billion to foundations, universities, hospitals and more. That total was 35% above an inflation-adjusted $16.6 billion in 2024, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s latest annual tally of these donations.
Media entrepreneur and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg led the Chronicle’s Philanthropy 50 list, followed by Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Allen died in…
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By Fatima-Zahra Aklalouch, Associate Professor, Université Paris Cité
What does Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s political discourse say about the controversial US secretary of Health whose task is to make “America healthy again”?
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By Fatma Ozdogan, PhD Candidate & Researcher, School of Architecture, Université de Montréal
Elizabeth Maly, Associate Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
Julia Gerster, Associate Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
Memorials, monuments, preserved school buildings and found objects form part of a memory culture that keeps conversations about risk reduction going.
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By Sarah Berger Richardson, Associate professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Daphnée B. Ménard, Doctorante en droit, avocate, LL.B., LL.M. , L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
‘Buying local’ often goes hand in hand with ethical choices. But when it comes to meat, we need to reconsider this equation.
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By Simone Dichiara, Assistant Research Professor of Astrophysics, Penn State
Eleonora Troja, Associate Professor of Astrophysics, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Gold and platinum are found in space, created when two stars collide. Astrophysicists can even trace this process further back, to the merger of galaxies.
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By Simon Mabon, Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
A report in the Washington Post the day after the Iran war began suggested that Saudi Arabia and Israel had both lobbied Donald Trump to attack Iran. The Saudis swiftly denied that they had pushed for war.
In the days since, as Iran lashed out in retaliation, Saudi Arabia came under attack. An Iranian drone hit the US embassy in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and an oil processing plant at Ras Tanura was targeted. Two people were killed…
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By Wenge Xu, Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction, School of Computing, Birmingham City University
Self-driving cars are very much a reality and no longer a vision from science fiction. In the UK, automated vehicles (AVs) such as self-driving shuttles are already being tested on public roads.
Self-driving taxi services are expected to launch in 2026, and the Automated Vehicles Act is scheduled for implementation in 2027. This act establishes the legal groundwork for driverless cars to operate on Britain’s roads.
As these vehicles…
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