By Charlie Walker, Associate Professor of Comparative Sociology, University of Southampton
Bettina Renz, Professor of International Security, University of Nottingham
After disastrous wars in Chechnya and Afghanistan, Russia found it hard to recruit soldiers. But it has worked hard to rememdy this problem.
(Full Story)
|
By Ed Macaulay, Lecturer in Physics and Data Science, Queen Mary University of London
The astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are preparing to launch into space on a trajectory that will make them the first humans to travel to the Moon in over half a century.
Their 10-day mission, known as Artemis II, loops around the Moon but will not land. It will see them travel 4,700 miles (7,600 kilometres) beyond the lunar far side in Nasa’s Orion spacecraft. As such, the four astronauts will travel further…
(Full Story)
|
By Nick Dalton, Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle
From Apple II to the iPhone, time and again this extraordinary company has anticipated the value of opening up computing to everyone.
(Full Story)
|
By Amr Saber Algarhi, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Sheffield Hallam University
Adeola Y. Oyebowale, Assistant Professor in Banking, University of Doha for Science and Technology
The whole point of Brexit was to change the UK’s relationship with Europe. And one of the less visible shifts has occurred in the financial markets, affecting pension funds and the cost of borrowing.
Before the referendum, when London’s stock market sneezed, Europe caught a cold. Now though, our research suggests that the financial relationship between the UK and the EU has flipped.
The change came after decades of London…
(Full Story)
|
By Sharon Freeman, PhD Candidate, School of Education, University of Leicester
It is widely accepted that learning English is essential for many adult migrants who move to the UK. Yet in the last census, over 1 million residents in England and Wales reported not speaking English well or at all.
Over the years, governments have firmly placed the duty to learn English on the newcomer, framing English proficiency as a requirement of integration.…
(Full Story)
|
By Dominick Spracklen, Professor of Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions, University of Leeds
A single tropical tree can create as much cooling as several air conditioners, and across forests can cool a whole region.
(Full Story)
|
By Sarah A. Son, Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies, University of Sheffield
When pop superstars BTS announced a temporary hiatus in 2022, it exposed a tension at the heart of their global success.
As I wrote at the time, the world’s biggest K-pop group had become entangled in South Korea’s competing priorities: cultural soft power on the one hand,…
(Full Story)
|
By Ailsa Peate, Lecturer in Latin American and Museum Studies, University of Westminster
Encounters with Leonora Carrington’s work are often shaped by their setting, from expansive museum displays to more intimate curatorial spaces. Nowhere is this more evident than at London’s Freud Museum, where new exhibition The Symptomatic Surreal offers a markedly different lens on her life and art.
It’s the first exhibition of the British-Mexican surrealist’s work in the UK for 35 years. The…
(Full Story)
|
By Sanae Okamoto, Senior Researcher in Behavioural Science and Psychology, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), United Nations University
Nidhi Nagabhatla, Senior Research Fellow and Cluster Coordinator Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and Adj Prof McMaster University, Canada, United Nations University
Robert Oakes, Senior Researcher, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University
There are things that we can do to combat the climate crisis. Children should be supported so they don’t lose hope.
(Full Story)
|
By Charlie Firth, PhD Candidate, Paediatrics, University of Oxford
A MenB vaccine may also help curb drug-resistant gonorrhoea, linking two growing health threats and raising new questions about how vaccines are used.
(Full Story)
|