By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol
From kale to carrots here’s what your body really needs – and why you might want to rethink your relationship with liver.
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By Jonathan Glazzard, Rosalind Hollis Professor of Education for Social Justice, University of Hull
For children in England with special educational needs and disabilities, an education and health care plan (EHCP) is a central pillar of support. The government is due to set out its educational strategy for children with special educational needs and disabilities in the autumn, though, and has not ruled out scrapping ECHPs. Their removal would signal radical change in how the system works in England.
ECHPs are individualised plans that set out the needs of a particular child and…
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By Judy Illes, Professor, Neurology, University of British Columbia
Erik P Pioro, Professor, Medicine, University of British Columbia
ALS is a progressive and fatal neurological disorder with no known cure. A new clinic offering treatment raises alarms about exploiting those living with ALS.
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By Chris Houser, Professor in Department of Earth and Environmental Science, and Dean of Science, University of Waterloo
The Costa Rican beach where actor Malcolm=Jamal Warner drowned is known for its dangerous rip currents. A researcher who has studied the beach explains why it’s so dangerous.
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By Johan Ferreira, Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
Statistics professor Johan Ferreira was feeling overwhelmed by the amount of “screen time” involved in online learning in 2021. He imagined students must be feeling the same way, and wondered what he could do to inspire them and make his subject matter more appealing.
One of the topics in statistics is time series analysis: statistical methods to understand trend behaviour in data which is measured over time. There are lots of examples in daily life, from rainfall…
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By Jonathan Salerno, Associate Professor, Colorado State University, Colorado State University
Amy Dickman, Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Oxford
Kevin Crooks, Professor of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and Director, Center for Human-Carnivore Coexistence, Colorado State University
Rekha Warrier, Postdoctoral Fellow, Colorado State University
Stewart Breck, Carnivore Ecologist, Colorado State University
Protecting livestock in areas where large carnivores (like lions) live is increasingly important as human land use expands, wildlife habitat shrinks, and climatic changes reshape the ways in which humans and wildlife interact. Protecting the carnivores from livestock owners is important too. Intact carnivore populations support more resilient food webs and the ecosystem services they provide.
It’s not easy for people, livestock, and carnivores to live together without conflict, though. One of the best ways to reduce conflict is to protect livestock like cattle and sheep from being…
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By Paa Kwesi Wolseley Prah, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dublin City University
Timothy Chanimbe, PhD Candidate, Hong Kong Baptist University
Ghana stands out in west Africa as a nation that hasn’t experienced terrorist attacks. Its proactive, multi-faceted strategies offer a blueprint for neighbours.
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By Ruchika Gupta, Assistant Professor and Medical Microbiologist, Department of Pathobiology and Lab Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre and Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University
Measles is a viral infection, so antibiotics don’t treat it directly. But it weakens the immune system, leading to bacterial infections like pneumonia or ear infections, which do require antibiotics.
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By Amnesty International
Dinushka Disanayake attends the anniversary commemorations of the the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia A week ago, I stood in silence by a graveside and watched as seven coffins were lowered into the soil. But this was no normal funeral. Those being laid to rest had been killed three decades earlier alongside more than 8,300 men […] The post Thirty years after Srebrenica, the promise of “never again” rings hollow appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Ivania Inyange
The armed conflict in Sudan seems to be one of the world's most forgotten civil wars. The reigning silence surrounding this conflict plunges the population into daily turmoil.
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