By Luke William Hunt, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama
A former FBI agent-turned-scholar says using National Guard troops to reduce crime in cities such as Chicago and Baltimore would violate legal prohibitions against domestic military law enforcement.
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By David Comerford, Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science, University of Stirling
Back in the 2000s, the American pharmaceutical firm Wyeth was sued by thousands of women who had developed breast cancer after taking its hormone replacement drugs. Court filings revealed the role of “dozens of ghostwritten reviews and commentaries published in medical journals and supplements being used to promote unproven benefits and downplay harms” related to the drugs.
Wyeth,…
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By Amnesty International
Israel must immediately halt its escalating full-scale assault on Gaza City and plans to displace hundreds of thousands of its residents which will compound an already unbearable level of civilian suffering amidst Israel’s deliberate starvation campaign and its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, said Amnesty International today. In recent days Israel […] The post Escalating Israeli offensive in Gaza City will have catastrophic and irreversible consequences for Palestinians appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Mark Ireland, Senior Lecturer in Energy Geoscience, Newcastle University
“We are going to get all our oil and gas out of the North Sea”, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said recently. Her promise to “maximise extraction” sets up a clash between political ambitions, economic reality and geological limits.
Reform UK has also said drilling for more oil and gas in the North Sea would be a “day one” priority. But even if the Conservatives…
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By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
Why do health stories about food and cancer grab so much attention? Because they offer an enticing promise: that a single item on your plate, or even a sudden change in what you crave, might hold the key to spotting disease early.
It’s a compelling idea, but in reality the science of appetite, taste, and cancer is far messier than the headlines…
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By Hiroki Shin, Associate Professor of History, University of Birmingham
The confusion and commotion over cryptocurrency often reminds me of the 19th-century German drama Faust. In Goethe’s masterpiece, the devil Mephistopheles offers an emperor the tantalising vision of limitless wealth through the printing of paper money.
The emperor grasps the idea (unheard of at the time the play is set), and the magical wealth which paper creates brings brief prosperity to his troubled dominion.
But what appeared to be an inexhaustible source of value soon proves illusory. A combination…
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By Naomi Joseph, Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation
A woman battling society, three men who battled to be king, a couple battling each other and a battle for creative control.
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By Adriana Marin, Lecturer in International Relations, Coventry University
The US president, Donald Trump, has signalled a new approach to tackling the “narco-terrorists” in Latin America, and particularly Venezuela, making it clear he is willing to use military force against them. A report in the New York Times that Trump had issued a “secret directive” to the Pentagon to employ force against certain drug cartels appeared to be borne out by a US strike, on September 2, on a Venezuelan speed boat in the southern Caribbean that killed…
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By Heba Ghazal, Senior Lecturer, Pharmacy, Kingston University
A dangerous new drug adulterant is spreading through America’s illicit opioid supply, and it’s making overdoses significantly harder to reverse. Medetomidine, a veterinary sedative normally used to sedate pets, is increasingly being mixed with heroin and fentanyl, creating a cocktail that experts warn could be far deadlier than previous street drug combinations.
Known as “flysky” on the streets, this animal tranquilliser has already been linked to at least
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By Audrey O'Grady, Associate Professor in Biology, University of Limerick
Nataliia Kosiuk, PhD Candidate in Biological Sciences, University of Limerick
Imagine a mum who can have children from two different species. Family gatherings would be interesting, to say the least. In the insect world, this is no joke. A new study published in Nature shows that queens of the Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) routinely lay eggs of not just to their own kind, but also of males of another species, Messor structor.
The researchers even coined a word for it, xenoparity, meaning “foreign birth”. It pushes the boundaries of what we mean by “species”.…
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