By David Mednicoff, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
The Trump administration’s crusade against antisemitism looks to be mainly about crippling elite universities and blurring the lines between pro-Palestinian activism and antisemitism.
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By Filip Noubel
“Good reporting is the basis of quality journalism,” says Czech journalist Adéla Knapová who moved to war-torn Kharkiv in Ukraine to live, write, report, and love.
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By Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol
The humble toilet seems like the least likely setting for drama. Yet throughout history, it has claimed kings, toppled celebrities and served as the scene of untimely deaths ranging from the tragic to the downright bizarre. What is it about the smallest room that makes it, occasionally, the most dangerous?
At the heart of this peril lies the Valsalva manoeuvre – the act of forcibly exhaling against a closed airway while straining, such as during defecation. This puts pressure on your chest, which reduces blood flow back to the heart. For most people, it’s harmless. But for those with…
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By David Farrier, Professor of Literature and the Environment, University of Edinburgh
A process called “exaptation” places repurposing resources and adaptations at the heart of evolution; what if our homes were designed on the same basis?
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By Michael A. Lewis, Professor of Operations and Supply Management, University of Bath
Ukrainians are celebrating the success of one of the most audacious coups of the war against Russia – a coordinated drone strike on June 1 on five airbases deep inside Russian territory. Known as Operation Spiderweb, it was the result of 18 months of planning and involved the smuggling of drones into Russia, synchronised launch timings and improvised control centres hidden inside freight vehicles.
Ukrainian sources claim more than 40 Russian aircraft were damaged or destroyed. Commercial
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By Hannah Cloke, Professor of Hydrology, University of Reading
England is facing a water crisis. The UK government has just announced plans to fast-track two massive reservoir projects in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, warning that without them, we could run out of drinking water by the mid-2030s. But as a hydrologist who studies Britain’s often erratic weather patterns, I believe these reservoirs alone won’t solve our water problems.
No…
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By Marco Panato, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Northern Italy has been hit by a series of devastating floods in recent years. In March 2025 and the previous autumn, heavy rainfall hammered the region, swamping fields, farms and towns. More than 3,000 had to leave their homes in Emilia-Romagna, between Bologna and Ravenna.
The downpours caused widespread floods, landslides, and infrastructure damage. This has been a repeated event since 2023 when the area saw what has…
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By Adriana Marin, Lecturer in International Relations, Coventry University
Mexico’s drug cartels are often described as powerful rivals to the state, with their influence measured in weapons, money and murdered officials. But this framing misses a fundamental truth. Organised crime in Mexico is also a system of gendered governance – one that disciplines, controls and sometimes eliminates women to consolidate power.
The term “narco-femicide” captures…
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By Peter Beresford, Professor of Citizen Participation, University of East Anglia
More and more of us have experience or know someone with experience of being discriminated against. The personal is political.
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By Keith Martin, Professor, Information Security Group, Royal Holloway University of London
The news that a certain class of cryptographic algorithms just got 20 times easier to hack has set hares running.
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