By Ding Fei, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Chinese-funded infrastructure projects in African cities are driven by the national elites and therefore do not necessarily lead to community-level improvements.
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By Ed Hutchinson, Professor, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow
A first human H9N2 bird flu case in Europe has been detected in Italy. A virologist explains why the current risk is low and what to watch next.
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By MJ (Thinus) Booysen, Professor in Engineering, Stellenbosch University
Across much of Africa, motorcycles are not leisure vehicles. They are workhorses. They carry commuters, schoolchildren, goods, medicines and deliveries. For millions of people, they provide the most affordable and accessible form of transport, while also creating livelihoods for riders and small businesses.
In many places, they
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.…
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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.
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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,…
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