By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
Melatonin is known for helping us sleep, but a new study suggests it may also ease chronic muscle and joint pain.
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By Josh Bland, ESRC-DTP PhD Researcher, University of Cambridge
Another tournament, another agonising chapter in English football’s long catalogue of glorious disappointments.
England were dumped out of the World Cup by Argentina following a capitulation that will echo through the annals of English footballing folklore. Having taken the lead just shy of the hour mark, this one really stung.
But the irony is that this late collapse has stitched another thread of continuity into the long tapestry of England’s footballing heritage.
As a researcher…
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By Sophia Kier-Byfield, Senior Research Assistant at Welsh Institute of Health and Social Care, University of South Wales
Sarah Wallace, Associate Professor Innovation and Engagement, University of South Wales
Research reveals young people aged 16 to 24 don’t always recognise what stalking is, particularly when it involves someone they might know.
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By Anna Monnereau, PhD Candidate in Music Copyright, Bangor University; Liverpool Hope University
Copyright is built on the idea that human creativity deserves protection. Legally, this is known as “originality”. The principle is simple: people create valuable cultural works and the law protects that effort.
But artificial intelligence (AI) is challenging one of copyright law’s most basic assumptions. In doing so, it may force us to rethink what we mean by intellectual property.
AI can now generate songs, images, novels and artworks in seconds. Many of these works are already being streamed, licensed and sold. This raises an increasingly important question: should works…
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By Richard Purves, Senior Research Fellow in Social Marketing and Health, University of Stirling
The 2026 men’s football World Cup has provided great goals, shock results and plenty of entertainment. It has also been extremely lucrative, earning Fifa billions of dollars in broadcasting rights, ticket sales and commercial sponsorship.
Those commercial partnerships include alcohol producers, whose brands have appeared across television broadcasts, digital platforms, social media and stadiums.
For example, Fifa has a long-standing sponsorship arrangement with the world’s biggest beer company. AB InBev owns Budweiser, which is the tournament’s official beer, and Michelob…
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By Irene Gammel, Professor & Director, Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre and Gallery, Toronto Metropolitan University
Toronto was both where Hemingway deepened his journalism and where he began honing the literary techniques that would shape his fiction.
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By Amnesty International
Three years after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen migration cooperation with Tunisia, the European Union (EU)’s unchecked support for border control in the country continues to fuel serious human rights violations against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, Amnesty International said today. The European Commission and Tunisia signed the deal on 16 July 2023, despite clear public documentation of a sharply deteriorating human rights situation in the country, including racist abuse and unlawful collective expulsions by the authorities that often involved torture […]…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
As he surveys the degraded and demoralised Liberal Party he presides over, Angus Taylor has two major problems – and that’s leaving aside One Nation.
The first is that his own performance is often cack-handed. The second is he is not, as the saying goes, meeting the voters where they are. He should – in theory – be able to tackle the former. The latter is more fundamental.
It always surprises how often Taylor comes out with the wrong line, or is caught out without an answer to an obvious question. Like, after his robust attack last week on One Nation, saying this week…
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By Fernando Medina Morales, Profesor de Geografía, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
The July 9 wildfire in Los Gallardos – in Almería, eastern Andalusia – was a tragedy with a huge human and social impact. Beyond the provisional figures of dead, missing and injured and the specific circumstances – which are yet to be confirmed by an official investigation – the fire raises a broader question: are we still using the right indicators to measure the severity of forest fires?
Traditionally, fire seasons have been assessed mainly on the number of fires recorded, the area burnt, and the fire service’s…
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By Lia Betti, Lecturer in Quantitative Anthropology at University College London, UCL
Nicole Torres Tamayo, Post-doctoral Researcher of Anthropology, UCL; Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont
Scientists have long thought humans have a uniquely difficult birth compared to other primates.
And it’s true that from an evolutionary perspective, we face an obstetrical dilemma. As we evolved to walk on two feet, our pelvis changed shape and size and our birth canal became smaller and oddly twisted. Meanwhile, the evolution of our enormous brain meant that a large-headed baby needed to fit through it.
But our new…
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