By Laurenz Casser, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, University of Sheffield
The brains of infants may process pain differently from those of adults. What any of this feels like we still don’t know.
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By Rosa Busquets, Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry, Kingston University
A new exhibition in London (open until February 2026) called Thirst: In search of freshwater highlights how civilisations have treasured – and been intrinsically linked to – safe, clean water.
As a chemist, I research how freshwater is polluted by modern civilisation. Common contaminants in rivers include pharmaceuticals,
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By Sara Polak, University Lecturer in American Studies, Leiden University
Some US presidents have been defined by their adept use of the media. Donald Trump’s weapon of choice is his TruthSocial platform.
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By Nic Sanders, Senior Lecturer in Management and Marketing, University of Westminster
Shopping for clothes online is a risky business. How do you know if that top will be a good fit, or those shoes will definitely be the right colour? One popular solution to this predicament is to order lots of tops and lots of shoes, try them on at home, and send back all the ones you don’t want – often at no cost.
But that tactic can be expensive for the fashion retailer, which needs to pay for all those deliveries and returns. And now Asos, which sends millions of shipments every month, has started banning some customers for over-returning items – prompting something…
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By Olga Lazareva, Professor of Psychology, Drake University
How researchers measure the logical reasoning of monkeys, pigeons, rats, fish and wasps shapes how they understand mental processes in animals − and in people.
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By Ikhlaq Sidhu, Decano de IE School of Science and Technology, IE University
As AI systems expand their already impressive capacities, there is an increasingly common belief that the field of computer science (CS) will soon be a thing of the past. This is being communicated to today’s prospective students in the form of well-meaning advice, but much of it amounts to little more than hearsay from individuals who, despite their intelligence, speak outside of their expertise.
High-profile figures like Nobel Prize-winning economist…
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By Darius Brubeck, Honorary Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Lex Futshane, the South African bass player in the 1992 student band NU Jazz Connection, was the first to tell me that the great South African jazz trumpeter Feya Faku had died…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A policeman stands outside a hotel in Blantyre, Malawi, May 6, 2020. © 2020 AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP via Getty Images (Johannesburg) – On June 26, 2025, about a dozen weapon-wielding men in Malawi attacked demonstrators peacefully protesting the government’s handling of upcoming national elections, Human Rights Watch said today. The police’s apparent unwillingness to intervene to stop the violence or to arrest those responsible raises grave concerns about the government’s ability to conduct the September general election in a fair and impartial manner.The incident occurred…
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By Peter Draper, Professor, and Executive Director: Institute for International Trade, and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Trade and Environment, University of Adelaide
Kumuthini Sivathas, Trade Economist, Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide
Nathan Howard Gray, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide
US President Donald Trump’s 90-day pause on implementing so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on some 180 trading partners ends on July 8.
How are countries responding to the threat, and will the tariffs be re-applied from July 9?
What the US thinks ‘reciprocal’ means
The United States is demanding four things from all trading partners, while offering little in return. So these negotiations are anything but “reciprocal”.
The main demand is to rebalance bilateral goods trade between the US and other countries. Nations with trade surpluses – meaning they export…
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
Early voting has begun in the island state’s snap election - but the pollsters can’t decide which party might win.
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