By Edward Fox, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Nothing says summer quite like a picnic. Whether you’re lounging on a beach towel, stretched out in a park, or unpacking a hamper in your garden, picnics are a beloved way to enjoy good food in the great outdoors.
In the UK alone, the picnic food market is worth over £2 billion each year, with millions of us heading out for an alfresco feast with…
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By Gillian McFadyen, Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University
Campaigners, academics and groups that support asylum seekers have long called for the UK to introduce “safe and legal routes”.
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By Jane Wright, Commissioning Editor, Arts & Culture, The Conversation UK
When I first watched Girls, I remember marvelling at Lena Dunham’s four twenty-something New Yorkers. Sex and the City it was not. I realised wistfully just how much I wished the series had been around when I was in my twenties.
Dunham’s character Hannah Horvath was like a beacon, illuminating the possibilities of how you could just be yourself in this world – good and bad – without apologising for it. I loved her boldness. Girls was messy, awkward, embarrassing, relatable and real. It was also very funny.
Now Dunham brings her latest, similarly awkward comedy-drama,
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Friday, July 11, 2025
Between October 2024 and June this year, Haiti has been caught in a vicious and unending cycle. First, gang violence expanded westward into the Artibonite and Centre Departments.
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to the sentencing yesterday of 19-year-old protester Saba Jikia, to more than four years in prison for allegedly kicking a police officer during ongoing protests in Georgia, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “Saba Jikia’s trial was marred by fair trial concerns and a failure to apply […] The post Georgia: Jailing of teenage protester raises fair trial concerns appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Flor Acevedo, Assistant Professor of Entomology, Penn State
Spotted lanternfly season is back in Pennsylvania. The polka-dotted, gray-and-red-winged adult insects make their appearance each July and tend to hang around until December. It’s an unwelcome summer ritual that started in 2014 when the invasive pests were first detected in the U.S.
The Conversation U.S. talked to Flor Acevedo,…
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By Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan
As more satellites are launched into orbit, space agencies are looking at how to predict space weather events that could harm them.
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By Turgay Ayer, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Imagine walking into your doctor’s office feeling sick – and rather than flipping through pages of your medical history or running tests that take days, your doctor instantly pulls together data from your health records, genetic profile and wearable devices to help decipher what’s wrong.
This kind of rapid diagnosis is one of the big promises of artificial intelligence for use in health care. Proponents of the technology say that over the coming decades, AI has the potential to save hundreds of thousands, even…
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By Jalees Rehman, Department Chair and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois Chicago
Many cancer survivors struggle with muscle weakness, which can be so profound that they may have difficulties walking up a couple of flights of stairs or going shopping for groceries on their own.
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By Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but Republicans have tried to get rid of it before.
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