By William Akoto, Assistant Professor of Global Security, American University
A cyberattack on a US corporation illustrates how state-aligned hackers operate, and how damage in war today isn’t always visible or geographically confined.
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By Benjamin F. Henwood, Professor of Social Policy and Health, University of Southern California
The study found that regularly getting cash made it easier for many homeless people to meet their immediate and personal needs.
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By Brad Badertscher, Professor of Accountancy, University of Notre Dame
In the old days, companies like Apple and Amazon went public early to access cash to grow. These days, soon-to-be-public companies are already flush with cash from private finance.
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By Robin Evans, Postgraduate Researcher, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, University of Leeds
Matthew Warburton, Postdoctoral Researcher, Psychology, University of Leeds
Nick Malleson, Professor of Spatial Science, University of Leeds
Almost 1 million young people in the UK are not in education, employment or training. These so-called Neets – aged 16 to 24 – face a significantly higher risk of long-term unemployment, poor health and involvement in crime.
The proportion of 16- to 17-year-olds who are Neet is…
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By Admire Thonje, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg
A growing brand of new Pentecostal churches in southern Africa is known to emphasise the prosperity gospel, deliverance, miracles and healing.
Miracles, including people apparently rising…
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By Andrew Gawthorpe, Lecturer in History and International Studies, Leiden University
The Trump administration is once again threatening to withdraw the US from Nato, citing the reluctance of the alliance to join the Iran war.
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By Benjamin Selwyn, Professor of International Relations and International Development, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex
The US-Israel war with Iran has sent shockwaves through the global economy and predictions of COVID‑era inflation are becoming hard to ignore. In many countries, these pressures are already being felt, as households struggle to afford essentials.
During and after the height of the pandemic, governments across the political spectrum experimented with price controls in a…
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By David J. Galbreath, Professor of War and Technology, University of Bath
The US president took the opportunity of a prime-time speech to the US public on April 1 to repeat his by now-familiar criticism of America’s Nato allies for not joining the war in Iran. He told them to “build up some delayed courage. Should have done it before. Should have done it with us as we asked.”
Trump’s anger at Nato in the past fortnight has been focused on the reluctance of the likes of the UK, Germany and France to land a hand in forcing Iran…
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By George Kafetzis, Research Fellow in Neuroscience, University of Sussex
Dan Nilsson, Professor emeritus of Zoology, Lund University
It’s easy to take our eyes for granted. But our recent research shows they took an incredible evolutionary journey to reach their current familiar form.
It has long been known that our (vertebrate) eyes differ fundamentally from the ones of our distant relatives (invertebrates), because of their cell composition and how they develop before birth. However, answers to why or how these differences first emerged long remained elusive.
Our study suggests that our eyes descend from…
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By Linda Woodhead, F.D. Maurice Professor of Religion, King's College London
In the same week that a new archbishop of Canterbury was installed, YouGov admitted that a poll suggesting there was a “quiet revival” of Christianity was a dud. It had been inflated by fraudulent results and should be ignored.
To those of us who study the bigger picture of religion in Britain, this comes as no surprise. There are good reasons to doubt that Britain is experiencing…
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