By Mariëtte van der Walt, Biodiversity Coordinator, Wilderness, University of the Witwatersrand
Climate change and changes in the way land is used are the two biggest threats to wildlife because they change the environment in which animals survive and thrive. Knowing how species respond to these pressures is central to planning conservation actions.
A number of studies have modelled how climate change will affect vertebrate distributions. But little is known about bats from…
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By Paolo Stuppia, Sociologue, membre du CESSP (Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
The term the French media are using to describe the people behind the chaos on the fringes of legitimate protests seems to be raising more questions than answers.
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By Stephen Jackson, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Nottingham
In the BBC reality show The Celebrity Traitors, the Traitors – James Acaster, Maya Jama and King Kenny – were set an unusual challenge: murder a Faithful by making them yawn. Their plan was to bore their target into yawning, then deliver the line “Am I boring you?” to seal the murder.
The task plays on one of yawning’s strangest features: its ability to spread from one person to another. Seeing someone yawn can be enough to trigger a yawn of your own, sometimes even when you are not tired. But would the same…
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By Paul Baines, Professor of Political Marketing, Head of Executive Education, University of Leicester
Prime Minister Andy Burnham recently announced the creation of a National Centre for Information Defence that will disrupt disinformation campaigns by states hostile to the UK. The centre will bring together security services, police, tech firms and government departments.
But this new centre will have its work cut out. State-backed adversaries are supported by huge amounts of money – Russia alone has an estimated US$2.15…
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By Sara García Santamaría, Assistant Professor in Journalism Studies, Universitat de València
The recent wave of protests in Europe have left us with two striking, viral spectacles of violence and joy. As Limoges’ historic town hall went up in flames, the Orchestre du Nouveau Monde was playing classical music in Paris’ central Place de la République (until the musicians were teargassed by police, that is).
Both scenes offer radically different ways of seeing the protests. The burning…
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By Kimberlee Collins, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph
Carla Rice, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph
Chelsea Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University
Youth described wanting a politicized form of climate education rooted in emotion and relationality. They also want conversations in their immediate communities.
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By Vicky Kapogianni, Associate Professor of International and Environmental Law, University of Reading
It may not win sovereignty but the law of the sea may enable the Argentina government to score a small win over the UK.
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By Nicholas Ryder, Professor of Law, Cardiff University
Sam Mapston, Associate Professor in Law, University of the West of England
More than 8,900 people aged under 30 were arrested for money laundering offences in England and Wales between 2020 and 2025. That’s more than six in ten of all money laundering arrests recorded during the period.
And our analysis of police data points to a growing problem that is not simply about young people committing financial crime. It also reveals how organised crime groups are recruiting young people as “money mules”.…
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By Carmen Logie, Full Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
Kathleen Deering, Associate professor, Division of Social Medicine, University of British Columbia
The problem isn’t just that women at the gym were called ‘whores’ recently by a comic, it’s also that ‘whore’ still works as an insult.
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By Paul Hough, Lecturer Sport and Exercise Physiology, University of Westminster
If you train regularly, your progress will eventually slow and personal bests will become harder to beat. When this happens, it’s tempting to start a completely new training programme – but this is usually the wrong move.
To understand why, it’s important to know how progress happens in the first place.
Exercise causes both immediate responses and long-term changes in your body. The body’s immediate responses to exercise are pretty obvious – an increased heart rate, breathing faster and your muscles…
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