By Robert Simmons, Professor of Economics, Lancaster University
The 2025 summer football transfer window was a record for the English Premier League with teams spending £3.9 billion on transfer fees for new players. That’s more than the top divisions of France, Germany, Italy and Spain combined.
The most expensive transfer was Alexander Isak’s drawn…
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to the Belarusian authorities’ refusal to disclose the fate and whereabouts of the recently released opposition politician Mikalai Statkevich, Maria Guryeva, Amnesty International’s Senior Campaigner, said: “The ongoing lack of information about Mikalai Statkevich’s fate and whereabouts is profoundly worrying. He has not been seen since he was taken to the border with Lithuania […] The post Belarus: Released prisoner Mikalai Statkevich forcibly disappeared after refusing to be exiled appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Putu Agus Khorisantono, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
Janina Seubert, Principal Researcher, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
Our latest study showed that taste and smell were both found to activate a region of the brain important for taste, hunger and thirst.
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By Nina Fontana, Researcher in Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
Beth Rose Middleton Manning, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
It took decades, stacks of legal paperwork and countless phone calls, but, in the spring of 2025, a California Chuckchansi Native American woman and her daughter walked onto a 5-acre parcel of land, shaded by oaks and pines, for the first time.
This land near the foothills of the Sierra National Forest is part of an unusual category of land that has been largely left alone for more than a century. The parcel, like roughly 400 other parcels across the state totaling 16,000 acres in area, is held in trust by the federal government…
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By Sarah J. Morath, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International Affairs, Wake Forest University
The world puts a lot of unnecessary microplastics into the environment − such as glitter in makeup. Even better filters in washing machines could help.
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By Amanda Siegrist, Associate Professor of Recreation and Sport Management, Coastal Carolina University
Redefining sports eligibility around gender identity risks erasing the protections that have helped women’s college sports flourish, a scholar argues.
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By Linggong Kong, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Auburn University
China’s carefully staged display of unity with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un at a parade marking China’s victory over Japan in WWII projected strength abroad, but it also risks unintended consequences.
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By Aeimit Lakdawala, Associate Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University
Republican-leaning economists tend to predict stronger economic growth when a Republican is president than Democrats do – and because of this partisan optimism, their forecasts end up being less accurate.
I’m an economist, and my colleagues and I found this by analyzing nearly 40 years of responses to The Wall Street Journal’s Economic Forecasting…
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By Alice Zhang, Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Penn State
Jennifer Murphy, Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State
The Health To Go machines in Pennsylvania are in a YMCA in Reading and outside an emergency department in Harrisburg.
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By Stephen DiKerby, Postdoctoral Researcher in Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com.
“Is the Moon getting farther away from Earth?” – Judah, 9, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
The Moon is getting 1½…
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