By Justin St. P. Walsh, Professor of Art History, Archaeology and Space Studies, Chapman University
The International Space Station is one of the most remarkable achievements of the modern age. It is the largest, most complex, most expensive and most durable spacecraft ever built.
Its first modules were launched in 1998. The first crew to live on the International Space Station – an American and two Russians – entered it in 2000. Nov. 2, 2025, marks 25 years of continuous habitation by at least two people, and as many as 13 at one time. It is a singular example of international…
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By Doug Jacobson, University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration on few cloud providers is changing that.
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By Shelley Mitchell, Senior Extension Specialist in Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Oklahoma State University
Many plants and flowers have symbolic meanings, and their presence on a grave may reflect something unique about the deceased.
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By Benjamin Larue, Faculty Affiliate in Wildlife Biology, University of Montana
Jonathan Farr, Ph.D. Student in Wildlife Biology, University of Montana
Mark Hebblewhite, Professor of Ungulate Habitat Ecology, University of Montana
Current laws that deem species safe from extinction ignore their ecological role, geographic range and genetic diversity, as well as their relationships with people.
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By Joanna Woronkowicz, Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Instead of treating creative work as a legitimate field, US labor policy, copyright law and the tax code have failed to offer artists stability or protection.
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By Joel Gray, Associate Dean, Sheffield Hallam University
There can be no doubt that any conversation about British girlbands of the last 30 years would be dominated by Spice Girls.
In whichever corner of the globe you are, they were the defacto pop force of the late 1990s – and their impact has been long-lasting. From Adele…
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By Alex Heffron, PhD Candidate in Geography, Lancaster University
Tom Carter-Brookes, Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar, Sustainable Rural Futures, Keele University
Sean Matthews, the Reform UK leader of Lincolnshire County Council, has said he’ll “lie down in front of bulldozers” to stop Britain’s largest solar farm being built in the county. He’s taking sides in a new rural culture war that pits green energy against the countryside’s traditional image of food and farming.
Reform’s opposition to renewables isn’t surprising. Fossil fuel interests have provided around 92% of the party’s funding according to research by DeSmog…
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By Sarah Singer, Professor of Refugee Law, School of Advanced Study, University of London
A convicted sex offender has been deported from Britain to Ethiopia after being accidentally released from prison. Following a national manhunt, home secretary Shabana Mahmood confirmed that Hadush Kebatu – an asylum seeker who came to the UK without authorisation on a small boat – would be returned to his home country.
Kebatu was convicted in September of sexual offences against a woman and 14-year-old girl and sentenced…
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By Jane Wright, Commissioning Editor, Arts & Culture, The Conversation
The more I see Benedict Cumberbatch on screen the more I marvel at his talent as an actor. Recently I have watched him in Eric on Netflix, as an unravelling Sesame Street-style puppeteer looking for his abducted son; in old re-runs of smartypants Sherlock Holmes on the BBC; and as a humiliated husband in The Roses with a truly ghastly Olivia Colman.
His latest film, The Thing With Feathers, promises another affecting performance, this time as a bewildered father struggling to look after his two small sons after the sudden death of his wife.
Based on Max Porter’s beautifully…
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By Damian Bailey, Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of South Wales
Angelique Van Ombergen, Visiting Professor in Translational Neurosciences, University of Antwerp; European Space Agency
Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may help improve life on Earth.
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