By Clive Jones, Professor of Regional Security, Durham University
Operation rising lion has been a concerted effort by the Israel Defense Forces to degrade Iran’s nuclear programme. Launched on June 13, the operation has targeted key nuclear installations, logistical hubs and Iranian nuclear scientists, key intelligence and military personal.
Israel has justified the attack by claiming that…
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By Elton Santos, Reader in Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Physics, University of Edinburgh
Diamonds might be forever but that doesn’t stop them being bought and sold. One stone thought to have once belonged to Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, has just sold for US$14 million (£10 million) at an auction in New York – about three times the asking price. Set into a platinum ring and weighing a total of 15.5 grams, the clue to the diamond’s uniqueness is in its name: the Marie-Thérèse pink.
This 10.38 carat pink diamond has been changing…
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By Jill Nash, Senior Lecturer in Advertising and Marketing Communications, Bournemouth University
Talking to teenagers about safety isn’t easy. Here’s how to do it in a way that’s honest, effective and grounded in care.
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By Nakissa Jahanbani, Adjunct Lecturer, Pennsylvania State University, Penn State
Tehran can utilize an army of proxy groups, intelligence operatives and cyberhackers as part of any retaliation for Israeli or US attacks.
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By George E. Mitchell, Professor of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, CUNY
When donors are better informed, they can accomplish more with the money they give away. But who should pay for that information?
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By Johnathan Cooper-Knock, Senior Lecturer in Neurology, School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield
Pamela J. Shaw, Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield
Fruit flies, fast skiers and electrical signals between muscles and neurons are helping researchers uncover a possible link between extreme exercise and MND.
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By Ed Gasson, Royal Society University Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter
When ice gets trapped on land as giant ice sheets, it causes the sea level to change, but it doesn’t change by the same amount all around the planet.
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By Sahar Maranlou, Lecturer in Law and Socio-legal Studies, Royal Holloway University of London
Ali Khamenei was born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1939, as the second son of a local religious leader, Javad Khamenei, and he grew up in relative poverty.
He learned to read the Qur'an in early childhood before attending a theological seminary school in Mashhad. At 18, he travelled to Najaf in central Iraq to study Shia jurisprudence, but was later asked by his father to return.…
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By Benedict Morrison, Senior lecturer in Film, Television, Literature, and Queer Studies, University of Exeter
Rector’s son Stephen must come to terms with the complexity of his desires while grappling with societal pressure and religious guilt.
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By Laura O'Flanagan, PhD Candidate, School of English, Dublin City University
What does this new story have to offer cinema audiences accustomed to characters they already know and onscreen worlds that they have already visited?
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