By Oleksa Drachewych, Assistant Professor in History, Western University
The aborted Hungarian summit between Putin and Trump reflects more on how Putin has tried to manage his relationship with Trump to gain other geopolitical benefits.
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By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
Your Halloween sweets might do more than cause a sugar rush. Some ingredients can interfere with medicines or trigger harmful reactions.
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By Chloe Ward, Senior Lecturer in the History of British Art, Queen Mary University of London
Åsa Harvard Maare, Senior Lecturer in Design, Malmö University
Catherine Spooner, Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University
Daisy Dixon, Lecturer in Philosophy, Cardiff University
Frances Fowle, Personal Chair of 19th-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh
Karl Bell, Reader in Cultural History, University of Portsmouth
Pippa Catterall, Professor of History and Policy, University of Westminster
From gruesome portraits to creepy critters, these are the paintings that have stayed with our experts long after their first glimpse.
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By James Cronin, Professor in Marketing and Consumer Culture Studies, Lancaster University
Alexandros Skandalis, Professor in Marketing and Consumer Culture, Lancaster University
Charlotte Hadley, Research Fellow, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University
Damaging as it is, food waste has an end point: it decomposes, breaks down, and returns to the soil. Plastic packaging persists indefinitely.
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By Adam Taylor, Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
On Halloween, children face a fourfold increase in pedestrian deaths and a 70% spike in life-threatening allergic reactions – here’s what you need to know.
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By Anthony Booker, Reader in Ethnopharmacology, University of Westminster
Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?
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By Paty Paliokosta, Associate Professor of Special and Inclusive Education, Kingston University
Plans to reform support for children with special educational needs in England have been delayed after the government announced its new policy would not be unveiled until 2026, rather than autumn 2025.
However, there has already been some indication of what the government will do. The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, recently promised to set “clear expectations for schools” on how they work together with pupils’ parents. She also outlined her intention to…
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By Samuel Jesse Cox, Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in English Literature, University of Tübingen
The Rose Field, the third and final volume in Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust trilogy is finally in the hands of his readers.
This trilogy accompanies Pullman’s earlier series, His Dark Materials, and tells stories that happen both before and after those original books. Both trilogies follow Lyra Belacqua and her daemon, Pantalaimon – a manifestation of her soul in animal form. In The…
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By Adam Lowenstein, Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of Pittsburgh
The Halloween season has always been special for me. It’s the time when it seems the entire country shares the fascination with the dark side of human experience that has inspired me from my youth as a fan of horror movies to my current career as a professor of English and film studies focused on the horror genre.
I’m a member of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community, and the Halloween season has also carried a very different connotation for the past seven years. On Oct. 27, 2018, Pittsburgh’s…
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By Decide Mabumbo, Senior Researcher - Climate risk management and disaster resilience, CGIAR
South Africa’s G20 presidency is a chance to lobby for investment in drought-tolerant crops, better irrigation, and early warning systems.
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