By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation
Starlink owner Elon Musk says it is the US government which controls the Starshield military satellite system and would have made the decision to throlttle it.
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By Ricardo Twumasi, Lecturer in Psychosis Studies, King's College London
Frederikke Hørdam Gronemann, Section for Data, Biostatistics and Pharmacoepidemiology Data scientist, Copenhagen University Hospital
Merete Osler, Senior Physician, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention
Schizophrenia is one of the most severe mental illnesses. This makes it an important test of how well countries support those with the most complex needs.
Schizophrenia can involve hearing voices, delusions and difficulties with thinking, motivation and everyday activities. It does not mean having a split personality and improvement…
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By Daniel Brown, Lecturer in Astronomy, Nottingham Trent University
A Japanese space mission is about to launch towards Mars. But it will not land on the planet itself. Instead, the Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission will focus on Phobos, the bigger of Mars’s two small moons.
The mission will lift off on Monday October 19 at 20:41 BST on an H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center, in the south of Japan.
This will start a five-year mission, during which the spacecraft will orbit…
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By Andrea Holck, Lecturer in English Literature and Publishing, City St George's, University of London
It’s news to no one that women have been consistently demonised in popular culture for a very, very long time. In her new book, Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women, feminist academic Eleanor Johnson takes us on a detailed and delightfully macabre tour of the history of female monstrosity.
Johnson maps the 4,000-year-old tradition of framing nonconforming women as murderous, monstrous anomalies. Her central argument is that the perennial monstrous bitch, in any of its many forms, is a spectre formed in response to the patriarchy’s fear of women and belief that they’re inherently…
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By Ahmed Honeini, Honorary Research Associate in American Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London
Warning: this article contains spoilers for those not familiar with the plot of Stephen King’s Carrie.
Amazon Prime’s Carrie is the fourth screen adaptation of Stephen King’s debut novel. Developed by frequent King collaborator Mike Flanagan (who also directed Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep and The Life of Chuck), this eight-episode miniseries follows the legacy of Brian De Palma’s classic 1976 film starring Sissy Spacek.
Published in 1974, King’s original…
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By Melinda McPherson, Phd Candidate, Paramedic Science, Anglia Ruskin University
Hilary Bungay, Emeritus Professor of Arts Health and Wellbeing, Faculty of Health Medicine and Social Care, Anglia Ruskin University
Sarah McLachlan, Senior Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence in Equity for Uniformed Public Services, Anglia Ruskin University
When someone has a cardiac arrest, the actions of people nearby can make the difference between life and death. For years, the message has been clear: start cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as quickly as possible, even if you’ve never been trained.
That advice remains essential. But growing evidence suggests that how CPR is performed could also influence someone’s chances of survival.
Cardiac arrest happens when the heart suddenly stops pumping blood around the body, depriving the brain…
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By Robert Hargreaves, Lecturer in Law, York St John University
From the clear covering on your microwave meal to the flimsy bread bag lying on the kitchen counter, plastic film is notoriously tricky to recycle. But what if those annoying bits of plastic waste could be put to better use?
This hard-to-reycle plastic could be transformed, potentially into a source of fuel, but the UK’s current recycling rules make it difficult for companies to innovate and experiment.
The main legal barrier is the definition of recycling itself. Under the rules
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By Hong Kong Free Press
The tech allows students to generate personalized stories on China’s “holistic approach to national security” – a framework advocated by President Xi Jinping covering areas from politics and economy to ecology and technology.
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By Anthony King, Professor of War Studies, Director of the Strategy and Security Institute., University of Exeter
The drone has become the signature weapon of the Russo-Ukraine war. On any day in Ukraine, tens of thousands of drones are out hunting the battlefield for targets. These could be individual enemy soldiers or vehicles, or they could be larger targets such as depots, headquarters, bridges or power plants.
Yet, this drone war has been possible only because of a less obvious but equally vital technology. Elon Musk’s SpaceX…
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By Robert B Whait, Senior Lecturer in Taxation Law, Adelaide University
Connie Vitale, Associate professor accounting, Western Sydney University
This week, the federal government introduced into parliament proposed changes to discretionary trusts, imposing a new minimum 30% tax rate on income from trusts.
While these trusts can have legitimate uses, particularly for small businesses, they can also be used as a tax minimisation strategy for wealthy individuals.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers told parliament more…
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