By Chloe Brimicombe, Postdoctoral Researcher, Climate Science, University of Oxford
Ben Garrod, Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Science Engagement, University of East Anglia
Jean-Baptiste Gouyon, Head of Department, Science and Technology Studies, UCL
Saffron O'Neill, Professor of Geography, University of Exeter
Attenborough has influenced everything from conservation and documentary production to the communication of the biggest story of all – climate change.
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By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
From Nobel laureate Linus Pauling’s dismissed vitamin C crusade to modern trials, a once-ridiculed idea in cancer research is getting a cautious second look.
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By Giulia De Togni, Chancellor's Fellow, School of Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh
The robot pauses at the edge of the room as an engineer checks its sensors. Then, with a soft mechanical hum, this humanoid machine begins to move. It lifts a mannequin from a bed, slowly and carefully. The engineers hold their breath.
I am in a robotics lab in Tokyo, Japan, as part of my Wellcome research fellowship. The engineers have repeated this test hundreds of times…
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By Chris Rapley, Professor of Climate Science, UCL
Four humans recently looped around the Moon. Their vessel, an Artemis capsule, was a thin metal shell whose life-support system kept them alive: it provided a carefully balanced atmosphere, a closed water loop, a finite supply of food and a means for disposing human waste. The life support was not optional. It was a necessity.
Consider this: not once in the history of human spaceflight has an astronaut been known to tamper with their life support system. No one has ever decided to vent some oxygen for fun. No one has argued for a personal right to increase their CO₂…
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By Michael E. West, Director of the Alaska Earthquake Center and State Seismologist, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Ezgi Karasözen, Research Seismologist, Alaska Earthquake Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
On the evening of Aug. 9, 2025, passengers on the Hanse Explorer finished taking selfies and videos of the South Sawyer Glacier, and the ship headed back down the fjord. Twelve hours later, a landslide from the adjacent mountain unexpectedly collapsed into the fjord, initiating the second-highest tsunami in recorded history.
We conduct research on earthquakes and tsunamis at the Alaska Earthquake Center, and one of us serves…
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By Sukhun Kang, Assistant Professor of Technology Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
Some industry-funded clinical trials show signs of being designed to market drugs rather than to test them for their safety and effectiveness. Detecting these studies remains difficult.
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By Erika Yamazaki, PhD candidate in Neuroscience, Northwestern University
Ken A. Paller, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University
Annual medical checkups typically cover the basics: diet, exercise and mental state. Surprisingly, many primary care providers fail to ask about one of the fundamental contributors to well-being: sleep.
We are two neuroscientists who study sleep and memory. We have both experienced this omission with our own doctors, even though we represent different ages and genders.…
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By Nigel Melville, Associate Professor of Information Systems, University of Michigan
A slew of companies have announced plans to add AI agents to their workforces. Employees can take steps to handle the changes.
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By Andrea Hagan, Instructor of Criminology & Justice, Loyola University New Orleans
A historic drop in violent crime, including the murder rate, is at risk after the cancellation of federal funding for programs that helped make the decline possible.
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By A.D. Carson, Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
Why do rap lyrics continue to be used to demonize people inside and outside the courtroom, in ways that no other art form has to contend with?
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