By Kevin Burke, Associate Professor in Statistics, University of Limerick
David O'Sullivan, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Limerick
Recently, a cheerful 100-year-old message in a bottle was found on the south-west coast of Australia. In it, a world war one soldier proclaimed to be “as happy as Larry”.
If you’re a betting person, you probably wouldn’t expect great odds of this happening. A bottle cast into the ocean could end up absolutely anywhere.
If it floats to a remote location, there is little chance of somebody stumbling upon it. And if it lands somewhere more favourable where people could potentially find it, there…
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By Jamie Torrance, Lecturer and Researcher in Psychology, Swansea University
“Welcome bonus: get 150% up to £150 on your first deposit”. It’s the kind of offer that greets anyone who visits a British online betting site. What it doesn’t say is that if you decide to spend £50 on this offer, you’d need to stake an additional £750 of your own money before any winnings could be withdrawn.
Recent research by colleagues and I asked nearly 600 UK bettors to work out the true cost of exactly that kind of offer. Nearly everyone got…
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By Marina Sanz-Martín, Postdoctoral researcher, Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO - CSIC)
The Mediterranean is one of the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems. A scientific study on shifting distribution dynamics examines how its fish species contend with sea warming.
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By Alan Stewart, Senior Lecturer in Games Development, University of Portsmouth
Peter Howell, Senior Lecturer in Game Design, University of Portsmouth
When thinking back to the gaming experiences of your youth, it’s easy to get misty-eyed. Depending on your generation, you might yearn for Dizzy on the Commodore 64, marathon GoldenEye sessions with friends or your first Minecraft world.
And games publishers know this. Recognising the nostalgic appeal of games, there has been a recent slew of re-releases of beloved classics. Tomb Raider Remastered (2024), Croc: Legend of the Gobbos (2025) and System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster (2025) all show publishers…
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By Parsa Ghasemi, Archaeologist, Postdoctoral research fellow at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and research member at ARSCAN Nanterre, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
An archaeologist examines the cultural obliteration Iran has incurred as a result of strikes in the US-Israel-Iran conflict. How can such damage be compensated and which global organisations can the country turn to?
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By Marwân-al-Qays Bousmah, Chargé de Recherche, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques)
Annabel Desgrées du Loû, Directrice de recherche, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
Anne Gosselin, Chargée de recherche en démographie de la santé, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques)
Flore Gubert, Directrice de recherche, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
Kevin Poperl, Ingénieur d'étude, économie et statistiques, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
An unprecedented occupational health study on takeaway delivery workers in France reveals shocking working conditions amid Europe-wide debate on their entitlement to standard employee rights.
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By Michael von Massow, Professor, Food Economics, University of Guelph
Alfons Weersink, Professor, Dept of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph
Rising oil and fertilizer costs linked to Middle East tensions could affect food prices, but the effects will vary across products and may take time to fully emerge.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A contingent of police officers from Kenya arrives at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 18, 2025, as part of the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) authorized by the United Nations. © 2025 Clarens Siffroy/AFP via Getty Images A United Nations report has found that members of a UN-authorized force operating in Haiti, the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission, were responsible for four cases of sexual violence in the country, including the rape of a 12 -year-old girl and two…
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By Laura
As shown in an interactive map of Prague, listing historical figures and places associated with this community, LGBTQ+ people have always been part of Czech culture.
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By Amy Pearson, Assistant Professor in Psychology, Durham University
Aimee Grant, Associate Professor in Public Health and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University
Monique Botha, Associate Professor in Psychology, Durham University
Labels like autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and dyslexia are not new. But the way we understand them is changing.
In recent years, researchers have increasingly worked with neurodivergent people rather than simply studying them from the outside. That change has brought better access to diagnosis, more inclusive approaches in schools and workplaces and a growing challenge to the idea that neurological difference is something to be fixed.
Language sits at…
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