By Manal Mohammed, Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster
Most people recover within a week. A UK outbreak involving 207 confirmed cases offers a window into the rare route from gut illness to bloodstream infection.
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By Maria Jose Galvez Trigo, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Human-Centred Robotics and AI, Cardiff University
Paul Willis, Professor of Social Care, Cardiff University
New BBC sitcom Ann Droid imagines a near future in which robots provide care and companionship to older people at home.
The series centres on Sue, a recent widow played by Sue Johnston, her hapless son Michael and Linda, an assistive care robot played by Diane Morgan. Linda is designed to provide daily support and companionship, with predictably comic results.
As researchers in social care, ageing and human-centred…
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By James Jackson, Lecturer and Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
Mathias Larsen, Senior Policy Fellow, Grantham Research institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
New prime minister Andy Burnham’s to-do list just keeps growing. In many regards, he has wasted no time in setting out a vision for the government that puts clear distance between himself and his predecessor Keir Starmer. But despite this, amid a summer of record-breaking heat and devastating wildfires, he is still to say anything substantive on the climate issue.
Burnham has not articulated how this Labour government intends to achieve its climate objectives. The government’s Climate Change Committee…
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By Julie Dragon, Associate Professor, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont
Researchers found that tumours on different catfish were genetically similar, indicating the fish were catching the cancer from each other.
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By Destenie Nock, Alex Hills Career Development Associate Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Energy is meant to improve people’s lives. Often cost prevents residents from making the most of that opportunity, so they cut back on energy use to be able to pay the bills.
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By Jason Wollschleger, Professor of Sociology, Whitworth University
More than 100 Black churches across the South were targeted from the 1950s-70s. Another wave of violence followed in the ‘90s – and there have been attacks in recent years, too.
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By Evan Clarkson, Assistant Professor of Experimental Psychology, Utah Valley University
A psychologist explains why the dark humor around Mangione’s case isn’t evidence of nihilism but of what happens when demands for moral seriousness stop feeling credible.
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By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
Two new executive orders take aim at aspects of birthright citizenship the high court did not address in its June 2026 ruling.
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By Michele Patterson Ford, Lecturer in Psychology, Dickinson College
When a person’s story about a traumatic event seems fuzzy, they may be experiencing the nuances of how their brain processes trauma.
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By Syra S. Madad, Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Nahid Bhadelia, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Boston University
The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Erica Schwartz, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Aug. 5, 2026, is only the second CDC director to face Senate confirmation. Congress adopted the process for the agency after the COVID-19 pandemic to bring more scrutiny to one of the country’s most consequential public health jobs, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023.…
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