By David Bartlett, Senior Lecturer of Exercise Immunology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Surrey
CLL can mean fatigue, fear and years of waiting but new research shows that staying active helps people feel better – and live better.
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By Daniel Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry, Sheffield Hallam University
A case that first appeared in a medical journal several years ago has recently resurfaced in the media, highlighting an unexpected risk of hormone therapies: a baby girl in Sweden developed unusually large genitals after lying on her father’s bare chest, accidentally exposed to his testosterone gel.
The incident is a reminder that hormone treatments, while safe when used correctly,…
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By David Gisselsson Nord, Professor, Division of Clinical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University
Alberto Rinaldi, Postdoctoral Researcher in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University
When a foreign power floods your media with false health alerts designed to create panic, isn’t that as threatening as a military blockade?
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By Chee Meng Tan, Assistant Professor of Business Economics, University of Nottingham
Is China’s supreme leader under pressure to give up some power to influential party leaders? Our writer looks at why he might be.
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By Rob Geist Pinfold, Lecturer in International Security, King's College London
Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria has brought the fledgling government in Damascus dangerously close to direct conflict with Israel, after Israeli warplanes launched strikes against government buildings in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on July 16.
The United Nations and a number of countries condemned the attacks, which the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, said were “escalatory airstrikes”. Yet…
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By Scott Glaberman, Associate Professor of Comparative Toxicology, University of Birmingham
H. Christopher Frey, Glenn E. Futrell Distinguished University Professor of Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
Tamara Tal, Mechanistic Toxicology Group Leader, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ and Professor of Integrated Systems Toxicology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ
From detecting pollutants to assessing health risks, the US EPA’s Office of Research and Development has long ensured that environmental decisions are grounded in credible, cutting-edge science.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Angola's Rapid Intervention Force during a protest against the rise in fuel prices and transport costs in Luanda, July 12, 2025. © 2025 Julio Pacheco Ntela/AFP via Getty Images (Johannesburg) – Angolan police used excessive force and carried out arbitrary arrests while dispersing peaceful protesters in Luanda, the capital, on July 12, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. Police unnecessarily fired tear gas and rubber bullets and assaulted protesters, injuring several people. They also detained 17 protesters, some of whom were released only after legal intervention. The…
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By Victoria Canning, Professor of Criminology, Lancaster University
Sara de Jong, Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of York
In 2022, somebody in the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) mistakenly shared a spreadsheet containing the personal information associated with 18,714 Afghans and their family members. This data breach, and the efforts to cover it up, raises serious questions about state secrecy, blame-shifting and accountability.
After discovering the mistake in August 2023, the government covered up their spectacular error with an unprecedented…
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By Zoe Wimshurst, Senior Lecturer of Sport Psychology, Health Sciences University
Much of the pre-series attention on the 2025 British and Irish Lions tour of Australia has been on injuries, player omissions and personal rivalries.
One of those rivalries involves the Australian sensation Joseph-Akuso Suaalii facing Lions centre player, Sione Tuipulotu, with whom he had a fiery…
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By Deborah Pain, Visiting Academic, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of East Anglia, University of Cambridge
Niels Kanstrup, Wildlife Biologist in the Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University
Rhys Green, Professor of Conservation Science, University of Cambridge
The UK’s environment minister Emma Hardy has announced a ban on toxic lead ammunition to protect Britain’s countryside. This ban includes the sale and use for hunting of both lead shotgun ammunition (each cartridge of which contains hundreds of small lead pellets called “shot”), used mainly for hunting small game animals like gamebirds, and large…
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