By Mark Ireland, Senior Lecturer in Energy Geoscience, Newcastle University
The Middle East plays a central role in global energy and therefore global markets. As tensions escalate and the strait of Hormuz, a key trade route, faces disruption, headlines assessing the wider impact of the Iranian conflict often centre on oil and gas supply.
There’s one underlying reason that so many oil tankers and liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes pass through the strait, and that Middle East conflict shakes global energy markets. That reason is a geological one: an extraordinary concentration…
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By Atieh Razavi Yekta, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of British Columbia
Christopher McLeod, Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
Around 60 per cent of Canadian employees can expect their job to be transformed through artificial intelligence (AI). For many, AI will complement, rather than replace, their work. For some, it could prevent illness, injury or death.
This might look like a nurse wearing a T-shirt equipped with sensors to track her lower back posture during a hospital shift. It might be an algorithm monitoring noise levels in a steel factory, to prevent worker hearing loss. Or it could be a robotic…
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By Maha Khawaja, PhD Student, Health and Society, McMaster University
Women’s success, resilience and well-being are not purely individual achievements. They are deeply supported by female friendships and collective social bonds.
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By Ali Nazemi, Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University
Snow is Canada’s hidden reservoir. Each winter, the precipitation it brings is stored not behind dams, but across mountains, forests and prairies as snowpack. When temperatures rise, that stored water melts and is released gradually, sustaining rivers, groundwater, ecosystems, agriculture and hydropower.
This seasonal storage underpins water security across much of the country. Prairie agriculture depends heavily on mountain snowpack for irrigation. The Great Lakes basin relies on snowmelt to sustain spring inflows that support navigation, ecosystems and freshwater withdrawals. Hydropower…
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By Jutta Treviranus, Director & Professor, Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University
Systems designed with those who face the greatest barriers are more resilient, adaptive and stable. And in the end, they benefit everyone when the unpredictable happens.
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By Amélie Beaudet, Paléoanthropologue (CNRS), Université de Poitiers
Dominic Stratford, Professor of Archaeology, University of the Witwatersrand
What did the face of our ancestors looks like 3 million years ago? Meet the reconstructed skull of “Little Foot” which provides valuable insights into how our ancestors adapted to their environment.
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By Federico Donelli, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Trieste
The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, in March 2026 marks the end of a political era in the Middle Eastern country. Khamenei was killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s capital, Tehran. This has triggered a war drawing in numerous countries across the Middle East.
The Horn of Africa and Red Sea regions, which link Africa…
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By Mandla Bhuda, Senior Lecturer: Public Health, University of South Africa
Janine Wichmann, Professor, University of Pretoria
Joyce Shirinde, Associate Professor, University of Pretoria
The use of polluting household fuels and gas was associated with an increased likelihood of eczema, followed by severe asthma symptoms.
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By Timothy Clack, Chingiz Gutseriev Fellow, University of Oxford
Shadreck Chirikure, Prof of Archaeological Science & British Academy Global Professor, University of Oxford
Colonialism has been a central part of history around the world, differing only in form over time and space. After all, whenever people have moved from one place to another, they have colonised spaces and other people or forms of life.
In Africa, colonialism has mostly been studied as something imposed from outside, for example from Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. A recent special issue of the journal Azania sought to address…
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By Michael Johan von Maltitz, Associate Professor, Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of the Free State
Students had to compile a portfolio and discuss it in an interview to demonstrate their understanding and ability to apply the knowledge.
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