By Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University
No, the US Space Academy wouldn’t be a real-life Starfleet Academy. But what it would be is still a little unclear.
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By Aishwarya Sriram, Ph.D. Candidate in Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Carol Miles, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Ronald Miles, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Sara Aghazadeh, Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Scientists give caterpillars haircuts and put them in a room isolated from sound to figure out how they’re able to hear without ears.
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By Roberto Lucchini, Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, Florida International University
From intense psychological trauma to exposure to neurotoxic dust, first responders at ground zero continue to confront significant physical and mental health risks.
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By Adrian Bingham, Professor of Modern British History, University of Sheffield
Andrew Russell, Lecturer, Faculty of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Portsmouth
Chris Rojek, Professor of Sociology, City St George's, University of London
David Voas, Emeritus Professor of Social Science, UCL
Lincoln Geraghty, Professor of Media Cultures, University of Portsmouth
Steven Buckley, Lecturer in Digital Media Sociology., City St George's, University of London
In this sixth and final part in our series on how the UK has changed in the past 25 years, we focus on tech, culture, religion and entertainment.
Media
Adrian Bingham, professor of modern British history, University of Sheffield
In December 2001 the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology published a report entitled E is for Everything? Public Policy and Converging Digital Communications. With “E” standing for electronic, prefixing everything…
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By Salah Ben Hammou, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rice University
Military leaders in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger came to power promising to defeat the insurgencies plaguing their countries. Instead, insecurity has worsened.
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By Katrina Milaney, Professor, Community Rehabilitation & Disability Studies, Cumming School of Medicine, and a Research Fellow, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
Canada’s National Housing Strategy claims to be grounded in a human rights framework, but the needs of Indigenous women and children are not being met.
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By Alyssa Rusonik, PhD student in Finance, HEC Paris Business School
Uncertainty over whether the seat of the papacy would remain in the city explains why Rome was a late developer when it came to palace-building, lagging behind Florence and Venice.
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By Walaa-Eldeen Bakry, Director of Executive Education, University of Westminster
The trade conflict between Canada and the United States is heating up and has moved beyond rhetoric. After the latest round of negotiations failed, the US imposed 50% tariffs on around C$27.6 billion (£14.68 billion) of Canadian goods on August 22. Canada is responding swiftly with dollar-for-dollar retaliation to take effect on September 8.
Two other events in September give this confrontation wider significance. The first is that from September 1 Britain and Canada can trade with each other under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
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By Jonathan Webb, Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has promised the largest council house building programme since the immediate post-war period, pledging more than £9 billion of investment.
While the commitment is substantial and will deliver much-needed social housing, it is unlikely to push the government much closer to its promise of delivering 1.5 million homes during the period of this government. Achieving those ambitions will require more than just additional subsidy.
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By Grant Macdonald, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geography, Durham University
Freely available satellite radar imaging is being used for the first time to help track colonies of endangered emperor penguins in Antarctica throughout the winter months.
Typically satellite images need sunlight to be useful, and Antarctica is dark in the winter. This has meant that colonies have been hidden at a critical time in the emperor penguin breeding cycle, when eggs are laid, chicks hatch and adults take part in those iconic huddles.
Almost 70 colonies of emperor penguins, many of which have never been visited by humans, occupy the sea…
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