By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
If you are keen to see your cabbage tree palm flower, be aware it may take 150-170 years. If you can wait that long, it usually happens between August and October.
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By Simón Sosvilla-Rivero, Catedrático de Análisis Económico, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Adrian Fernandez-Perez, Assistant Professor in Finance, University College Dublin
Marta Gómez-Puig, Professor of Economics, Universitat de Barcelona
Our study shows that climate change is increasing property values in the country’s cooler north, and reducing them in the hotter south.
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By Dick Zoutman, Professor Emeritus, School of Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
Julia M. Wright, George Munro Chair in Literature and Rhetoric, Dalhousie University
Mark Ungrin, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Biology & Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary
Ryan Tennant, PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo
New draft standards for respirator use recognize the importance of protecting workers and patients in health-care settings, where there is a higher risk of pathogen exposure
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By Doug Specht, Reader in Cultural Geography and Communication, University of Westminster
Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
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By Matt Barlow, Lecturer International Political Economy, University of Glasgow
In late October Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, won a decisive victory in the country’s midterm elections. The scale of the result caught most political commentators off-guard. It now gives the president the legislative capacity to push through his much touted programme of labour and tax reforms.
While voter turnout hit a historic low, those who did vote overwhelmingly supported Milei’s Liberty Advances party, strengthening his chances of…
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By Adam Taylor, Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
Around 2,000 people visit A&E every year due to injuries caused by fireworks. Although fireworks are an essential part of Bonfire Night celebrations for many revellers, these colourful pyrotechnics can be as dangerous as they are spectacular. And the injuries you might sustain from them can range from minor to downright gruesome if you aren’t careful.
The most common injuries caused by fireworks are, of course, burns. These account for approximately two-thirds…
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By Claire Hart, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Southampton
Reece Bush-Evans, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Bournemouth University
Charm can open doors but ego slams them shut. An escape-room experiment shows how the wrong kind of confidence can quietly sink a team.
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By Callum Smith, Historian of Modern British History & Head of Online Learning, Aberystwyth University
It’s hard to think about politics today without immediately picturing the face of a party’s leader, charismatic or otherwise. Whether delivering a rousing conference speech, squirming through a TV interview, or being caught by a “hot mic”, figures like Nigel Farage, Jeremy Corbyn, Donald Trump and Boris Johnson have dominated the political landscape in recent years.
We often talk about them more than the parties they represent. In many ways, the party has become a faction of its leader. But is this rise in personality politics really anything new? History – particularly 18th-century…
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By Tennessee Randall, PhD Candidate in Social Psychology, Swansea University
Meat has a large environmental impact, but could consuming more of it be part of the answer?
Meat-eaters in western countries today typically focus on the muscle tissue of animals and often avoid consuming offal (internal organs like the heart, liver and kidney). But eating more offal could lower the number of animals that are killed for food and so the greenhouse gases produced by the meat industry.
Offal also has…
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By Matt McLain, Senior Lecturer in Education and Professional Learning, Liverpool John Moores University
Studying design and technology (D&T) at school gives children the opportunity to get up from behind a desk and learn practical skills. It’s the only subject in the national curriculum in which children can develop and create tangible solutions to real problems.
They can get an insight into whether they might enjoy careers in design, fashion, engineering, technology or food. And they can learn skills that will be useful to them at home, in the workplace and in society.
D&T could play a crucial role in the government’s aim to revitalise the national…
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