By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Nigerien journalist Moussa Kaka, former correspondent for Radio France Internationale, February 12, 2007. © 2007 Seyllou/AFP via Getty Images A lawyer in Niger faces prosecution over comments about the army on social media while a prominent journalist and critic of the country’s military junta is being held in secret, with authorities refusing to identify his alleged offense. These cases together highlight a broadening crackdown in Niger, where the space for free expression is shrinking by the day.On September 21, police summoned Abrourahamane Lirwana, a well-known…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A shattered window at the Consultative and Diagnostic Centre in the Podilskyi district of Kyiv, Ukraine, on September 24, 2026. © 2026 Ukrinform/NurPhoto via AP Photo A Russian airstrike damaged a hospital in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on October 6, according to reports from local officials and media outlets. The attack injured several people, including at least two hospital workers, and also damaged residential and administrative buildings and an art school in the city center. The strike is the latest in a long string of Russian attacks…
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By Robson Tramontina, Research Associate, Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry, University of Manchester
AI company Anthropic recently announced that its popular system Claude had identified an unusual family of biological molecules. These molecules were enzymes, a type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions in living organisms.
The new group of enzymes were discovered in bacteriophages – viruses that infect bacteria. Anthropic named them array-associated reverse transcriptases (ARTs).
The finding was…
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By Laura Jansen, Associate Professor in Classics & Comparative Literature, University of Bristol
At a time when scholarship and creative writing are often treated as separate pursuits, Carson has shown how deeply they belong together.
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By Leonie Fleischmann, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, City St George's, University of London
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and leading opposition figure Gadi Eisenkot took to social media as their country marked three years since the devastating Hamas attacks of October 7. As the country mourned, the rival politicians played the blame game.
Eisenkot is the man widely thought to be most likely to beat Netanyahu in this month’s general election. He is running hard on accountability for the October…
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By Damian Bailey, Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of South Wales
Brian Clark, Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience and Executive Director of the Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute (OMNI), Ohio University
Frances Ashcroft, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Florence Buchanan helped transform the study of the nervous system, yet no authenticated portrait of her was known until now.
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By Khalid Beshir, Lecturer in Biomedical Science, University of East London; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Doctors outside malaria zones often don’t think to test for it, while symptoms, rapid tests and drug resistance can all complicate diagnosis and treatment.
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By John Wigger, Professor of History, University of Missouri-Columbia
When I was researching my 2017 book, “PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire,” I interviewed dozens of former staffers and supporters of PTL, the ministry, television and theme park empire that the Bakkers built starting in the 1970s.
Time and again, I heard the same thing. PTL – sometimes known as “Praise the Lord” or “People That Love” – was both the best and worst thing they ever did.
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By Kaitlyn M. Sims, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Denver; Institute for Humane Studies
The drinking, drugging and sexual assault culture on American college campuses is once again attracting national attention.
A former Cornell University student filed a civil lawsuit in September 2026 alleging that seven Chi Phi fraternity members gang-raped her when she was a sophomore at the school two year earlier.
The apparent failure of institutions she reached out to for help has become an important part of the story.
As a researcher who
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By Shay Rabineau, Associate Professor of Israel Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York
From the printing press to smartphone apps, technology has continually transformed the experience of sacred journeys. A scholar of trails and walking explains the history.
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