By John Nagle, Professor in Sociology, Queen's University Belfast
The majority of Lebanese people distrusts Hezbollah, but the Israeli attacks are driving many in the south back into their fold.
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By John N. Trey Rogers, Professor of Turfgrass Research, Michigan State University
Jackie Lyn A. Guevara, Assistant Professor of Turfgrass Management, Michigan State University
John Sorochan, Professor of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee
Ryan Bearss, Research Assistant in Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University
The new playing fields are rolling out in stadiums from Mexico to Canada. Creating the perfect pitch in very different climates requires the right grasses and some creative tricks.
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By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
A small conference study sparked headlines linking fruit to lung cancer. Here’s why the science tells a very different story.
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By Esther Kettel, Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation, Nottingham Trent University
England’s last recorded pair of golden eagles lived in the Lake District. After the female died in 2004, the male was left alone for 12 years before his death in 2016.
This marked the end of golden eagles across English skies. Though they have lived on in Scotland, the birds were largely wiped out across England about 150 years ago, with only a few nesting attempts during that time.
However, the UK government recently announced it will support reintroducing…
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By Jonathan R. Goodman, Assistant Research Professor, Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
Mariam Rashid, Isaac Newton Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge
Why do we trust the wrong people and doubt the right ones? An experiment in lying reveals some uncomfortable truths.
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By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
Best known as a type 2 diabetes treatment, metformin is also being investigated for its possible effects on PCOS and ageing.
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By Glenn Fosbraey, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
This year is the national year of reading, and if you’re a music lover, I urge you to pick one up about your favourite musician. The lives of musicians are often full of highs and lows, which makes for compelling reading. Here are five of my favourites.
1. Fight The Power by Chuck D
I suppose I shouldn’t really include Fight The Power in my list, given that Chuck D himself says in its prologue that it “damn sure ain’t an autobiography”. He positions himself as a tour guide rather than a protagonist, chaperoning us through the fascinating landscape of 80s and 90s hip-hop. Such…
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By Asrif Yusoff, Senior Lecturer and Employability Lead, University of Greenwich
Jafni Bin Johari Jiken, PhD Candidate, Department of Management and Marketing, Durham University
It has been said that “people leave managers, not companies”. It’s easy to believe that this is true, either from personal experience or observation. Many workers can easily point to a line manager who dismissed their concerns or treated them unfairly.
But is it really fair to suggest that managers alone are the dominant cause of staff turnover? Our recent study indicates that in most cases, it’s a combination of both leadership and the organisation. We reviewed 39 papers from the past ten years – and…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pickup truck on the road from Dori to the Goudebo refugee camp, on February 3, 2020. © 2020 OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – Burkina Faso’s military government is intensifying its sweeping crackdown on civil society through restrictive legislation, administrative pressure, and punitive actions targeting domestic and international organizations, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the World Organisation Against Torture within the Observatory for the Protection of Human…
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By Laura Minor, Lecturer in Television Studies, University of Salford
When Charlotte Regan’s debut feature film, Scrapper, won the grand jury prize at the prestigious Sundance film festival in 2023, it announced a filmmaker of rare instinctive warmth.
Scrapper showed Regan to be capable of rendering working-class life with tenderness, wit and a magical lightness that felt entirely her own. With her new eight-part BBC series Mint, the filmmaker turns her hand to crime drama, bringing that same sensibility to television.
Mint sits squarely within what film scholar David Forrest, in his 2020 book New…
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