By Pia Lindberg, PhD Candidate, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
Artur Fedorowski, Professor, Cardiology, Karolinska Institutet; Lund University
Axel Carl Carlsson, Researcher, Department of Neurobiology, Karolinska Institutet
As the number of people living with long COVID continues to grow, understanding its broader health consequences will be essential.
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By Debra Ferreday, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University
The Testaments, now streaming on Disney+, has big shoes to fill. It arrives in a post-MeToo media landscape still shaped by the seismic impact of Margaret Atwood’s previous adaptation, The Handmaid’s Tale. Released in 2017, The Handmaid’s Tale quickly transcended its source material to become a feminist touchstone, inspiring a vivid visual and cultural language of resistance across politics, performance, music and the arts.
In Atwood’s world of Gilead, women are reduced to archetypes within a patriarchal…
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By Susie Kilshaw, Professor in Medical Anthropology, UCL
Despite some limitations, Babies is a welcome and important contribution that explores the realities of miscarriage with honesty and compassion.
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By Adriana Allen, Professor of Development Planning and Urban Sustainability, UCL
Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway, Associate Professor, Economics and Urban Transformation, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Across Europe, housing is in crisis.
Limited social housing and a 93% rise in short-term rentals are driving prices up while wages stagnate, leaving millions unable to afford secure homes. Beyond the current geopolitical crisis, extreme temperatures continue to account for rising energy bills. As buildings account for 36% of EU CO₂ emissions,…
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By Michael Woods, Professor of Human Geography, Aberystwyth University
Future plans for renewable energy are emerging as a key issue in the election for Wales’s parliament, the Senedd, on May 7.
Proposals for new infrastructure, including windfarms and pylon lines, required to meet targets for low carbon energy are facing opposition in many parts of rural Wales, with campaigners suggesting that the issue will influence how…
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By Johny Daniel, Associate Professor, School of Education, Durham University
Two children sit in different schools. Both struggle to read. Both have similar low scores on national tests. But while one gets a diagnosis of specific learning difficulties and a package of support, the other is left to fall behind.
My colleagues and I have carried out new research analysing the records of around 540,000 primary school children across England. It reveals a troubling picture. Whether a child gets identified with specific…
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By Ronan McCarthy, Professor in Microbial Biofilms, University of Southampton
John J. Walsh, Associate Professor, Pharmacy, Trinity College Dublin
Kavita Gadar, Research Fellow, Department of Microbes, Infection and Microbiomes, University of Birmingham
The root of tormentil was used in Irish folklore and European traditional medicine to treat wounds, sore throats, diarrhoea and gum disease.
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By Jonathan Collinson, Lecturer in Law, University of Sheffield
The home secretary can exclude individuals from the UK on the basis that their presence is ‘not conducive to the public good’.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Inmates walk free from La Lima prison in Havana on April 3, 2026. © 2026 YAMIL LAGE / AFP via Getty Images On April 2, the Cuban government announced the release of 2,010 prisoners, framing it as a “humanitarian gesture.” While the announcement raised hopes among many political prisoners’ families, neither Human Rights Watch nor other civil society groups, including Prisoners Defenders and Justicia 11J, have identified any political prisoners among those released.In its announcement, the Cuban government said it would exclude, among others, people sentenced for…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Supporters of Planned Parenthood rally in front of the Supreme Court in Washington DC, as the Justices will be hearing the case of Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, April 2, 2025. © 2025 Sipa via AP Images The Trump administration is using a US federal funding provision to make abortion care less accessible, threatening states with devastating federal funding cuts for protecting the right to abortion. The provision, known as the Weldon Amendment and attached to federal spending bills since 2005, is meant to prevent states from treating…
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