By Vinny Negi, Research Scientist in Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pittsburgh
Type 1 diabetes develops when the body destroys its own insulin-producing cells. Using stem cells to replace them could be a way to get around donor shortages and transplant complications.
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By Nicholas Money, Professor of Biology, Miami University
Mold growth happens in damp indoor areas and is difficult to prevent. It can be an annoyance but usually isn’t harmful to your health.
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By Biswa Das, Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning and Extension Economist, Iowa State University
Although many US cities have recovered from economic downturns during the COVID-19 pandemic, they still are losing young families in large numbers. Here’s how that trend degrades urban life.
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By Marta Fanasca, Marie Curie Global Fellow, Università di Bologna
Since many Japanese women still find it difficult to explore and discuss their sexual desires with their partners, the services have become popular among all women, not just lesbians.
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By Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
In the last few years, there has been a spate of military coups in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Guinea. Military rule, long dormant in African politics, is back.
Coup leaders have suppressed protest, gagged…
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By Annie Snelson-Powell, Associate Professor of Business and Society, University of Bath
ExxonMobil chief executive Darren Woods has urged president-elect Donald Trump to not take the US out of the Paris agreement on climate change. “We need a global system for managing emissions”, he said in an interview at the annual UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Though Woods’ words were unusually high profile and direct, some of his equivalents at rival fossil fuel firms have expressed similar…
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By John A Gittings, Post-doctoral Researcher: Department of Biology, University of Athens
When tiny marine plants are exposed to mineral enriched dust blown into the sea from the land, they bloom over thousands of kilometres, potentially cooling the planet.
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By Gordon Osinski, Professor in Earth and Planetary Science, Western University
Will it be Glacier or Athabasca? Maybe Courage or Pol-R? The Canadian moon rover will soon have a name, two years before it’s set to explore the moon’s South Pole.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Relatives of victims of extrajudicial executions and magistrates are pictured during a hearing of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Cali, Colombia on June 5, 2023. © 2024 Joaquin Sarimento/AFP via Getty Images Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Juridicción Especial para la Paz, JEP) has charged six former leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC) guerrillas with war crimes for the forced recruitment and use of 18,677 children from 1971 to 2016. In addition to forced recruitment,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image United Nations Headquarters building in Manhattan, New York City, on December 21, 2021. © 2021 Sergi Reboredo / VWPics via AP Images (New York) – United Nations member countries should vote to launch formal negotiations for a treaty that would prevent and punish crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said today.The proposed convention has been under consideration in the UN General Assembly’s Sixth Committee which deals with legal matters. The Committee has traditionally made decisions by consensus.Yet, because Russia is opposed to these negotiations, it will…
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