By Milly Mead, PhD student in Palaeontology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh
Oviraptorosaurs are weird dinosaurs, which look a bit like flightless birds. But these ancient animals aren’t just funny looking fossils. As my team’s new research shows, they can help us understand how…
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By Kinga Morsanyi, Reader in Mathematical Cognition, Loughborough University
Carlo Tomasetto, Full Professor in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Università di Bologna
Mathematics anxiety is a feeling of tension and fear when dealing with numbers or performing calculations. It is a common form of academic anxiety: according to an OECD report, around 40% of students feel nervous, helpless or anxious in everyday situations involving mathematics, such as solving problems or doing maths homework.
We know that mathematics anxiety is present from the first…
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By Lisa Sugiura, Associate Professor in Cybercrime and Gender, University of Portsmouth
Frazer Heritage, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University
Research has shown that spending long periods on social media and gaming sites exposes young men and boys to incel content.
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By Adam Taylor, Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
A man in Florida recently visited a Tiffany & Co jewellery store posing as a buyer for a professional US athlete. While viewing the items, together worth well over £1 million, the thief tried to grab them and run from the store.
The ensuing struggle saw one diamond ring get dropped – but the thief still made off with two pairs of diamond earrings valued at £600,000. In a bid to avoid arrest, the suspect consumed a different kind of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”…
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By Simon Morrison, Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Music Journalism, University of Chester
Katie Milestone, Senior Lecturer, Music and Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University
These were hot, dimly lit, crowded, smoke and sweat-filled spaces where the music ricocheted off surfaces and fed directly back into the dancing bodies.
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By Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
In a carefully choreographed address from the White House Rose Garden, US president Donald Trump announced a massive package of trade tariffs. These include 20% on imports from the European Union, 24% on those from Japan, 27% for India, and 34% for China. The UK gets the lowest rate, at 10%.
A tariff is a tax on imports, paid by producers and consumers of the importing country.
US producers will pay more for their inputs – the things they need to produce their goods – from the rest…
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By Rosalind Malcolm, Professor of Environmental Law, Director of Environmental Regulatory Research Group (ERRG), University of Surrey
Once voted the UK’s favourite river, the River Wye flows from the Welsh mountains to the Severn estuary – 150 miles through an officially recognised “national landscape”. But this idyllic picture is changing, as the river is gradually choked by waste from industrial chicken farming.
The Wye is perhaps the most extreme example, but the nearby…
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By Harshit Gujral, Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Meredith Franklin, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
Steve Easterbrook, Director, School of the Environment, University of Toronto
Electric vehicles sold in the last decade are already having a measurable impact on childhood asthma rates in the U.S.
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By Charlie Buck, PhD Candidate, Politics, University of Toronto
Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada has sparked a rise in Canadian patriotism. Canadian conservatives can harness that patriotism by reconnecting with their historical roots of anti-Americanism.
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By Linda Yueh, Fellow in Economics/Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
Donald Trump has always talked about how much he likes tariffs. And on April 2 2025, he showed that he meant it. For the president it was “liberation day”, but for his fellow world leaders it was a tense wait to see what percentage figure would be attached to their country’s vital exports.
Those tariff rates ranged from 10% for the UK to 49% for Cambodia, charges which Trump says will raise trillions of dollars for the US economy and “make America wealthy again”.
“Our country has been looted, pillaged, raped and plundered,” he said, before unveiling…
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