By Cathy Moore, Senior Lecturer in Life Sciences, University of Westminster
Tobacco kills 8 million people worldwide every year, but imagine if it could be used to make medicine. The idea isn’t unheard of – tobacco has been used as a herbal medicine in the past. But now, in the age of genetic engineering, tobacco may well be the future of pharmaceutical production on Earth and beyond.
European explorers…
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By Alice Mercier, PhD Candidate, Visual Culture, University of Westminster
The world depicted through Oxenbury’s illustrations is one of family gatherings, mealtimes and activities, but also of oceans, forests, night skies and caves.
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By Martin Farr, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
What is the point of a Labour government? This is a question traditionally asked after Labour governments lose office. But it’s also a question asked while Labour governments are in office. And, sometimes, even when they still only recently arrived in office.
For a Labour prime minister to announce cuts in aid and development spending to increase spending on the military is one of those “Nixon in China” moments. Only a Labour prime minister could get away with so illiberal a move.
Yet for some it questions the very purpose of the Labour party, which, Harold Wilson told…
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By Alison Pilnick, Professor of Language, Health and Society, Manchester Metropolitan University
Competing realities can be a major source of distress for those with dementia and some ways of responding are more effective than others.
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By Jack Marley, Environment + Energy Editor, UK edition
Beavers, those iron-toothed rodents with a talent for hydraulic engineering, can legally return to English river catchments after an absence of 500 years.
Castor fiber has been on the way back for the last two decades thanks to unauthorised reintroductions. But until a few weeks ago, an enclosure was the only home these semi-aquatic mammals could legally find in the UK.
Successive governments have hesitated to issue release licenses for beavers, given their ability to transform the environment in unpredictable ways. When it comes to mitigating and adapting to climate…
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By Vanessa Watts, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and Sociology, McMaster University
Scholars are working to piece together information about Indigenous children who attended a residential school in Brantford and Inuit patients taken to a sanatorium in Hamilton, Ontario.
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By Lukas Slothuus, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex
US president Donald Trump thrust Greenland to the centre of global politics when he proposed to buy the vast, icebound island at the start of the year. With the world watching, Greenlandic voters went to the polls on March 11 2025 and delivered a landslide victory for a party that told Trump, “We are not for sale.”
Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark and its struggle for independence is a major political…
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Senior human rights investigators reporting to the UN Human Rights Council alleged on Thursday that sexual and gender-based violence by Israeli security forces against Palestinians – including children - have been increasingly used “as a method of war” following the 7 October 2023 attacks that sparked the Gaza war.
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By Tricia Stadnyk, Professor & Canada Research Chair in Hydrological Modelling, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary
From debates over water export to the largest ‘zombie water project’ in North American history, there’s a long history of Canadian water export to the U.S.
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By Scott Paeth, Professor of Religious Studies, DePaul University
Alcoholics Anonymous helped make the Serenity Prayer famous, but it was written by one of the 20th century’s most influential theologians, Reinhold Niebuhr.
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