By Robert Dover, Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, University of Hull
Trump’s victory has focused minds on how the US and Europe might now look to settle the situation in Ukraine.
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By Andrew Jarvis, Senior Lecturer and Researcher, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
Piers Forster, Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds
Human-caused global warming has just nudged past 1.5°C, according to a new method we have developed. That’s approaching 0.2°C higher than previously thought.
But this does not mean the goal of keeping warming below 1.5°C is dead, as the Paris agreement and the UN climate summits are based on different methodology.
This additional warming comes out of how we define what was pre-industrial, with our method using bubbles of air buried in Antarctic ice to gather data reaching back well before…
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By Edith England, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Practice, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Josie Henley, Lecturer in Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Amid the complete ban on non-statutory expenditure imposed when councils go bankrupt, entire domestic abuse services are at risk of closure. This could have disastrous results.
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By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
Around 92% of people living in the UK have used at least one over-the-counter drug in the past year. While these drugs make it possible to manage symptoms that don’t otherwise require a prescription – such as painkillers for headaches or cough and cold remedies – they aren’t suitable for everyone.
Women who are breastfeeding may not…
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By Alexander V. Gheorghiu, Research Fellow in Logic or Applied Logic, UCL
The rigid structures of language we once clung to with certainty are cracking. Take gender, nationality or religion: these concepts no longer sit comfortably in the stiff linguistic boxes of the last century. Simultaneously, the rise of AI presses upon us the need to understand how words relate to meaning and reasoning.
A global group of philosophers, mathematicians and computer scientists have come up with a new understanding of logic…
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By Lisa Bosman, Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
Diversifying the science, technology, engineering and math fields has long been a top priority of many universities and tech companies. It’s also a goal of the National Science Foundation, the biggest funder of university-led research and development in the U.S.
But in the field…
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By Pamela L. Geller, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Miami
Marked with numbers, demographic information and provenance – though not name – these skulls tell a story of racist hierarchies but also diversity in the early United States.
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By Charles J. Russo, Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
Do the Ten Commandments have a valid place in U.S. classrooms? Louisiana’s Legislature and governor insist the answer is “yes.” But on Nov. 12, 2024, a federal judge said “no.”
U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles blocked the state’s controversial House Bill 71, which Gov.…
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By Jim Franklin, Director of Academic Programs, Western Governors University School of Business
Although coverage of the 2024 election was dominated by the economy, taxes didn’t get much attention in the run-up to the vote. That’s a bit of a surprise, since 2025 will be a major year for America’s tax system – in fact, the fate of the most significant tax reform in three decades hangs in the balance.
That would be the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which Congress passed during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term in office in 2017.…
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By Erin Coughlan de Perez, Professor of Climate Risk Management, Tufts University
Getting aid to countries before the storm or drought hits is one response increasingly being used to limit the damage.
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