By Hayley J. Fowler, Professor of Climate Change Impacts, Newcastle University
Colin Manning, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Climate Science, Newcastle University
Sean Wilkinson, Professor of Structural Engineering, Newcastle University
London’s Heathrow Airport has been forced to close temporarily after a fire in a nearby electricity substation. More than 1,300 flights have been suspended and thousands of passengers left stranded.
Substations take high-voltage electricity from pylons and transform it into the lower voltages you use at home. This happens in a transformer filled with oil to insulate the electricity. In this case, it appears that more than 20,000 litres of this oil caught…
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Friday, March 21, 2025
Classes cut short by air raid sirens have become a routine part of school life for many Ukrainian youngsters in the three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, a new UN report published on Friday details.
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By Amnesty International
I always lived with the idea that my mother didn’t love us, but I don’t think that was the case. I was born in Kigali, Rwanda, to an African mother and a Belgian father. At the time, Rwanda was under colonial rule by Belgium. Belgian authorities enforced racial segregation and prohibited interracial marriages in their […] The post ‘Systematically abducting and deporting children is a crime against humanity’ appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Martin Lang, Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Fine Art , University of Lincoln
Barbara Steveni (1928-2020) was a pioneering artist who broke boundaries with new concepts such as “the artist as a living archive” and “art as social strategy”. The legacy of her 70-year career is explored in a new exhibition, Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself, at Modern Art Oxford.
Steveni was an activist whose art had real-world impacts. One of her pioneering works was the foundation of the Artists…
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By Busani Ngcaweni, Visiting Adjunct Professor, Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
To ensure the civil service is staffed by qualified people, human resource management in the public sector must be professional.
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By Yasmin Curzi de Mendonça, Research associate, University of Virginia
Camille Grenier, Associated Expert at the Technology and Global Affairs Innovation Hub, Sciences Po
Trump Media and Rumble joining X in legal fight against the Brazilian Supreme Court marks a new era of deregulation pushes.
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By Samuel C. Mahaney, Director, Missouri S&T Policy and Armed Forces Research and Development Institute; Lecturer of History, National Security, and Leadership, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Military personnel at all levels are now facing the question of whether they will stand up for the military’s independent role in maintaining the integrity and stability of American democracy.
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By H. Colleen Sinclair, Associate Research Professor of Social Psychology, Louisiana State University
When I taught research methods to undergraduates, I would start by asking whether anyone in the class had $20. Though harder to come by thanks to digital payment options, inevitably someone would produce a $20 bill. I would then ask whether they knew how the bill came to look the way it does. Students would take guesses – often rooted in history and counterfeiting concerns.
While valid, the larger font and picture designs that came about in the 1990s and early 2000s were also the result of research…
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By John Lalor, Assistant Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations, University of Notre Dame
Bots that reply to online posts can help people connect with each other, but at the same time they also interfere with people communicating with each other.
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By Anna Choi, Ph.D. Candidate in Information Science, Cornell University
Katelyn Mei, Ph.D. Student in Information Science, University of Washington
When AI systems try to bridge gaps in their training data, the results can be wildly off the mark: fabrications and non sequiturs researchers call hallucinations.
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