By Iván Alfonso, Assistant researcher, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Jordi Cabot, Head of the Software Engineering RDI Unit at LIST. FNR Pearl Chair. Affiliate Professor in CS at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Software is ubiquitous, powering almost every aspect of our lives. The computerised systems in your car alone incorporate tens of millions of lines of code. The increasing digital transformation of our society means that demand for more and better software is likely to continue into the future.
The dilemma is that there are not enough human programmers to build all this software. This means that more…
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By Sam Illingworth, Professor of Creative Pedagogies, Edinburgh Napier University
Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain is a meditation on the Cairngorms. Decades on, its quiet wisdom remains urgent, reminding us how to truly see nature.
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By Gemma Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Swansea University
Joseph Janes, Lecturer in Criminology, Swansea University
Home is not always a place of safety for everyone. This is an unspoken reality for some parents who endure abuse at the hands of their children. From physical violence to emotional manipulation, this largely hidden issue cuts across families of all backgrounds.
For too long, stigma and silence have allowed child-to-parent abuse to fester in the shadows, unacknowledged in policy discussions and under-researched in academic circles. But a recent study of ours analysed a therapeutic…
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By Lisa Allyn Dale, Director of the MA in Climate and Society program at the Columbia Climate School, Columbia University
Jola Ajibade, Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences, Emory University
After the devastating 1994 genocide, Rwandans returning from the violence established homes and began farming where they could find land.
Since then, the Rwandan government has aimed to bring people scattered across rural parts of the country into grouped settlements which they have called “model villages”. These are intended to provide extra support for highly vulnerable residents, such as the homeless and…
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By Human Rights Watch
January 2025Walande, Solomon IslandsJohnson SuaPolice OfficerI did not want to change my life. My previous life, my good life. But due to the cause of climate change, caused by the global world, factories, companies, I have to move.Eva Cathy IrogaStudentIt’s a sad thing to see suddenly everything just wiped away, or stripped away. Everyone cried and yeah, I feel sorry for their homes that gone.Johnson SuaWe need government to address those who directly affected. Walande is the one of the villageswho are directly affected. We already moved from the island. You can see the empty posts standing. Wave…
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By Amnesty International
Ahead of the two-year anniversary of Inocêncio Manhique losing his eye due to unlawful use of force by security forces, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Khanyo Farisè, said: “Two years ago, security forces shot Inocêncio Manhique in the eye with a rubber bullet during a peaceful protest. To date, as […] The post Mozambique: Two years without justice for protester shot in the eye with rubber bullet appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Themiya Nanayakkara, Lead Astronomer at the James Webb Australian Data Centre, Swinburne University of Technology
Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early universe. It’s a cosmic giant whose light has travelled over 12 billion years to reach us. We’ve dubbed it the Big Wheel, with our findings published today in Nature Astronomy.
This giant disk galaxy existed within the first two billion years after the Big Bang, meaning it formed when the universe was just 15% of its current age. It challenges what we know about how galaxies form.
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By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor & Principal Fellow in Urban Risk & Resilience, The University of Melbourne
Ruggiero Lovreglio, Professor in Digital Construction and Fire Engineering, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
A fire in a nightclub in North Macedonia is the latest in a long string of such tragedies. Why are nightclubs so risky for fires?
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By Paula McDonald, Professor of Work and Organisation, Queensland University of Technology
Andrew Stewart, Professor of Work and Regulation, Queensland University of Technology
A range of contractual clauses can be used to limit how and where you work after you leave a job. While they may protect legitimate business interests, their overuse undermines job mobility and innovation.
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By Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte, Associate Professor in Quantitative Political Science, University of Southampton
From a very young age, we’re socialised to view the world as being made up of “goodies” and “baddies”. When you’re a child fooling around with your friends in the playground, nobody ever wants to be the baddy. And when it comes to dressing up, everybody wants to be Luke Skywalker – not Darth Vader.
This oversimplified way of viewing the world as being made up of right and wrong or good people and bad people doesn’t dissipate as we grow older. If anything, it tends to solidify as we form the social identities that define who we are in adult life.
This is particularly the…
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