As Iowa goes, so goes the nation – maybe
By Timothy Hagle, University of Iowa
Every four years Iowa begins the presidential nomination process with the Iowa Caucuses.
The start of caucus season is also...
Rivers and swarms: how metaphor fuels anti-immigrant feeling
By Caryl Thompson, University of Nottingham
In a recent interview with Sky News, the UK defence secretary, Michael Fallon, described British towns and communities as...
Continents may not have been created in the way we thought
By Nick Rawlinson, University of Aberdeen
From the 1950s until recently, we thought we had a clear idea of how continents form. Most people will...
Study vindicates climate models accused of ‘missing the pause’
By Michael Hopkin, The Conversation
Climate models can recreate the slowdown in global warming since 1998, as long as they correctly factor in crucial variables...
BICEP2 ‘gravity wave’ finding clouded by interstellar dust
By Robert Crittenden, University of Portsmouth
In March, scientists working on the BICEP2 experiment, a microwave telescope based at the South Pole, announced that they...
Opting out of Mediterranean rescue condemns desperate migrants to death
By Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham
The UK government is seeking to defend its decision not to support rescue missions for migrants making the dangerous...
There are times in a game of poker when cheating doesn’t mean breaking the...
By Paul Seager, University of Central Lancashire
You might assume that when it comes to poker anything goes. Isn’t it all about bluffing and lying?...
Small cliques often take control of school governor boards
By Andrew Wilkins, University of Roehampton
As the investigations continue into what happened at the schools implicated in the Trojan Horse extremism affair in Birmingham,...