How Swedish children learn English through gaming
By Pia Sundqvist, Karlstads University and Liss Kerstin Sylvén, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
An hour of homework or an hour of World of Warcraft? It’s...
This obsession with parenting is out of control
By Charlotte Faircloth, University of Kent
Not long ago, an email went around some of the academic lists I subscribe to entitled “New parenting study...
The main reason markets are falling? The future looks gloomier than it did before
By Sayantan Ghosal, University of Glasgow
After a relatively benign period, market upheaval has returned. The main stock market indices have been falling across Asia,...
Mind the gender gap: why women must still fight for equality in science
By Hazel Hall, Edinburgh Napier University
What was the greatest astronomical discovery of the 20th century? Some would say pulsars – highly magnetised, rotating...
Designer viruses could be the new antibiotics
By Luc Henry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Bacterial infections remain a major threat to human and animal health. Worse still, the catalogue...
The moving street art of Argentina that lets citizens look, contemplate and remember
By Tanya Filer, University College London
In Buenos Aires, a mural commemorates the bombing in July 1994 of the AMIA Jewish Community Centre. The black...
Portraits are a fine art, so let’s embrace the selfie
By Hannah Williams, University of Oxford
The BP Portrait Award 2014, which opens at the National Portrait Gallery this week, might seem to some like...
We’re all to blame when American football stars turn violent off the field
By Thomas F Carter, University of Brighton
As yet another NFL player stands accused of domestic violence, it is beginning to look as though the...
