How social media transformed pro-Russian nostalgia into violence in Ukraine
By Ivan Kozachenko, University of Aberdeen
When Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, Victor Yanukovych, was ousted in late February, thousands of outraged and fearful people in southern...
Ebola: bats get a bad rap when it comes to spreading diseases
By Alexandra Kamins, Colorado Hospital Association; Marcus Rowcliffe, Zoological Society of London, and Olivier Restif, University of Cambridge
In an era flush with vaccines and...
The rise and rise of Belgium’s Indian diamond dynasties
By Kathryn Lum, European University Institute
From the outside, Number 2 Hoveniersstraat Street in Antwerp is a nondescript office block. Only the clusters of businessmen...
What We’ve Learned From Four Years of Diving Into Dollars for Docs
by Charles Ornstein, Eric Sagara and Ryann Grochowski Jones ProPublica, Sep. 29, 2014, 9:20 a.m.
This story was co-published with The New York Times.
On Tuesday,...
Tony Blair is wrong: teaching children to respect religion isn’t the answer to radicalisation
By Matthew Francis, Lancaster University
At a time of increasing concern about religious radicalisation, Tony Blair has issued a call for school children to be...
How gut bacteria ensure a healthy brain – and could play a role in treating...
By Clio Korn, University of Oxford
One of medicine’s greatest innovations in the 20th century was the development of antibiotics. It transformed our ability to...
Hector and the Search for Colour
By Lauren Rosewarne, University of Melbourne
Opening in Australia on October 23A six dollar ticket and 114 minutes of my time felt like a fair...
Head of Flawed Effort to ID Missing Soldiers Loses Job
by Megan McCloskey ProPublica, Oct. 3, 2014, 10:32 a.m.
The longtime scientific director of the problem-ridden Pentagon agency charged with identifying the remains of service...
