Turkey bombs Kurdish forces as new wave of violence threatens to spill across borders
By Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University
The ongoing humanitarian tragedy of Kobanê has raised serious questions about the future of the Kurds. The unstoppable advance of...
Australian writer Richard Flanagan wins the Man Booker prize
By Preti Taneja, University of Cambridge
Richard Flanagan has won the 2014 Man Booker Prize with his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North....
Brain scans show who’s likely to trust strangers – something conmen can only...
By Rebecca Slack, University of Sheffield
How do you decide if you can trust someone? Is it based on their handshake, the way they look...
Violence against women can be stopped if everyone is invested in preventing abuse
By Tanya Abramsky, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Domestic violence against women is a global human rights and public health emergency. Recent estimates...
To tweet or not to tweet: academic freedom and social media
By Janna Thompson, La Trobe University
Academic freedom has been put in the spotlight with two universities recently coming down hard on academics for comments...
How are nurses becoming infected with Ebola?
By C Raina MacIntyre
American nurse Nina Pham is the second health worker to contract Ebola outside of West Africa while caring for patients with...
Sexist student chant raises wider concern about appraisals of female lecturers
By Julia O'Connell Davidson, University of Nottingham
The way that newcomers are initiated into a group can reveal a lot about that group’s values. So...
How a memory boost from exercising could pass on to your baby
By James Cooke, University of Oxford
We all know that exercise is good for our bodies, but current research is revealing that it is also...
