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...
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...
Germany’s green energy gamble could really use some vorsprung durch technik
By Thomas Sattich, Universität Bremen
Remember the big, somewhat bulky Mercedes Benz cars of the early 1990s? State-of-the-art at that time, they left their competitors...
Fracking boom could mean up to 12% more carbon emissions
By Erik Bichard, University of Salford
The consistent message from those who would seek to exploit shale gas is that it has three distinct advantages...
Explainer: what is oracy and why should every child be taught it?
By Neil Mercer, University of Cambridge; Ayesha Ahmed, University of Cambridge, and Paul Warwick, University of Cambridge
A recent report confirms that the alumni of...
What do world university rankings actually mean?
By Steven C. Ward, Western Connecticut State University
From the “best beaches” to the “best slice of pizza” to the best hospital to have cardiac...
Asian universities continue their upward climb in global rankings
By Gerard A. Postiglione, University of Hong Kong
Asian universities continue to stun the academic world. In just one year, four more have joined the...
