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....
Women volunteers: first to the war zone in 1914
By Toby Thacker, Cardiff University
The volunteer is at the heart of British perceptions of the World War I. We are all familiar with images...
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...
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...
