Category: Academic Analysis
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DIY air cleaners are an easy and cost-effective way to help ventilate homes during wildfires
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Anne-Marie Nicol, Associate Professor, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University In recent decades, the number and severity of wildfires across Canada has increased due to climate change and a more wildfire-prone landscape. While wildfires can wreak havoc in their immediate area, wildfire smoke can travel thousands of…
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The creatine boom: Trends and facts about supplements and use
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Scott Mills, PhD Candidate, Kinesiology and Health Studies, University of Regina Creatine supplementation is booming among those seeking greater muscle size and performance. Although creatine is certainly not a new discovery, with research dating back to the 1830s, its popularity and sales have continued to grow,…
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Why do we agree to take off our shoes at the airport?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – France – By Emmanuel Carré, Professeur, directeur de Excelia Communication School, chercheur associé au laboratoire CIMEOS (U. de Bourgogne) et CERIIM (Excelia), Excelia It is 7.30am at Terminal 2E at Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris, and in the line leading to the security gates, an executive is removing…
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I’m a physicist who studies fossils, and I recently discovered preserved blood vessels in the world’s largest T. rex
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jerit Leo Mitchell, Physics PhD Candidate, University of Regina Advanced technologies reveal new information about ancient fossils. (J. Mitchell), CC BY Despite the fact that much of the current research in paleontology focuses on trying to find traces of organic remains in fossils, dinosaur DNA has…
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Is AI coming for your creative job? Maybe not – with some human intervention
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Afsoon Soudi, Assistant Professor, RTA school of Media, Toronto Metropolitan University The AI robot, Ai-Da, at a United Nations summit with its paintings, which sold for US$1 million. 2025 © Ai-Da Robot Studios Many writers, actors and other creatives are currently experiencing a small wave of…
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Where you think you are in society (not where you actually are) matters for how you think about inequality
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Giacomo Melli, PhD candidate in sociology, University of Oxford Where do you see yourself on the ladder? Cristina Conti/Shutterstock Imagine society as a ladder with ten rungs. Where would you place yourself? That answer reflects your subjective social status – where you see yourself in society.…
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Gene therapy can be less effective in women – and my research in mice brings us one step closer to understanding why
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alison Clare, Senior Research Associate, Translational Health Sciences and Ophthalmology, University of Bristol Some gene therapies may be less effective in women. crystal light/ Shutterstock Gene therapies hold immense promise for treating sight loss. These therapies use a modified, harmless virus to deliver therapeutic genes directly…
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How microbes could help solve the world’s plastic pollution crisis
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Julianne Megaw, Lecturer in Microbiology, Queen’s University Belfast With conventional waste management systems falling short, many scientists are turning to nature for innovative solutions to the issue of plastic waste. One promising avenue is microbial degradation: harnessing the natural abilities of certain bacteria and fungi to…
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Love is Blind returns – but is there truth to the show’s ‘social experiment’? Here’s what the research says
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Martin Graff, Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Relationships, University of South Wales Love is Blind UK returns to Netflix on August 13. For those who haven’t seen it, the show describes itself as a “social experiment” in which single men and women look for love and…
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Freakier Friday: nostalgia-soaked sequel explores grief and blended families
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Harriet Fletcher, Lecturer in Media and Communication, Anglia Ruskin University Twenty-two years after Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis first swapped bodies in the teen classic Freaky Friday, the beloved duo returns. This time there’s twice the chaos in an ambitious four-person body swap comedy dripping…