Category: English
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The UK military says Russia targets its satellites on a weekly basis. What can be done about it?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jessie Hamill-Stewart, PhD Candidate in Cybersecurity, University of Bath The UK operates the Skynet series of military communications satellites. Defence Images Russia is targeting UK space infrastructure, and in particular military satellites, on a weekly basis, according to the head of UK Space Command. In an…
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With Riot Women, Sally Wainwright is turning menopause into punk rebellion
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Beth Johnson, Professor of Television & Media Studies, University of Leeds Sally Wainwright’s new BBC drama Riot Women opens not with music, but with the sound of ice clinking in a glass and tonic fizzing as it’s poured over gin. Beth (Joanna Scanlan) calmly prepares to…
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Famous monkey-face ‘Dracula’ orchids are vanishing in the wild
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Diogo Veríssimo, Research Fellow in Conservation Marketing, University of Oxford cotosa/Shutterstock They look like tiny monkeys peering out from the mist. Known to scientists as Dracula, the so-called “monkey-face orchids” have become online celebrities. Millions of people have shared their photos, marvelling at flowers that seem…
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Slender-billed curlews are officially extinct – here’s why the loss of these migratory birds really matters
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Esther Kettel, Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation, Nottingham Trent University The Eurasian curlew, a close relative of the now-extinct slender-billed curlew. David Havel/Shutterstock The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) has been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This is the…
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The dark history of medical illustrations and the question of consent
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lucy E. Hyde, Lecturer, Anatomy, University of Bristol Vector Hut/Shutterstock.com They were pregnant. Some were prisoners. Others were the poorest of the poor, forgotten in death as in life. Yet dissection and depiction of their bodies have become the foundation of anatomical teaching. Cradled in the…
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Can you catch shingles? A GP explains what people get wrong about this common virus
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol ThalesAntonio/Shutterstock The idea that you can “catch” shingles is one of the more common misconceptions I hear from patients who arrive worried they’ve got it. Often, they’ve recently been near a child with chickenpox…
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‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms – but these phenomena, spun off ejections from the Sun, aren’t easy to study
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan Flux ropes (simulated, right) are structures made up of magnetic field lines wrapping around each other like a rope, that look similar to tornadoes on Earth. NOAA, Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti and Chip Manchester Weather forecasting is a powerful tool.…
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West Africa’s trade monitoring system has collapsed – why this is dangerous for food security
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Olivier Walther, Associate Professor in Geography, University of Florida A decade ago countries in West Africa set up a unique trade monitoring mechanism. Its purpose was to track intra-regional trade in agricultural products and livestock in the region. But the system was closed down in 2022…
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Trade is shaping new global power relations: what this means for Africa
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Arno J. van Niekerk, Senior lecturer in Economics, University of the Free State Over the past two decades, economic strength, trade flows, technological leadership and even consumer demand have been moving steadily from west to east. This transformation is redrawing economic maps. It is also raising…
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3-legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wild
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By James T. Stroud, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Georgia Institute of Technology A brown basilisk missing both its entire left forearm and part of its right hind limb. Brian Hillen We are lizard biologists, and to do our work we need to catch lizards –…