Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sean McMahon, Reader in Astrobiology, University of Edinburgh Just over a year ago, Nasa made a remarkable announcement. The Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ancient life on Mars. Now, the technical details behind that discovery have been published in a Nature paper that, despite…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tom Allport, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol Royaltyfreecliick.com/Shutterstock The UK government’s new ten-year health plan for England prioritises tackling health inequalities through local preventive measures. One promising approach is to build on the strengths of migrant families by fostering neighbourhood peer…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Diane Purkiss, The William F Pollard Tutorial Fellow in English, University of Oxford Painting of a banquet from the manuscript of The Romance of Alexander the Great, mid-15th century. Wiki Commons “You have to keep beating it for longer,” my grandmother instructed me. “It isn’t pale…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By James Williams, Emeritus reader in science education and communication, University of Sussex PeterPike/Shutterstock Why do we need to do homework when we already spend all day in school? – Grace, aged nine, Belfast If you’ve ever stared at your homework feeling stuck, you’re not alone. Many…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tom Lane, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Newcastle University PeopleImages/Shutterstock Writing a CV requires important decisions. What should you include, what should you leave out – and how honest should you be? One particularly tricky dilemma that might come up is whether to disclose weaknesses on your…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jay Silverstein, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Forensics, Nottingham Trent University Afghan farmers plough a field while US soldiers patrol in Helmand province in 2010. ResoluteSupportMedia / Flickr, CC BY-ND The expectation that competition for dwindling resources drives societies towards conflict has shaped…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Duncan Sayer, Professor in Archaeology, University of Lancashire In 2022, archaeologists worked on the ancient DNA from a number of early medieval cemeteries, and found two individuals that stood out. One was from Updown Eastry in Kent, known as Updown girl, and the other was a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By James Sweeney, Professor, Lancaster Law School, Lancaster University Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) says that Gaza is “becoming the graveyard of international humanitarian law”. International humanitarian law (IHL), regulates the conduct of armed conflict,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Steven Chown, Director, Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future and Professor of Biological Sciences, Monash University Derek Oyen/Unsplash Our planet continues to warm because of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. The polar regions are especially vulnerable to this warming. Sea ice extent is already declining in…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Jamon Couch, Lecturer, Department of Microbiology, Anatomy, Physiology & Pharmacology, and PhD Candidate, La Trobe University It’s a quiet morning. You lace up your shoes, step outside and begin a brisk morning stroll. But as you take those first few steps, there it is, a…