Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Will de Freitas, Environment + Energy Editor, The Conversation Summer 2025 was the UK’s hottest on record, the Met Office announced this week. The news somehow felt both inevitable and surprising. There may have been four separate heatwaves, but for many this summer felt pretty normal.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Oleksandra Osypenko, PhD Candidate in Linguistics, Lancaster University A Windows translator gives the option of Surzhyk. kpi.ua/surzhik In Ukrainian dictionaries, the word “surzhyk” originally referred to a mix of grains – rye, wheat, barley and oats – or to flour made from a blend of these…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stuart Mills, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Leeds AI says buy. SWKStock/Shutterstock Making AI quicker, smarter and better is proving to be a very expensive business. Companies like OpenAI are investing billions of dollars in hardware, and the likes of Meta are offering top (human)…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jacqueline Boyd, Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University Olya m/Shutterstock.com Losing weight is hard. Anyone who has tried to lose weight and keep it off will describe how difficult it can be. If your pet is a little more rotund than is healthy, then…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Richard Milne, Senior Lecturer in Plant Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh The author’s project took him all over Britain. Montage images: Pajor Pawel/Shutterstock (background); Richard Milne (flowers) The wildflowers of Britain include all manner of treasures – yet many people are only aware of a few,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tim Lenton, Director, Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter The rapid transition from horse-drawn carts to cars is an example of a positive tipping point. K.E.V/Shutterstock The collapse of a major system of ocean currents, the meltdown of major ice sheets or the dieback of the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Cholong Sung, Lecturer in Korean, SOAS, University of London Thanks to the runaway global popularity of Netflix’s new animated film, KPop Demon Hunters, cinemas around the world have picked it up and are now screening a sing-along edition. Huntr/x, the musical girl group featured in the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kevin Olsen, UKSA Mars Science Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Oxford NASA Scientists have discovered that Mars has an interior structure similar to Earth’s. Results from Nasa’s Insight mission suggest that the red planet has a solid inner core surrounded by a liquid outer core,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University Some 15 people have died after the Gloria funicular railway car in Lisbon, Portugal, derailed and crashed on Wednesday local time. Emergency services have also confirmed that more than 18 people were also injured, five of them seriously,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Vincent Ho, Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University Arisara_Tongdonnoi/Getty Many of us are guilty of scrolling our smartphones on the toilet. But a new study from the United States, published today, has found this habit may increase your risk of developing haemorrhoids…