Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rahul Sidhu, PhD Candidate, Neuroscience, University of Sheffield Previous research has shown that as people move from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s disease, their lithium levels drop. photo_gonzo/ Shutterstock Alzheimer’s disease steals memories and devastates lives. Yet despite an abundance of research, the earliest brain changes…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Steve Fletcher, Professor of Ocean Policy and Economy, University of Portsmouth New Africa/Shutterstock The latest round of negotiations for a UN global plastics treaty has ended without a deal. After more than three years of talks, deep divisions remain. Agreement is only marginally closer than before…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tom Vaughan, Lecturer in International Security, University of Leeds US nuclear weapons testing in Nevada, 1953. National Nuclear Security Administration In August 1945 the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 people, overwhelmingly civilians. Eighty years…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By James Vigus, Senior Lecturer in English, Queen Mary University of London To mark the 250th anniversary of her birth, we’re pitting Jane Austen’s much-loved novels against each other in a battle of wit, charm and romance. Seven leading Austen experts have made their case for her…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Marine J. Petit, Lecturer in Virology, Section of Virology, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey 24K-Production/Shutterstock A tiny tick crawls across your skin, potentially carrying a virus so lethal it kills up to four out of every ten people it infects. Yet that same tick shows…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Steve Schifferes, Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George’s, University of London Unexpected growth in the UK economy isn’t enough to detract from the gaping hole in the country’s public finances. Speculation is ramping up about what steps the chancellor of the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Owen Brierley, Course Leader in the Department of Creative Industries, Kingston University Fraudulent science is not about just a few bad apples. Joanna Dorota/Shutterstock Researchers are dealing with a disturbing trend that threatens the foundation of scientific progress: scientific fraud has become an industry. And it’s…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lewis Eves, Lecturer in Government and International Relations, University of Essex Eighty years have passed since Japan’s surrender ended the second world war. But the way Japan thinks about its wartime history is changing at pace. This is coinciding with a political shift that risks renewed…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By David Mead, Professor of UK Human Rights Law, University of East Anglia The proscription of Palestine Action – banning membership or support for the organisation on the ground that the home secretary believes it is “concerned in terrorism” – has led to hundreds of arrests, two…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Peter Greste, Professor of Journalism and Communications, Macquarie University The New York-based media freedom organisation, the Committee to Protect Journalists, is scrupulous with its words. So, when the organisation described the killing of six Palestinian journalists in an Israeli air strike as “murder”, the word…