Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mehri Khosravi, Energy and Carbon Senior Research Fellow, University of East London With heatwaves becoming hotter and more frequent, demand for air conditioning is expected to rise significantly. However, if the UK and similar countries respond to hotter summers simply by installing more AC, they risk…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sara Mehryar, Research Fellow in climate change adaptation and resilience, London School of Economics and Political Science Water fountains offer welcome relief to Londoners. Nicolas Economou/Shutterstock Extreme heat in the UK is no longer a distant or seasonal issue. It’s a growing national risk. When the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kevin O’Malley, Clinical Tutor, School of Medicine, University of Limerick New Africa/Shutterstock The UK has just introduced the world’s first national programme offering a vaccine to help protect against gonorrhoea. This coincides with increasing rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including antibiotic-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lauren Anne Constance, PhD Candidate, School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University Known as hibakusha in Japan, the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only people in the world with firsthand experience of the horrors of nuclear warfare. Now, 80 years…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Miriam Marra, Associate Professor of Finance and co-Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Henley Business School, University of Reading RYO Alexandre/Shutterstock With the UK government facing a multibillion pound gap between revenue and spending, calls for a wealth tax are becoming louder. More than 30…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicky Hudson, Professor of Medical Sociology, De Montfort University Svitlana Hulko/Shutterstock A baby born in the US has made headlines for a surprising reason: they came from an embryo that had been frozen for more than 30 years — setting a new world record. The embryo…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rüdiger Riesch, Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, Royal Holloway University of London Antarctic leopard seals make calls that share structures with nursery rhymes. Yaroslav Nikitin/Shutterstock Animals may not have musical instruments, but the way that some species form complex patterns of vocal sequences is remarkable. A…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Maria Pertl, Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Health Psychology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences SpeedKingz/Shutterstock By 2030, an estimated 47 million women worldwide will enter menopause each year. The transition through menopause can last several years and brings with it a host of physical,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Andrea Maria Pelliconi, Lecturer in Human Rights Law, University of Southampton Christopher Nolan, known for directing blockbusters like Memento, Interstellar and Oppenheimer, is facing public backlash for filming scenes of his new film, The Odyssey, in part of north Africa called Western Sahara. The territory, formerly…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By William Perry, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University An Atlantic salmon slowmotiongli/Shutterstock Wild salmon are not just rarer than their farmed cousins – they’re better looking too. In a new study by my colleagues and I, we found that they are noticeably…