Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol Tatevosian Yana/Shutterstock Walk into any health store, scroll through TikTok, or browse the shelves of your favourite beauty retailer, and you’ll be met with a familiar promise: that a pill, powder or potion…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Harriet Fletcher, Lecturer in Media and Communication, Anglia Ruskin University Twenty-two years after Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis first swapped bodies in the teen classic Freaky Friday, the beloved duo returns. This time there’s twice the chaos in an ambitious four-person body swap comedy dripping…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Giacomo Melli, PhD candidate in sociology, University of Oxford Where do you see yourself on the ladder? Cristina Conti/Shutterstock Imagine society as a ladder with ten rungs. Where would you place yourself? That answer reflects your subjective social status – where you see yourself in society.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alison Clare, Senior Research Associate, Translational Health Sciences and Ophthalmology, University of Bristol Some gene therapies may be less effective in women. crystal light/ Shutterstock Gene therapies hold immense promise for treating sight loss. These therapies use a modified, harmless virus to deliver therapeutic genes directly…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Julianne Megaw, Lecturer in Microbiology, Queen’s University Belfast With conventional waste management systems falling short, many scientists are turning to nature for innovative solutions to the issue of plastic waste. One promising avenue is microbial degradation: harnessing the natural abilities of certain bacteria and fungi to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Martin Graff, Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Relationships, University of South Wales Love is Blind UK returns to Netflix on August 13. For those who haven’t seen it, the show describes itself as a “social experiment” in which single men and women look for love and…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Emma Connolly, Research Fellow, Digital Speech Lab, UCL Shutterstock. By the time the next US election takes place in 2028, millennial and gen Z voters – who already watch over six hours of media content a day – will make up the majority of the electorate.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By John Murray, Senior Research Fellow, School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, The Open University The common earwig. Henri Koskinen/Shutterstock Every morning for the past 32 years, I have been counting earwigs. Here at Marshalls Heath, a small nature reserve in Hertfordshire, the only site where…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Christina Pagel, Professor of Operational Research, Director of the UCL Clinical Operational Research Unit, UCL NEW YORK CITY, USA – March 7, 2025: Stand up for Science rally against DOGE cuts to scientific research in Washington Square Park in Manhattan. Christopher Penler/Shutterstock Vaccines are one of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicolas Forsans, Professor of Management and Co-director of the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Essex A protester holds a sign reading ‘it’s not community if you displace us’ during a demonstration against gentrification in Mexico City. Octavio Hoyos / Shutterstock When thousands…