Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sam Fankhauser, Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford In the mid-2000s, soon after becoming Conservative leader, David Cameron hugged a husky on a trip to the Arctic, in what was widely described as an attempt to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rob Morris, Professor of Physics, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University The 2025 Nobel prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for the discovery of an effect that has applications in medical devices and quantum computing. John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kirsten Antoncich, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Birmingham City University afotostock/Shutterstock Developmental research often tells us how ego centric children are. Yet all too often we hear of children who are forced to demonstrate great courage and care in in a crisis. The ongoing inquiry into the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University Regulatory T cells monitor other immune cells and ensure that our immune system tolerates our own tissues. © The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén, CC BY-NC The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Amy Burge, Associate Professor in Popular Fiction, University of Birmingham The author Jilly Cooper has died aged 88. Cooper’s books were “bonkbusters” – a form of blockbuster fiction that was most popular in the 1980s and 1990s, characterised by explicit sex, scandalous plots and large casts…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tracy Hussell, Director of the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, University of Manchester Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach Three scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how the body stops its own immune system from…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Simon Mabon, Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University The morning of October 7 2023 set in process a series of events which have profoundly changed the Middle East. At the beginning of that month, the region looked very different to today. Saudi Arabia appeared ready to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Gulnaz Anjum, Assistant Professor of Climate Psychology, Centre for Social Issues Research, Department of Psychology, University of Limerick Caterpillar Taqi/Shutterstock When the daytime air feels like an oven and night brings no relief, people in Karachi, Pakistan, say the heat “goes straight to the head”. They…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By David Lees, Reader in French Studies, University of Warwick French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu has resigned after less than a month in the role, making him the fourth to leave the office in the past year and a half. When he was first elected in 2017,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Claire Jowitt, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of East Anglia Like afternoon tea, red pillar boxes and bracing walks on crisp autumn days, there is something reassuringly British about the Shipping Forecast, broadcast twice a day on Radio 4, and three times at weekends. Dogger; Rockall;…