Daniel Broby, University of Strathclyde Mark Zuckerberg wants to reinvent Facebook. He has been telling analysts and journalists that he wants the company to lead the way to a completely different...
In Paraguay, garbage is transformed into music, giving hope to vulnerable sectors of the capital. These children and young people had no prospects in life but now, they dream of becoming musicians,...
Tim Jackson, University of Surrey Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, laments the Rocket Man in Elton John’s timeless classic. In fact, it’s cold as hell. But that doesn’t seem...
Just before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, epidemiology professor and mathematician Adam Kucharski published the book The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop. Undoubtedly,...
Sarah L Caddy, University of Cambridge People have been panicking about COVID-19 in animals since the very start of the pandemic. There’s now plenty of evidence that SARS-CoV-2 – the coronavirus...
Lynda Dunlop, University of York; Lucy Atkinson, University of York, and Maria Turkenburg-van Diepen, University of York In just three years, calls for climate action have seen the Fridays For Future...
Last April, a video of a YouTuber wearing a fake “mask” went viral in Indonesia. The content creator had a fake mask painted on her face and entered a supermarket with her friend. Their prank was...
Dayana contracted Covid in April 2021. Her husband, son, brother and mother-in-law caught it too, locked up at home with treatment from the beginning. Their house became a kind of medical center,...
Covid can be harsh, relentless and painful, but many of us don't know that until we are close to it. I never imagined we would live through pandemic times, much less that my dad would die of...
Climate is one of the most important expenses the world's leading economies face, costing hundreds of trillions of dollars. The Paris Protocol prescribes reducing carbon emissions by at least a...