‘I’m not saying, I’m just saying.’ Punyaruk Baingern/Shutterstock.com Jennifer Mercieca, Texas A&M University On Nov. 29, President Trump retweeted a…
Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Wes Mountain, The Conversation Security services and governments around the world remain vigilant to the…
A deal done: the foreign minister of Bangladesh, Abul Hassan Mahmud Ali, visits Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. EPA/Myanmar…
BBC Miranda Dyson, The Open University and Philip Sexton, The Open University As expected, the first episode of Sir David…
Map of the world’s CO₂ emissions for 2016. China, the United States, the European Union, and India are the largest…
Photo: Jørn Eriksson – Flickr Oslo by Night – Office buildings and apartments in Bjørvika, part of the redesign of former dock and industrial…
Gov.-elect Ralph Northam won handily in Virginia with a campaign focused on abortion rights, racial justice and support for immigration.…
Journalists work at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Oct 18, 2017. The Communist Party…
Archbishop Desmond Tutu celebrated his 86th birthday and the unveiling of an arch in his honor outside St George’s Cathedral…
Bricks, laid out in front of Congress, represent the staggering number of Brazilians killed each week. Photo: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters Renato Sérgio…
Photo: AFP / Getty Images Hundreds of cartoonists from around the world have taken part in a competition in Iran…
Soils play an important role in the nutritional value of our food. Ee Ling Ng, University of Melbourne and Deli…
Photo: Thinkstock. The ebola virus, magnified 108,000 times. Sterghios Moschos, Northumbria University, Newcastle We have developed technology that reliably detects…
Photo: Welcome to the driver’s seat. #SaudiWomenMove#SaudiWomenCanDrivepic.twitter.com/oksRbFvLWa — Ford Middle East (@FordMiddleEast) Haifaa Jawad, University of Birmingham In an unexpected move that…
The window for staving off the worst of climate change is wider than we thought, but still pretty narrow. Tatiana…
Meg Argyriou, ClimateWorks Australia One of the ironies of fighting climate change is that developed countries – which have benefited…
Photo: ESA / NASA Andrew King, University of Melbourne Over the past week we have seen two major tropical storms…
Disruptive technology, Ming Dynasty-style. Vmenkov/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Dave Frame, Victoria University of Wellington In the early 15th century the Ming…
Photo: Tor Erik Schrøder, NTB SCANPIX Mette Wiggen, University of Leeds A legitimization of radical right-wing ideology is taking place around the…
People burn a picture of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan. Photo: EPA-EFE/SHAHZAIB AKBER…