Ph. Master1305/Shutterstock David Gisselsson Nord, Lund University and Alberto Rinaldi, Lund University Imagine waking up to the news that a deadly new strain of flu has emerged in your city. Health officials are downplaying it, but social media is flooded with contradictory claims from “medical experts” debating its origin and severity. Hospitals are
Benjamin Netanyahu’s fragile coalition is fracturing. Gil Cohen Magen / Shutterstock Brian Brivati, Kingston University One of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties, Shas, has announced it will resign from prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. The party said its decision was made due to the government’s failure to pass a bill exempting ultra-Orthodox students from
Per troppo tempo abbiamo misurato l’intelligenza su una sola frequenza: quella lineare, logica, prestazionale. Ma esistono intelligenze altre: intuitive, visive, ipersensoriali, associative. Menti che si accendono dove le altre si fermano. Che non funzionano “nonostante”, ma grazie a ciò che le rende atipiche. . Read full article here Lingua originale: italiano. Autore: Amadeo
Jabulani Shaba, University of Groningen Zimbabwe has the largest lithium reserves on the African continent. Lithium has been mined since the colonial period in the 1950s. It’s a critical part of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that are essential for the electric vehicle industry. Globally, the lithium-ion battery market is worth US$78.9 billion and is
Belinda Clarence, RMIT University During the recent conflict between Iran and Israel, Iran threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s major shipping routes. Would that be possible, and what effects would it have? The Strait of Hormuz is a choke point at the entrance to the Persian Gulf. It
ph. A deadly flash flood on July 4, 2025, swept through Nancy Callery’s childhood home in Hunt, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Jeremy Porter, City University of New York The deadly flooding in Texas on July 4, 2025, and destructive flash floods a week later in states including New Mexico, Vermont and Iowa are
Derek Yu, University of the Western Cape and Simbarashe Murozvi, University of the Western Cape Child labour is a big concern across the world. It is particularly acute in countries in the global south, where it is estimated that about 160 million children are engaged in child labour, about 87 million of them
Jennifer Mathers, Aberystwyth University In some parts of Russia, schoolgirls who become pregnant are being paid more than 100,000 roubles (nearly £900) for giving birth and raising their babies. This new measure, introduced in the past few months across ten regions, is part of Russia’s new demographic strategy, widening the policy adopted in
Secondo le neuroscienze sociali, ogni feedback attiva (o disattiva) i circuiti della sicurezza e dell’apprendimento. Il tono, la postura, la scelta delle parole diventano segnali che il sistema nervoso interpreta come “minaccia” o “alleanza”. Ecco perché non è importante solo cosa dici, ma da quale stato interno lo dici. La leadership neurocoerente parte
Gemma Ware, The Conversation and Laura Hood, The Conversation The language from European leaders was fawning and obsequious. At one point, the head of Nato, Mark Rutte, even called Donald Trump “daddy”. But when the US president left the Nato summit in late June, there was a sigh of relief that he had