theconversation.comadded August 2026
The Conversation UKby Hannah Green, PhD Candidate in English Literature and Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol22d ago
The American farmer, novelist and poet Wendell Berry, died on August 31 2026, aged 92. Berry farmed in Port Royal, in his native Kentucky, for over 40 years.
The Conversation UKby Sam Power, Lecturer in Politics, University of Bristol23d ago
British politics looks set to be dominated in the coming weeks and months by the £72 million donated to Reform UK.
The Conversation UKby Uisce Jordan, Research Associate, University of Glasgow23d ago
Parliament is back in session, and Andy Burnham is set to put his promise of becoming a “cost-of-living government” into practice.
The Conversation UKby Chris Seenan, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Stirling23d ago
Some people describe it as a ticking timebomb. Others learn to live with information they can neither see nor feel, but cannot forget.
The Conversation UKby John William Devine, Senior Lecturer in Ethics, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Swansea University23d ago
Every year since the first Wimbledon Championship in 1877, a male player with a one-handed backhand has featured in the singles semi-finals of a grand slam.
The Conversation UKby Tom Quilter, Artificial Intelligence Researcher, University of Manchester23d ago
On Saturday, Donald Trump said, “We’re leading China on AI… and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins.” But the danger the world is waking up to is that this is a game...
The Conversation UKby Benjamin Redmond Roche, Visiting Research Fellow, Solar Radiation Management Research Governance & Independent Consultant, UCL23d ago
No, President Joe Biden did not engineer Hurricane Milton. No, the ice-crystal contrails left behind high-altitude aircraft are not “chemtrails” sprayed by governments to control the weather or...
The Conversation UKby Philip Broadbent, Wellcome Multimorbidity PhD Fellow & Public Health Registrar, University of Glasgow23d ago
It is tempting to tell a tidy story in which people in Britain take too many pills because they exercise too little and eat too poorly, while Danes stay slim by cycling everywhere.
The Conversation UKby Donald Maurice Broom, Emeritus Professor of Animal Welfare, University of Cambridge23d ago
This year, greyhound racing in Britain turns 100 years old. The first race ran on July 24 1926 in Manchester, where six dogs chased a mechanical hare around a track.
The Conversation UKby Alexandra Cremona, Lecturer, Human Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Limerick23d ago
Most of us are used to hearing about the risks of not getting enough iron. Yet having too much iron in the body can also cause serious health problems.
The Conversation UKby John Aitken, Associate, Senior Research Fellow, RAND Europe, RAND Europe23d ago
The conflict between Iran and the US appears to have reached a stalemate. The US navy continues to prevent Iranian vessels or others transiting to or from Iranian ports.
The Conversation UKby Filippo Annunziata, Professor of Financial Markets and Banking Legislation, Department of Legal Studies, Bocconi University23d ago
Regular stock exchange observers will know all about prediction markets. Users buy and sell contracts that pay a fixed sum if a specified event occurs – a sports team wins a match, a candidate is...
The Conversation UKby Mark Boylan, Professor of Education, Sheffield Hallam University23d ago
Every three years, the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) tests the reading, maths and science skills of 15-year-olds in countries across the world.
The Conversation UKby Nils Pauliks, PhD Candidate, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University23d ago
Throwing something away that is urgently needed, expensive and difficult to source sounds crazy. Yet out of the 60 metals contained in old electronic devices like phones, screens or washing...
The Conversation UKby Aris Katzourakis, Professor of Evolution and Genomics, Paleovirology Lab, University of Oxford23d ago
Smallpox is the only human infectious disease to have been eradicated worldwide. Researchers have now recovered fragments of ancient DNA belonging to variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox...
The Conversation UKby Ewan Gibbs, Lecturer in Global Inequalities, University of Glasgow24d ago
Keeping global temperatures within safe limits is incompatible with new fossil fuel extraction, as stated by the International Energy Agency.
The Conversation UKby Rachel Rich, Reader in Modern European History, Leeds Beckett University24d ago
The stereotype of bland British food is notorious, and people mock the horrors of jellied eels and overcooked vegetables.
The Conversation UKby Maria Lucia Passador, Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Bocconi University24d ago
For the past decade, most public debates about data have revolved around a familiar anxiety: too much of our personal information is being collected from our records and our online activity, and...
The Conversation UKby Ken Valyear, Senior Lecturer in Sensorimotor and Rehabilitation Neuroscience, Bangor University24d ago
We carry a map of our bodies around in our brains. It’s not a literal picture, but an organised pattern of brain activity. So, touch different fingers and different parts of the brain respond.
The Conversation UKby Kartikeya Walia, Senior Lecturer, Department of Engineering, Nottingham Trent University24d ago
At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, a humanoid robot named Tiangong Ultra ran the 100-metre sprint in a staggering 8.64 seconds, shattering Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s legendary human...
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