Category: World

When we think about nutrition, we almost always picture the same key players: the mouth, stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas and, perhaps, the gut microbiota. However, the human body is not made up of isolated compartments. Eating is not just about introducing food into the digestive tract, it also involves salivating, swallowing, transporting, distributing fluids, activating […]

Dark matter is thought to make up around 85% of all the matter in the universe, yet it has never been directly detected. A new analysis from the LZ experiment has identified a single particle interaction that researchers, led by the University of Bristol, have struggled to explain using any known background process. The result […]

Dark matter is thought to make up around 85% of all the matter in the universe, yet it has never been directly detected. A new analysis from the LZ experiment has identified a single particle interaction that researchers, led by the University of Bristol, have struggled to explain using any known background process. The result […]

As cities across Europe sweltered under a heatwave in June 2026, professor Michael Janoschka was focused on a longer term problem: how to make homes affordable and energy-efficient in a continent facing a housing crisis. Janoschka has spent much of his career studying how rising house prices, property speculation and urban inequality are reshaping European […]

As students, academics and university personnel across Europe head back to university, very few are aware that their university is likely to be part of the European University Initiative. Cooperation across European universities strengthened in 2019 with the launch of European university alliances, a project supporting the internationalisation of European higher education, testing action plans […]

Trinidadian foreign national and lawful permanent resident, Chad Barclay, 33, pleaded guilty today to sex trafficking and admitted to kidnapping six additional victims. During the plea hearing, Barclay admitted that on Sept. 13, 2022, he enticed the victim to his residence to engage in commercial sex, where he robbed and sexually assaulted her. As part […]

Around 150 000 animals, mostly rats and mice, are used in the EU each year to test the safety of everyday chemicals, but that is starting to change. Animal welfare campaigners have long raised concerns about this practice, and questions remain over how well results from animals translate to humans. Researchers have therefore set out […]

Intense pelvic pain, severely painful periods, infertility – these symptoms associated with endometriosis already appeared in medical texts as far back as antiquity. Yet this disease, which affects 10% of women of reproductive age, long remained ignored. The reason: the long history of medical and social representations of female pain. Having very painful periods. Being […]

– Advertisement – Many people consider others to be selfish. However, a new international study paints a different picture: worldwide, 69 per cent are willing to give up personal benefits for the common good. Would you be prepared to give up some of your own money to support the fight against climate change? Many people […]

– Advertisement – Chile has the strictest mandatory labelling requirements for unhealthy foods in the world. Advertising aimed at children is also heavily restricted. Following the introduction of these measures, consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks fell significantly and products became healthier. Although obesity remains a major problem, Austria can learn from the Chilean approach. In the […]