The Conversation

In the Oxford shooting case, prosecutors say yes By Thaddeus Hoffmeister Many were surprised when James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old boy accused of killing ...

Melissa Chim, General Theological Seminary The poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” better known by its opening line “‘Twas the Night before Christmas,” has a special place among Christmas traditions, ...

By Nikolaos Kapitsinis, No one would describe 2020 as normal. The coronavirus disrupted travel, employment and livelihoods. It pushed countries into lockdown, forcing people to change how they lived. And it ...

By Richard Hodgkins Before the end of this century, most of the Arctic will for the first time receive more rain than snow across a whole year. That’s one ...

By Natasha Gillies Not all relationships end in “happily ever after”, and birds are no exception. While more than 90% of bird species form monogamous couples, many of these will end ...

By Mark Griffiths The term “binge-watch” was a contender for the Oxford English Dictionary’s 2013 word of the year. Although it didn’t win (“selfie” ultimately took the crown), this ...

By Karen Boardman, Learning to read does not begin when a child puzzles over the words in a book for the first time. In the early weeks of their lives ...

By Sascha-Dominik (Dov) Bachmann For months, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has been accused of using illegal migrants as a tool to punish the European Union for imposing sanctions on his ...

By Alan Greene, As winter sets in across Europe, COVID-19 cases are beginning to rise, despite the vast roll-out of mass vaccination programmes earlier this year. Austria’s government has ...

By Alberto Giubilini, UK health secretary Sajid Javid’s plans for vaccination requirements for frontline NHS workers has reignited the political and ethical debate over COVID passes. The requirement constitutes ...

Duane Mellor, and James Brown, As we return to pre-lockdown levels of social mixing, colds are starting to become all too common. A TikTok video has gone viral involving putting ...

By Peter Bloom, Facebook’s rebranding as Meta has been seen by many as the company’s latest attempt at corporate crisis control. The social media giant has been publicly ...

By Rebecca Dobson Phillips, A furious backlash in relation to the case of Conservative MP and former government minister Owen Paterson has prompted the UK government to U-turn on plans ...

By Davide Bruno, The potential long-term neurological effects of concussions and other knocks to the head in professional sport have attracted significant attention and research interest over recent years. Confirmation ...

By Tom Pugh Humanity injects an almost incomprehensible 42 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere every year. The majority of this comes from burning fossil fuels, but a ...

By Richard Blakemore, A dispute between Britain and France about fishing territories has escalated rapidly. French authorities detained a British trawler on Thursday, October 28, and Britain promptly summoned the French ...

Is it a form of masochism? By Simon McCarthy-Jones Last month, more than 100 million people watched the gory Netflix show, Squid Game. Whether or not screen violence is bad for ...

By Eva Lloyd, Over the last ten years, formal childcare in the UK has steadily become unaffordable for most parents. Recent reports on a UK web-based parent survey undertaken this ...