Online shopping algorithms are colluding to keep prices high

Feb 26, 2019 14:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Have you ever searched for a product online in the morning and gone back to look at it again in the evening only to find the price has changed? In which case you may have been subject to the retailers pricing...

How Nigeria has got better at running elections that are freer and fairer

Feb 26, 2019 14:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

The conduct of periodic, competitive, participatory, credible and non-violent elections is one of the main yardsticks used to determine the democratic condition of a state. As such, Nigerias 2019 general election is...

How environmental health workers can help climate change mitigation

Feb 26, 2019 14:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

All the evidence tells us that the worlds changing climate will affect more than the environment. It will have serious consequences for peoples health too. Southern Africa is in the eye of the climate change storm. In...

Burden of trauma and PTSD in young British people revealed – new research

Feb 26, 2019 14:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

For most people, the terms trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) lead to thoughts of veterans haunted by battlefield atrocities. Few realise that children and adolescents can experience trauma and develop PTSD,...

English is not enough – British children face major disadvantage when it comes to language skills

Feb 26, 2019 14:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

For a number of years now, the provision of languages in British schools and universities has been in decline. Yet, as Brexit looms largely on the horizon, there has been much talk in the media and from politicians about...

Trump vs. Congress: The emergency declaration should not be resolved in court

Feb 26, 2019 14:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

President Donald Trumps emergency declaration to build a border wall has provoked a constitutional confrontation with Congress. Here is the background for understanding whats at stake beginning more than two centuries...

Carbon emissions: our research shows a decade of steady decline across Europe and the US

Feb 26, 2019 14:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

A sliver of hope against a backdrop of gloom: 18 countries showed a sustained decline in their carbon emissions from fossil fuel use over the past decade. This trend, averaging 2.2% a year over the period 2005-2015, is...