John Cooley, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut Two ecologists explain why a misleading map is worse than no map at all, and how they have worked for ...

Empathy affords us a more accurate understanding of others’ experiences and emotions. Just like pain, it can be hard to bear – but that’s also the source of its strength.

When Arkansas tried to make Medicaid contingent on meeting work requirements, 18,000 low-income Arkansans lost their health insurance, but few of them got jobs.

The Treaty 4 Agricultural Benefits Settlement aims to address unmet Crown promises, but tensions over governance, transparency and leadership could undermine its potential for Indigenous communities.

On March 20, 2025, members of the World Health Organization adopted the world’s first pandemic agreement, following three years of “intensive negotiations launched by governments in response to the ...

South Africa’s historical honeybush herbal tea farmers were dispossessed of their land during colonialism and apartheid. Steps must be taken to right this wrong.

V. Y. Mudimbe, Congolese philosopher, author of the renowned essay ‘The Invention of Africa’ dies at 83 ...

A scholar reveals the ins and outs of how research gets funded, including the checks and balances that ensure high scientific standards and financial integrity at every stage of a grant’s lifecycle.

African football skills are sought after in the hugely popular Chinese Super League – and China gains soft power in Africa in the process.

Does the tightening of sartorial standards at the film festival represent a cultural retreat, or a practical return to form?

A bubbling Jacuzzi-sized fountain of molten chocolate greets visitors at the entrance to Life Pleasures, a major retrospective of British artist Helen Chadwick at the Hepworth gallery in Wakefield.

Especially young people. During the global COVID-19 pandemic, declared by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020, many countries reported high levels of vaccine hesitancy among younger ...