Fin d’un catholicisme à sens unique ? L’Afrique post-François veut se faire entendre: Alors qu’elle vient d’élire un nouveau pape, l’Église catholique est confrontée à une question fondamentale. Doit-elle revenir à une papauté monarchique avec son faste et son apparat, ou s’appuyer sur la dynamique initiée par le pape François ? Ce dernier a mis …
‘Reel justice’: a unique collaboration between university filmmakers and police: How can universities build better relationships with the communities around them? Academia is increasingly considering this question. And finding innovative ways to demonstrate value and connect with wider society. This was on my mind when I learnt about a fascinating collaboration between the police and …
Madagascar supports more unique plant life than any other island in the world – new study: Madagascar is rich in species, including plants. Leamus/iStock/Getty Images Researchers have long known that islands are hotspots for species diversity. But, until recently, there weren’t precise figures to quantify the diversity of plant life on islands. A study involving …
Maria Callas: how inflammation, crash dieting and heartache may have shaped her unique and polarising voice: Maria, the new biopic being released in cinemas and on Netflix, is the third in Pablo Larraín’s cinematic trilogy of remarkable women. The equally astounding Angelina Jolie portrays the late, great soprano Maria Callas – one of the most …
What the unique shape of the human heart tells us about our evolution: Human hearts differ from those belonging to our closest relatives like the chimpanzee. anek.soowannaphoom/Shutterstock Mammals, from the mighty blue whale to the tiny shrew, inhabit nearly every corner of our planet. Their remarkable adaptability to different environments has long fascinated scientists, with …
Raising revenue from land: what African cities might learn from Hong Kong’s unique land-lease system: Land prices across many African cities are soaring. This is because land is a city’s key asset. As urbanisation progresses, demand for land will rise, and therefore so will land prices, because the supply of land in cities is limited. …
Togo : le parti unique se profile malgré le multipartisme formel: Le 29 avril 2024, 4 millions de Togolais ont été appelés aux urnes pour participer à un double scrutin visant à élire 113 députés et 179 conseillers régionaux. Ces élection ont consacré une écrasante victoire du parti au pouvoir, l’Union pour la République (Unir), …
Thirty years of rural health research: South Africa’s Agincourt studies offer unique insights: In 1992 a group of academics from the University of the Witwatersrand introduced a health and socio-demographic surveillance system in remote, rural South Africa to track and understand health and wellbeing in these environments. This initiative built on pioneering work by a …
11 Water Saving Tips PLUS 3 Unique NMB Focused Tips: The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipal Metropolitan area has been subject to drought restrictions for the most part of the last 7 years. The dams to the west of the metropole have ranged in level from below 10% to almost full over this time. Tha main …
Namibia and Angola’s remote Ovahimba mountains reveal a haven for unique plants – new survey: The Kaokoveld region, covering north-western Namibia and south-western Angola, is one of the remotest areas in southern Africa. Although it’s extremely dry, it is a centre of species endemism: many species occur only there and nowhere else on earth. New …
China makes developers pay compensation for their ecological impacts – here’s how this unique scheme works: Hanyu Qiu / shutterstock In 2017, the Chinese environmental NGO, Friends of Nature, sued the developer of a dam in Yunnan province in the country’s south west. The NGO alleged that the project’s environmental impact assessment had failed to …
Gwen John: often dismissed as a timid recluse, this unique and uncompromising artist painted relentlessly on her own terms: The quiet Welsh painter Gwen John was not like any other artist, male or female – she was genuinely unique. She was neither an heiress, like most unmarried modernist women, nor a conventional academic artist, like …
GP numbers continue to fall but the UK isn’t unique in losing family doctors: The 2019 Conservative manifesto promised to increase the UK’s GP numbers by 6,000 by 2024. That target will clearly not be met. In fact, the proportion of GPs working full time in England has fallen compared with last year, according to …
Jeff Beck: the unorthodox techniques that made him such a unique guitarist: The praise Jeff Beck, who has died aged 78, received from indebted musicians during his lifetime already read like unbridled eulogies. Eric Clapton had called him “the most unique guitarist”, Steve Lukather (Toto) “God’s guitarist”, and Joe Satriani “just a genius”. Jazz great …
Netflix’s Harry & Meghan: the Sussexes are not unique in being royal victims: To our surprise, one of us (Robert Hazell) appeared in episode one of the Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan. His contribution was based on our book The Role of Monarchy in Modern Democracy, a comparative study of the other monarchies in western …
Why it’s important to understand the unique plight of internally displaced people in Africa: Internally displaced people from the Dinka ethnic group at the Minkamman camp in South Sudan in 2014. EFE-EPA/Jim Lopez The African Union adopted an agreement more than 13 years ago to prevent the arbitrary displacement of people and to uphold the …
Songbirds with unique colours are more likely to be traded as pets – new reserch: An indigo flycatcher. Zhikai Liao, Author provided People like beautiful things. This comes as no surprise: beauty underpins highly profitable businesses, from cosmetics and art to the illegal wildlife trade, which reaps up to US$ 23 billion (£20 billion) annually …
Glasgow’s relaunched Burrell Collection may be unique and much-loved, but how does it fit into the cultural landscape today?: After closing for extensive renovations in 2016, the Burrell museum, home to one of the greatest personal art collections ever bequeathed to the public, reopened in March 2022. Now, as its first major exhibition opens, it’s …