‘It dawned on me that I felt lonely’: how my research into friendship gave me a new perspective on my social life.
Articles on Insights series
Displaying 21 - 40 of 332 articles
A week after the asteroid impact, rotting vegetation, smoke and sulphur create a stinky planet. Plant and animal survivors succumb to the corrosive acid rain.
Attenborough has influenced everything from conservation and documentary production to the communication of the biggest story of all – climate change.
Birds didn’t just evolve from dinosaurs. They are dinosaurs.
Dinosaur wings seem to have originally been used not to fly but to attract a mate.
Research has shown that children who are emotionally stable, motivated and capable of controlling their impulses do better at school.
The people I spoke to were worried they had failed to arrive at the elusive destination of ‘acceptance’.
The MoJ has publicly disclosed for the first time that trial records will now be kept at least as long as the prison sentence – and possibly indefinitely.
Two professors of energy studies – one British, the other Swedish – explore the very different histories of home heating in their countries.
In this Q&A with the authors of a recent book about Bigfoot hunters, they admit these people are neither anti-science nor irrational.
Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.
In January 2023, the German parliament formally recognised Yazidi genocide. Yet, the recognition remains largely symbolic and has no influence on asylum decisions.
For some Swedes, the question isn’t simply whether a wealth tax works, but what kind of society has been lost with its abolition.
Hope is not a soft word in prison. It shapes how people cope with their sentence and it determines whether - and how - they engage with staff and other prisoners.
I had reservations about these tools and how they might affect me as a musician, but I was also intrigued by the possibilities.
As trail hunting is set to be banned in England and Wales, hunt saboteurs and police officers discuss their ‘unlikely alliance’ in monitoring fox hunts.
The loss of the central role of people in today’s complex global systems is the greatest danger of all. In Kenya and Amdo Tibet, it can be rediscovered.
Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from their writing?
When the language of racism lost scientific legitimacy, it changed shape and began targeting cultures instead.
Hundreds of returnees and forced migrants reported being terrorised by soldiers and armed militias on both sides of the Sudan civil war.
Top contributors
-
Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
-
Chargée de recherche CNRS, Géographe et politiste spécialiste des frontières et migrations, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
-
Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
-
Lecturer in Psychology, University of Plymouth
-
Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Winchester
-
Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
-
Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
-
Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
-
Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey
-
Professor of Neurology, UCL
-
Associate Professor, Queen's University Belfast
-
Professor in Modern History, University of Birmingham
-
Professor of Social History, The Open University
-
Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Winchester
-
Professor of Modern History, University of Bristol