The Latest Breaking News from Academics

A group of experts has warned that blanket phone bans fail to prepare children for modern life in a digital world.

Despite the diversity of pro-Palestine demonstrators, officials go after people of color with visas and scholarships ‘to create a wedge in solidarity’

Lawsuit comes after multiple U.S. permanent residents and visa-holding academics have faced deportation in recent weeks

Cambridge is in a dispute with academics after an exhibition linked Stephan Hawking with the slave trade

In Germany, tariff-hit car factories are being repurposed for defence. In Britain, American academics are queueing up for jobs. The west will be different as a result of Trump – but will it be worse?

According to an investigation by Hundred Families, a charity that supports and advocates for families affected by mental health homicides, each year an average of 65 mentally ill people carry out killings. Between 2018-2023, 390 mental health patients in England committed, or were suspected of, murder or manslaughter.

Academics say UK defendants should be able to explain reasons for their actions and not have to express remorse

Academics from the universities of Exeter and Vienna monitored the brains of 49 people as they received small electric shocks.

Girls’ lack of confidence studying maths and science could be impacting their results, academics warn

Users may have difficulty once they arrive on real-life dates, without their phone to help them, say academics

Despite winning a landmark legal battle, academic Alice Jolly believes it won’t benefit others