Why without conceptual clarity, the fuzziness in social sciences can drive a news reporter to despair
US millennials are rejecting suburbia and moving back to the city. That was a prevailing idea in 2019, when I started as the social sciences reporter at Science News. But when I began digging into a possible story on the phenomenon, I encountered an incoherent mess. Some research showed that...
Rising violence in internally displaced persons camps in DR Congo’s North Kivu province alarms UN
An upsurge in violence in Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu has seen at least 30 people wounded with an estimated 23,000 Congolese people displaced Senior United Nations (UN) spokesman Stephane Dujarric said during a media briefing at UN headquarters in New York this week. The increased levels of...
Social media companies in Ethiopia told to rein in hate mongers during peace talks in South Africa
With talks under way in South Africa to end the two-year Tigray civil war in Ethiopia, there are calls for social media platforms to control hate speech that could stir tempers between the two warring parties. Since the beginning of hostilities in November 2020, social media, mostly Twitter, has become...
Why Liz Truss’s 44-day stint as UK premier has been branded a ‘globalist coup’ in financial markets
The shortest-serving prime minister in British history. She went after days of absolute mayhem at Westminster. Everywhere people are lining up to say that this represents some kind of democratic collapse. And everywhere, those people are wrong. At worst we see the conspiracy theorists of the right branding this a...
Reprogramming age: Soon, it’ll be normal to get prescription for medicine that reverses your age by 10 years
A little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made a remarkable discovery. When they added just four proteins to a skin cell and waited about two weeks, some of the cells underwent an unexpected and astounding transformation: they became young again. They turned into stem cells...
Report claims Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta looking to prise petulant Ronaldo away from Man United
A report has claimed that two Premier League clubs are among four sides looking to sign Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo in January. The Portugal international spent most of the summer looking for a way out of Old Trafford after the Red Devils failed to qualify for the Champions League....
Why are Black women not on the upper deck of the tech industry in the United Kingdom?
Up to 20,000 black women are “missing” from the tech industry in the UK, according to a joint report by campaigners and a representative body. The report says the proportion of black women in IT is two-and-a-half times smaller than that of the UK workforce as a whole. Campaigning group...
