Can children really stop you catching a bad case of COVID-19?

Don't be fooled. They don't really have super powers. nazarovsergey/Shutterstock Having young children in your home may lower your risk of being hospitalised with COVID-19, according to a new study of NHS workers in Scotland. Children often catch coughs and colds, and this includes seasonal coronaviruses that cause the commonContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: COVID-19
Gaining knowledge is what makes a degree valuable, not graduate salaries or transferable skills

PhotoSky/Shutterstock The unexpected social and economic challenges brought by the coronavirus pandemic have given increased urgency to questions about the purposes of a university education and the kinds of graduates that society needs. Much of this debate has focused on the extent to which university degrees lead to graduate jobsContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: News
Turkey’s involvement in the Karabakh conflict could harm Azerbaijan, warns journalist Rovshan Aliyev · Global Voices

Should Azerbaijanis be wary of their close friend’s embrace? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan meets Azerbaijani President IIham Aliyev in Baku, February 2020. Photo CC-BY-4.0: President.Az / Wikimedia Commons. Some rights reserved. This isn’t the first time in recent years when fighting has flared up in Nagorno-Karabakh. But what isContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: News
‘The war in Karabakh has made the possibility of conflict resolution even more distant’, fears Armenian politician Mikayel Zolyan · Global Voices

As fighting rages in Nagorno-Karabakh, what are the chances for peace? Armenian politician and analyst Mikayel Zolyan. Photo courtesy of Mikayel Zolyan, used with permission. The conflict currently raging in Nagorno-Karabakh does not only concern Armenia and Azerbaijan. Thus this conflict has significant international dimensions: neighbouring countries with interests inContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: News
Nobel Prize: how Penrose, Genzel and Ghez helped put black holes at the centre of modern astrophysics

NASA/JPL-Caltech The award of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez will be greeted with enormous pleasure by physicists and astronomers worldwide. It recognises the central importance of black holes in modern astrophysics, and the unique contributions of these three scientists in establishingContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Science

KKR vs CSK IPL 2020 Score: Chennai Super Kings will look to strike early.© BCCI/IPL Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have won the toss and opted to bat against last season’s runners-up Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the 21st match of the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on October 7. TheContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Sport
Excel errors: the UK government has an embarrassingly long history of spreadsheet horror stories

TeodorLazarev/Shutterstock When the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, first said the country would develop a £12 billion “world-beating” system for testing and tracing cases of COVID-19, few people probably imagined that it would be based around a £120 generic spreadsheet program. Yet the news that the details of 16,000 positiveContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Science