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Opinion: Geologists unveil how Britain first separated from Europe – and it was catastrophic

06 April 2017

Brexit won't be the first time Britain has left Europe, says Simon Redfern, professor in Earth Sciences at University of Cambridge writing for The Conversation. Almost half a million years ago we experienced a catastrophic separation.

Opinion: A rattled Saudi Arabia pivots for support to South-East Asia

22 March 2017

Saudi Arabia is seeking to strengthen its commercial links with South-east's fast-growing economies. What makes this such an attractive offer - and are there any downsides? asks Babak Mohammadzadeh (Politics and International Studies) writing for The Conversation.

Action Against Hunger team deliver hygiene kits to Iraqi refugees

Opinion: Aid workers get a bad rap – but too often they’re thrown in at the deep end

21 March 2017

The media are quick to criticise humanitarian organisations as inefficient and expensive, writes Corinna Frey (Cambridge Judge Business School), in The Conversation, but we should remember the extremely challenging work they do.

Opinion: The science ‘reproducibility crisis’ – and what can be done about it

20 March 2017

Reproducibility is the idea that an experiment can be repeated by another scientist and they will get the same result. It is important to show that the claims of any experiment are true and for them to be useful for any further research. However, science appears to have an issue with reproducibility.

Opinion: How years of IMF prescriptions have hurt West African health systems

22 February 2017

International Monetary Fund policies can have a real impact on people – and don’t always yield positive results. Writing for The Conversation, Thomas Stubbs (University of Cambridge) and Alexander E. Kentikelenis, (University of Oxford) explore the impact its policies have made on health in West Africa.

Opinion: Why medical technology often doesn’t make it from drawing board to hospital

15 February 2017

Medical imaging is a brilliant field filled with brilliant minds, writes Matthew Leming, PhD candidate in Psychiatry for The Conversation. So why don’t we see more new technologies making it into hospitals?

Opinion: India’s militant rhino protectors are challenging traditional views of how conservation works

13 February 2017

There is a dilemma in contemporary conservation: how to balance modernisation, people’s rights and environmentalism. Nowhere is this visible that in Kaziranga, India, writes Dr Bhaskar Vira, Director of the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute for The Conversation.

Opinion: Brain scanners allow scientists to ‘read minds’ – could they now enable a ‘Big Brother’ future?

13 February 2017

Brain imaging can reveal a great deal about who we are and what is going inside our heads. But how far can – and should – this research take us? Julia Gottwald and Barbara Sahakian, authors of Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans: How fMRI Reveals What Really Goes on in our Minds, investigate for The Conversation.

Opinion: Parliament needs to load the Article 50 gun before Prime Minister triggers Brexit

24 January 2017

Cambridge’s Professor of European Law reacts to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling

The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.

Biosocial science: The murky history of the nature and nurture debate

23 January 2017

The idea that social behaviours are biologically influenced is controversial, but may provide new views on how our environment influences who we are and what we do, writes Daphne Martschenko from the Faculty of Education.

Articles about 'The Conversation'

Opinion: Geologists unveil how Britain first separated from Europe – and it was catastrophic

Opinion: A rattled Saudi Arabia pivots for support to South-East Asia

Opinion: Aid workers get a bad rap – but too often they’re thrown in at the deep end

Opinion: The science ‘reproducibility crisis’ – and what can be done about it

Opinion: How years of IMF prescriptions have hurt West African health systems

Opinion: Why medical technology often doesn’t make it from drawing board to hospital

Opinion: India’s militant rhino protectors are challenging traditional views of how conservation works

Opinion: Brain scanners allow scientists to ‘read minds’ – could they now enable a ‘Big Brother’ future?

Opinion: Parliament needs to load the Article 50 gun before Prime Minister triggers Brexit

Biosocial science: The murky history of the nature and nurture debate

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