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Researchers spent months volunteering with football fans who have put aside their club rivalries in the fight against food poverty.
Fans Supporting Foodbanks (FSF) started with wheelie bin collections run by supporters from Everton and Liverpool football clubs.
It has since inspired a network of organisations across the UK, who deliver food in ‘mobile pantries’ to communities which often boast both an elite football club and, conversely, high levels of poverty. As one pantry user told the authors of our latest Insights long read: “A year ago, it was lifesaving … it has helped me keep my head above water.”
In science, a small biotech company in San Francisco is getting closer to finding a cure for HIV. It is using gene editing to seek out and disable the virus by cutting out large sections of its DNA. And as images bring the horror of the conflict in Gaza to life, we revisit three other significant wartime photos that speak louder than words.
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Paul Keaveny
Investigations Editor
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Volunteers load up a van with food for the next ‘mobile pantry’.
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Jack Sugden, Liverpool John Moores University; Christopher Faulkner, Liverpool John Moores University
Researchers spent months volunteering with Fans Supporting Foodbanks to see how left-behind communities were fighting food poverty.
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Kalpana Surendranath, University of Westminster
Science is getting closer to finding a cure for HIV.
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Israeli soldiers inspect houses of young families that were attacked in the Hamas terrorists’ attack on October 7.
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Lucy O'Sullivan, University of Birmingham; Pippa Oldfield, Teesside University
Wartime photographs can be used for propaganda purposes.
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Politics + Society
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David McGillivray, University of the West of Scotland
Saudi Arabia is on track to host the football World Cup in 2034, raising concern among human rights campaigners.
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James Vaughan, Aberystwyth University
Labour frontbencher Imran Hussain has resigned over the party’s failure to support a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Kenton White, University of Reading
Moscow has pulled the plug on yet another safety valve preventing conflict with the west.
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Arts + Culture
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Lucy Thompson, Aberystwyth University
Men in the 1700s penned vehement letters about the way women dressed, slut-shaming them as “cork-rumped devils”.
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Carlos Gómez González, University of Zurich; Cornel Nesseler, University of Stavanger
A common criticism of women’s sports is that female players aren’t as entertaining or skilled as their male counterparts. Two researchers decided to put this notion to the test.
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Cities
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Gethin Davison, University of Birmingham
The UK government aims to enforce beauty through the planning system’s design codes. But intangible qualities like beauty are best achieved by challenging architects – not constraining them.
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Education
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Helena Gillespie, University of East Anglia
While some improvements were made by some children and schools, the overall impact of the scheme has been small.
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Environment
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Katrin Meissner, UNSW Sydney; Deepashree Dutta, University of Cambridge; Martin Jucker, UNSW Sydney
Back when there were Arctic alligators and turtles, ‘polar stratospheric clouds’ kept their world warm. Research suggests these clouds contribute to the ‘missing warming’ in climate models.
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Health
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Sarah Allinson, Lancaster University
Anastrozole was already approved for use in the UK to treat breast cancer.
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Allen Cheng, Monash University
Antibiotics have been around for less than a century. But as resistant bacteria become increasingly difficult to treat, we risk a greater number of deaths from infections.
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Science + Technology
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Derryck Telford Reid, Heriot-Watt University
From improving our understanding of dark matter to revealing the location of Earth 2.0, the Extremely Large Telescope promises answers to some of the biggest scientific questions of our time.
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Guido Noto La Diega, University of Stirling
No one has time to read the terms and conditions we are often asked to consent to. But we’re sometimes agreeing to things we would rather not.
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Grace Allen, The Conversation; Avery Anapol, The Conversation
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