Soaring energy costs fuel fastest inflation in 40 years: 3 essential reads

Bryan Keogh, The Conversation; Matt Williams, The Conversation

The consumer price index, which measures everything from the price of peanut butter to gasoline, jumped at an annualized pace of 8.5% in March 2022 as inflation continued to accelerate.

Abusive bosses often blame a worker’s lack of effort or care for poor performance when it’s their own biases that may be the problem

Zhanna Lyubykh, University of Calgary; Nick Turner, University of Calgary; Sandy Hershcovis, University of Calgary

About 1 in 7 workers say their managers are abusive, whether it involves ridicule or a failure to provide credit when it’s due.

Raising cattle on native grasses in the eastern U.S. benefits farmers, wildlife and the soil

Patrick Keyser, University of Tennessee

Growing native grasses as cattle forage is an example of working lands conservation – balancing human use of the land with conservation goals.

Best Easter pageant ever? Half a century of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’

Henry Bial, University of Kansas

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s famous musical has long inspired controversy for how it depicts the story of Jesus of Nazareth.

Archaeological site along the Nile opens a window on the Nubian civilization that flourished in ancient Sudan

Michele R. Buzon, Purdue University

Promoting and practicing ethical research that includes the people who live in the area today is as important to the archaeological team as learning more about the lives of the ancient inhabitants.

Monkeys can sense their own heartbeats, an ability tied to mental health, consciousness and memory in humans

Joey Charbonneau, University of California, Davis; Eliza Bliss-Moreau, University of California, Davis

Researchers used a test designed for babies to show that rhesus monkeys can sense their own heartbeats. The finding opens up important paths of research into consciousness and mental health issues.

How shops use psychology to influence your buying decisions

Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, Anglia Ruskin University

Retailers have a range of strategies to encourage us to spend more - but they can help us to make healthier choices too.

‘Too many people, not enough food’ isn’t the cause of hunger and food insecurity

Gisèle Yasmeen, University of British Columbia

Environmental catastrophe, war, a worldwide pandemic. What does this mean for feeding the world today and in the future?

Why do flocks of birds swoop and swirl together in the sky? A biologist explains the science of murmurations

What is aphasia? An expert explains the condition forcing Bruce Willis to retire from acting

Har Gobind Khorana: The chemist who cracked DNA’s code and made the first artificial gene was born into poverty 100 years ago in an Indian village