Introductions of alien species into new environments create major concerns including conservation and ecosystem disruption, agricultural production and economic loss. Problems are exacerbated where the introduced species transfer novel pathogens that carry new disease risks for native species.
This year, we are thrilled to introduce The Journal of Tropical Ecology’s first cover competition, inviting contributors to submit images for potential inclusion on the journal’s front cover.…
Photos taken by Michele Pes Farmland birds are declining across Europe, largely due to the conversion of natural and semi-natural grasslands into intensive agricultural landscapes.…
A recently published research article that shows public gardens in the U.S. and Canada can serve as sentinels to invasive plant species in North America. Researchers examined data collected through Public Gardens as Sentinels against Invasive Plants (PGSIP), a project which links data from a network of botanical gardens and arboreta across North America to provide information on plants within their collection that are escaping cultivation.
In technological applications of jets, such as fuel-air mixing in the combustion chamber, reducing the infrared signature and noise level of the jet, rapid mixing of the jet with the surrounding fluid is required.
Professor Shaoping Bai, Aalborg University, Denmark answers our questions about their work and Cambridge University Press’s journal Wearable Technologies.
The paper “The role of premenstrual syndrome in hedonic hunger and food craving during the menstrual cycle“, published in Journal of Nutritional Science, has been chosen as the latest Editorial Highlight and is freely available to download for one month.…
[This is Part 1 of a blog series called Making a Psychologist—about how AI is enablingscientists, big tech companies, and obscure Redditors alike to build systems that aresimultaneously horrifically invasive, but also enormously powerful, and if we’re lucky, verygood for our well-being.…
Midway through Chester Himes’s 1945 novel If He Hollers Let Him Go, the main characters argue over the comparative merits of Richard Wright’s Native Son and Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit.…
As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Professor Manny Teodoro, University of Wisconsin, USA a Cambridge Materials: Water Editorial Board Member discusses their research, recent advances in materials, and perspectives on future challenges and opportunities in the field.
Adolescence is a period when emotion regulation, cognitive control, and decision-making are still developing, and it is also when depression and anxiety often first emerge.…
In 2021, Sven Beckert, Ulbe Bosma, Mindi Schneider and Eric Vanhaute published the research agenda of the Commodity Frontiers Initiative (CFI), in which they proposed a theory and trajectory for “studying the global history of capitalism through the lens of commodity frontiers and using commodity regimes as an analytical framework […] crucial to understanding the origins and nature of capitalism, and thus the modern world”.[1]…
These charismatic primates, famous for their thunderous roars that echo across the canopy, often devote the majority of their feeding time to just one plant genus: Ficus. But why? What makes figs so special that howlers seem almost addicted to them?
If you are publishing your manuscript in a journal published by a learned society or other not-for-profit organisation, you should consider that the editor in chief, the handling editors and the reviewers are members of your scientific community.
Dr. Richard A. Marston, co-author of Essentials of Geomorphology, attended the 11th IAG International Conference on Geomorphology in New Zealand. At the conference, he was selected as an Honorary Fellow and given a custom Māori walking stick.…
Reading Biblical Greek is aimed at students who are studying New Testament Greek for the first time, or refreshing what they once learned.…
Understanding Stemborers Beyond the Field Across tropical and subtropical regions, stemborers remain among the most damaging pests of cereal crops. Although they are best known for attacking maize and sorghum, this study demonstrates that their ecology extends far beyond cultivated fields.…
Professor Yanlei Yu, Fudan University, China is the recently appointed Executive Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Materials. To celebrate her appointment and the launch of the Cambridge Materials journals, she participated in a Q&A to discuss the aims of the journals and their hopes for their role as a member of the Executive Editorial Board.
As far-right extremism surges across Europe, the editors of Contemporary European History have been searching through the journal’s archives to see what we have published on the topic over the years.…
Evidence-informed decision-making, grounded in transparent and trustworthy data and supported by appropriate consultation processes, is considered essential for promoting legitimate and lasting policies.…
To mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we are celebrating the stories of women whose curiosity, resilience and strength have shaped their careers in their fields.…
To mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we are celebrating the stories of women whose curiosity, resilience and strength have shaped their careers in their fields.…
To mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we are celebrating the stories of women whose passion, resilience and strength have shaped their careers in their fields.…
The RCPsych Article of the Month for January is ‘Associations of mental disorders in children with parents’ subsequent mental disorders: nationwide cohort study from Finland and Denmark‘.…
The paper “Surrounding dose investigation of real-time motion tracking system in tomotherapy“, published in Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice, has been chosen as the latest Editorial Highlight and is freely available to download. …
The blog is written by authors Na Zuo, College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Arizona, Angela Jungbluth, Ferguson College of Agriculture, Oklahoma State University, & Katherine Speirs, The Norton School of Human Ecology, University of Arizona, and related to a paper published in Public Health Nutrition – Food Insecurity and Cultural Food Access Among International College Students.…
From the old ‘Cowboys of Science’ adage to swashbuckling fictional characters like Indiana Jones and Lara Croft, the perception that fieldwork, and archaeology generally, is a job for tough people pervades both the discipline and public perception.…
For years, Operation Lava Jato (Operation Car Wash) was the “spectacle” of Latin American politics. From 2014 to 2021, the world watched as a group of Brazilian prosecutors and a provincial judge dismantled a seemingly untouchable web of corruption involving the state oil giant Petrobras and the country’s largest construction firms.…
In the February 26 edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – Dr Tim McInerny, Pictures Editor, BJPsych International, introduces Cathy Freeman, the artist whose work is on the cover of the February 2026 edition of BJPsych International.…
The paper “Risk factors for bladder adverse events following radiotherapy for localised and locally advanced prostate cancer in Gabon“, published in Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice, has been chosen as the latest Editorial Highlight and is freely available to download. …
The paper “The design and initial service evaluation of a virtual tour of a radiotherapy department to improve patient experience“, published in Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice, has been chosen as the latest Editorial Highlight and is freely available to download. …
The “visual idea of race” is one of those widespread misconceptions that naturalise biologistic notions of race. Such idea is premised on the assumption that the markers of race are pre-culturally inscribed in visually perceptible phenotypical variance and thereby in biological substance.…
As we – like many other journals – transition towards digital-only publication, we have become acutely aware of how difficult it can be to find out what is happening with Contemporary European History. …
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
Why understanding contemporary youth militancy demands history Al-Shabaab fighters patrolling Afgooye-Mogadishu road (2025) In civil war-era Somalia in the early 1990s, global media headlines about ‘stoned teenagers’ cruising Mogadishu on jeeps mounted with machine guns became synonymous with the construction of Somalia as a ‘chaotic African country’ in which one could be killed for nothing more than ‘the clothes on your back’ (New York Times, 1992).…
In January, my husband and I (Sam) took our six-year-old daughter to get a flu shot at a local pharmacy. As she became increasingly bored in the waiting room, she began to offer commentary, asking the closed door, “Doctor, when are you coming out?”…
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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