Students with strong self-belief are happier and more successful – as our study shows

Oct 24, 2023 09:43 am UTC| Life Health

Students success and happiness can be improved by building their self-belief their perception of their capacity to complete a challenging task. In a study with 763 students at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University in...

How much time do kids spend on devices – playing games, watching videos, texting and using the phone?

Oct 24, 2023 09:31 am UTC| Life

Think about your favorite devices your smartphone, laptop, tablet, computer or console the things you use to play cool games, watch hilarious videos and connect and chat with friends. Many young people spend a lot of...

Accidental managers: why people who are great at their job can fail when they get promoted

Oct 24, 2023 09:29 am UTC| Life Business

Theres a saying that people dont quit their job, they quit their boss. And poor management certainly has a lot to answer for in the UK workplace. A staggering 82% of new managers in the UK are what the Chartered Management...

Decontaminating Fukushima: have the billions spent been worth it?

Oct 24, 2023 09:28 am UTC| Business Life

The Chernobyl and (to a lesser extent) Fukushima nuclear accidents contaminated large areas of land with low-level radioactivity. After both accidents, huge efforts were taken to decontaminate the affected areas. But a...

A brief history of goth fashion – from all-black to pastels

Oct 24, 2023 09:22 am UTC| Life

Goth is the subculture that never died or more precisely, perhaps, remains undead. The persistence of the subcultures style is due to the remarkable richness of the cultural tradition on which it draws, and its...

Kids escaping family violence can be vulnerable to intimate partner abuse. We must break the vicious cycle

Oct 24, 2023 09:21 am UTC| Life

Warning: this article includes graphic descriptions of violence. Nearly 13,000 Australian children aged 10 to 17 sought help alone from specialist homeless services last year. Many of these young people will have...

The divisions exposed in Britain by the conflict in the Middle East

Oct 23, 2023 08:16 am UTC| Life Politics

Much of the reaction in Britain to a crisis that has yet to acquire a specific designation, has concentrated on words used, and not used their significance amplified by what their use, or non-use, may be held to...