How to keep your home warm during very cold weather (on a budget) – and avoid dangerous heating ‘hacks’

A cold snap of Arctic weather dubbed the “Troll from Trondheim” has hit the UK. The combination of an energy price crisis and very cold weather...

Online safety: what young people really think about social media, big tech regulation and adults ‘overreacting’

Don’t say ‘just don’t go online’ because adults wouldn’t do that if something happened in the real world. If you got followed home, it’s not like...

Hidilyn wins 3 golds at World Weightlifting Championships

MANILA — Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz lived up to her billing as the best in the women’s 55-kilogram category after claiming three gold medals...

Supporting feminine leadership can help create a just and kinder future

Women are still struggling to reach leadership positions. Though there are more women earning college degrees and a comparable number entering the workplace, women are still...

The five best fiction books of 2022

In 2022, we saw Annie Ernaux win the Nobel prize for literature for her uncompromising writing about her experiences. Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker prize for...

Jobs are up! Wages are up! So why am I as an economist so gloomy?

In any other time, the jobs news that came down on Dec. 2, 2022, would be reason for cheer. The U.S. added 263,000 nonfarm jobs in...

Gifts of Christmas past: buy secondhand to give your loved ones the gift of nostalgia and imagination

Ending HIV as a public health threat – 3 essential reads

In 2014 the United Nations set an ambitious goal: to end the AIDS pandemic by the year 2030. There have been significant advances in HIV treatment...

God of War Ragnarök breaks new ground for accessibile gaming – our research explains what more developers can do

Digital games are a bigger part of our culture than ever before. Over 50% of people in the UK, Europe and US are now gaming regularly,...

How can you tell if something is true? Here are 3 questions to ask yourself about what you see, hear and read

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. How...