Headlines

Study calls for action to combat online abuse of sportswomen

Stronger policies and accountability measures to safeguard women athletes online are being called for, as part of a new study on the issue focusing on the case of former footballer Joey Barton. A team from the universities of Manchester, Chester, Hull, Durham and Loughborough

Probing the jet base of M87's supermassive black hole

Some galaxies eject powerful streams of charged particles—jets—from their centers into space. The prominent jet of Messier 87 (M87) in the constellation Virgo is visible over distances of 3,000 light-years and can be observed over the full electromagnetic spectrum. It is

Africa: Where Was Africa in Davos?

[This Day] To state the truth, Africa was significantly nowhere at the World Economic Forum which took place this January 19 - 23. You may say absent figuratively, sidelined more specifically, and that has been very much the pattern over the years.