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The Conversation is present in nine jurisdictions around the world. This means that we now have access to the world’s top experts on the most pressing issues facing us. One of these is the fact we are running out of effective antibiotics.
We wanted to know if experts were optimistic about the future of antibiotics. The health editors across all our editions put me in touch with some of the brightest minds working on this problem, and I reached out with a simple question: will we still have antibiotics in 50 years? Reassuringly, they all said yes. But all had major caveats.
US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel has not reduced fears that the conflict could draw in others in the region. Chief among them is Hezbollah, the militant group and political party based across Israel’s northern border in Lebanon. Julie M Norman explains its relationship with Hamas.
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André O. Hudson, Rochester Institute of Technology; Fidelma Fitzpatrick, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences; Juliana Côrrea, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/EAESP); Lori L. Burrows, McMaster University; Raúl Rivas González, Universidad de Salamanca; Roy Robins-Browne, The University of Melbourne; Yori Yuliandra, Universitas Andalas
We asked 7 global experts in microbiology and biochemistry if we are headed towards a future with no antimicrobial agents.
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Julie M Norman, UCL
Hezbollah’s full involvement in the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict would likely open up a regional war.
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Shaun Narine, St. Thomas University (Canada)
The current war in Gaza is an argument in favour of a multipolar world, one in which the U.S. has less influence and other powers can act as countervailing forces.
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Simona Guerra, University of Surrey; Fernando Casal Bértoa, University of Nottingham
Law and Justice emerges as the biggest party but without a majority, leaving the door open for a large coalition led by the former president of the European Council.
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Charles R. Hunt, Boise State University
In the 1850s, a fight over the speakership took nearly two months and 133 rounds of voting. But for nearly a century, the majority party in the House has unanimously supported its leader. No longer.
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Ben Soodavar, King's College London
Russia’s casualty count in Ukraine is high, but the country has a national mythology built on loss and sacrifice.
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Nicole Lee, Curtin University
Adele is really saying alcohol is have too much of a negative impact on her life, and like many others has decided to do something positive about it by taking a break.
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Fionnuala McCully, University of Liverpool
Like humans, seabirds seem less likely to part ways when they have relationships built on similar personalities.
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