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Palestinian citizens face a painful choice in Israel's election: To vote or not -- Tamir Sorek, Penn State

2 days ago

Youth protests across Europe: the overlapping crises facing Gen Z -- Alina Cosma, Trinity College Dublin

14 hours ago

From elite spies to 'gig-economy' operatives: the changing face of Russian sabotage -- Elena Grossfeld, King's College London; Swedish Defence University

2 hours ago

Brazil's election puts at risk country's role as a bulwark against Trump interventionism in the Americas -- Dawisson Belém Lopes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

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How Lula turned four lessons from the presidential elections in Colombia into a comeback in Brazil's Sunday runoff

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How a US political venture capital firm is trying to influence Brazil's election - Filipe Mendonça, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU)

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France's 'casseurs': why the term fails to do justice to the extent of looting and spiralling unrest

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French students are showing us what protest looks like in the age of viral spectacle

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Listen - America's death penalty: why executions are rising again

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The problem with Shane Gillis's joke isn't just sexism, it's sex work stigma

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Hokusai's Great Wave is one of 46 prints of Mount Fuji – seeing them together changes everything

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Africa's bats could survive climate change – if they can find somewhere to live

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How K-dramas use Africa as a backdrop to boost South Korea's image

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Napoleon can be partly blamed for Gen Z's weightlifting obsession – here's why

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Japan's expensive funerals and declining birth rates are transforming ancestral traditions

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Cities are sinking – but citywide averages hide the real problem

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As French protests escalate into riots, they may prove a gift for Marine Le Pen's right-wing party

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A critical flaw affecting 70% of all websites has the cybersecurity world panicked

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'Sodcit' – after battlefield setbacks, Russia returns to destroying Ukraine's morale

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Yemen's Houthis are bringing their war to Saudi Arabia – and reframing the narrative of being an Iranian proxy

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Can Ethiopia ever be at peace? Four reasons conflict keeps flaring up

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Young voters fear mass shootings but are divided on gun control

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How the 'geopolitical stigma' associated with Putin's Russia is affecting ordinary Russians

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From 'A Little Princess' to 'Black Panther,' how Hollywood films have reimagined the South Asian epic 'Ramayana'

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Prime's Carrie miniseries expands Stephen King's story – but weakens its central horror

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1 year ago

Possessed nuns and sexual deviance: the history behind Ken Russell's highly-censored film The Devils -- Philip C. Almond, The University of Queensland and Brendan C. Walsh, The University of Queensland

10 days ago

DreamWorks' Forgotten Island is a joyous, painful love letter to the Filipino diaspora -- Kristine Aquino, University of Technology Sydney

18 days ago

Manchester City supporters have been gaslit. What happens now? -- Josh Bland, University of Cambridge

20 days ago

Taylor Swift's new video marks her ghostly return to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca -- Emma L. Davies, University of Bristol

16 days ago

300 glaciers have disappeared from the American West since the mid-20th century – the survivors have a few things in common -- Andrew Fountain, Portland State University

9 days ago

Africa's rhinos often get the spotlight – but Indonesia's two rhino species are far closer to extinction -- Michelle Campbell-Ward, University of Sydney

17 days ago

Rising CO₂ is making African savanna grasses grow more – what this means for grazing, fire and carbon storage -- Kimberley Simpson, University of Sheffield

20 days ago

Cities across the world are sinking because of groundwater depletion. But the process can be reversed -- Jesse Kearse, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

22 days ago

Why old dogs might be able to teach Alzheimer's researchers new tricks -- Julie Moreno, Colorado State University

16 days ago

One in eight cancers are likely caused by an infection worldwide – new study -- John (Eddie) La Marca, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) and Sarah Diepstraten, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)

23 days ago

Bangladesh has lost 900 children to measles – a warning to other countries where vaccine rates have slipped -- Vikram Niranjan, University of Limerick and Colum P. Dunne, University of Limerick

29 days ago

The International Olympic Committee wants mental health screening in elite sports. Here's why -- Rosemary Purcell, The University of Melbourne

1 month ago

Secret chambers in Tutankhamun's tomb could hold the burial of a lost Egyptian queen – we may get answers soon -- Jay Silverstein, Nottingham Trent University

18 days ago

Social media hasn't killed personal style, it's killed how we communicate it -- Catherine Greenwood, University of Lancashire

21 days ago

US tech leaders are urgently calling for rules on AI – China already has them -- Madeline Carr, UCL

23 days ago

How can the same El Niño cause drought in one part of the world and floods in another? -- Ligin Joseph, University of Southampton

23 days ago

How 'egalitarian' Sweden became more comfortable with wealth -- Håkan Johansson, Lund University and Axel Vikström, Lund University

1 month ago

The idea of the 'company man' was forged decades ago. Its problems still haunt leaders today -- Claire Wright, University of Technology Sydney

1 month ago

These 3 charts show female-dominated jobs are actually the most exposed to AI -- Leonora Risse, Queensland University of Technology and Elise Stephenson, Australian National University

1 month ago

Why you should live your life like an accountant – and how you probably already do -- Jack Campbell, Dublin City University

1 month ago

Could a former IDF chief break Benjamin Netanyahu's grip on power in Israel? Listen

10 days ago

Government hacks, rogue agents and no transparency: can we ever fully trust AI? -- Gemma Ware, The Conversation

28 days ago

Australia's 'barking mad' bet on nuclear submarines – the AUKUS deal five years on -- Isabella Podwinski, The Conversation and Justin Bergman, The Conversation

23 days ago

Ratko Mladić: the war criminal who became a martyr for Bosnian Serbs -- Isabella Podwinski, The Conversation and Justin Bergman, The Conversation

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2 years ago

How pond algae led to a Nobel prize and a new way to study the brain -- Robert Lucas, University of Manchester

17 days ago

Replacing just 10% of ultra-processed foods with whole foods linked to drop in bowel cancer rate -- Erikka Loftfield, QIMR Berghofer

7 days ago

Sally Rooney's books are being withdrawn from sale in the UK, due to her support for Palestine Action -- Julian Novitz, Swinburne University of Technology

7 days ago

Earth's oldest evidence of life is written in stone – but it's at risk of disappearing -- Heidi Jane Allen, The University of Melbourne

7 days ago

Japan's MMX mission aims to swipe soil samples from Mars' moon Phobos -- Daniel Brown, Nottingham Trent University

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