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Xi-Trump summit: reset for US-Chinese relations but tension over Taiwan remains -- Jonathan Este, The Conversation

6 hours ago

After an opaque summit, China and the US want to work together again. That might not be good news for the world -- Wesley Widmaier, Australian National University

6 hours ago

What is the 'Thucydides trap' Xi warned Trump about? Lessons from an ancient war between Athens and Sparta -- David M. Pritchard, The University of Queensland

6 hours ago

Who are the main contenders to replace Keir Starmer as UK prime minister? -- Charles Lees, City St George's, University of London

23 hours ago

Iran is threatening undersea cables. The world's 'digital chokepoints' have never been more vulnerable -- Meredith Primrose Jones, RMIT University

16 hours ago

Museums have always been entangled with European imperialism. Will the world's first 'AI art' museum be any different?

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We proved these 'forever chemicals' can last longer than three decades

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Baloch insurgency: Suicide bombs and uptick in violence threaten Pakistan, regional security

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Illegal gold mining causes surges in malaria in the Amazon, and the association is far worse than we suspected

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From 'French leave' to 'Irish goodbyes': why you may be right to exit a party without saying goodbye

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100 million African children are not in school. What's driving the trend and how to reverse it - Moses Ngware, African Population and Health Research Center

16 hours ago

How Venezuela has – and hasn't – changed since Maduro's capture -- Julia Buxton, Liverpool John Moores University

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The yips: when 'choking' in sport can go next level -- Christopher Mesagno, Victoria University

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What is 'cycle syncing', and how might it affect menstruation? -- Emmalee Ford, University of Sydney

1 day ago

We tested the new World Cup ball – this is what you need to know about how it will fly, dip and swerve -- John Eric Goff, University of Puget Sound

2 days ago

How World Cup filming has evolved since the last US tournament – from spider cameras to AI and drones -- Joe Towns, Cardiff Metropolitan University

4 days ago

Why Nairobi Africa-France summit bears the hallmarks of Macron and Ruto priorities -- Frank Gerits, Utrecht University

4 days ago

The women's rights crisis in Afghanistan is an ongoing humanitarian calamity -- Sepita Hatami, Western University

3 days ago

If AI can translate instantly, why learn another language? -- Olivia Maurice, Western Sydney University; University of Sydney and Mark Antoniou, Western Sydney University

1 day ago

Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer's Iliad? -- Stephan Blum, University of Tübingen and Stefan Baumann, KU Leuven

2 days ago

Falling space debris poses an escalating risk as spacecraft get stronger and more heat resistant

16 hours ago

Hantavirus, COVID, norovirus, legionnaires': why are cruise ships so prone to disease outbreaks? Vikram Niranjan, University of Limerick

16 hours ago

Trump administration claiming a 'win' against Iran – here's a report card

7 days ago

Why is the US so obsessed with controlling Cuba? -- Deborah Shnookal, The University of Melbourne

3 days ago

Is your AI chatbot manipulating you? Subtly reshaping your opinions? -- Richard Lachman, Toronto Metropolitan University

2 days ago

Hantavirus is very different to COVID. Here's why the 'Andes virus' won't cause the next pandemic -- Rhys Parry, The University of Queensland

3 days ago

What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague -- Alex Brown, Durham University and Grace Owen, Durham University

2 days ago

Squeak up! I can't hear you: pilot whales are shouting to hear themselves over ship noise -- Vanessa Pirotta, Macquarie University

4 days ago

Stardust trapped in Antarctic ice reveals tens of thousands of years of Solar System's past -- Dominik Koll, Australian National University

2 days ago

What it would have been like to experience the dinosaur-killing asteroid armageddon: a blow-by-blow account -- Michael J. Benton, University of Bristol and Monica Grady, The Open University

3 days ago

We found hundreds of huge ancient mass graves hidden in the Sahara desert

3 days ago

Instagram can now read all users' private messages. Will this make kids safer or just boost ad targeting? -- Joel Scanlan, University of Tasmania

3 days ago

Conspiracy theories: do 300,000 Kiwis really believe Canada is building an army of mutant super-raccoons?

3 days ago

370 billion crickets are farmed for food every year. Scientists have discovered they may feel pain -- Thomas White, University of Sydney and Kate Lynch, University of Sydney

2 days ago

'Poverty porn': the moral dilemma behind MrBeast's billion-dollar empire -- Paul Formosa, Macquarie University

2 days ago

In an ant colony, the queen isn't in charge. So who is? -- Tanya Latty, University of Sydney

3 days ago

Is Richard Dawkins right about Claude? No. But it's not surprising AI chatbots feel conscious to us

3 days ago

Iran wants oil tariffs paid in Chinese yuan – is the power of the US petrodollar in decline? -- Chris Ogden, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

7 days ago

How Pakistan became the primary mediator between the US and Iran -- Natasha Lindstaedt, University of Essex

7 days ago

Fenian: the anti-Irish history behind Kneecap's defiant new album title -- Ciara Smart, University of Tasmania

4 days ago

Trump and Lula at the White House: a relationship built on pragmatism and a broader regional calculus - Guilherme Casarões, Florida International University

16 hours ago

Silicon Valley's AI 'tokenmaxxing' obsession has a big problem – and philosophers saw it coming

16 hours ago

Israel's destructive actions in Lebanon are normalising war without rules -- Amra Lee, Australian National University

7 days ago

Motown's Black women songwriters and producers were the invisible architects behind the pop music juggernaut -- Margena A. Christian, University of Illinois Chicago

7 days ago

Ted Turner didn't just revolutionize television − he changed the way we see our world -- Michael J. Socolow, University of Maine

7 days ago

Mali attacks: Tuareg grievances hold the key to peace -- Olayinka Ajala, Leeds Beckett University and Darrin Patrick McDonald, Leeds Beckett University

9 days ago

Russia doesn't have much to celebrate on Victory Day, as Ukraine brings the war home to Putin

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1 year ago

Consent is a core principle in the Kamasutra – what we can learn from it today -- Sharha, Cardiff Metropolitan University

21 days ago

The six best Shakespeare adaptations that aren't in English -- Sarah Olive, Aston University

15 days ago

Venice is sinking – we analysed every plan to save it, and none would preserve the city as we know it

9 days ago

From Wulfstan of York to Pete Hegseth, fake Bible verses have often been politicized

8 days ago

Urban trees cool the world's cities more than we thought – but we can't rely on them alone

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Massive marine heatwave caused Caribbean coral reefs to collapse much faster than predicted – new research

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Mozambique 'sky island' expeditions found 4 new species of chameleon – already at risk from forest loss - Krystal Tolley, University of Johannesburg

3 days ago

Coral reefs are secretly connected across vast oceans – and that's crucial for their survival

23 days ago

How scientists changed their view of insomnia -- Iuliana Hartescu, Loughborough University

21 days ago

Synthetic biology promised to rewrite life – with the death of its pioneer, J. Craig Venter, how close are scientists? -- André O. Hudson, Rochester Institute of Technology

14 days ago

What a 'post-antibiotic era' could mean for modern medicine -- Steven W. Kerrigan, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

21 days ago

Eating fruit is linked to lung cancer? Here's what you need to know about that new study -- Justin Stebbing, Anglia Ruskin University

24 days ago

Seeing an eclipse from Earth is awe-inspiring – for astronauts seeing one from space, the scene was even more grand -- Deana L. Weibel, Grand Valley State University

14 days ago

Photographic memory is a myth – here's what research really says about remembering -- Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston

9 days ago

Our Large Hadron Collider results hint at undiscovered physics

23 days ago

Meta and Microsoft have joined the tech layoff tsunami. Is AI really to blame?

9 days ago

China's ability to weather Trump's trade war was two decades in the making -- Gemma Ware, The Conversation

7 days ago

Apple chief executive Tim Cook resigns after 15 years. What's next for the tech giant? -- Rajat Roy, Bond University

24 days ago

Musk's SpaceX is shaping up as the biggest IPO on record. It's also bending the rules to do so

25 days ago

Why do men sexually harass women at work? Science offers two explanations – but only one of them holds up

1 month ago

What a US military base lost under Greenland's ice sheet reveals about the island's real strategic importance

3 months ago

The American fixation on white Afrikaners in South Africa stretches back nearly a century

3 months ago

How trafficked American guns fuel Mexico's cartel violence – podcast

8 months ago

Three scientists speak about what it's like to have research funding cut by the Trump administration

10 months ago

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1 year ago

Health authorities work to contain cruise ship hantavirus outbreak -- Daniel Pastula, University of Colorado Anschutz

7 days ago

Do we absorb information better on paper, rather than screens? It depends on the screen -- Erik D Reichle, Macquarie University and Lili Yu, Macquarie University

8 days ago

The method in Iran's madness? Closure of Strait of Hormuz echoes a centuries-old Danish play − and is a tragedy for the world order -- Vivek Krishnamurthy, University of Colorado Boulder

9 days ago

I've investigated a hantavirus outbreak. Here's what I can tell you about the cruise ship cluster -- Craig Dalton, University of Newcastle

8 days ago