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Keir Starmer resigns: can anyone survive as prime minister in today's Britain? -- Nicholas Dickinson, University of Exeter

2 days ago

The mistakes that sealed Keir Starmer's fate -- Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University

2 days ago

Andy Burnham: what to expect from the UK's likely next prime minister -- Matthew Flinders, University of Sheffield

2 days ago

With Iran and the US signing a peace deal, where does that leave Benjamin Netanyahu? -- Martin Kear, University of Sydney

3 days ago

US-Iran deal leaves the future of Lebanon uncertain – and subject to Israel playing the spoiler -- Mireille Rebeiz, Dickinson College

6 days ago

Iran just outlasted the world's most powerful military. What can Australia learn from its strategies? -- David Kilcullen, UNSW Sydney

1 day ago

The US is leading the new space race – but other countries are close behind -- Melissa de Zwart, Adelaide University

1 day ago

World Cup: what's just the right height for a soccer player? -- Tim Olds, Adelaide University

5 days ago

'Park the bus', 'the false nine' and 'total football': what do soccer's strange phrases mean? -- Shane Pill, Flinders University

5 days ago

For countries contesting the FIFA World Cup, size doesn't always mean goals and glory

6 days ago

FIFA's Haiti jersey ban echoes the long campaign to discredit and downplay the Haitian Revolution -- Julia Gaffield, William & Mary

9 days ago

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13 days ago

Earth's oldest crater really is over 3 billion years old, new study confirms -- Chris Kirkland, Curtin University

1 day ago

Trump's upgrade of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a disaster. Why is it causing so much outrage? -- Bruce Wolpe, University of Sydney

1 day ago

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is treated with 'nanobubbles'. What are they and how do they work? -- Vince Craig, Australian National University and Noura Alzaidan, Australian National University

1 day ago

Democracy's next big test: could a Trump-endorsed US citizen become Colombia's president? -- Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres, University of the Sunshine Coast

6 days ago

Today's space race could turn fatal if we don't agree on new rules -- Cassandra Steer, Australian National University

3 days ago

This tiny Australian spider uses a high-powered web catapult to trap and eat aggressive ants -- Ajay Narendra, Macquarie University

2 days ago

The first case of H5N1 bird flu in Australia has been confirmed. What does this mean? -- Marcel Klaassen, Deakin University; Meagan Dewar, Federation University Australia, and Michelle Wille, The University of Melbourne

3 days ago

Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic could work for addiction too – and we finally know how -- Robert Munn, University of Otago

3 days ago

Guide to the classics: Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams gave us psychoanalysis -- Nick Haslam, The University of Melbourne

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1 year ago

An elite fighting unit of gay lovers – the Theban Sacred Band in ancient Greece -- Peter Londey, Australian National University

3 days ago

Tim McGraw at 20: how Taylor Swift's debut single set her formula for success -- Emma Whatman, The University of Melbourne and Eloise Faichney, The University of Melbourne

3 days ago

Jeremy Clarkson has aggressive prostate cancer. But what makes some cancers more aggressive than others? -- Sarah Diepstraten, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) and John (Eddie) La Marca, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)

5 days ago

Hugh Jackman plays Robin Hood as wicked – it's a badly timed take on the hero of the poor -- William Hoff, The University of Melbourne

8 days ago

Levels of 'forever chemicals' in dolphins and whales are rising globally

6 days ago

India's youth-led Cockroach party may prove as hard to kill as its namesake

6 days ago

What is education for? Why new Korean drama Teach You a Lesson is topping the charts - Yanyan Hong, Adelaide University

2 days ago

From prejudice to harm – current policies targeting trans people follow a clear pattern of escalation -- Jaimie Veale, University of Waikato

7 days ago

Nigerians tell their stories of banditry. 'A month will not go by without someone being killed in this village.' -- Oludayo Tade, University of Ibadan

7 days ago

Why the US government shut down Anthropic's latest Claude AI model -- Francesco Bailo, University of Sydney

9 days ago

Trump's 'narco-terrorism' war in Latin America is more about fighting leftists than drug runners

6 days ago

This successful Arctic fishing treaty has kept Russia, China the US working together -- David Balton, Harvard Kennedy School

6 days ago

Toy Story 5 pits traditional toys vs a tablet. In real life, families can combine the two -- Lisa Kervin, Monash University

9 days ago

What came before the Big Bang?

5 days ago

How a Swedish king went on strike in 1768 -- Jonas Nordin, Lund University

6 days ago

Andy Burnham is back at Westminster: what this says about Britain's changing political system -- Andrew Stevens, Newcastle University

5 days ago

How political leaders use combat spectacles to symbolize national power and purpose -- Scott Atran, University of Michigan

7 days ago

Earthquakes can be destructive for distant cities built on top of basins – now we know why -- Timothy Stern, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

10 days ago

Frozen fruit and canned veg are cheap, but are they as healthy as fresh food? -- Margaret Murray, Swinburne University of Technology

10 days ago

Appolonia: the story of an African kingdom that resisted the Atlantic slave trade -- Nana Kesse, Clark University

12 days ago

Spice Girls at 30: how girl power changed pop -- Joel Gray, Sheffield Hallam University

14 days ago

Could the war in Ukraine bring political change to Russia? -- Jennifer Mathers, Aberystwyth University

15 days ago

Anti-foreigner violence in South Africa is easily sparked: what hasn't been done to deal with it -- Alan Hirsch, University of Cape Town

14 days ago

Love life: David Hockney, the artist who forced Britain to make room for colour, joy and queerness -- Simon Mckeown, Teesside University

9 days ago

Bingles, knuckleballs and 'Beer Barrel Polka' – hundreds of forgotten works showcase the eclectic world of baseball scholarship -- Tom Reinsfelder, Penn State

13 days ago

Why impressionists loved to paint gardens -- Clare Willsdon, University of Glasgow

13 days ago

Marjane Satrapi's masterpiece Persepolis transformed the world's understanding of Iran -- Shadi Rouhshahbaz, The University of Melbourne; University of Newcastle

12 days ago

The Gulf Stream suddenly moved north during an ancient cold snap – and it's a warning for our future

6 days ago

Two decades of research show Indonesia's coral reefs are heat-tolerant — but only up to a point -- Tries Blandine Razak, IPB University

13 days ago

Greater international co-operation is needed to achieve the UN's global forest goals -- Terry Sunderland, University of British Columbia and Peter Wood

14 days ago

Why the electric SUV boom is a problem for climate, health and equity -- Keyvan Hosseini, University of Southampton and Dawn-Marie Walker, University of Southampton

19 days ago

Does the body really 'keep the score' after trauma? How the debunked idea of 'repressed memories' is making a comeback -- Andressa Almeida, University of Sydney and Celine van Golde, University of Sydney

14 days ago

World's first AI-designed vaccine explained -- Neil Mabbott, University of Edinburgh

15 days ago

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic show promise for more than weight loss. But what's science vs hype? -- Paul Joyce, Adelaide University

19 days ago

What's wrong with how US and Uganda plan to stop Ebola spreading

22 days ago

The Milky Way was rewired by a cataclysmic collision billions of years ago. Now it is on course for another -- Vasily Belokurov, University of Cambridge

13 days ago

Great mysteries of archaeology: an ancient Amazonian world revealed from the sky -- José Iriarte, University of Exeter

16 days ago

Alien first contact: how the new rules differ from science fiction -- Michael Garrett, University of Manchester

16 days ago

South African telescope detects record-breaking signal from the early universe -- Thato Manamela, University of Pretoria and Roger P. Deane, Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy; University of Cape Town

15 days ago

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

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

Why Javier Milei's inflation 'miracle' in Argentina is more of a mirage

20 days ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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1 year ago

The Strait of Hormuz is reopening, but global shipping won't return to normal for months -- Behrouz Bakhtiari, McMaster University

6 days ago