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One year after their brief war, how close are India and Pakistan to another conflict? Stuti Bhatnagar, UNSW Sydney

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What you need to know about the Ebola outbreak that has the WHO concerned

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NATO would survive a US withdrawal. But what kind of alliance would it become?

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Elon Musk sued OpenAI and lost. But the core question of the case remains unanswered

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From beef ribs to a 'heavenly' walk: Xi-Trump summit symbolism underscored American power and Chinese tradition

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Who are the main contenders to replace Keir Starmer as UK prime minister?

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De-extinction company says it's made an artificial egg – if true, it could help save living species

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129,000 years of crocodiles: what we know about Australasia's ancient apex predators

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Making millions: the suspicious oil bets just before Trump posts - Timothy Graham, Ella Chorazy, Stephen Harrington, and The Conversation Digital Storytelling Team - Visual feature

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From ancient kings to Trump and Xi: when did humans start shaking hands? And why? -- Louise Pryke, University of Sydney

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Indigenous Australians were the world's first astronomers. But their knowledge is now at risk -- Kai Lane, Indigenous Knowledge; Jaana Dielenberg, Charles Darwin University, and Kaori Yokochi, Deakin University

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Famesick: Lena Dunham makes us laugh about a dream job turned brutal nightmare - Liz Evans, University of Tasmania

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Australian teens impacted by the social media ban are getting less news: new research

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Meta's new tools allow parents to better supervise their kids' social media accounts. Will they work?

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

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Eurovision 2026: a win for Bulgaria, fourth for Australia, and continued controversy for broadcasters

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Iran is threatening undersea cables. The world's 'digital chokepoints' have never been more vulnerable

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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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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

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

8 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

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

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

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

7 days ago

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

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

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

7 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

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

8 days ago

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

12 days ago

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

11 days ago

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

9 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

8 days ago

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

6 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

8 days ago

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

25 days ago

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

19 days ago

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

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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

7 days ago

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

25 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

18 days ago

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

25 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

29 days ago

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

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

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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

18 days ago

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

13 days ago

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

12 days ago

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

28 days ago

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

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

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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

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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

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