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Despite losing everything, communities along the Nepal-Tibet border are helping each other rebuild

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Barring access and promoting 'positive' news: how the Chinese government has controlled the narrative during the Tibet floods

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Satellite images show how the Nepal flood disaster unfolded

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How does a collapsing glacier turn into a lethal wall of mud and water? An expert explains what happened in Nepal

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Nepal-Tibet floods: when disaster strikes before communities recover from previous climate extremes, crisis escalates

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A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What happens now?

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Ratko Mladić is still viewed as a hero by many Bosnian Serbs. It's a reminder how divided my country remains today -- Olivera Simic, Griffith University

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The music that made Dolly Parton a global icon -- Listen

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Why the rise in government debt is freaking out the bond market -- Mark Crosby, Monash University

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Meta settles landmark US lawsuit for nearly $18bn

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Six months into the US-Iran war, will there be any accountability for potential war crimes? -- Melanie O'Brien, The University of Western Australia

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How Ukraine is bringing the war home to Russia - Isabella Podwinski, The Conversation and Justin Bergman, The Conversation - Listen

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Mark Carney's defiance shows how to respond to Donald Trump's threats -- Eric Van Rythoven, Carleton University

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Why Gaza peace deals keep unravelling -- Adam Farquhar, University of Edinburgh

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How the 'backwoods Barbie' Dolly Parton turned self-aware artifice into authentic artistry -- Rosemary Overell, University of Otago

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The 'robot Olympics' were spectacular – but will this technology end up helping humans? -- Jonathan Roberts, Queensland University of Technology

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From Frank-N-Furter to Pennywise, Tim Curry was a master shapeshifter who could terrify and delight -- Marcus Harmes, University of Southern Queensland

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North Korea grows stronger as South Korea reckons with fading US support - Virginie Grzelczyk, Aston University

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Microfinance was supposed to save Asia's poor. Why has it failed to live up to its promise?

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We're building a New York-sized city every month. That's worrying for our climate -- Philip Oldfield, UNSW and William Craft, UNSW

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Russia is cutting off Ukraine's grain exports again, threatening a critical harvest and global food security

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Ethiopia-Eritrea tensions over Red Sea port have turned the Tigray peace deal into a political weapon -- Hafte Gebreselassie Gebrihet, University of Oslo; University of Cape Town

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Ceuta crisis: anti-migrant 'invasion' rhetoric threatens Europe's food supply and economy -- Diana Tung, Universitat de Barcelona and Seth M. Holmes, Universitat de Barcelona; ICREA; University of California, Berkeley

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In taking Syria off state sponsor of terrorism list, US is putting its faith in al-Qaida alumni – that presents risks and opportunities -- Jason M. Blazakis, Middlebury College

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China is launching a Moon mission to find water ice. It's unlike anything NASA has done

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After Ceuta, Europe is once again mired in migration chaos of its own making

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I lived through the first Taliban girls' school ban — watching it happen again is heartbreaking

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How a 'psychic' horse named Clever Hans changed the way we do science -- Matyáš Moravec, Queen's University Belfast

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Ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz region may be biosecurity risks when they leave. What can we do?

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How Ukraine's strikes on Russian warehouses became a problem in Kyrgyzstan

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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: a queer slasher about trauma and desire -- Darren Elliott-Smith, University of Stirling

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Sunscreen for lakes and dams: could a thin floating layer of nanomaterial shield water from evaporation? -- Daniel Kwasi Kpeglo, University of South Africa

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The media has made Donald Trump look more coherent than he is. It's called 'sanewashing'

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The sinking of the MV Barima puts Guyanese inequities under a global spotlight

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Would Ted Lasso be a good sports coach in real life?

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Zed Beats: how home studios reinvented Zambian pop music and gave young people a voice

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How Netflix's Little House on the Prairie expands the book and TV series for today

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Chores or no chores? The economic psychology of giving kids pocket money - Gigi Foster, UNSW

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Butterflies are on the move as the planet warms: new research

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Wildfires: why media coverage doesn't always make the climate connection

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Africa's Greater Horn region is facing a looming polycrisis fueled by conflict, prices, climate and disease

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How an El Niño becomes a super El Niño - Listen

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Behind the betel nut smile: the quiet epidemic of oral cancer in Papua New Guinea

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How pigeon fanciers are helping scientists understand lung disease

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Can Ozempic prevent cancer? A doctor explains why the headlines are easy to misread

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When a teenager makes the 'stupid choice', their brain is working exactly as designed - Evelyn Svingen, University of Birmingham

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Sam Altman says we're 'in the singularity' with AI. Here's why he's wrong

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Al-Qaida and the Islamic State are both adopting AI – but differ in how they think about the technology

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Cracking the code: can AI help us decipher ancient languages? -- Jane Adkins, Dublin City University

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Nasa's new space telescope will tackle some of the universe's biggest mysteries -- Noelia Noël, University of Surrey

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The idea of the 'company man' was forged decades ago. Its problems still haunt leaders today

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These 3 charts show female-dominated jobs are actually the most exposed to AI

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This history of currencies suggests the US dollar's dominance may fade – but it will happen slowly - John Hawkins, University of Canberra

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Featuring Trump on US coins and bills would put America in rare company

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How do we know what dinosaurs looked like?

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

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

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

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Why do male chimpanzees throw rocks at the same trees for more than a decade? We travelled to remote Guinea-Bissau to find out -- Robyn Nakano, University of Victoria and Ammie Kalan, University of Victoria

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Jolene, I Will Always Love You and 9 to 5: the genius of Dolly Parton in three songs -- Wendy Hargreaves, University of Southern Queensland

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Tsunami of dirt: what caused Nepal's deadly glacial flood? -- Levan Tielidze, Monash University

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