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Targeting of energy facilities turned Iran war into worst-case scenario for Gulf states - Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University

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Who are Iran's new leaders? A look at 6 the US placed a bounty on – 2 of whom are already dead

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How the US copied a cheap Iranian kamikaze drone and used it to bomb Iran

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Attacks on hospitals are surging in war zones. What do the laws of war say about protecting them?

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Trump's war language is aggressive and extreme. It also offers some insight into his thinking

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Early wins for the social media ban, new survey claims. But the full picture is far more complicated

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Going nuclear? Why a growing number of Washington's allies are eyeing an alternative to US umbrella

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Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict is rooted in local border dispute – but the risks extend across the region

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Fines alone won't stop big tech behaving badly. Here's what might work

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How birds are spreading plastic pollution

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Morgan le Fay was King Arthur's sister – but also a healer, mathematician and murderer

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Hundreds of hungry mosquitoes, a student volunteer and a mesh suit helped us figure out how these deadly insects reach their targets - David Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Where did the ancient Greeks and Romans think lightning came from? Hint: not just the gods

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Human vision: what we actually see – and don't see – tells us a lot about consciousness

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Ethiopia's national dialogue was meant to heal the nation, but divisions are deepening

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Oil price surge is hurting African economies: scholars in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa take stock

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'Sleep divorce': could separate beds improve your health?

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You probably agree with the animals on which bird calls, frog noises and cricket chirps are most attractive – new research

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Evangelical holy war: Why some Christians think Trump will end the world

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Project Hail Mary is packed with hard science. An astrophysicist breaks it down

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Hungary's Viktor Orbán reignites his hostility towards Ukraine as he prepares for April elections

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Tourist visits to Madagascar help conserve some forests, but others suffer: study suggests what to do

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Moulin Rouge! turns 25: how Baz Luhrmann reinvented the movie musical

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Why some people still believe that aliens shaped ancient civilisations

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Louis Theroux's Inside the Manosphere exposes the business model of misogyny

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Microbes in Antarctica survive the freezing and dark winter by living on air

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Largest ever Parkinson's study shows how symptoms differ between men and women

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Babies learn a lot in their first year. But their behaviour doesn't always tell the full story

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All 5 fundamental units of life's genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample

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Why global methane levels spiked during COVID lockdowns

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Iraq war's aftermath was a disaster for the US – the Iran war is headed in the same direction

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How Dracula became a red-hot lover -- Stanley Stepanic, University of Virginia

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Wuthering Heights looks lush – but it's a bad film and a worse adaptation

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What Bridgerton's 'pinnacle' tells us about sex talk today

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Charli XCX turned Wuthering Heights into a sonic gothic masterpiece -- Lillian Hingley, University of Oxford

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Climate finance has failed Africa twice over – how to fix it

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Can African penguins be brought back from the brink? Better designed no-fishing zones could help

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Preventable deaths in a warming world: how politics shapes who lives and who dies

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Deep in the Amazon, I discovered this monkey's ingenious survival tactic - Adrian Barnett, University of Greenwich

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Can blood tests really detect cancer?

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Intermittent fasting doesn't have an edge for weight loss, but might still work for some

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We studied primary care in 6 rich countries – it's under unprecedented strain everywhere

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Exercise can be as effective as medication for depression and anxiety – new study

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How China is betting cheap AI will get the world hooked on its tech

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A few weeks of X's algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn't wear off quickly

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Is AI really 'intelligent'? This philosopher says yes

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Why your brain has to work harder in an open-plan office than private offices: study

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Why Trump's new pick for Fed chair hit gold and silver markets – for good reasons

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Why the world's central bankers had to speak up against Trump's attacks on the Fed

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

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Dick Van Dyke credits his longevity to his positive outlook – and research says optimists live longer -- Jolanta Burke, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

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