ZAQS.ORG

Become an author

1 year ago

Sign up as a reader

1 year ago

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

3 hours ago

Cuba has survived 66 years of US-led embargoes. Will Trump's blockade break it now? -- James Trapani, Western Sydney University

13 hours ago

Iran's exiled crown prince is touting himself as a future leader. Is this what's best for the country?

3 hours ago

Trump tariff ruling shows top courts serve as last line of defence against strongman rule

3 hours ago

Michael Caine's voice is iconic. Why would he sell that to AI? -- Amy Hume, The University of Melbourne

3 hours ago

The Epstein revelations have exposed how 'Boy's Club' elites avoid accountability

3 hours ago

Africa's militaries have always relied on imported weapons: why a shift to homegrown defence is now under way

3 hours ago

La Jefa: the wife of slain drug kingpin El Mencho and the women at the heart of the cartels

3 hours ago

As war in Ukraine enters a 5th year, will the 'Putin consensus' among Russians hold?

4 days ago

New global study: long after war, injuries from landmines and explosives kill nearly 4 in 10 victims

21 hours ago

Violent aftermath of Mexico's 'El Mencho' killing follows pattern of other high-profile cartel hits - Angélica Durán-Martínez, UMass Lowell

3 days ago

How Tourette's causes involuntary outbursts – and what people with the condition want you to know

1 day ago

How Russia is intercepting communications from European satellites - Aleix Nadal, RAND Europe

13 hours ago

20 BILLION GALAXIES: NEW SURVEY OF THE SKY WILL REVEAL THE UNIVERSE IN UNPRECEDENTED DETAIL

1 day ago

A new space race could turn our atmosphere into a 'crematorium for satellites'

1 day ago

A cosmic explosion with the force of a billion Suns went unseen – until we caught its echo

1 day ago

Calls for a boycott of the 2026 FIFA World Cup are growing, but how realistic is one? Noah Eliot Vanderhoeven, Western University

2 days ago

Russia tested NATO's airspace 18 times in 2025 alone – a 200% surge that signals a dangerous shift

4 days ago

Gaza's cultural sites have been decimated. UNESCO's muted response sets a dangerous precedent

4 days ago

Can blood tests really detect cancer?

3 days ago

Ethiopia and Eritrea are on edge again: what's behind the growing risk of war

1 day ago

Israel is accelerating its creeping annexation of the West Bank. Can Donald Trump stop it?

8 days ago

How Putin turned Russia's post-Soviet 'national humiliation' into military aggression in Ukraine

4 days ago

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

7 days ago

Can African penguins be brought back from the brink? Better designed no-fishing zones could help - Jacqui Glencross, University of St Andrews

1 day ago

SpaceX rocket left behind a plume of chemical pollution as it burnt up in the atmosphere

7 days ago

A viral monkey, his plushie, and a 70-year-old experiment: what Punch tells us about attachment theory

1 day ago

Is AI really 'intelligent'? This philosopher says yes

4 days ago

One of the biggest stars in the universe might be getting ready to explode

3 days ago

Iran-US nuclear talks may fail due to both nations' red lines – but that doesn't make them futile

9 days ago

Sudan: how warring factions gained influence in the country's food system – and what it means for the current conflict

4 days ago

Five reasons Trump's plan for Ukrainian elections and a peace referendum will only prolong the war

11 days ago

As Alberta separatists court the U.S., prosperity is fuelling a sovereigntist turn

4 days ago

Age verification online can be done safely and privately. Here's how

8 days ago

Does exercise really work for osteoarthritis?

9 days ago

South Africa is sending in the army to fight crime (again). Does it ever work? Guy Lamb, Stellenbosch University

6 days ago

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

1 day ago

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

4 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

7 days ago

Get the best of The Conversation in your inbox

1 year ago

How Bad Bunny's power pole dance spotlighted the colonial legacy of energy poverty

9 days ago

From 'this machine kills fascists' to 'King Trump's private army': the art of protest music

17 days ago

Taxi Driver at 50: Martin Scorsese's film remains a troubling reflection of our times

21 days ago

From Bridgerton to Heated Rivalry, what's the secret to a good book-to-TV romance?

15 days ago

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

23 days ago

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

1 month ago

Marine protected areas aren't in the right places to safeguard dolphins and whales in the South Atlantic -- Guilherme Maricato, UFRJ; Clinton N. Jenkins, Florida International University; Maria Alice S. Alves, UERJ, and Rodrigo Tardin, UFRJ

1 month ago

How mountain terraces have helped Indigenous peoples live with climate uncertainty

1 month ago

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

8 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

15 days ago

US exit from the World Health Organization marks a new era in global health policy – here's what the US, and world, will lose

21 days ago

Amazon's Ring wanted to track your pets. It revealed the future of surveillance

10 days ago

Ads are coming to AI. Does that really have to be such a bad thing?

3 hours ago

A giant star is changing before our eyes and astronomers are watching in real time

21 days ago

An 'AI afterlife' is now a real option – but what becomes of your legal status?

18 days ago

Does 'free' shipping really exist? An expert shares the marketing tricks you need to know

1 day ago

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

10 days ago

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

17 days ago

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

1 month ago

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

15 days ago

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

15 days ago

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

5 months ago

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

8 months ago

Subscribe to The Conversation Weekly podcast

1 year ago

How could Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor be removed from the line of succession to the throne? -- Anne Twomey, University of Sydney

2 days ago