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US military action in Iran risks igniting a regional and global nuclear cascade -- Farah N. Jan, University of Pennsylvania

14 hours ago

If Pope Leo joined Trump's Board of Peace, it would compromise centuries of 'positive neutrality' -- Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Australian Catholic University

5 hours ago

Russia's drone pipeline: How Iran helps Moscow produce an ever-evolving unmanned fleet -- Amy McAuliffe, University of Notre Dame

2 days ago

Xi Jinping has dismissed two of China's most senior generals. What does this mean? -- David S G Goodman, University of Sydney

2 days ago

US abandons Syria's Kurds, risking regional turmoil and an IS resurgence -- Kamran Matin, University of Sussex

5 hours ago

How Iran shut down the internet and built a sophisticated system of digital control -- Gemma Ware, The Conversation

5 hours ago

With Iran weakened, Trump's end goal may now be regime change. It's an incredibly risky gamble -- Amin Saikal, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University

19 hours ago

What Franco's fascist regime in Spain can teach us about today's America -- Rachelle Wilson Tollemar, University of St. Thomas

1 hour ago

Rafiki unbanned on appeal: why it's an important moment for African film -- Gibson Ncube, Stellenbosch University

5 hours ago

Geopolitics will cast a long shadow over the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games -- Noah Eliot Vanderhoeven, Western University

5 hours ago

Anti-ICE protesters are following same nonviolent playbook used by people in war zones across the world to fight threats to their communities -- Oliver Kaplan, University of Denver

19 hours ago

African migration: focusing on Europe misses the point – most people move within the continent -- Nadine Biehler, German Institute for International and Security Affairs; Emma Landmesser, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, and Rebecca Majewski, German Institute for International and Security Affairs

19 hours ago

It's easy making green: Muppets continue to make a profit 50 years into their run -- Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder

2 days ago

Why keeping quiet about the family feud gave Brand Beckham a commercial boost -- Ashleigh Logan-McFarlane, Edinburgh Napier University

5 hours ago

The cold war maps that can help us rethink today's Arctic conflict -- James Cheshire, UCL

2 days ago

Greenland's Inuit have spent decades fighting for self-determination -- Susan A. Kaplan, Bowdoin College and Genevieve LeMoine, Bowdoin College

2 days ago

5 years on from the junta's coup, Myanmar's flawed elections can't unite a country at risk of breaking apart -- Adam Simpson, Adelaide University and Nicholas Farrelly, University of Tasmania

2 days ago

Iran's biggest centres of protest are also experiencing extreme pollution and water shortages -- Nima Shokri, United Nations University

4 days ago

As Syria's new government consolidates its power, the Kurdish minority fears for its future -- Ali Mamouri, Deakin University

2 days ago

Donald Trump's Board of Peace signed at Davos – key points I took away from my visit to the ski resort

2 days ago

Rebirth of the madman theory? Unpredictability isn't what it was when it comes to foreign policy

2 days ago

Framing of Nigeria insurgency as a war on Christians risks undermining peacebuilding -- Aili Mari Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2 days ago

New fear unlocked: runaway black holes -- David Blair, The University of Western Australia

2 days ago

Hacking the grid: How digital sabotage turns infrastructure into a weapon -- Saman Zonouz, Georgia Institute of Technology

7 days ago

Great white sharks grow a whole new kind of tooth for slicing bone as they age

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Humanity's oldest known cave art has been discovered in Sulawesii – our new research -- Maxime Aubert, Griffith University; Adam Brumm, Griffith University; Adhi Oktaviana, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN), and Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Southern Cross University

8 days 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

4 days ago

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

10 days ago

The way Earth's surface moves has a bigger impact on shifting the climate than we knew -- Ben Mather, The University of Melbourne; Adriana Dutkiewicz, University of Sydney; Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, and Sabin Zahirovic, University of Sydney

8 days ago

Grains of sand prove people – not glaciers – transported Stonehenge rocks

2 days ago

Afcon drama: what went wrong and what went right at the continent's biggest football cup in Morocco -- Chuka Onwumechili, Howard University

2 days ago

One uprising, two stories: how each side is trying to frame the uprising in Iran - Ali Mamouri, Deakin University

10 days ago

Does adding 'please' and 'thank you' to your ChatGPT prompts really waste energy?

14 days ago

Ukraine is under pressure to trade land for peace − if it does, history shows it might not ever get it back

14 days ago

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

14 days ago

How mountain terraces have helped Indigenous peoples live with climate uncertainty

14 days ago

China's new condom tax will prove no effective barrier to country's declining fertility rate

14 days ago

Opera is not dying – but it needs a second act for the streaming era - Christos Makridis, Arizona State University; Institute for Humane Studies

1 day ago

Bird flu warnings are being ignored. I've seen this pattern before - Nikki Ikani, Leiden University; King's College London

2 days ago

Ghana collects half the blood it needs – digital approaches can improve that

14 days ago

Growing up alongside deadly fires inspired me to study them – and fight flames with swarms of drones

14 days ago

Autocrats have long lists of political enemies. This is how Donald Trump has tried to silence his

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1 year ago

Why the mad artistic genius trope doesn't stand up to scientific scrutiny -- Daisy Fancourt, UCL

18 days ago

Valentino shaped the runway – and the red carpet – for 60 years -- Jye Marshall, Swinburne University of Technology

10 days ago

Revolutionary rap: Nigerian star Falz has kept protest music alive -- Paul Onanuga, Federal University, Oye Ekiti

1 month ago

Brigitte Bardot defined the modern woman and defied social norms -- Ben McCann, University of Adelaide

1 month ago

Climate engineering would alter the oceans, reshaping marine life – new study examines each method's risks

10 days ago

Most of the world just agreed on something: a new treaty to protect our oceans

14 days ago

As the Milan Winter Olympics approach, what are the environmental expectations? -- Alizée Pillod, Université de Montréal

24 days ago

China's five green economy challenges in 2026 -- Chee Meng Tan, University of Nottingham

24 days ago

Juice cleanses, charcoal supplements and foot patches – is detoxing worth the hype? -- Katie Edwards, The Conversation and Dan Baumgardt, University of Bristol

10 days ago

Can you wear the same pair of socks more than once? -- Primrose Freestone, University of Leicester

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

More women are using steroids – and many don't know the risks

1 month ago

Would you use AI to break writer's block? We asked 5 experts

10 days ago

When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes - Douglas Sheil, Wageningen University and Erik Meijaard, University of Kent

5 hours ago

How I used AI to transform myself from a female dance artist to an all-male post-punk band – and what that means for other musicians

14 days ago

The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states and electro-states – here's what to watch for in 2026

14 days ago

The World Trade Organization is on life support. Will Trump's new rules finish it off?

14 days ago

How rogue nations are capitalizing on gaps in crypto regulation to finance weapons programs

25 days ago

How crime in Brazil drags down the economy and heaps economic pain on the nation's poor

1 month ago

Congress has been dodging responsibility for tariffs for decades. Now the Supreme Court will decide how far presidents can go

2 months ago

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

1 month ago

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

4 months ago

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

7 months ago

Birkin v Wirkin: the backlash against the global elite and their luxury bags – podcast

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1 year ago

What a US military base lost under Greenland's ice sheet reveals about the island's real strategic importance -- Gemma Ware, The Conversation

7 days ago

Shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis has put America's gun lobby at odds with the White House -- Andrew Gawthorpe, Leiden University

3 days ago

Mark Carney invoked Thucydides at Davos – what people get wrong about this ancient Greek writer's take on power -- Neville Morley, University of Exeter

7 days ago

'We got lazy and complacent': Swedish pensioners explain how abolishing the wealth tax changed their country -- Miranda Sheild Johansson, UCL

10 days ago

One venue, two speeches – how Mark Carney left Donald Trump in the dust in Davos -- Mark Shanahan, University of Surrey

8 days ago