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Expert Q&A: why did so many buildings collapse in Venezuela's double earthquake? -- Raffaele De Risi, University of Bristol

2 days ago

Trump has made more than $1 billion from crypto in a year. How? -- Marta Khomyn, Adelaide University

3 hours ago

Despite its best efforts, Iran won't be able to toll the Strait of Hormuz. Here's why -- Jennifer Parker, The University of Western Australia; UNSW Sydney

3 days ago

Israel's 'campaign between the wars': How strategy to contain Iran and its allies risks further straining ties with US -- Amy McAuliffe, University of Notre Dame

3 days ago

Amazon is being taken to court for introducing ads to Prime Video. The world will be watching -- Jeannie Marie Paterson, The University of Melbourne

2 days ago

America at 250: the Britons who supported the War of Independence -- Tom Cutterham, University of Birmingham

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Europe is battling a record-breaking heatwave. What's making it so severe? -- Andrew B. Watkins, Monash University

6 days ago

Germany's proposal to ease trade tensions with China has not gone down well in Beijing -- Tom Harper, University of East London

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The youth jobs crisis fuelling India's Cockroach Janta Party protests -- Gemma Ware, The Conversation

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Central bank gold holdings are at a 50-year high. What's behind the jump in reserves? -- Luke Hartigan, University of Sydney

6 days ago

If Europe wants to 'go it alone' on security, countries need to learn to sing from the same songsheet

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Cracks in the International Space Station are causing air leaks – how much longer can it remain habitable?

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Why is the UK now changing prime minister every few years? -- Tony McNulty, Queen Mary University of London

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The World Cup enters its next stage after witch doctors, surprises and emergency beer deliveries -- Vaughan Cruickshank, University of Tasmania

3 days ago

World Cup: why are left-footers like Messi so valuable in soccer? -- Kylie A. Steel, Western Sydney University

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Does the World Cup favor democratic or autocratic nations? I did some number crunching to find out -- John A. Tures, LaGrange College

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How Messi, Mbappe and Haaland use their brains (as well as feet) to gain a psychological edge at the World Cup -- Eric Zillmer, Drexel University

6 days ago

World Cup: what's just the right height for a soccer player? -- Tim Olds, Adelaide University

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20 days ago

Angola's long war changed the way farmers used fire – why it matters -- Luisa F. Escobar Alvarado, Università di Torino

6 days ago

With Iran and the US signing a peace deal, where does that leave Benjamin Netanyahu? -- Martin Kear, University of Sydney

10 days ago

Keir Starmer resigns: can anyone survive as prime minister in today's Britain? -- Nicholas Dickinson, University of Exeter

9 days ago

New evidence reveals extent of anti-fascist motives behind 'insane' aristocrat's plot to assassinate Mussolini

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Earth's oldest crater really is over 3 billion years old, new study confirms -- Chris Kirkland, Curtin University

8 days ago

Trump's upgrade of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a disaster. Why is it causing so much outrage?

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The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is treated with 'nanobubbles'. What are they and how do they work?

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Why a development project linked to Donald Trump's son-in-law has rocked Albania

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How the US Supreme Court decides its cases – a step-by-step guide - Paul M. Collins Jr., UMass Amherst

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30 years after 'Reasonable Doubt,' Jay-Z's career embodies hip-hop's biggest contradictions

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How 'catchy' music is driven by rhythmic patterns

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Democracy's next big test: could a Trump-endorsed US citizen become Colombia's president?

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Hugh Jackman plays Robin Hood as wicked – it's a badly timed take on the hero of the poor -- William Hoff, The University of Melbourne

15 days ago

Today's space race could turn fatal if we don't agree on new rules -- Cassandra Steer, Australian National University

10 days ago

China's Dong minority: why we're digitally recording and preserving their Indigenous architectural heritage -- Xiang Ren, University of Sheffield

6 days ago

An elite fighting unit of gay lovers – the Theban Sacred Band in ancient Greece -- Peter Londey, Australian National University

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This tiny Australian spider uses a high-powered web catapult to trap and eat aggressive ants - Ajay Narendra, Macquarie University

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The first case of H5N1 bird flu in Australia has been confirmed. What does this mean?

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Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic could work for addiction too – and we finally know how -- Robert Munn, University of Otago

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India's youth-led Cockroach party may prove as hard to kill as its namesake

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Nigerians tell their stories of banditry. 'A month will not go by without someone being killed in this village.' -- Oludayo Tade, University of Ibadan

14 days ago

Trump's 'narco-terrorism' war in Latin America is more about fighting leftists than drug runners

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Guide to the classics: Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams gave us psychoanalysis -- Nick Haslam, The University of Melbourne

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Tim McGraw at 20: how Taylor Swift's debut single set her formula for success

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Toy Story 5 pits traditional toys vs a tablet. In real life, families can combine the two

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Spice Girls at 30: how girl power changed pop -- Joel Gray, Sheffield Hallam University

21 days ago

Levels of 'forever chemicals' in dolphins and whales are rising globally

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The Gulf Stream suddenly moved north during an ancient cold snap – and it's a warning for our future

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Two decades of research show Indonesia's coral reefs are heat-tolerant — but only up to a point - Tries Blandine Razak, IPB University

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Greater international co-operation is needed to achieve the UN's global forest goals

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Frozen fruit and canned veg are cheap, but are they as healthy as fresh food? -- Margaret Murray, Swinburne University of Technology

17 days ago

Does the body really 'keep the score' after trauma? How the debunked idea of 'repressed memories' is making a comeback

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World's first AI-designed vaccine explained -- Neil Mabbott, University of Edinburgh

22 days ago

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic show promise for more than weight loss. But what's science vs hype? -- Paul Joyce, Adelaide University

26 days ago

Why the US government shut down Anthropic's latest Claude AI model - Francesco Bailo, University of Sydney

6 days ago

What came before the Big Bang?

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The Milky Way was rewired by a cataclysmic collision billions of years ago. Now it is on course for another

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Great mysteries of archaeology: an ancient Amazonian world revealed from the sky

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

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Apple chief executive Tim Cook resigns after 15 years. What's next for the tech giant?

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

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

27 days ago

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

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Was Venezuela struck by an earthquake 'doublet'? Here's what we know so far -- Mark Quigley, The University of Melbourne

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