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Nobel laureate Karl Deisseroth on how light is changing what we know about the brain

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French student protests: comparisons with 1968 will only serve the political extremes -- David Lees, University of Warwick

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Yemen is spiralling into another civil war that could swiftly engulf in the entire region -- Amin Saikal, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University

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Sudan's death toll in 2025 could be as high as 100,000: how we did the count -- Paola Vesco, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO); Amber Deniz, Uppsala University; David Randahl, Swedish Defence University; Johan Brosché, Uppsala University, and Magnus Öberg, Uppsala University

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Russian plague scare: an expert explains what we know so far – and why there's no need to panic -- Josephine Bourner, Queen Mary University of London

14 hours ago

Prosecution of Kosovan leader Hashim Thaçi illustrates the challenges of bringing war criminals to justice -- Birte Julia Gippert, University of Liverpool and Theresa Squatrito, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature – how she discovered new possibilities within language -- Laura Jansen, University of Bristol

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Nobel physics prize awarded for discovery of 'ghostly messengers' from the cosmos -- Noelia Noël, University of Surrey

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How pond algae led to a Nobel prize and a new way to study the brain -- Robert Lucas, University of Manchester

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The death of a Russian plague researcher, explained by a microbiologist -- Thomas Jeffries, Western Sydney University

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How geopolitical tensions tainted the 2026 Asian Games -- Jung Woo Lee, University of Edinburgh

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Secret chambers in Tutankhamun's tomb could hold the burial of a lost Egyptian queen – we may get answers soon -- Jay Silverstein, Nottingham Trent University

3 days ago

Brazil election: Authoritarian right gain an edge, fueled by voter apathy and discontent -- Sergio Abranches, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

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DreamWorks' Forgotten Island is a joyous, painful love letter to the Filipino diaspora -- Kristine Aquino, University of Technology Sydney

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Three years after October 7, global attention on Gaza has receded -- Eyal Mayroz, University of Sydney

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Listen -- Could a former IDF chief break Benjamin Netanyahu's grip on power in Israel?

7 days ago

Africa's rhinos often get the spotlight – but Indonesia's two rhino species are far closer to extinction -- Michelle Campbell-Ward, University of Sydney

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One in three Ukrainian civilians estimated to meet the criteria for PTSD or complex PTSD – new study -- Gwendolyn Sasse, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS); University of Oxford and Deirdre MacManus, King's College London

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Why old dogs might be able to teach Alzheimer's researchers new tricks -- Julie Moreno, Colorado State University

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Dozens of men failed to stop an alleged gang rape at Cornell – here's the misperception that keeps bystanders from intervening and how to short-circuit it -- Catherine A. Sanderson, Amherst College

7 days ago

Social media hasn't killed personal style, it's killed how we communicate it -- Catherine Greenwood, University of Lancashire

7 days ago

US tech leaders are urgently calling for rules on AI – China already has them -- Madeline Carr, UCL

9 days ago

Taylor Swift's new video marks her ghostly return to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca -- Emma L. Davies, University of Bristol

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Nina Simone, Langston Hughes and their forgotten creative collaboration -- Jason Miller, North Carolina State University

7 days ago

Brazil's "New Republic" is dead, and what comes next has not yet been born -- Guilherme Casarões, Florida International University

3 days ago

Manchester City supporters have been gaslit. What happens now? -- Josh Bland, University of Cambridge

6 days ago

The 'WarGames' problem: Computer science has long understood what it takes to keep AI under control -- Deven Desai, Georgia Institute of Technology

6 days ago

Rising CO₂ is making African savanna grasses grow more – what this means for grazing, fire and carbon storage -- Kimberley Simpson, University of Sheffield

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After a decade, the UN's Antonio Guterres is stepping down. His legacy will be mixed, at best -- Simon Adams, Murdoch University

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A bestselling novel was pulled from a French literary prize after AI accusations – what next? -- Anthony Cordingley, University of Sydney

10 days ago

'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' winks and blows a blood-soaked kiss at horror films of queer past -- Scott Malia, College of the Holy Cross

9 days ago

How the emojis and fashion choices of Germany's far-right supporters get around the ban on Nazi symbolism -- Tom Birkett, University College Cork; Felix Lummer, University College Cork, and Timothy Liam Waters, University College Cork

14 days ago

The wondrous history of fairy tale art – from wolves and witches to fallen princesses -- Elena Sottilotta, University of Cambridge

15 days ago

Cities across the world are sinking because of groundwater depletion. But the process can be reversed -- Jesse Kearse, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

8 days ago

Arctic infrastructure was built on frozen ground that's starting to thaw – drones can help spot the permafrost changes coming -- Ming Xiao, Penn State

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Why do some chimpanzee mothers carry their dead infants for months? -- Thomas A. Püschel, University of Oxford and Reece Hammond, University of Oxford

9 days ago

September's ozone hole was the biggest in 20 years. The warning signs appeared months ago -- Hannah E. Kessenich, University of Otago; Annika Seppälä, University of Otago, and Dan Smale, Earth Sciences New Zealand

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One in eight cancers are likely caused by an infection worldwide – new study -- John (Eddie) La Marca, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) and Sarah Diepstraten, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)

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Bangladesh has lost 900 children to measles – a warning to other countries where vaccine rates have slipped -- Vikram Niranjan, University of Limerick and Colum P. Dunne, University of Limerick

15 days ago

The International Olympic Committee wants mental health screening in elite sports. Here's why -- Rosemary Purcell, The University of Melbourne

18 days ago

Can people truly walk away from terrorism? Inside the slow work of rehabilitation -- Ramon Spaaij, Victoria University; Debra Smith, Victoria University, and Muhammad Iqbal, Victoria University

24 days ago

How can the same El Niño cause drought in one part of the world and floods in another? -- Ligin Joseph, University of Southampton

9 days ago

Chatbots as oracles: How AI is giving new life to the ancient practice of seeking answers from inscrutable sources -- Webb Keane, University of Michigan and Ambuj Tewari, University of Michigan

9 days ago

An AI model has found a new 'CRISPR-like' biological system. Here's what it means for science -- Dimitri Perrin, Queensland University of Technology

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How sugar from outer space became one of the backbones of life on Earth -- Luke Steller, UNSW ; Albert Fahrenbach, UNSW , and Martin Van Kranendonk, UNSW

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How 'egalitarian' Sweden became more comfortable with wealth -- Håkan Johansson, Lund University and Axel Vikström, Lund University

29 days ago

The idea of the 'company man' was forged decades ago. Its problems still haunt leaders today -- Claire Wright, University of Technology Sydney

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These 3 charts show female-dominated jobs are actually the most exposed to AI -- Leonora Risse, Queensland University of Technology and Elise Stephenson, Australian National University

1 month ago

Why you should live your life like an accountant – and how you probably already do -- Jack Campbell, Dublin City University

1 month ago

Government hacks, rogue agents and no transparency: can we ever fully trust AI? -- Gemma Ware, The Conversation

14 days ago

Australia's 'barking mad' bet on nuclear submarines – the AUKUS deal five years on -- Isabella Podwinski, The Conversation and Justin Bergman, The Conversation

9 days ago

Ratko Mladić: the war criminal who became a martyr for Bosnian Serbs -- Isabella Podwinski, The Conversation and Justin Bergman, The Conversation

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

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BYD is reshaping Australia's car market. How did it get here? -- Milad Haghani, The University of Melbourne

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