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Yemen's Houthis are bringing their war to Saudi Arabia – and reframing the narrative of being an Iranian proxy -- Laurent Bonnefoy, Sciences Po

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Air conditioners contribute to climate change – this 40-year-old treaty aims to limit the harm -- Matt Rigby, University of Bristol and Lucy Carpenter, University of York

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300 glaciers have disappeared from the American West since the mid-20th century – the survivors have a few things in common -- Andrew Fountain, Portland State University

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Donald Trump aligns with Vladimir Putin yet again, leaving Ukraine – and US relations with Europe – under pressure -- Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham

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How a botched execution and proposed livestream of a firing squad fit in to the US' death penalty history -- Carolyn Strange, Australian National University

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Economics Nobel: how this year's winners helped to smooth the cycle of economic peaks and troughs -- Conor O'Kane, Bournemouth University

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Trump misses out on Nobel Prize again and imposes new sanctions on the International Criminal Court. What does it mean? -- Michelle Burgis-Kasthala, La Trobe University

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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

9 days 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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Snakebites are a far bigger problem than we knew: new study maps the hidden dangers -- Dileepa Ediriweera, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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

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From 'A Little Princess' to 'Black Panther,' how Hollywood films have reimagined the South Asian epic 'Ramayana' -- Sohini Sarah Pillai, Kalamazoo College

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Possessed nuns and sexual deviance: the history behind Ken Russell's highly-censored film The Devils -- Philip C. Almond, The University of Queensland and Brendan C. Walsh, The University of Queensland

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Hooked on tuna: People have been harvesting these ocean predators for 44,000 years -- Emma Elliott Smith, Smithsonian Institution; University of New Mexico and Torben Rick, Smithsonian Institution

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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

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

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

9 days ago

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

13 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

10 days ago

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

10 days ago

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

10 days ago

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

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The misperception that keeps bystanders from intervening and how to short-circuit it -- Catherine A. Sanderson, Amherst College

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

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

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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

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

17 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

16 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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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

15 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

16 days ago

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)

16 days ago

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

22 days ago

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

25 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

1 month ago

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

16 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

16 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

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

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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

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

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

21 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

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

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