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'Plenty of reasons for hope': what 30 years of climate talks have achieved -- Grace Jennings-Edquist, The Conversation and Miki Perkins, The Conversation

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El Salvador is exporting the 'Bukele model' to Haiti – but the gang offensive is a gamble for both nations -- Robert Muggah, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University

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From ancient Asia to the AI age: Has China's 'beauty stratagem' found a new victim in Nvidia's Jensen Huang? -- Linggong Kong, Auburn University

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What lurks Below Newfoundland waters? A marine biologist explains the science behind the show -- Paul Snelgrove, Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Cabo Verde's presidential election: the stakes in one of Africa's most stable democracies -- José Santana Pereira, Universidade de Lisboa

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Can Gadi Eisenkot turn the 'disaster bloc' into Israel's next government? -- Benedict Moleta, Australian National University

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Paraguay's bank collapse brought down a president – and exposed as myth the nation's status as a 'Dubai of South America' -- Joel E. Correia, Colorado State University

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Economic coercion once ousted Iran's leader – but that was the 1950s; don't expect a repeat today -- Eric Lob, Florida International University

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What the US midterms result means for the Ukraine war -- Michael Cox, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Why Trump, Xi, and Putin can't carve up the world like the 'big three' leaders of 1945 -- Nicholas Westcott, SOAS, University of London

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NASA's Swift telescope has burned up, months after a robot sent to save it failed – here's why it's so hard to boost a satellite -- Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, University of Florida

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How women bore the consequences of the First World War in British India -- Umaima Miraj, University of Toronto

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Young men and Latino voters helped drive the Democrats' blue wave. Why did they abandon Trump? -- Listen

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We need to talk about Meta: Political interference and interests in the Brazilian elections

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Justice, accountability, more questions: what Russell Brand's guilty verdict means for victim-survivors -- Anastasia Powell, RMIT University

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Yes, the COP climate talks are far from perfect. But they still hold the power for change -- Wesley Morgan, UNSW

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10 years after Leonard Cohen's passing, his grappling with the divine lives on -- Matthew Robert Anderson, Concordia University

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Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery is a brilliant exploration of the life of the queen of crime -- Nadia Atia, Queen Mary University of London

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King Arthur and Ramayana: ancient stories that speak to the moral dilemmas of today's leaders -- Harsh Trivedi, University of Sheffield

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Godzilla Minus Zero is incredibly loud. Who decides on the cinema volume? And is it safe? -- Alison Cole, University of Sydney

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How the Sphinx is helping answer a riddle about extinct crocodiles -- Philip Mannion, UCL

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From Wales to Finland, minority language speakers still face prejudice -- Kaisa Pankakoski, Cardiff University

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Why AI cannot 'think' like humans do -- Didier Camilo Olarte Gonzalez, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Pier-Luc de Chantal, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

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The Binance hack exploited familiar weaknesses – all organisations should learn from it -- Bogdan Księżopolski, Kozminski University

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Delayed international support has hampered efforts to contain and treat Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, Fayetteville State University

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What makes music truly 'Russian'? The forgotten debate between Tchaikovsky and his star pupil -- Stacy Olive Jarvis, University of Birmingham

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Who mapped Africa? Debunking the myth that Europeans alone plotted the continent -- Thomas J Bassett, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Why do blind people and musicians hear pitch better? New research suggests they have less internal noise -- Woon Ju Park, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Harry Kane wins Ballon d'Or – a victory for sportsmanship over celebrity -- Josh Bland, University of Cambridge

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Born in Aussie or NZ, playing for the Pacific: the startling demographics of the Rugby League World Cup -- Jesse Whitehead, University of Waikato; Fiu Etike Penjueli, University of Waikato, and Polly Atatoa Carr, University of Waikato

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The upside of untidiness: why a little mess can be good for your home

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Human speech follows the same patterns as birdsong — new research -- Logan S. James, McGill University; The University of Texas at Austin; Jon Sakata, McGill University, and Kendra Oudyk, University of British Columbia

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Indonesia's El Niño-driven peat fires are choking the region – and releasing centuries of stored carbon -- Gareth Roberts, University of Southampton and Martin Wooster, King's College London

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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

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Africa's rhinos often get the spotlight – but Indonesia's two rhino species are far closer to extinction

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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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One in eight cancers are likely caused by an infection worldwide – new study

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Bangladesh has lost 900 children to measles – a warning to other countries where vaccine rates have slipped

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The International Olympic Committee wants mental health screening in elite sports. Here's why

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Traces of dinosaur blood found in world-first discovery -- Kliti Grice, Curtin University

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Anthropic's record US$2 trillion stock market listing highlights the growing risks for all of us

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What animal bones in Malawi teach us about the social lives of people long ago -- Alex Bertacchi, University of Kiel and Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University

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From elite spies to 'gig-economy' operatives: the changing face of Russian sabotage

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How 'egalitarian' Sweden became more comfortable with wealth

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The idea of the 'company man' was forged decades ago. Its problems still haunt leaders today

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These 3 charts show female-dominated jobs are actually the most exposed to AI

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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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How porn became so extreme – and how it's shaping the sex lives of young people

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

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Government hacks, rogue agents and no transparency: can we ever fully trust AI?

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Australia's 'barking mad' bet on nuclear submarines – the AUKUS deal five years on

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All 5 fundamental units of life's genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample -- Kliti Grice, Curtin University

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JD Vance singled out Iran War for midterm rout – he didn't say what should happen next in conflict -- Javed Ali, University of Michigan

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Black Michiganders helped push Abdul El-Sayed to victory – but the numbers show he was less popular with this key voting bloc than some other Democratic candidates -- Christine Slaughter, Boston University

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Donald Trump's Republicans suffer landslide defeat – what this means for the world -- Andrew Gawthorpe, Leiden University

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A fractious campaign heralds a cliffhanger election: what to watch as NZ votes -- Grant Duncan, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

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