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Game change Canadian election: Mark Carney leads Liberals to their fourth consecutive win - Fiona MacDonald, University of Northern British Columbia and Jeanette Ashe, King's College London

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Did 'induced atmospheric vibration' cause blackouts in Europe? An electrical engineer explains the phenomenon -- Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian, Swinburne University of Technology

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A robot that you ride like a horse is being developed. It will stretch current limits of engineering -- Matías Mattamala, University of Oxford

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Vancouver SUV attack exposes crowd management falldowns and casts a pall on Canada's election -- Ali Asgary, York University, Canada

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50 years later, Vietnam's environment still bears the scars of war – and signals a dark future for Gaza and Ukraine -- Pamela McElwee, Rutgers University

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Tensions over Kashmir and a warming planet have placed the Indus Waters Treaty on life support -- Fazlul Haq, The Ohio State University

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Oshikatsu, the fandom phenomenon Japan hopes can boost its flagging economy -- Fabio Gygi, SOAS, University of London

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Italy's Meloni is positioning herself as bridge between EU and Trump – but will it work? -- Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Colorado State University and Miranda McCreary, University of Colorado Boulder

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Ukraine war: path to peace looks increasingly narrow as Kyiv's western backers scramble to focus on their own interests -- Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham and Tetyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law Academy

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Trump can't decide who to blame for a failing peace deal that would only lead to further conflict -- Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham and Tetyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law Academy

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In talking with Tehran, Trump is reversing course on Iran – could a new nuclear deal be next? -- Jeffrey Fields, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

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Make Russia Medieval Again! How Putin is seeking to remold society, with a little help from Ivan the Terrible -- Dina Khapaeva, Georgia Institute of Technology

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The rise of Brazil's fuel mafias and their gas station money laundering machines -- Robert Muggah, Instituto Igarapé

8 days ago

Harvard is suing the White House: here's what Trump hopes to achieve by targeting universities -- Thomas Gift, UCL

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How Iran's government has weaponized sexual violence against women who dare to resist -- Mina Fakhravar, L'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa

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In trade war with the US, China holds a lot more cards than Trump may think − in fact, it might have a winning hand -- Linggong Kong, Auburn University

18 days ago

Ecuador: can freshly re-elected Daniel Noboa govern a country in crisis? -- Nicolas Forsans, University of Essex

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Thailand's fragile democracy takes another hit with arrest of US academic -- Adam Simpson, University of South Australia

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Ethiopia's 2026 elections: without reforms, the vote may not be free or fair -- Bizuneh Yimenu, Queen's University Belfast

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Trump's aggressive actions against free speech speak a lot louder than his words defending it -- Daniel Hall, Miami University

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Trump is stripping protections from marine protected areas – why that's a problem for fishing's future, and for whales, corals and other ocean life -- David Shiffman, Arizona State University

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Could Trump be leading the world into recession? -- Steve Schifferes, City St George's, University of London

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Iran nuclear deal: future stability of Middle East hangs on its success but initial signs are not good -- Simon Mabon, Lancaster University

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China's new underwater tool cuts deep, exposing vulnerability of vital network of subsea cables -- John Calabrese, American University

18 days ago

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Hungary's exit from the International Criminal Court is a sign of the times -- Michal Ovadek, UCL

20 days ago

Will Africa's young voters continue to punish incumbents at the ballot box in 2025? We are about to find out -- Richard Aidoo, Coastal Carolina University

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Myanmar military's 'ceasefire' follows a pattern of ruling generals exploiting disasters to shore up control -- Tharaphi Than, Northern Illinois University

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The world's first museum was curated by a princess. A tour reveals the origins of the zodiac, calculus and writing -- Louise Pryke, University of Sydney

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Why Hollywood is finally taking horror films seriously -- Reece Goodall, University of Warwick

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If we must bring back extinct species, let's focus on the giant herbivores -- Timothy Neal Coulson, University of Oxford

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Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem -- David Jones, University of Portsmouth

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Cancer hijacks your brain and steals your motivation − new research in mice reveals how, offering potential avenues for treatment -- Adam Kepecs, Washington University in St. Louis

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Earth's oceans once turned green – and they could change again -- Cédric M. John, Queen Mary University of London

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Scientists in Antarctica: why they're there and what they've found -- David William Hedding, University of South Africa

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Everything you say to an Alexa speaker will be sent to Amazon – starting today -- Kathy Reid, Australian National University

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IMF World Economic Outlook: economic uncertainty is now higher than it ever was during COVID -- Sergi Basco, Universitat de Barcelona

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Why Americans care so much about egg prices – and how this issue got so political -- Clodagh Harrington, University College Cork

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Are the glory days of German carmakers gone forever? -- Pietro Micheli, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

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Protectionism has a long history in the US – so its return should not be all that surprising -- Steve Schifferes, City St George's, University of London

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'We could hear the screams until midnight': life inside Southeast Asia's brutal fraud compounds -- Ivan Franceschini, University of Melbourne; Ling Li, Ca' Foscari University of Venice; The Conversation Digital Storytelling Team

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9 months ago

What will happen at the funeral of Pope Francis -- Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross

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What 2,000 years of Chinese history reveals about today's AI-driven technology panic – and the future of inequality -- Peng Zhou, Cardiff University

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