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What did Roman wine taste like? Much better than previously thought, according to new research

What did Roman wine taste like? Much better than previously thought, according to new research

Dimitri Van Limbergen, Ghent University

A pregnant woman looking exhausted or sad.

Perinatal depression linked with premenstrual mood disorders – new research

Donghao Lu, Karolinska Institutet

‘Pretty privilege’: attractive people considered more trustworthy, research confirms

Astrid Hopfensitz, EM Lyon Business School

‘Pretty privilege’: attractive people considered more trustworthy, research confirms
Could a video game developer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Andrés Porras Chaves, IE University

Imagen de una oficina con archivadores que llegan hasta el techo y papeles por el suelo.
Putin’s Russia: first arrests under new anti-LGBT laws mark new era of repression

Sergey Katsuba, University College Dublin

Young people gather in a park in Moscow wearing rainbow and other LGBT symbols
Farmers’ protests: why EU wants to increase tariffs on Russian imports but won’t impose sanctions

Elimma C. Ezeani, Brunel University London

Winter wheat being harvested.
Why would Islamic State attack Russia and what does this mean for the terrorism threat globally?

Greg Barton, Deakin University

Smoke billows out from the site of an attack in Moscow.
Private companies are exploiting outer space, but the law is struggling to catch up

Manolis Plionis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Anthi Koskina, University of Athens

Private companies are exploiting outer space, but the law is struggling to catch up
Cinema in Spain: a window into 500 years of history

Xosé P. Boán, University of Limerick

Two girls walk by a train track.
Turkish local elections: opposition’s clear victory against Erdoğan could herald sea-change in country’s politics

Riccardo Gasco, Università di Bologna and Samuele Carlo Ayrton Abrami, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Catholic University of Milan

Turkish local elections: opposition’s clear victory against Erdoğan could herald sea-change in country’s politics
‘Empathetic’ AI has more to do with psychopathy than emotional intelligence – but that doesn’t mean we can treat machines cruelly

Catrin Misselhorn, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

A robot combs the hair of an old woman.
The middle-aged brain changes a lot – and it’s key to understanding dementia

Sebastian Dohm-Hansen Allard, University College Cork and Yvonne Nolan, University College Cork

Hands holding scans of a person's brain
Microplastics found in artery plaque linked with higher risk of heart attack, stroke and death

Meiru Wang, Leiden University

A close-up picture of a person's hand. In their palm they hold fragments of microplastics.
Why EU information campaigns are failing to deter migrants from leaving

Antoine Pécoud, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and Mélodie Beaujeu, Sciences Po

African migrants attempting to flee to Europe disembark in Sfax from a vessel belonging to the Tunisian coastguard, after having been intercepted at sea, on 10 August 2023.
Sheep and windmills

Over 80% of the EU’s farming subsidies support emissions-intensive animal products – new study

Anniek Kortleve, Leiden University; Helen Harwatt, Harvard University; José Manuel Mogollón, Leiden University, and Paul Behrens, Leiden University

Balenciaga and the influence of abstract art

María Villanueva Fernández, Universidad de Navarra

A la derecha, _Naranja y amarillo_ de Mark Rothko. A la izquierda, vestido de día en crepé de lana naranja, de Cristóbal Balenciaga, 1967.
100,000 years and counting: how do we tell future generations about highly radioactive nuclear waste repositories?

Thomas Keating, Linköping University and Anna Storm, Linköping University

100,000 years and counting: how do we tell future generations about highly radioactive nuclear waste repositories?
Do employees slack off after receiving their bonuses? Our research tells a more optimistic story

Argyro Avgoustaki, ESCP Business School and Hans TW Frankort, City, University of London

Do employees slack off after receiving their bonuses? Our research tells a more optimistic story
The UN Security Council has finally called for a ceasefire in Gaza. But will it have any effect?

Marika Sosnowski, The University of Melbourne

The UN Security Council has finally called for a ceasefire in Gaza. But will it have any effect?
A baby laughing.

Why do children laugh? It’s not always because they’re happy

Carlo Valerio Bellieni, Università di Siena

Climate change is speeding up in Antarctica

Climate change is speeding up in Antarctica

Sergi González Herrero, Universitat de Barcelona

Poland has opened its arms to nearly 1 million Ukrainian refugees, but will they be able to stay for the long term?

Kate Golebiowska, Charles Darwin University; Marta Pachocka, Warsaw School of Economics, and Sabina Kubiciel-Lodzińska, Opole University of Technology

Group of people walk along path between fences
Digital nomads: a benefit or burden for local communities?

Jan Bednorz, University of Tartu

A woman works in her laptop by a window overlooking a Greek village.
Abortion rights are featuring in this year’s European election campaign in a way we’ve not seen before

Magdalena Frennhoff Larsén, University of Westminster

Women dressed in white costumes stained with blood stand in a line in Brussels.
Networking: an opportunity or an obstacle for women?

Miryam Martinez Martinez, Universidad CEU San Pablo; Gabriela Contreras, Radboud University, and Susana González Pérez, Universidad CEU San Pablo

A group of workers interact in an event outside the office.

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Gabrielius Landsbergis speaking into multiple microphones at a press conference with European flags in the background.

The EU should stop ‘westsplaining’ and listen to its smaller eastern members – they saw the Ukraine war coming

Viktoriia Lapa, Bocconi University

‘Urban mines’: how to unlock our electronic junk’s potential

Fanny Verrax, EM Lyon Business School

Un tas de téléphones et de smartphones usagés
The first Europeans reached Ukraine 1.4 million years ago – new research

John Jansen, Czech Academy of Sciences

Remains of the castle in Korolevo, close to the site.
The ‘Curse of Ham’: how people of faith used a story in Genesis to justify slavery

Paul Ham, Sciences Po

The ‘Curse of Ham’: how people of faith used a story in Genesis to justify slavery
The Russia-Ukraine War has caused a staggering amount of cultural destruction – both seen and unseen

Ian Kuijt, University of Notre Dame; Pavlo Shydlovskyi, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and William Donaruma, University of Notre Dame

Ruins of a blue and white Orthodox church.

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