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Older Swiss women just set a global legal precedent for challenging their nation’s climate change policy

Aoife Daly, University College Cork

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

‘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
How a brawl in 18th-century Constantinople changed what we know about the Vikings

Tonicha Upham, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Ahmad ibn Fadlan in front of Viking ships.
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.
Perinatal depression linked with premenstrual mood disorders – new research

Donghao Lu, Karolinska Institutet

A pregnant woman looking exhausted or sad.
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.
Olympic Games 2024: France faces serious hurdles in the race to create a meaningful legacy

Simon Chadwick, SKEMA Business School and Paul Widdop, Manchester Metropolitan University

Eiffel Tower and Olympic rings.
‘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.
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.
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.
Illustration de tension en entreprise

How hybrid work is reinventing management

Olga Kokshagina, EDHEC Business School and Sabrina Schneider, MCI Management Center Innsbruck

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.
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?
100,000 years and counting: how do we tell future generations about highly radioactive nuclear waste repositories?

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

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

Carlo Valerio Bellieni, Università di Siena

A baby laughing.
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

Sheep and windmills

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Women dressed in white costumes stained with blood stand in a line in Brussels.

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

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

Fanny Verrax, EM Lyon Business School

Un tas de téléphones et de smartphones usagés
Climate change is speeding up in Antarctica

Sergi González Herrero, Universitat de Barcelona

Climate change is speeding up in Antarctica
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
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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What did Roman wine taste like? Much better than previously thought, according to new research

Dimitri Van Limbergen, Ghent University

What did Roman wine taste like? Much better than previously thought, according to new research
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Turning camels into cows: megafarms are being set up to produce camel milk on industrial scales

Ariell Ahearn, University of Oxford and Dawn Chatty,, University of Oxford

Turning camels into cows: megafarms are being set up to produce camel milk on industrial scales
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Putin's Russia: first arrests under new anti-LGBT laws mark new era of repression

Sergey Katsuba, University College Dublin

Putin's Russia: first arrests under new anti-LGBT laws mark new era of repression
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During the 2024 eclipse, biologists like us want to find out how birds will respond to darkness in the middle of the day

Kimberly Rosvall, Indiana University and Liz Aguilar, Indiana University

During the 2024 eclipse, biologists like us want to find out how birds will respond to darkness in the middle of the day
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How a brawl in 18th-century Constantinople changed what we know about the Vikings

Tonicha Upham, School of Advanced Study, University of London

How a brawl in 18th-century Constantinople changed what we know about the Vikings
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Could a video game developer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Andrés Porras Chaves, IE University

Could a video game developer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
New European law aims to protect media outlets against disinformation

New European law aims to protect media outlets against disinformation

Francisco J. Pérez Latre, Universidad de Navarra

The frantic pace of modern life is damaging our sense of time, but nature can help us heal – new study

Ricardo Correia, University of Turku

Huge beech tree with large branches in the enchanted forest in the Basque Country, Alava, Spain.
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.
The EU should stop ‘westsplaining’ and listen to its smaller eastern members – they saw the Ukraine war coming

Viktoriia Lapa, Bocconi University

Gabrielius Landsbergis speaking into multiple microphones at a press conference with European flags in the background.
Is Montessori education all it’s cracked up to be? What science says

Alison Demangeon, Université de Lorraine and Youssef Tazouti, Université de Lorraine

A bright-eyed little boy touches a globe as two other children watch on

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.
How we’re breathing new life into French forests through green corridors

Madga Bou Dagher, European Forest Institute

A pine plantation and hedgerow as seen from an unmanned aerial vehicle.
English dominates scientific research – here’s how we can fix it, and why it matters

Elea Giménez Toledo, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS - CSIC)

English dominates scientific research – here’s how we can fix it, and why it matters
AI bias: the organised struggle against automated discrimination

Philip Di Salvo, University of St.Gallen and Antje Scharenberg, University of St.Gallen

AI bias: the organised struggle against automated discrimination

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