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UFOs are back in the limelight after claims made by whistleblowers in the USA, but is it possible that aliens have visited Earth?
Long journeys by car, boat, bus, train or plane can turn going away into a miserable ordeal.
Sweeping new research shows many Europeans could accept to live under a non-democratic regime.
The Balearic islands have passed a pioneering law protecting the well-being of present and future generations. Can it be successful?
If proven correct, the Danish scientists’ scenario could mean the end of life in Europe as we know it.
During the summer, our eyes are particularly exposed to the elements: solar radiation, the cold from fans and air conditioners, chlorine or the salt in the water where we bathe…
Although Joaquín Sorolla is best known for his treatment of light in painting, he also cultivated social realism in his works.
Far from the idea of “trickle-down economics”, a map illustrates how the waterworks of the financial system are parching certain sections of the real economy and producing vast inequality.
Following a number of films featuring debauched emperors, it is nowadays commonplace to associate the Greek-Roman antiquity with orgies. But is this historically accurate?
We acquire languages in a intuitive process that involves little effort; we learn them through the conscious assimilation of grammatical rules and usage.
Let’s take a walk around Madrid a hundred years ago and meet the discotheques, pubs and unrestrained dancing of the roaring twenties.
The NATO summit in Vilnius has kicked the prospects of Ukraine’s membership into the long grass. Kyiv, however, has other security tricks up its sleeve.
Summer is here, together with its host of sun-drenched paraphernalia. One marketing scholar takes a look at our relationship to the emblematic cocktail, Aperol spritz.
What is a shooting star? Where do these bright moving bodies come from? How and when can we observe this astronomical phenomenon?
The general elections in Spain have left a confusing scenario in which party agreements will be the main protagonists.
One year away from the 2024 Olympic Games, the grim reality of climate change is impossible to deny. How do we make the mega-event sustainable and avoid the pitfalls of greenwashing?
After the country’s municipal elections in May 2023, perceived as a plebiscite on the government, President Pedro Sánchez called for general elections.
Spanish history recounts the existence of various peripheral nationalisms (Catalan and Basque), while, in many cases, the existence of a Spanish nationalism of Castilian origin is ignored.
Today, chefs – and some women chefs too – are listened to, admired and respected. But it wasn’t always that way.
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Anthropologue, Maîtresse de conférences à l'Université de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Científico titular CSIC, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)
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Directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS, économiste de l’énergie, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
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