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Byron’s letters reveal the real queer love and loss that inspired his poetry

Sam Hirst, University of Nottingham

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Victorian London was a city in flux: architectural models helped the public visualise the changes

Matthew Wells, University of Manchester

Landmark US prosecution of parents for son’s shooting of students creates legal precedent – an expert explains

Emma Long, University of East Anglia

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The idea that US interest rates will stay higher for longer is probably wrong

Alan Shipman, The Open University

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The great tits in this Oxford wood are adapting their breeding times as climate changes – here’s how

David López Idiáquez, University of Oxford

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Psychedelics could make mental health worse in people with a personality disorder

Pouya Movahed Rad, Lund University

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The Conversation’s Curious Kids – new podcast where kids get answers direct from experts

Gemma Ware, The Conversation

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Save our seabed – the bottom of the ocean needs to become a top priority, and the UN agrees

William Austin, University of St Andrews

AI chatbots are bad at planning, but this could soon change

Nello Cristianini, University of Bath

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What are the EU’s new migration rules, and why did they take so long to pass?

Simon Usherwood, The Open University

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Could Israel’s strike against the Iranian embassy in Damascus escalate into a wider regional war? Expert Q&A

Scott Lucas, University College Dublin

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The power of POV: five films that put you in the shoes of otherwise unrelatable characters

Daniel O'Brien, University of Essex

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What millennials and gen Z professionals need to know about developing a meaningful career

William E. Donald, University of Southampton

How the national living wage helps the UK’s poorest households: new research

Giulia Giupponi, Bocconi University

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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

Ahmad ibn Fadlan in front of Viking ships.
Ukraine war: Russia’s devastating use of Soviet-era ‘glide bombs’ shows how urgently Kyiv needs air defence systems

Gerald Hughes, Aberystwyth University

A firefighter tries to extinguish a blaze in a bombed building.
Boeing: what the next CEO needs to do to ensure quality and turn things around

Bart MacCarthy, University of Nottingham

Boeing: what the next CEO needs to do to ensure quality and turn things around
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Is the shine coming off Japan’s bullet trains?

Taku Tamaki, Loughborough University

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Russ Cook: what running across Africa does to the human body

Dan Gordon, Anglia Ruskin University

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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

Swifts need more nest boxes but that alone won’t be enough – here’s why

Robert Robinson, University of East Anglia

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Pubic hair: beyond brazilians, more than manscaping

Dan Baumgardt, University of Bristol

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India elections: ‘Our rule of law is under attack from our own government, but the world does not see this’
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Sandhya Fuchs, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Eye infections might seem like a minor complaint – but in some cases they can cause blindness and even death

Adam Taylor, Lancaster University

Eye infections might seem like a minor complaint – but in some cases they can cause blindness and even death
Aerial view of landslide affected houses

A landslide forced me from my home – and I experienced our failure to deal with climate change at first hand

Ralitsa Hiteva, University of Sussex

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The response to Banksy’s tree highlights an ambiguity at the root of his ‘activism’

Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann, The Open University

Meet J.A. Baker – the influential nature writer you’ve probably never heard of

Sarah Demelo, University of Essex

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Special edition vinyl albums cause some fans delight – but others suspect a cynical marketing ploy

Glenn Fosbraey, University of Winchester

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Inside the global arms industry: what a secretive London trade fair reveals about international weapons sales

Jill Gibbon, Leeds Beckett University

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Peter Higgs was one of the greats of particle physics. He transformed what we know about the building blocks of the universe

Harald Fox, Lancaster University

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Global affairs

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Ukraine war: battlefield tipping in Russia’s favour as Kyiv begs allies for more arms

Christopher Morris, University of Portsmouth

Ukraine recap: Russia intensifies its air war as Kyiv begs for western military aid

Jonathan Este, The Conversation

Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky stands at a podium flanked by the Ukraine flag.
How the ‘Mexican miracle’ kickstarted the modern US–Mexico drugs trade

Nathaniel Morris, UCL

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How have China and Russia beefed up their relationship after Ukraine war wobble? Expert Q&A

Natasha Kuhrt, King's College London

Lavrov and Yi shake hands in Beijing to discuss the ongoing relationship between Russia and China.
Ukraine war: why many Nato countries are thinking of introducing conscription and the issues that involves

Rod Thornton, King's College London

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Expert reviews

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Back to Black: Amy Winehouse biopic reviewed by an alcohol expert

Sadie Boniface, King's College London

Scoop: Netflix depiction of Prince Andrew interview is a welcome addition to the journalism film canon

Sarah Lonsdale, City, University of London

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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire – this Chinese-US blockbuster maximises the global appeal of the MonsterVerse

Rayna Denison, University of Bristol

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You Are Not Alone: powerful new film documents how women’s protest against misogyny helped change Spain’s rape laws

Abigail Loxham, University of Liverpool and Deborah Shaw, University of Portsmouth

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Hideko Takamine at 100: six of the Japanese actor’s films that captured a nation in flux

Till Weingärtner, University College Cork

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Research highlights

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Schools are using research to try to improve children’s learning – but it’s not working

Sally Riordan, UCL

Fintech has a gender problem – here’s why you should care

Chloe Fox-Robertson, University of Manchester and Dariusz Wojcik, National University of Singapore

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How food preferences are linked to cognition and brain health – and why a balanced diet is superior

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, University of Cambridge; Christelle Langley, University of Cambridge; Jianfeng Feng, Fudan University, and Wei Cheng, Fudan University

How food preferences are linked to cognition and brain health – and why a balanced diet is superior
More mental health support in schools makes sense – but some children may fall through gaps

Jo Ellins, University of Birmingham

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Survey reveals UK butterfly winners and losers in the wake of record high temperatures

Marcus Rhodes, University of Exeter

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Sleep quality, circadian rhythm and metabolism differ in women and men – new review reveals this could affect disease risk

Sarah Chellappa, University of Southampton

Early spring brings a ‘hungry gap’ for bees – here’s how you can help

Tonya Lander, University of Oxford and Matthias Becher, University of Exeter

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This philosophical theory can help you stop taking criticism personally

Samantha Fazekas, Trinity College Dublin

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Silent cancers: here’s what you need to know when there are no obvious symptoms

Justin Stebbing, Anglia Ruskin University

Silent cancers: here’s what you need to know when there are no obvious symptoms
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Primrose Freestone, University of Leicester

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For people with mental illness, drugs and alcohol can be a key survival strategy. I’ve learned they shouldn’t have to ‘get clean’ to get treatment

Simon Bratt, Staffordshire University

I’ve spent time with refugees in French coastal camps and they told me the government’s Rwanda plan is not putting them off coming to the UK

Sophie Watt, University of Sheffield

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The Turkish holiday resort that’s become an emergency dental centre for Britons who can’t get treated at home

Diana Ibanez-Tirado, University of Sussex

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Descendants of Holocaust survivors explain why they are replicating Auschwitz tattoos on their own bodies

Alice Bloch, University of Manchester

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‘We miners die a lot.’ Appalling conditions and poverty wages: the lives of cobalt miners in the DRC

Roy Maconachie, University of Bath

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Stephen Barber, University of East London

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Adam Zeman, University of Exeter

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Kirk Chang, University of East London and Alina Vaduva, University of East London

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David Thomas, University of Oxford

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