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Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections – but is it playing into the far right’s hands?

Gabriele Abels, University of Tübingen

We need to talk about Chinese and US influence in Europe’s energy industry

We need to talk about Chinese and US influence in Europe’s energy industry

Carine Sebi, Grenoble École de Management (GEM) and Patrick Criqui, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Can science explain why couples break up? The mathematical anatomy of a fall

Can science explain why couples break up? The mathematical anatomy of a fall

José-Manuel Rey, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Jorge Herrera de la Cruz, Universidad CEU San Pablo

Photo de la course de l'ADFC, pour réclamer de meilleures conditions de cyclisme

Cycling: The untapped potential for improving our health (and the climate)

Kévin Jean, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM); Audrey de Nazelle, Imperial College London; Marion Leroutier, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Philippe Quirion, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

Why do metaphors of space help us understand time?

Rosa Illán Castillo, Universidad de Murcia

Una mano sujeta un reloj de arena ante un paisaje urbano.
The EU’s new ecocide law may still let environmental criminals get away with it

Filippos Proedrou, University of South Wales and Maria Pournara, Swansea University

Waste on ground, polluting chimneys in background
What if companies rewarded employees for their failures?

Souad Brinette, EDC Paris Business School; Abdoulkarim Idi Cheffou, ISG International Business School, and Vesselina Tossan, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM)

What if companies rewarded employees for their failures?
The French identify as Europeans – and yet are also notoriously Eurosceptic

Pierre Bréchon, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France

The French identify as Europeans – and yet are also notoriously Eurosceptic
Euclid telescope: A scientist tells us of his quest to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy

Henk Hoekstra, Leiden University

Euclid telescope: A scientist tells us of his quest to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy
For Europe to emulate Silicon Valley’s tech success, it should change its startup funding model

Michaela Hruskova, University of Stirling and Katharina Scheidgen, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Tech startup illustration with a rocket in the middle
Trump-proofing Nato: why Europe’s current nuclear deterrents may not be enough

Natasha Lindstaedt, University of Essex

US soldiers running towards the camera.
More price rises and empty shelves on the cards as UK brings in Brexit border checks

Kamran Mahroof, University of Bradford and Emilia Vann Yaroson, University of Huddersfield

People browse products in a deli shop

European Elections 2024

Woman working with coffee beans

New EU trade rules could put poor countries in a billion dollar ‘green squeeze’

Jodie Keane, ODI

Why experts fear the EU’s new migration laws could lead to more deaths at sea

Pierre Micheletti, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Why experts fear the EU’s new migration laws could lead to more deaths at sea
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.
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.
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.
Empty hemicycle of the European Parliament in Brussels with the flags of the member states.

EU enlargement: What does the future hold?

Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera de Prat, Universitat de Barcelona

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Mikhail Batuev, Northumbria University, Newcastle

‘Lazy’, ‘messy’, ‘smart’: how labels affect a child’s personality development

Montserrat Magro Gutiérrez, Universidad Nebrija and Paula Contesse Carvacho, Universidad Nebrija

‘Lazy’, ‘messy’, ‘smart’: how labels affect a child’s personality development
Electric cars pile up at European ports as Chinese firms struggle to find buyers

Tom Stacey, Anglia Ruskin University

A port car park full of cars waiting to be loaded onto cargo ships.
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Jean-Pierre Darnis, Université Côte d’Azur

The Mattei Plan: why Giorgia Meloni is looking to Africa
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.

What do the Turkish local elections mean for the country’s 4 million refugees?

Dilshad Muhammad, University of Freiburg

Turkish citizens waving Turkish flags and celebrating the results of the 2024 elections.
Scotland’s government fell apart in a week – here’s what happened

Jonathan Parker, University of Glasgow

Humza Yousaf giving his resignation speech.
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
Family farms are fast disappearing: our research shows how young generations can take them up successfully

Rania Labaki, EDHEC Business School and Maryem Cherni, UniLaSalle

Farming in a landscape

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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

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
‘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.
Climate change is speeding up in Antarctica

Sergi González Herrero, Universitat de Barcelona

Climate change is speeding up in Antarctica
Portugal’s Carnation Revolution – the peaceful uprising that ended a decade of colonial war

Fernando Camacho Padilla, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

The 50th anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution – the peaceful uprising that toppled a dictatorship and ended a decade of colonial war
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Possible hints of life found on distant planet – how excited should we be?

Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University

Possible hints of life found on distant planet – how excited should we be?
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Electric cars pile up at European ports as Chinese firms struggle to find buyers

Tom Stacey, Anglia Ruskin University

Electric cars pile up at European ports as Chinese firms struggle to find buyers
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Euclid telescope: A scientist tells us of his quest to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy

Henk Hoekstra, Leiden University

Euclid telescope: A scientist tells us of his quest to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy
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Can science explain why couples break up? The mathematical anatomy of a fall

José-Manuel Rey, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Jorge Herrera de la Cruz, Universidad CEU San Pablo

Can science explain why couples break up? The mathematical anatomy of a fall
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‘Lazy’, ‘messy’, ‘smart’: how labels affect a child’s personality development

Montserrat Magro Gutiérrez, Universidad Nebrija and Paula Contesse Carvacho, Universidad Nebrija

‘Lazy’, ‘messy’, ‘smart’: how labels affect a child’s personality development
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The EU’s new ecocide law may still let environmental criminals get away with it

Filippos Proedrou, University of South Wales and Maria Pournara, Swansea University

The EU’s new ecocide law may still let environmental criminals get away with it
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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

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

Carlo Valerio Bellieni, Università di Siena

A baby laughing.
‘I might as well stop and diversify into holiday lets’ – new research reveals the reality of farming after Brexit

Peter Gittins, University of Leeds and Deema Refai, University of Leeds

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Balenciaga and the influence of abstract art

María Villanueva Fernández, Universidad de Navarra

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On-demand fashion gives much-needed clues on how to green notoriously wasteful industry

Valérie Moatti, ESCP Business School

On-demand fashion gives much-needed clues on how to green notoriously wasteful industry
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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Sebastian Dohm-Hansen Allard, University College Cork and Yvonne Nolan, University College Cork

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