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Pedro Sánchez’s ‘letter to the citizens’ of Spain assessed by a political communications expert

Pedro Sánchez’s ‘letter to the citizens’ of Spain assessed by a political communications expert

Carmen Beatriz Fernández, Universidad de Navarra

Woman working with coffee beans

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

Jodie Keane, ODI

Dead dinosaur protest

Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back

Trevelyan Wing, University of Cambridge

Two men breakdancing in a storm drain.

How breakdancing became the latest Olympic sport

Mikhail Batuev, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Good for your health and the environment: why we should be eating oily fish

Gumersindo Feijoo Costa, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Good for your health and the environment: why we should be eating oily fish
The 50th anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution – the peaceful uprising that toppled a dictatorship and 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
The Mattei Plan: why Giorgia Meloni is looking to Africa

Jean-Pierre Darnis, Université Côte d’Azur

The Mattei Plan: why Giorgia Meloni is looking to Africa
Impact investing in Paris suburban ‘banlieue’ neighbourhoods: untapped social and economic potential

Romain Boulongne, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra)

Impact investing in Paris suburban ‘banlieue’ neighbourhoods: untapped social and economic potential
The murder of Giacomo Matteotti – reinvestigating Italy’s most infamous cold case

Andrea Pisauro, University of Plymouth and Gianluca Fantoni, Nottingham Trent University

A group of uniformed men carry a coffin along a path out of woods
Sex differences don’t disappear as a country’s equality develops – sometimes they become stronger

Agneta Herlitz, Karolinska Institutet

Human face made from different portraits of men and women of diverse age and race.
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
Five things our research uncovered when we recreated 16th century beer (and barrels)

Susan Flavin, Trinity College Dublin and Charlie Taverner, Trinity College Dublin

Adding water to the mash vat as part of the brewing process.

European Elections 2024

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

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.
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Young people gather in a park in Moscow wearing rainbow and other LGBT symbols

Putin’s Russia: first arrests under new anti-LGBT laws mark new era of repression

Sergey Katsuba, University College Dublin

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.
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
Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel was a strategic miscalculation. Can all-out war now be averted?

Ran Porat, Monash University

Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel was a strategic miscalculation. Can all-out war now be averted?
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

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?
Cinema in Spain: a window into 500 years of history

Xosé P. Boán, University of Limerick

Two girls walk by a train track.
‘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.
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

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A sheep with hilly background.

‘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

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
Climate change is speeding up in Antarctica

Sergi González Herrero, Universitat de Barcelona

Climate change is speeding up in Antarctica
Why do children laugh? It’s not always because they’re happy

Carlo Valerio Bellieni, Università di Siena

A baby laughing.
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
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Five things our research uncovered when we recreated 16th century beer (and barrels)

Susan Flavin, Trinity College Dublin and Charlie Taverner, Trinity College Dublin

Five things our research uncovered when we recreated 16th century beer (and barrels)
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Sex differences don’t disappear as a country’s equality develops – sometimes they become stronger

Agneta Herlitz, Karolinska Institutet

Sex differences don’t disappear as a country’s equality develops – sometimes they become stronger
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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

Family farms are fast disappearing: our research shows how young generations can take them up successfully
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Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back

Trevelyan Wing, University of Cambridge

Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
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The murder of Giacomo Matteotti – reinvestigating Italy’s most infamous cold case

Andrea Pisauro, University of Plymouth and Gianluca Fantoni, Nottingham Trent University

The murder of Giacomo Matteotti – reinvestigating Italy’s most infamous cold case
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Good for your health and the environment: why we should be eating oily fish

Gumersindo Feijoo Costa, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Good for your health and the environment: why we should be eating oily fish
A la derecha, _Naranja y amarillo_ de Mark Rothko. A la izquierda, vestido de día en crepé de lana naranja, de Cristóbal Balenciaga, 1967.

Balenciaga and the influence of abstract art

María Villanueva Fernández, Universidad de Navarra

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 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.
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 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?

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.
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 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.
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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