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A silhouette of a woman looking at her phone with Donald Trump on a TV screen behind her.

What Trump’s victory means for Ukraine, the Middle East, China and the rest of the world

Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham

How humour and ‘dark play’ radicalise Trump’s voter base

How humour and ‘dark play’ radicalise Trump’s voter base

Beer Prakken, University of Groningen

Trump’s speeches are chaotic, rambling, and extremely effective. Aristotle can explain why

Trump’s speeches are chaotic, rambling, and extremely effective. Aristotle can explain why

Loren D. Marsh, Humboldt University of Berlin

A photo taken from a high window of brown flood waters flowing through a town street, with cars being swept along by the current.

Valencia floods: Our warming climate is making once-rare weather more common, and more destructive

Antonio Ruiz de Elvira Serra, Universidad de Alcalá

A historical photo of people standing and sitting on the Berlin wall as it is about to be torn down.

Thirty-five years since the wall fell, Berlin is divided – over what to do with crumbling communist buildings

Katrin Schreiter, King's College London

Europe is not prepared for the looming Lebanese refugee crisis

Barah Mikaïl, IE University

Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon in 2013.
The evolutionary benefits of being forgetful

Sven Vanneste, Trinity College Dublin and Elva Arulchelvan, Trinity College Dublin

Woman slapping her head
Industrial site

How does REACH, the EU regulation governing chemical substances, work?

Johanna Berneron, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (Anses)

Do we need a European DARPA to cope with technological challenges in Europe?

David W. Versailles, PSB Paris School of Business and Valérie Mérindol, PSB Paris School of Business

DARPA headquarters
Why Europe should consider putting boots on the ground in Ukraine

Viktoriia Lapa, Bocconi University

Volodymyr Zelensky talking into a bank of microphones.
Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal

Damián Tuset Varela, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal
Deadly spiders in Europe: How worried should we actually be?

Rick Visser, Universidad de Málaga

Close up photo of a brown spider
Female Nazi concentration camp guards: the true horror lies in their similarities to ourselves

Angharad Hampshire, York St John University

Six female SS guards from Belsen standing in a row scowling at the camera.
Sweden’s libraries caught in a political row about drag story hour

Lisa Magdalena Engström, Lund University; Fredrik Hanell, Linnaeus University, and Hanna Carlsson, Linnaeus University

A shelf of Swedish children's books.
A new generation of telescopes will probe the ‘unknown unknowns’ that could transform our knowledge of the universe

Richard Massey, Durham University

ELT
Paris’s iconic Centre Pompidou: a cultural superstar facing economic and environmental challenges

Marie Ballarini, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL

Side view of Beaubourg and the roofs of Paris
close up of rod-shaped microbes on grey background from microscope

Meet the microbes that transform toxic carbon monoxide into valuable biofuel

Maximilienne Toetie Allaart, University of Tübingen

Two people hugging on the street.

The political, social and psychological toll of family deaths in war

Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and Enrique Acosta, Autonomous University of Barcelona

The Mazan rape trial in France: does literature, with its ‘sleeping beauties’, glorify rape?

Sandrine Aragon, Sorbonne Université

The Mazan rape trial in France: does literature, with its ‘sleeping beauties’, glorify rape?
Destruction of Gaza heritage sites aims to erase – and replace – Palestine’s history

Pilar Montero Vilar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Photograph of an archaeological site next to the sea
Vive L’impressionnisme! at the Van Gogh Museum: a compelling, eco-conscious celebration of impressionism

Frances Fowle, University of Edinburgh

Painting of a windmill in a field of tulips

European Union

Ursula von der Leyen

The European Union is becoming too obsessed with defence

Richard Youngs, University of Warwick

By failing to support migrant entrepreneurs, Europe is missing out on opportunities for economic growth

Daniela Bolzani, Università di Bologna; Rosana Silveira Reis, ISG International Business School, and Vittoria G. Scalera, University of Amsterdam

By failing to support migrant entrepreneurs, Europe is missing out on opportunities for economic growth
The modern world’s relationship to time is broken – and it’s fuelling the rise of the far right

Jesus Casquete, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

The modern world’s relationship to time is broken – and it’s fuelling the rise of the far right
We polled EU citizens on what they want asylum policy to look like – their answers may surprise you

Natalia Letki, University of Warsaw; Dawid Walentek, Ghent University; Peter Thisted Dinesen, University of Copenhagen, and Ulf Liebe, University of Warwick

People on shore help pull a rubber dinghy full of people in life jackets from the ocean
The EU’s outsourced migration control is violent, expensive and ineffective

Barah Mikaïl, IE University

Refugee camp in Suruc, Turkey. 2015
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We study how plants ‘feed’ themselves to find more sustainable ways to feed the planet

We study how plants ‘feed’ themselves to find more sustainable ways to feed the planet

Javier Erro Garcés, Universidad de Navarra

What causes burnout at work, and how can we prevent it?

Carlos Antonio Ferro Soto, Universidade de Vigo; Analía López-Carballeira, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and M. Angeles Lopez Cabarcos, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

What causes burnout at work, and how can we prevent it?
Is your child stressed, restless, hyperactive? They might be suffering from sensory processing issues

Patricia Jovellar Isiegas, Universidad San Jorge

Is your child stressed, restless, hyperactive? They might be suffering from sensory processing issues
The effects of binge drinking on teenagers’ brain development

Samuel Suárez Suárez, Universidad de Burgos and Jose Manuel Pérez García, UNIR - Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

Two young people sit on the floor leaning against each other, with three empty alcohol bottles next to them.
Israel has invaded Lebanon six times in the past 50 years – a timeline of events

Vanessa Newby, Leiden University

Two IDF soldiers look on as an Israeli tank manoeuvers at the Lebanese border.
Obstetric violence: abuse during childbirth is widespread, but the first step to fighting it is naming it

Patrizia Quattrocchi, Università degli Studi di Udine; Clémence Schantz, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Rodante van der Waal, Universiteit Voor Humanistiek; Stella Villarmea, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Virginie Rozée, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques)

Obstetric violence: abuse during childbirth is widespread, but the first step to fighting it is naming it
Palliative and hospice care: why society cannot ignore the needs of terminally ill patients, and their loved ones

Vilma A. Tripodoro, Universidad de Navarra

Palliative and hospice care: why society cannot ignore the needs of terminally ill patients, and their loved ones
Sales jobs make people neurotic, but employers can protect workers’ health – just look at the construction industry

Selma Kadic-Maglajlic, Copenhagen Business School

Sales jobs make people neurotic, but employers can protect workers’ health – just look at the construction industry
How Covid-19 restrictions really impacted older people’s health across Europe

Jules Dupuy, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC); Éric Defebvre, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Thomas Barnay, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC)

How Covid-19 restrictions really impacted older people’s health across Europe
Delirium: this common and frightening syndrome looks like dementia, but comes on much faster

Laura Zaurín Paniagua, Universidad San Jorge

Delirium: this common and frightening syndrome looks like dementia, but comes on much faster
How to make meetings worthwhile and productive… for everyone involved

Francisco J. Pérez Latre, Universidad de Navarra

How to make meetings worthwhile and productive … for everyone involved
Does psilocybin really provide long-term relief from depression, as new study suggests?

Johan Lundberg, Karolinska Institutet and Guusje Haver, Karolinska Institutet

Psilocybe cubensis growing on a substrate.
Small populations of Stone Age people drove dwarf hippos and elephants to extinction on Cyprus

Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Christian Reepmeyer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut - German Archaeological Institute, and Theodora Moutsiou, University of Cyprus

A small hippo with baby among rocks and grass.

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Eco-anxiety Q&A: how the IPCC’s vice-chair keeps her head cool on a warming planet

Eco-anxiety Q&A: how the IPCC’s vice-chair keeps her head cool on a warming planet

Diána Ürge-Vorsatz, Central European University

Glue in the face: how frogs’ sticky secretions defend them from attack

Shabnam Zaman, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

A small, orange frog sits on the grouns
Childhood diabetes cases have risen sharply over the last 30 years in Europe, but some countries are affected more than others – new study

Marta Carolina Ruiz Grao, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; Ana Díez-Fernández, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, and Miriam Garrido Miguel, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Childhood diabetes cases have risen sharply over the last 30 years in Europe, but some countries are affected more than others – new study
Poor indoor air quality isn’t just making us sick – it’s also polluting our cities

César Martín-Gómez, Universidad de Navarra and Arturo H. Ariño, Universidad de Navarra

Poor indoor air quality isn’t just making us sick – it’s also polluting our cities
The best exercises to boost your brain health after 60

Neva Béraud-Peigné, Université Paris-Saclay; Alexandra Perrot, Université Paris-Saclay, and Pauline Maillot, Université Paris Cité

Des seniors en tenue de sport font une course sur le bitume.

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Amy Hinsley, University of Oxford and Susanne Masters, Leiden University

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Daniel García-Castellanos, Instituto de Geociencias de Barcelona (Geo3Bcn – CSIC) and Konstantina Agiadi, Universität Wien

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DNA reveals secrets of cave-dwelling medieval community that survived conquest and epidemics

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James Dyke, University of Exeter; Robert Watson, University of East Anglia, and Wolfgang Knorr, Lund University

Melting glacier splashes into the sea

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