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Why countries struggle to quit fossil fuels, despite higher costs and 30 years of climate talks and treaties
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Kate Hua-Ke Chi, Doctoral Fellow, The Fletcher School, Tufts University Renewable energy is expanding, but a fossil fuel phaseout appears to still be far in the future. Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images Fossil fuels still power much of the world, even though renewable energy…
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Denver study shows removing parking requirements results in more affordable housing being built
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Susan D. Daggett, Professor of the Practice of Law, University of Denver More mixed-use development is likely coming to another parking lot near Coors Field. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Removing parking requirements for new buildings could help thousands of Coloradans who struggle…
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Banning abortion is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Seda Saluk, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan Abortion rights protesters march against Trump’s deployment of federal troops to Washington, D.C., on Sept. 2, 2025. Jose Luis Magana/AP Pregnant women crossing borders to get an abortion. People who miscarry facing jail time…
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Why and how does personality emerge? Studying the evolution of individuality using thousands of fruit flies
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Shraddha Lall, Ph.D. Candidate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Even fruit flies have personal preferences. Antagain/E+ via Getty Images As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior – the building blocks of personality. My experiments…
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Stethoscope, meet AI – helping doctors hear hidden sounds to better diagnose disease
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Valentina Dargam, Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University The basic premise of the stethoscope has been around for centuries, largely unchanged. Jonathan Kitchen/DigitalVision via Getty Images When someone opens the door and enters a hospital room, wearing a stethoscope is a telltale sign…
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Four-year-olds don’t need to sit still to be ‘school ready’
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lucy Sors, Senior Lecturer, York St John University Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock The UK government’s strategy for early years education in England aims to get children in reception “school-ready”. But what school readiness means is debatable. Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has pointed out that half of reception-aged children “can’t…
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Why climate summits fail – and three ways to save them
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Francesco Grillo, Academic Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University Nearly three decades after the first UN climate conference, emissions are still rising. The global system for tackling climate change is broken – it’s slow, cumbersome and undemocratic. Even Donald Trump may not be…
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What the Caerphilly byelection could reveal about Reform, Labour and Wales’ political future
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Marc Collinson, Lecturer in Political History, Bangor University Caerphilly castle is the second largest castle in the UK Ceri Breeze/Shutterstock When voters in Caerphilly in south Wales go to the polls later this month, it will be about far more than one seat in the Senedd,…
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India’s monsoon is becoming more extreme – even though overall rainfall has hardly increased
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ligin Joseph, PhD Candidate, Oceanography, University of Southampton Across India, torrential rains over the past few months have swallowed an entire village in the Himalayas, flooded Punjab’s farmlands and brought Kolkata to a standstill. This all happened in a monsoon season in which total rainfall was…
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Van Gogh and the Roulins: a family reunion of the artist’s greatest portraits
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Frances Fowle, Personal Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh The Van Gogh Museum’s new exhibition, Van Gogh and the Roulins – Together Again at Last, celebrates an important family reunion. It brings together 14 portraits of the wife and three children of…