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The Conversation sponsors Vitae’s 2025 Three Minute Thesis competition – register to vote for your winner
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jo Adetunji, Executive Editor – Partnerships, The Conversation The 2025 Vitae 3MT finalists, clockwise L-R: Miranda Qianyu Wang, Yuxuan Wu, Abubakar Yunusa, Caitlin Campbell, Vic Pickup, Cesar Portillo. CC BY You have three minutes to present your big research idea which will be viewed by thousands…
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Biosphere 2’s latest mission: Learning how life first emerged on Earth – and how to make barren worlds habitable
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Scott Saleska, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona Biosphere 2 is a research facility located near Tucson, Ariz. Katja Schulz/Flickr, CC BY From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony…
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What happens when AI comes to the cotton fields
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Debra Lam, Founding Director of the Partnership for Inclusive Innovation, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology A researcher works in a cotton field in Jenkins County, Georgia, as part of a project on AI and pesticide use. Dorothy Seybold Precision agriculture uses tools and technologies…
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Your age shouldn’t put you off learning a new language – what the research says
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Karen Roehr-Brackin, Reader, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex If you’ve always wanted to learn a new language, don’t let age put you off. People aged over 60 can be independent and flexible in how they learn a language – and successful, too. There…
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Russian incursions into Nato airspace show Ukraine’s allied coalition needs to be ready as well as willing
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham While the air and ground war in Ukraine grinds on, Moscow is increasing pressure on Kyiv’s western allies. Russian drone incursions into Poland in the early hours of September 10, and Romania a few days later, were…
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Deadly drug-resistant fungus spreading rapidly through European hospitals
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Joni Wildman, PhD Candidate in Mycology, University of Bath TommyStockProject/Shutterstock.com A new European health survey shows that Candidozyma auris – a dangerous drug-resistant fungus – is spreading rapidly in hospitals across the continent. Cases and outbreaks are increasing, with some countries now seeing ongoing local transmission.…
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The UK, France, Canada and Australia have recognised Palestine – what does that mean? Expert Q+A
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By George Kyris, Associate Professor in International Politics, University of Birmingham The UK, France, Canada and Australia are among a group of nations that are moving to formally recognise the state of Palestine like most other states have done over the years. This move is a major…
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It’s OK to use paracetamol in pregnancy. Here’s what the science says about the link with autism
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Nicholas Wood, Professor, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney United States President Donald Trump has urged pregnant women to avoid paracetamol except in cases of extremely high fever, because of a possible link to autism. Paracetamol – known as acetaminophen or…
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Fish ‘fingerprints’ in the ocean reveal which species are moving homes due to climate change
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Chloe Hayes, Postdoctoral Researcher in Marine Ecology, University of Adelaide Blackblotched porcupinefish (_Diodon liturosus_). Glen Whisson/iNaturalist, CC BY-ND Species across the planet are on the move. Climate change has already caused more than 12,000 species to shift their homes across land, freshwater and the sea.…
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Do TikTok ‘anti-inflammatory diets’ really work?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Lauren Ball, Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland Abraham Gonzalez Fernandez/Getty Images “Cut out all dairy. Ditch gluten. Never touch sugar again.” More than 20 million people have watched TikTok videos listing these kinds of rules under the banner of “anti-inflammatory…