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<H3> The US has entered the Israel-Iran war. Here are 3 scenarios for what might happen next </H3> |
<H3> The Weimar triangle: how Germany’s new government could reinvigorate an important European security alliance </H3> |
<H3> Degrowth and fashion: how upcycling innovators show us how to rethink and reuse waste </H3> |
<H3> Recycling batteries from ‘urban mines’: how Europe can source critical raw materials at home </H3> |
<H3> Bulgaria is joining the euro in January – and not everyone is pleased </H3> |
<H3> Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty-handed </H3> |
<H3> Neanderthal extinction: a space physicist reopens the debate </H3> |
<H3> ‘Active breaks’ can combat the health risks of a sedentary lifestyle, but what kind of exercise is best? </H3> |
<H3> Europe is perfectly placed to lead a world abandoned by the US – but will it meet the moment? </H3> |
<H3> Defence firms must adopt a ‘flexible secrecy’ to innovate for European rearmament </H3> |
<H3> Lower revenues, pricier loans: how flooding in Europe affects firms and the financial system they depend on </H3> |
<H3> France’s final nuclear tests in the South Pacific, 30 years on </H3> |
<H3> Oldest known human fingerprint discovered on ancient Neanderthal artwork – with help from Spain’s forensic police </H3> |
<H3> Greenland’s melting ice caps reveal the true extent of climate change </H3> |
<H3> From sovereignty to sustainability: a brief history of ocean governance </H3> |
<H3> Harvard battle is Trump’s ‘Mao moment’: lessons from China’s state-sanctioned university crackdown </H3> |
<H3> How a postwar German literary classic helped eclipse painter Emil Nolde’s relationship to Nazism </H3> |
<H3> Record rainfall in the south, drought in the north: what’s causing Europe’s unusual spring weather? </H3> |
<H3> Just three nights of poor sleep might harm your heart – new study </H3> |
<H3> Germany’s new government wants to be a foreign policy power </H3> |
<H3> Is the pope a mathematician? Yes, actually – and his training may help him grapple with the infinite </H3> |
<H3> Is every nationalist a potential fascist? A historian weighs in </H3> |
<H3> Urban environments significantly increase risk of developing asthma – new research </H3> |
<H3> How ongoing deforestation is rooted in colonialism and its management practices </H3> |
<H3> Trump is pushing the EU and China closer. Is this a full reset, or just strategic readjustment? </H3> |
<H3> Could the euro replace the dollar as global reserve currency? It’s not getting any less likely </H3> |
<H3> Homo sapiens regularly crossed the Pyrenees during the Ice Age – here’s what they took with them </H3> |
<H3> What we’ve learnt about lone-actor terrorism over the years could help us prevent future attacks </H3> |
<H3> What interviews with ordinary Germans living under the Nazis can teach us about our current politics </H3> |
<H3> Art Deco: 100 years since the Paris exhibition that revolutionised modern design </H3> |
<H3> Drug pollution in water is making salmon take more risks – new research </H3> |
<H3> Brains of people with schizophrenia may age faster – how our research adds to the evidence </H3> |
<H3> Europeans have more flexible views on how to respond to irregular migrants than policymakers think – new research </H3> |
<H3> The paradox of democracy’s success: behavioural science helps explain why we miss autocratic red flags </H3> |
<H3> Our new study indicates maternal exposure to relatively low fluoride levels may affect intelligence in children </H3> |
<H3> Western Europe’s oldest human face discovered in Spain </H3> |
<H3> Trump and Europe: US ‘transactionalism on steroids’ is the challenge facing leaders now </H3> |
<H3> Electric cars were once marketed as ‘women’s cars’. Did this hold back their development over the next century? </H3> |
<H3> Abducting women: early modern Europe’s solution to marital problems </H3> |
<H3> Renewable energy: rural areas can be the EU’s green powerhouse </H3> |
<H3> Education for peace: the effort to teach children how to rebuild societies after WWII </H3> |
<H3> How a troubled childhood can foster creative talent – new study </H3> |
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<H5> What is a ‘bunker buster’? An expert explains what the US dropped on Iran </H5> |
<H5> Israel, Iran and the US: why 2025 is a turning point for the international order </H5> |
<H5> From hotspot to flashpoint: how tourism pushed Barcelona to breaking point, and how social movements are fighting back </H5> |
<H5> The politics of blame: Accusing immigrants won’t solve Germany’s antisemitism problem </H5> |
<H5> Mosquito, tick or flea? How to avoid, identify and treat insect bites this summer </H5> |
<H5> Testing between intervals: a key to retaining information in long-term memory </H5> |
<H5> No packaging, no problem? The potential drawbacks of bulk groceries </H5> |
<H5> How diet can help prevent muscle injuries in over-50s </H5> |
<H5> Harmful chemicals often migrate into tinned food – here’s how to avoid eating them </H5> |
<H5> Ghosting and ‘breadcrumbing’: the psychological impact of our bad behaviour on dating apps </H5> |
<H5> Trump’s travel ban casts shadow over the upcoming Fifa Club World Cup and other US-hosted sporting events </H5> |
<H5> Why the appendix is much more important than we once thought </H5> |
<H5> After 50 successful years, the European Space Agency has some big challenges ahead </H5> |
<H5> Is the bar higher for scientific claims of alien life? </H5> |
<H5> One lawsuit just helped melt the fossil fuel industry’s defence against being held accountable for climate change </H5> |
<H5> We’re criticising GDPR for all the wrong reasons </H5> |
<H5> How pro-Europe, pro-US Poland offers the EU a model for how to handle Trump </H5> |
<H5> ‘I will not eat the bugs’: examining a right-wing narrative about scarcity and insect consumption </H5> |
<H5> Russia is facing fresh sanctions, but Putin is used to dealing with a struggling economy </H5> |
<H5> Is air travel about to get greener? Our study shows how ‘coopetition’ is helping aircraft companies tackle sustainability </H5> |
<H5> Social platform Stocktwits and other sources of ‘alternative data’ may be hurting financial analysts’ long-term forecasts </H5> |
<H5> AI methods help predict the emergence of ‘gazelles’ and other high-growth firms, but challenges remain </H5> |
<H5> Italy’s areas of wartime fascist resistance remain less susceptible to the far right today </H5> |
<H5> Antibiotic resistance dates back millions of years, with important lessons for modern medicine </H5> |
<H5> The environmental, social and public health toll of Europe’s factory farming dependency </H5> |
<H5> Three strategies to help European carmakers regain their edge </H5> |
<H5> Spain and Portugal power cut: how public and official responses have prevented this energy emergency from becoming a crisis </H5> |
<H5> Want to walk the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage? Leave your phone at home </H5> |
<H5> Glitter’s sparkle hides a darker side – it can change the chemistry of our oceans </H5> |
<H5> Why sitting down – and getting back up – might be the most important health test you do today </H5> |
<H5> The EU has banned BPAs: here’s what you need to know about this common, toxic compound </H5> |
<H5> Threatening diversity, threatening growth: the business effects of Trump’s anti-DEI and anti-trans agendas </H5> |
<H5> ‘Piracy’ to legitimacy: how companies like French ride-hailing platform Heetch can make their mark </H5> |
<H5> Social attitudes are driving Europe’s mobility transformation, not tech </H5> |
<H5> Manuscript sold for €300 is now attributed to Cyrano de Bergerac – but questions remain about the play’s authorship </H5> |
<H5> Europe’s elderly need migrant caregivers – whether we like it or not </H5> |
<H5> Google, antitrust enforcement and the future of European digital sovereignty </H5> |
<H5> US v. them: Trump’s tariffs and his economic vision of dominance </H5> |
<H5> How long can you stand on one leg? This simple test is the single clearest indicator of physical ageing </H5> |
<H5> Europe tops global ranking of dynamic and sustainable cities – here’s why </H5> |
<H5> Why we need to teach digital literacy in schools </H5> |
<H5> The radical European peasant movements that formed populist parties and breakaway republics </H5> |
<H5> Uncorking the past: new analysis of Troy findings rewrites the story of wine in the early bronze age </H5> |
<H5> Bonobos create phrases in similar ways to humans, new study suggests </H5> |
<H5> Dark energy may not be constant – this discovery could undermine our entire model of cosmological history </H5> |
<H5> Life-size sculptures uncovered in Pompeii show that ancient women didn’t just have to be wives to make a difference </H5> |
<H5> Consecutive El Niños are happening more often and the result is more devastating – new research </H5> |
<H5> Traumatic experiences and genetics may increase endometriosis risk, a new study finds </H5> |
<H5> Tech startup culture is not as innovative as founders may think </H5> |
<H5> 3D-printed grafts: shaping the future of bone and tissue regeneration </H5> |
<H5> How foreign accents subconsciously shape the way we interact </H5> |
<H5> How dramatic daily swings in oxygen shaped early animal life – new study </H5> |
<H5> Medieval Venice shows us the good art can do in times of crisis </H5> |
<H5> AI transformation in the legal sector begins in law schools </H5> |
<H5> Software is increasingly being built by AI – so it’s vital to know if it can be trusted </H5> |
<H5> A ‘golden age’ of global free trade is over. Smaller alliances can meet the moment </H5> |
<H5> AI robot pets can be adorable and emotionally responsive. They also raise questions about attachment and mental health </H5> |
<H5> Theft, daydreaming and everything in between: most of us are a bit ‘deviant’ at work </H5> |
<H5> No world order: Europe needs more radical thinking for the Trump era </H5> |
<H5> Academic freedom and democracy under siege: how a Nobel peace prize could help defend them </H5> |
<H5> Carbon capture and storage: how to remove all CO₂ emissions everywhere all at once </H5> |
<H5> The EU’s ‘twin’ green and digital transitions: a policy revolution, or just Euro-jargon? </H5> |
<H5> The US has entered the Israel-Iran war. Here are 3 scenarios for what might happen next </H5> |
<H5> What is a ‘bunker buster’? An expert explains what the US dropped on Iran </H5> |
<H5> Neanderthal extinction: a space physicist reopens the debate </H5> |
<H5> ‘Active breaks’ can combat the health risks of a sedentary lifestyle, but what kind of exercise is best? </H5> |
<H5> Israel, Iran and the US: why 2025 is a turning point for the international order </H5> |
<H5> Why did Israel defy Trump – and risk a major war – by striking Iran now? And what happens next? </H5> |
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