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Making small changes to roadsides can help pollinators
Less frequent mowing and pesticide use can create environments that are more welcoming for pollinators like bees and butterflies.
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Surviving cancer starts at diagnosis and continues after treatment – earlier survivorship care can help patients feel better and live longer
Cancer survivorship is often thought to begin after a patient receives their last treatment. But planning for life after cancer is critical to effective care.
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Jackdaw decision could haunt the UK at future climate summits
The UK can’t champion a fossil fuel phase-out while approving new gas fields.
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Youth protests across Europe: the overlapping crises facing Gen Z
Young people appear to be facing increasing demands while some of the social resources that help them cope are weakening.
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America’s death penalty: why executions are rising again
Death penalty expert Carolyn Strange tracks the modern history of executions in the United States on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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Power cuts and sleep: students link loadshedding to anxiety, disrupted rest and lower marks
Poor sleep and poor studying went together. Students who slept worse were more likely to report lower grades and to arrive late for class.
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How K-dramas use Africa as a backdrop to boost South Korea’s image
Africa constantly appears as a ‘country’ full of savage danger or childish rebellion, in need of a saviour.
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Health progress in Africa leaves more people living with disabilities: rehabilitation is the next challenge
Health systems are saving lives, but they have not expanded rehabilitation services at the same pace.
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Indian Gen Z ‘cockroach’ protesters aim to upend assumptions about democracy – and populism – in Modi’s India
The protests challenge the government’s view of who “the people” are, what democracy means, and who speaks for youth, women and the politically marginalized.
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Women who changed science missing from GCSE and A-level courses – new study
Despite social, economic and institutional barriers limiting women’s formal participation in science, they made numerous key breakthroughs.
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Young people need more than qualifications to prepare them for work
As more young people become detached from education and employment, schools must look beyond academic results to the skills that connect us.
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Hokusai’s Great Wave is one of 46 prints of Mount Fuji – and seeing them together changes everything
The prints create a story that expands our understanding of the now famous Great Wave.