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April 7, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, and Founder of Popsicule, ANU’s Science in Popular Culture and Entertainment Hub, Australian National University The relationship between science and pop culture often looks like a one-way street: scientific ... <a title="From Jurassic Park to dreams of AI doom, pop culture shapes science more than we like to admit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/07/from-jurassic-park-to-dreams-of-ai-doom-pop-culture-shapes-science-more-than-we-like-to-admit-279245/" aria-label="Read more about From Jurassic Park to dreams of AI doom, pop culture shapes science more than we like to admit">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damian Bailey, Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of South Wales For the first time since the Apollo era, humans are preparing not just to visit the Moon, but to live and work there for weeks, months – and eventually years. But what would it really be ... <a title="The unseen challenges of life on the Moon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/06/the-unseen-challenges-of-life-on-the-moon-273370/" aria-label="Read more about The unseen challenges of life on the Moon">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate McLoughlin, Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford Literature expresses complex and nuanced ideas – the powerful feelings that define us as human beings and the detailed observations that illuminate all aspects of our lives. It does so with words put together with consummate skill. So, ... <a title="Silence: a brief literary history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/06/silence-a-brief-literary-history-277903/" aria-label="Read more about Silence: a brief literary history">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Krisztina Ilko, Junior Research Fellow, Queens’ College and Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge In the medieval European imagination, racial difference was often highly polarised. Black people were perceived either as exotic status symbols – including saints and wealthy rulers such as the ... <a title="How medieval chess created a space in which players – regardless of race – could engage as equals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/06/how-medieval-chess-created-a-space-in-which-players-regardless-of-race-could-engage-as-equals-279132/" aria-label="Read more about How medieval chess created a space in which players – regardless of race – could engage as equals">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia If you’re feeling fed up with the way things are in the world, then, no matter your politics, you are experiencing an emotion people have felt for millennia. Perhaps you feel helpless. Maybe you ... <a title="Despairing at the state of the world? The ancient Greeks and Romans knew the feeling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/06/despairing-at-the-state-of-the-world-the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-knew-the-feeling-279566/" aria-label="Read more about Despairing at the state of the world? The ancient Greeks and Romans knew the feeling">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jasmin Lilian Diab, Assistant Professor of Migration Studies; Director of the Institute for Migration Studies, Lebanese American University Lebanon was meant to be preparing for key parliamentary elections in May 2026. Then came the return of war. Two days after the U.S. and Israel launched their military ... <a title="Lebanon’s political elites are using displacement and humanitarian crisis to delay elections again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/06/lebanons-political-elites-are-using-displacement-and-humanitarian-crisis-to-delay-elections-again-263677/" aria-label="Read more about Lebanon’s political elites are using displacement and humanitarian crisis to delay elections again">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Spyros A. Sofos, Assistant Professor in Global Humanities, Simon Fraser University Discussions about Israel’s role in the Middle East still revolve around threats and responses. Yet recent developments suggest that Israel isn’t only reacting to events, but is increasingly shaping the conditions in which they occur. This ... <a title="Israel isn’t just responding to threats – it’s reshaping the Middle East" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/06/israel-isnt-just-responding-to-threats-its-reshaping-the-middle-east-278863/" aria-label="Read more about Israel isn’t just responding to threats – it’s reshaping the Middle East">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Parry, Associate Professor of Palaeobiology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But the planet was not ... <a title="Humans’ closest invertebrate ancestors date back much further than thought – how we discovered the fossils that show this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/06/humans-closest-invertebrate-ancestors-date-back-much-further-than-thought-how-we-discovered-the-fossils-that-show-this-279793/" aria-label="Read more about Humans’ closest invertebrate ancestors date back much further than thought – how we discovered the fossils that show this">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christine Keiner, Chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Rochester Institute of Technology With the world struggling to get oil supplies moving from the Middle East, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich raised eyebrows with a social media post highlighting a radical idea: Use nuclear bombs ... <a title="Bypass the Strait of Hormuz with nuclear explosives? The US studied that in Panama and Colombia in the 1960s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/06/bypass-the-strait-of-hormuz-with-nuclear-explosives-the-us-studied-that-in-panama-and-colombia-in-the-1960s-278851/" aria-label="Read more about Bypass the Strait of Hormuz with nuclear explosives? The US studied that in Panama and Colombia in the 1960s">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meru Sheel, Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, University of Sydney We usually have to wait until winter approaches before we see an increase in cases of influenza, or the flu. But we have already seen a lot of flu this year, with 25,000 cases reported ... <a title="When is the best time to get your flu shot? 2 infectious diseases experts explain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/06/when-is-the-best-time-to-get-your-flu-shot-2-infectious-diseases-experts-explain-277743/" aria-label="Read more about When is the best time to get your flu shot? 2 infectious diseases experts explain">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Garritt C. Van Dyk, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato Christopher Columbus is back. At least, a statue of him is back, reinstalled by US President Donald Trump on the White House grounds in late March – part of the president’s stated mission to cancel “cancel ... <a title="Trump welcomes Columbus to the White House – and reignites America’s history wars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/06/trump-welcomes-columbus-to-the-white-house-and-reignites-americas-history-wars-279746/" aria-label="Read more about Trump welcomes Columbus to the White House – and reignites America’s history wars">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin On February 28, the US and Israel launched a war against Iran following weeks of US military build-up in the region and threats from US President Donald Trump. In the ensuing weeks, Iran has retaliated by ... <a title="How will the Iran war change the Middle East? We asked 5 experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/06/how-will-the-iran-war-change-the-middle-east-we-asked-5-experts-279652/" aria-label="Read more about How will the Iran war change the Middle East? We asked 5 experts">Read more</a>
