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Climate change may shift hailstorms towards Earth’s poles – new study
Costs from severe storms are increasing – and this global shift in hailstorm spells bad news for crops, too.
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Galloway Hoard exhibit in Sydney dives into the secrets of the Viking world
This mysterious Viking-age hoard lay buried for more than a millenium. Unearthed by an amateur metal detectorist, it is now on show in Sydney.
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New season of The Conversation’s award-winning Curious Kids podcast launching this June
The podcast where kids ask questions direct to academics is back for a second season.
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Myanmar’s forgotten war: How the world is failing the test of the UN’s Responsibility to Protect
The war in Myanmar draws far less western attention than Ukraine or the Middle East. Why is such an enduring and intractable conflict being treated with so little urgency?
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The push to standardize ESG scores could make corporate greenwashing easier, not harder
Tying executive pay to ESG metrics is now standard practice at most large companies. But new research finds that when the scoring methodology becomes predictable, it becomes easier to game.
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Why researchers may be getting mental health inequalities wrong
Lived experience of a mental health issue is often devalued in psychological research – embracing it can create more impact for minoritised communities.
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Finland is Europe’s most digitalised country – but older people are still left behind
In-person visits to important places, such as banks and health centres, can become very limited, even impossible.
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AI ‘digital twins’ are transforming heart care but will they work for women?
In cardiology, sex and gender-sensitive diagnosis and treatment planning are crucial, but biological differences remain the missing link in AI-powered human virtual twin technology.
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Europe is spending billions on deporting migrants. Why the strategy isn’t working
The European Union has used money and enforcement infrastructure as the twin pillars of its migrant returns strategy. The evidence suggests it isn’t working.
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Cultural bias in west Africa’s school-leaver exam questions puts many students at a disadvantage
Assessments are often treated as culturally neutral when they are not.
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TMZ descends on Washington in a test of whether tabloid tactics can serve the public interest
With spectacle, personality clashes and corruption increasingly defining American politics, it was only a matter of time before TMZ would set its sights on the Beltway.
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Why Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, became the patron saint of the US in the 1840s
Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, became patroness of the United States before the Vatican officially defined that belief as dogma.