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Seaweeds are not plants – and six other surprising facts about aquatic flora
The rules for plants can be different in water.
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USA at 250: the Black American struggle for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
From the very earliest days of independence, the struggle of African Americans for their rights has defined the idea of freedom in the United States.
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Your summer fiction reading list: five of the best reads of 2026 so far, according to our experts
Five books that take you all over the world
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World Cup identity crisis: Who to root for when Team Canada plays your homeland?
Canada co-hosting the World Cup and its national team’s success is an opportunity to explore how people living in multicultural regions decide who to support.
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Vietnam’s population hit the 100 million milestone. Where’s it headed?
Rising population growth should slow in the coming decades and see a decline in the second half of the century.
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The rhythms that broke Bashir: how Sudan’s music shaped a revolution
Music created the networks, identities and spaces of trust that made collective political action possible in Sudan’s 2019 revolution.
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Ulysses in isiZulu: why an African translation of the classic Irish novel matters in today’s world
Writers from very different places can grapple with the same questions.
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When ‘man’ didn’t mean humanity: How language excluded women for centuries
Language that fails to explicitly name women has historically excluded them. And that exclusion is an active, reversible mechanism that’s now resurfacing.
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How an El Niño becomes a super El Niño
Climate expert Ioana Colfescu talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about predicting the impact of El Niño.
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Why the UK government needed to apologise for its role in historic forced adoptions in England
In a religious culture rooted in shame, up to half a million children in the UK and Ireland were put up for adoption without their mothers’ consent.
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Smartphones are helping filmmakers tell the stories the movie industry overlooks
I wanted to make a film about solo parenting in all its messiness, the highs, but also the lows. I shot with my smartphone, almost daily, for nearly two decades.
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Immigration and asylum bill: why yet another attempt to overhaul the system won’t work
If passed, it will be the fifth immigration act adopted in five parliamentary sessions.