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Should lynx and wolves be reintroduced to Britain and Ireland? Young people have mixed feelings

There are many things people have love-hate relationships with in Britain and Ireland, from Brussels sprouts to cricket or sea swimming. Another...

yesterday 8

Jonny Hanson

Formula milk prices are not being cut as some claim – here’s what’s really happening

If you’ve been celebrating the news that the government will save you £500 a year on baby formula, we’re sorry to be the bearer of bad news: that’s...

yesterday 20

Amy Brown

The world is facing a cancer crisis that’s hitting the most vulnerable hardest

Cancer is a universal challenge that hits those with the fewest resources hardest – and nearly half of global cancer deaths are linked to...

yesterday 3

Vikram Niranjan

Sweden’s mining industry is threatening the Indigenous Sami people’s way of life

The Indigenous Sami in the far north of Sweden say intensive industrial projects pose risks to their way of life.

yesterday 3

Georgia De Leeuw

Is the dominance of the US dollar unravelling under Trump?

The US has long sat at the centre of the global financial system, with the US dollar serving as the backbone of the world economy. Private...

yesterday 10

Fabian Pape

How the ‘hypnagogic state’ of drowsiness could enhance your creativity

The Beatles’ song Yesterday was written in what psychologists refer to as the “hypnagogic state”. This is the twilight zone between sleep and...

yesterday 5

Steve Taylor

Train Dreams on Netflix is a beautiful film – but it misses the magic of the original novella

Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams was first published in 2002 as a short story in the Paris Review. When it was reissued as a standalone novella almost...

yesterday 6

Dominic Davies

Why Vladimir Putin’s in no hurry for peace

This newsletter was first published in The Conversation UK’s World Affairs Briefing email. Sign up to receive weekly analysis of the latest...

yesterday 3

Jonathan Este

Why China is watching Trump’s Venezuela campaign closely

Donald Trump’s campaign against Venezuela escalated recently with the US president announcing that the country’s airspace should be considered...

yesterday 3

Tom Harper

Reform’s £9m gift and the rise of the political mega-donor

When the latest figures on donations to political parties were released, it was revealed that businessman Christopher Harborne had donated £9...

yesterday 3

Sam Power

Jurors aren’t impartial – that’s exactly why they are so important to justice

On the surface, the rationale for the UK government’s proposals to limit the use of jury trials in England and Wales is pragmatic. Over 78,000...

yesterday 3

Elaine Jackson

Your Party: if the name sounds terrible, there’s a good reason for it

When independent MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana launched their new political venture in July 2025, they did so under a name that seemed almost...

yesterday 3

Nicholas Dickinson

Can entrepreneurship be taught? Here’s the neuroscience

Despite countless programmes and initiatives, rates of entrepreneurial intention — a marker of how willing people are to start new ventures —...

yesterday 3

Victor Perez

Why we need weird stories for a warming world

For centuries, nature has been the backdrop to human drama: a stage humanity dominates, exploits, or saves. But what if the planet isn’t just a...

yesterday 2

Trang Dang

Wood-burning stoves face new restrictions – but a loophole from Britain’s smog years is fuelling the problem

Wood-burning stoves are booming in the UK, a cosy response to high energy prices and cost of living pressures. But this comes with a hidden cost....

yesterday 3

James Heydon

Nasa robot rover shows that sparks fly in dust storms on Mars

Sometimes you get a small electric shock from touching your car door handle on a dry summer’s day. The source of these shocks is a spark discharge,...

yesterday 3

Martin Fullekrug

A brief history of mulled wine – from health tonic to festive treat

When frost sparkles in the morning and our breath is visible as we venture outside, thoughts turn to winter warming treats like mulled wine – a...

yesterday 3

Sara Read

Why we created a phone-sized device to take blood diagnostics out of the lab into the real world

When your doctor thinks you might have an infection or an allergy, a simple blood test should give answers within hours. But for much of the world,...

yesterday 3

Parth Shinde

Low-tax or high-welfare ? The UK must decide what type of country it wants to be

Headlines about tax in the UK being at an all-time high abounded after the autumn budget. The current overall tax take, at 35% of GDP, is indeed a...

yesterday 2

Christopher Adam

Why our physical bodies may be a core part of conscious experience – new research

Most of us go through the day without thinking much about our bodies – until something goes wrong. Yet beneath that apparent simplicity lies a...

previous day 20

Renzo Lanfranco

Outdoor swimming is becoming a sanctuary for female swimmers in the UK

Centuries after the upper class flocked to the coast for therapeutic sea bathing, outdoor swimming is having a renaissance. Swimmers enter cold...

previous day 2

Abi Lafbery

The UK’s food supply is more fragile than you might think – here’s why it should be a national priority

If you walked into a supermarket during a supply hiccup, storm, fuel protest, or even the early days of the COVID pandemic, you will remember the...

previous day 8

Sven Batke

Wicked: For Good – what lies beneath correcting the way people speak?

“Pink goes good with green.” This is a lesson we learned from Glinda (Ariana Grande) in Wicked part one. But do you remember the line that comes...

previous day 2

Emma Humphries

The American fixation on white Afrikaners in South Africa stretches back nearly a century

A few days after Donald Trump boycotted a G20 summit in Johannesburg, he announced South Africa would not be invited to the next G20 meeting,...

previous day 7

Gemma Ware

Good sleep starts in the gut

You might think good sleep happens in your brain, but restorative sleep actually begins much lower in the body: in the gut. The community of...

previous day 3

Manal Mohammed

How the UK’s dependency on cars slows down the economy

The UK government makes a lot of money from cars. It taxes car ownership, it taxes the fuel, and it is about to charge drivers of electric vehicles...

previous day 10

Renaud Foucart

Space debris: will it take a catastrophe for nations to take the issue seriously?

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth,...

previous day 1

Ian Whittaker

More detail on what clothes feel like could make life easier for shoppers – and save retailers money

Clothing is one of the top categories in online sales worldwide, with expected revenues of more than US$920 billion (£702 billion) this year. And...

previous day 2

Cathrine Jansson-Boyd

Impasse at the Kremlin: here’s what we know after the latest US-Russia talks

Once again there is an impasse in the attempts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. A five-hour meeting in the Kremlin between the Russian...

previous day 3

Intigam Mamedov

Iran’s record drought and cheap fuel have sparked an air pollution crisis – but the real causes run much deeper

Air pollution is the latest environmental crisis causing havoc across Iran. Large parts of the country are already suffering from a drought, one of...

previous day 3

Sanam Mahoozi

Aluminium in vaccines: separating RFK Jr’s claims from scientific evidence

The US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, believes that aluminium in vaccines can cause health issues, such as neurological disorders,...

previous day 3

Antony Black

Endurance athletes have a four times higher risk of irregular heartbeat – and this may be why

Exercise is one of the best things we can do for a healthy heart. Yet research shows that endurance athletes have up to a four times higher risk of...

previous day 2

Ben Buckley

Women are still absent from how history is taught and assessed in England

Women are largely absent from the questions, sources, and mark schemes that shape how history is taught and assessed in schools in England. You...

previous day 2

Natasha R. Hodgson

From the Miller’s Tale to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale is renowned for its salacious storyline of sexual misadventure. Set in 14th-century Oxford, it tells the tale of...

previous day 2

Stewart Mottram

Santa Claus: The Movie at 40 – how a box office flop became a ‘pure panto’ British Christmas staple

It’s December 1985, I’m six years old and I’m sat next to my dad in a small-town cinema in Norfolk. Some might unkindly describe the venue as a...

previous day 3

Thomas Ruys Smith

Ukraine peace talks reveal a world slipping back into an acceptance of war

Ukraine is facing two scenarios, and both look bleak. For any peace agreement to be accepted by Russia, Ukraine will almost certainly have to give...

previous day 2

Roman Birke

Climate change is affecting your food – and not in your favour

Scientists thought they had finally stumbled upon a possibly positive side effect of climate change. While rising CO₂ levels have been linked to...

previous day 2

Sterre Ter Haar

What we told UK leaders about climate and nature at a national emergency briefing

I joined eight other experts to deliver a national emergency briefing in late November on the climate and nature to around 1,200 of the UK’s...

wednesday 9

Paul Behrens

The UK’s latest compromise on workers’ rights will not fix its labour market problems

The UK’s autumn budget tried to appeal to both workers and employers. But the decision the very next day to soften a key plan to improve workers’...

wednesday 9

Danny Buckley

Visual thinking: the strategy that could help you spot misinformation and manipulated images

A fake photo of an explosion near the Pentagon once rattled the stock market. A tearful video of a frightened young “Ukrainian conscript” went...

wednesday 3

Shaun Nolan

How mouth health affects diabetes – and vice versa

Imagine trying to enjoy your favourite meal but finding that your gums hurt, your mouth feels dry and chewing has become uncomfortable. For people...

wednesday 7

Aylin Baysan

By hiding their faces, metal bands maximise the emotional punch of their music

In 2024, along with 20,000 others, I attended a sold-out metal show in Manchester. Unlike most concerts at the Co-op Live Arena, however, none of...

wednesday 1

Chris Waugh

Data centres in space: will 2027 really be the year AI goes to orbit?

Google recently unveiled Project Suncatcher, a research “moonshot” aiming to build a data centre in space. The tech giant plans to use a...

wednesday 4

Domenico Vicinanza

Is anyone really misled by the term ‘veggie burger’? Our research suggests consumers are savvy

The European parliament recently backed changes to the rules around the labelling and marketing of plant-based meat alternatives. New definitions...

wednesday 1

Friederike Döbbe

At Donald Trump’s prompting, Benjamin Netanyahu seeks a pardon – but insists he has done nothing wrong

The interesting thing about Benjamin Netanyahu’s call on Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, to pardon him for charges of bribery, fraud and breach...

wednesday 3

John Strawson

‘A united left? It’s been tanked’ – what I heard when I went to Your Party’s first conference

The launch of Your Party, a new leftwing offering for British voters, was meant to embody a different kind of politics. It was to be collective and...

wednesday 3

Parveen Akhtar

Kimchi may boost immune function, recent study shows

Kimchi has been enjoyed for centuries in Korea. But the spicy fermented cabbage dish has recently gained popularity in other parts of the world not...

wednesday 2

Rachel Woods

Limiting jury trials will harm minority ethnic victims and defendants, research shows

The right to trial by jury dates back to at least the 12th century. The government’s proposals to limit it in England and Wales, many argue, run...

wednesday 2

Tara Lai Quinlan

Maga explained: how personality and context shape radical movements

It’s often said that Donald Trump’s power base in the Maga movement has contributed to the radicalisation of the Republican party. Political...

wednesday 2

Magnus Linden

Sri Lanka’s latest climate-driven floods expose flaws in disaster preparations – here’s what needs to change

When Cyclone Ditwah made landfall on November 28 2025, Sri Lanka experienced one of its deadliest environmental disasters in modern history....

wednesday 8

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Should lynx and wolves be reintroduced to Britain and Ireland? Young people have mixed feelings

Jonny Hanson

Formula milk prices are not being cut as some claim – here’s what’s really happening

Amy Brown

The world is facing a cancer crisis that’s hitting the most vulnerable hardest

Vikram Niranjan

Sweden’s mining industry is threatening the Indigenous Sami people’s way of life

Georgia De Leeuw

Is the dominance of the US dollar unravelling under Trump?

Fabian Pape

How the ‘hypnagogic state’ of drowsiness could enhance your creativity

Steve Taylor

Train Dreams on Netflix is a beautiful film – but it misses the magic of the original novella

Dominic Davies

Why Vladimir Putin’s in no hurry for peace

Jonathan Este

Why China is watching Trump’s Venezuela campaign closely

Tom Harper

Reform’s £9m gift and the rise of the political mega-donor

Sam Power

Jurors aren’t impartial – that’s exactly why they are so important to justice

Elaine Jackson

Your Party: if the name sounds terrible, there’s a good reason for it

Nicholas Dickinson

Can entrepreneurship be taught? Here’s the neuroscience

Victor Perez

Why we need weird stories for a warming world

Trang Dang

Wood-burning stoves face new restrictions – but a loophole from Britain’s smog years is fuelling the problem

James Heydon

Nasa robot rover shows that sparks fly in dust storms on Mars

Martin Fullekrug

A brief history of mulled wine – from health tonic to festive treat

Sara Read

Why we created a phone-sized device to take blood diagnostics out of the lab into the real world

Parth Shinde

Low-tax or high-welfare ? The UK must decide what type of country it wants to be

Christopher Adam

Why our physical bodies may be a core part of conscious experience – new research

Renzo Lanfranco

Outdoor swimming is becoming a sanctuary for female swimmers in the UK

Abi Lafbery

The UK’s food supply is more fragile than you might think – here’s why it should be a national priority

Sven Batke

Wicked: For Good – what lies beneath correcting the way people speak?

Emma Humphries

The American fixation on white Afrikaners in South Africa stretches back nearly a century

Gemma Ware

Good sleep starts in the gut

Manal Mohammed

How the UK’s dependency on cars slows down the economy

Renaud Foucart

Space debris: will it take a catastrophe for nations to take the issue seriously?

Ian Whittaker

More detail on what clothes feel like could make life easier for shoppers – and save retailers money

Cathrine Jansson-Boyd

Impasse at the Kremlin: here’s what we know after the latest US-Russia talks

Intigam Mamedov

Iran’s record drought and cheap fuel have sparked an air pollution crisis – but the real causes run much deeper

Sanam Mahoozi

Aluminium in vaccines: separating RFK Jr’s claims from scientific evidence

Antony Black

Endurance athletes have a four times higher risk of irregular heartbeat – and this may be why

Ben Buckley

Women are still absent from how history is taught and assessed in England

Natasha R. Hodgson

From the Miller’s Tale to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature

Stewart Mottram

Santa Claus: The Movie at 40 – how a box office flop became a ‘pure panto’ British Christmas staple

Thomas Ruys Smith

Ukraine peace talks reveal a world slipping back into an acceptance of war

Roman Birke

Climate change is affecting your food – and not in your favour

Sterre Ter Haar

What we told UK leaders about climate and nature at a national emergency briefing

Paul Behrens

The UK’s latest compromise on workers’ rights will not fix its labour market problems