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Death penalty experts Carolyn Hoyle and Parvais Jabbar explain the route to abolition in Zimbabwe for The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Political scientists Grant Duncan, talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about what political trust means and how to rebuild it.
It was a story that pulled at the heartstrings. In 2018, an orca called Tahlequah was seen dragging the corpse of her newborn baby calf for 17 days,...
Amazon workers in 20 countries are expected to strike or protest on Black Friday, pushing the company to respect their rights and commit to more...
On November 24 1974, renowned American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson spotted “a piece of elbow with humanlike anatomy” poking out of a rocky...
For generations, cod fishing was a way of life in Newfoundland and Labrador, the easternmost province in Canada. But in 1992, after cod stocks in the...
What happens when a gangster leaves their life on the street? How do they transition to something new? In this episode of The Conversation Weekly...
Amid deep political polarization and extreme campaign rhetoric, the U.S. presidential election on November 5 is likely to be decided by a small number...
Take a walk along a beach in parts of South Australia, and you may come across unusual patches of pink sand. When a team of geologists began analysing...
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of microRNA, tiny biological molecules...
The Middle East is perilously close to all-out war. In the year since the October 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel, millions of people have been...
A new drug to prevent HIV infection is showing hugely promising results in clinical trials when injected every six months. In this episode of The...
In 2018, the Australian philosopher Kate Manne coined the word “himpathy” to describe what she called “the inappropriate and disproportionate...
The only known specimens of Encephalartos woodii (E. woodii), a species of cycad, are all clones of the same male plant found over 100 years ago in a...
An epidemic of mpox in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is spreading quickly, particularly among young children. At least 20,000 people...
Dating apps are having a rocky moment. In February, Bumble said it would lay off 30% of its workforce after disappointing results in 2023. Match...
One technique involves releasing particles of sulphur dioxide high up in the stratosphere. Another involves trying to brighten the clouds over the sea...
With global temperature records broken for months on end, and the severity of extreme weather events routinely attributed to climate change, you might...
Momentum is growing against clauses in investment treaties that permit companies to sue a state if it decides to keep fossil fuels in the ground. In...
Across the world, fans will soon be tuning in at all hours of the day and night to watch the Paris Olympics. In a world where on-demand media...
A few days after Labour leader Keir Starmer was elected British prime minister on July 4 with a landslide victory, ending 14 years of Conservative-led...
3D-printed guns are now appearing the world over, including in the hands of organised criminals in Europe and anti-junta rebels in Myanmar. Made using...
A controversial British government plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has been central to the UK’s response to a recent sharp increase in the...
It’s one of the biggest puzzles in cosmology. Why two different methods used to calculate the rate at which the universe is expanding don’t...
If you’ve ever experienced a state of creative flow, perhaps when writing, playing music, or even gardening, you’ll know that it feels like...
Snake bites kill tens of thousands of people around the world each year. However, we still use techniques invented in the late 19th century to make...
After six weeks of voting in the world’s largest democracy, on June 4, Indians will learn who is to be their next prime minister. Narendra Modi,...
Psychiatrist Karandeep Sonu Gaind speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast on why he’s a vocal opponent of Canada’s expansion of its medically...
Content created with the help of generative AI is popping up everywhere, and it’s worrying some artists and content creators. They’re concerned...
Some young South Africans have begun to question Nelson Mandela’s legacy, and the choices made in the transition to democracy after the end of...
Five years after his momentous election as South African president, Nelson Mandela stepped down after one term in office in 1999. Thabo Mbeki, his...
Kids ask the coolest questions! And on The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast we get the brainiest people we can to answer them! Every week, a...
It was a moment many South Africans never believed they’d live to see. On 10 May 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president of a democratic...
For almost 15 years, scientists have debated whether the Anthropocene should be an official geological epoch marking the profound influence of humans...
As the climate crisis gets ever more severe, the fossil fuel industry is struggling to recruit new talent. And now a number of existing employees are...
As Russians head to the polls on March 15 for the presidential election, conspiracy theories are swirling everywhere. In this episode of The...
High heels, lace and handbags. In recent decades, there’s been a huge shift in the role of North Korean women and the choices they’re able to make...
With unlimited information at our fingertips and dozens of platforms on which to share our opinions, it can sometimes feel like we’re supposed to be...
Amid the death and suffering unleashed by Israel’s war on Gaza and the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, prospects for lasting peace between...
Humans spend about one third of our lives asleep and while most of us dream regularly, some people remember their dreams more than others. But...
Indonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy, goes to the polls on February 14 to elect a new president. It’s one of the largest elections to...
In our chaotic, rapidly changing modern world, many of us have come to rely on science to provide sense of order. So it may be disconcerting to learn...
At every moment, your body’s internal organs are sending signals to your brain. You’ll be mostly unaware of them, but sometimes they cut through:...
Wolves are making a comeback across Europe. As their populations grow, 65,000 livestock are killed each year by wolves. Now, moves are underway to...
Across parts of academia, concerns are mounting that the Israel-Gaza war is having a chilling effect on academic freedom. In the second of two...
Tensions have been running high at many universities around the world since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and the subsequent Israeli assault...
Kenya is marking 60 years since its independence from British colonial rule on December 12, 1963. Each year, the country celebrates the occasion with...