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Cloud tech outages: how the EU plans to bolster its digital infrastructure

Christine Abdalla Mikhaeil, IÉSEG School of Management

European Commission President Ursula von der LEYEN receives the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir STARMER in Brussels, Belgium on October 2 , 2024.

With talk of closer EU alignment, the UK is signalling to Europe that it’s a partner worthy of trust

Ursula F Ott, Nottingham Trent University

Pamphlets, radio, and now Iran’s AI-generated Lego videos: the new frontier of information warfare

Ibrahim Al-Marashi, IE University; California State University San Marcos

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Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing – new study

Carsten Eickhoff, University of Tübingen

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Is it better for your health to work standing up or sitting down?

Alejandro J. Almenar Arasanz, Universidad San Jorge and Marta Diarte Oliva, Universidad San Jorge

How whaling evolved from its Basque origins into a vast global business

Álex Aguilar, Universitat de Barcelona

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40 years on from the disaster, why there are foxes, bears and bison again around Chernobyl

Nick Dunn, Lancaster University

As the world faces yet another crisis, why are leaders still resisting remote work?

Antonio Aloisi, IE University

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Chernobyl’s exclusion zone is a beacon of biodiversity – but it faces new threats from Russia’s invasion

Germán Orizaola, Universidad de Oviedo

OpenAI gets set to go public: can we entrust the financial markets with ChatGPT and AI?

Frédéric Fréry, ESCP Business School

Robots just captured a Russian position in Ukraine – but don’t worry about real-life Terminators just yet

Jacob Parakilas, RAND Europe

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When war comes for Iran’s cultural heritage

Parsa Ghasemi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Strait of Hormuz: why even neutral and distant countries like Switzerland can’t escape the fallout

Nima Shokri, United Nations University; Technical University of Hamburg and Salome M. S. Shokri-Kuehni, United Nations University; Technical University of Hamburg

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What Viktor Orbán’s election loss means for Putin, Trump and the rise of right-wing populism

Matthew Sussex, Australian National University

European digital identity wallets: how secure are they and what are the risks?

Maryline Laurent, Télécom SudParis – Institut Mines-Télécom and Claire Levallois-Barth, Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT)

Human rights and the rights of nature are linchpins for truly sustainable development

Farid Lamara, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

What is the digital euro? A guide to the future of cash in Europe

Débora González Celdrán, Universitat de Barcelona

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Viktor Orbán’s election loss shows the limits of his propaganda machine

Alexander Bor, Central European University

Portraits of Viktor Orbán, outgoing Hungarian PM and Péter Magyar, the new Hungarian prime minister.

Drinking water contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’ during pregnancy linked to an increased risk of childhood asthma – new study

Annelise Blomberg, Lund University; Anna Saxne Jöud, Lund University, and Christel Nielsen, Lund University

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What is the chance of a message in a bottle being found?

Kevin Burke, University of Limerick and David O'Sullivan, University of Limerick

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Greece’s new laws crack down on art fakes and forgeries – an expert in the market for shady art explains why they might backfire

Anja Shortland, King's College London

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What fish redistribution in the Mediterranean is telling us about species’ climate resilience

Marina Sanz-Martín, Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO - CSIC)

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Over 80% of women face menopause symptoms – so why are workplaces still ignoring it?

Lidia de la Iglesia Aza, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

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Why Europe can still face a gas crisis without a gas shortage

Marzia Sesini, European University Institute and James Kneebone, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

Absinthe: what the ban on France’s aromatic spirit teaches us about modern day blaming and shaming

Tao Wang, EM Lyon Business School

I was in Georgia in the late 1980s: I observed how tradition survived harsh Sovietisation and rapid transformation

Karina Vamling, Malmö University

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Light in the dark: the search for new treatments for hereditary blindness

Gemma Marfany Nadal, Universitat de Barcelona

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Could the Middle East conflict open the door to price controls? Here’s how it works in Greece

Benjamin Selwyn, University of Sussex

How adults can help children move from climate anxiety to resilience

Sanae Okamoto, United Nations University; Nidhi Nagabhatla, United Nations University, and Robert Oakes, United Nations University

A man and a women sitting and talking at a table.

Pedro Almodóvar returns to Cannes – but has Spain’s most famous director finally given up on comedy?

Javier Calvo Anoro, Universidad San Jorge

Has multilateralism hit a dead end? Could International organisations be collateral damage of the war in Iran?

Theresa Reinold, EDHEC Business School

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard would fiercely resist a US ground invasion. History proves it

Ibrahim Al-Marashi, IE University; California State University San Marcos

How Sweden’s communal laundries shield renters from rising energy bills

Tullia Jack, Lund University

An image of two apartment blocks in Sweden on a snowy day.

Europe needs affordable, low-carbon homes – here’s how Barcelona is reimagining its housing system

Adriana Allen, UCL and Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway, Universitat de Barcelona

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Where is transatlantic intelligence-sharing headed under the Trump administration?

Hager Ben Jaffel, Institut catholique de Lille (ICL)

Safety first: how the Iran war is reshaping global tourism

José Tomás Arnau Domínguez, Universitat de València and Paula Simó-Tomás, Universitat de València

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Climate change is altering Saharan dust – and Europe is downwind

Hossein Hashemi, Lund University

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Cloud tech outages: how the EU plans to bolster its digital infrastructure

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Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing – new study

Is it better for your health to work standing up or sitting down?

How whaling evolved from its Basque origins into a vast global business

40 years on from the disaster, why there are foxes, bears and bison again around Chernobyl

As the world faces yet another crisis, why are leaders still resisting remote work?

Chernobyl’s exclusion zone is a beacon of biodiversity – but it faces new threats from Russia’s invasion

OpenAI gets set to go public: can we entrust the financial markets with ChatGPT and AI?

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Strait of Hormuz: why even neutral and distant countries like Switzerland can’t escape the fallout

What Viktor Orbán’s election loss means for Putin, Trump and the rise of right-wing populism

European digital identity wallets: how secure are they and what are the risks?

Human rights and the rights of nature are linchpins for truly sustainable development

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Viktor Orbán’s election loss shows the limits of his propaganda machine

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I was in Georgia in the late 1980s: I observed how tradition survived harsh Sovietisation and rapid transformation

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Has multilateralism hit a dead end? Could International organisations be collateral damage of the war in Iran?

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