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How Brexit reduced the City of London’s financial clout – new research

Amr Saber Algarhi, Sheffield Hallam University and Adeola Y. Oyebowale, University of Doha for Science and Technology

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

First European case of H9N2 bird flu reported in Italy – what you need to know

Ed Hutchinson, University of Glasgow

Safety first: how the Iran war is reshaping global tourism

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

People with suitcases walk in front of a sign that reads "Dubai duty free"

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

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

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

Hager Ben Jaffel, Institut catholique de Lille (ICL)

EU ‘return hubs’: what are they, and how will they change the rights of migrants and asylum seekers?

María Teresa Gil Bazo, Universidad de Navarra

Red flags in the workplace: why whistleblowers are still few and far between

Wim Vandekerckhove, EDHEC Business School

Climate change is altering Saharan dust – and Europe is downwind

Hossein Hashemi, Lund University

camels walk through dust storm in Sahara

Superbugs on your plate: how antimicrobial resistance spreads through food

Laura Botello Morte, Universidad San Jorge and Pedro Rodríguez López, Universidad San Jorge

Introducing a new citizen science nature app that’s geared towards the scientific community

Pierre Bonnet, Cirad and Alexis Joly, Inria

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‘I didn’t come here to get rich’: new research on the lives of Ukrainian women in Georgia’s surrogacy boom

Olga Oleinikova, University of Technology Sydney; Medea Badashvili, Tbilisi State University , and Polina Vlasenko, University of Oxford

Is lighter sleep a normal part of ageing – or a sign of something more serious?

Elena Urrestarazu Bolumburu, Universidad de Navarra

Una mujer en la cama con los ojos abiertos

Italy: Middle East crisis pushes the Meloni government away from the US

Jean-Pierre Darnis, Université Côte d’Azur

Eco-anxiety: how do young people relate to the climate crisis?

Daniella Watson, Imperial College London and Emma Lawrance, Imperial College London

"No Nature, No future" banner featuring at a protest march in Belgium

A man walks past a wall of campaign posters of mayoral candidates in Paris.

Local election results show the hurdles along the path to power for French far right

Timothy Peace, University of Glasgow and Fred Paxton, University of Glasgow

French local elections: political scientist on what’s next for the hard right and radical left

Frédéric Sawicki, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Celluloid: the story of the plastic that made Hollywood

Jordi Díaz Marcos, Universitat de Barcelona

We are flushing paracetamol down the toilet and into our water supply – here’s how it could be removed

Isabell Fritz, Lund University

The myth of meritocracy: why universal water access is a prerequisite for a fair society

Gonzalo Delacámara, IE University

Three women in colourful clothes are carrying water canisters on their backs

What would a social media ban mean for Ireland’s status as Europe’s tech hub?

Sinan Aşçı, Dublin City University

Why the gender wealth gap is still so stubborn – and what it means for women’s wellbeing

Madeline Nightingale, RAND Europe and Elizabeth Kadar, RAND Europe

woman with small bundle of cash looking on jealously at a man seated beside her with a bigger bundle of cash.

Buildings consume 30% of global energy – digital twins could be the key to cutting their waste

Jose Eduardo Pachano, Universidad de Navarra

An armed man walks past a mural in Sana'a depicting late military and political figures of Iran-backed proxy groups.

How active have Iran’s proxy groups been since the start of the war?

Vincent Durac, University College Dublin

Iran oil shock: the EU has very few options to limit the war’s economic impact – and prevent a recession

Sergi Basco, Universitat de Barcelona

A large ship in the water with chimneys in the background

From the strait of Hormuz to Malacca, global trade relies almost entirely on these five narrow waterways

Gokcay Balci, University of Leeds and Ebru Surucu-Balci, University of Bradford

A vessel anchored in the Persian Gulf with Dubai's skyline in the background.

To win freedom from Trump’s America, Europe needs to overcome its ‘downward coping syndrome’

Richard Youngs, University of Warwick

Iran and Ukraine are changing the EU and testing its unity

Richard Whitman, University of Kent; Royal United Services Institute and Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham

European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and Kaja Kallas, the EU's foreign affairs chief, talk in the European Parliament building, January 2026.

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