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World Cup 2026: how are posts on diversity and inclusion being received on social media?

Willem Standaert, Université de Liège; Arno De Caigny, IÉSEG School of Management; Kristof Coussement, IÉSEG School of Management, and Matthijs Meire, IÉSEG School of Management

An Iranian woman walks next to a billboard in Tehran featuring Donald Trump in a coffin.

Donald Trump is running out of options in Iran

Andrew Gawthorpe, Leiden University

Burnt out cars, scorched trees and grey ash in a dry landscape.

Spain wildfires: with 13 dead, we need to start measuring fire damage in lives – not just hectares

Fernando Medina Morales, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

a supporter of president donald trump waves a bible and us flag outside the white house.

How apocalyptic worldviews are moving from the fringes to the corridors of power

Joscha Abels, University of Tübingen and Juliana Tappe Ortiz, University of Tübingen

Critical thinking has become an AI-era buzzword. But what does it actually mean, and how do we teach it?

Sara Kells, IE University

In a classroom, university students are chatting amongst themselves and one of them is pointing with a pen

The world’s first influencers were French and they emerged after the Revolution

Emma Schwak, European University Institute

Making scientific knowledge free for all

Frédéric Schmidt, Université Paris-Saclay; Camille Thomas, University of Bern, and Romain Vaucher, James Cook University

Low-angle short of the Městská knihovna Municipal library in Prague.

England out of the World Cup, but this team may have helped redefine a nation

Michael Skey, Loughborough University

harry kane and jude bellingham acknowledge the crowd with their arms outstretched after england's win over mexico

Nato Ankara Summit: why only a federal, unified EU can mount its own credible military defence

Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera de Prat, Universitat de Barcelona

Un profesor explica en clase delante de la pizarra sentado en una mesa con varios alumnos de pie y sentados alrededor

Spain’s schools are still glossing over the Spanish civil war and the Franco dictatorship. How do we teach these crucial events properly?

Néstor Banderas Navarro, Universitat de València

Composting and water cremation: how the eco credentials of alternatives to burial add up

Lynn Akesson, Lund University

With Marine Le Pen’s sentence the judiciary is giving French citizens the final say on her political future

Luc Rouban, Sciences Po

Culture is the far right’s secret weapon – and it’s winning over some of Europe’s most educated youth

Deniz Torcu, IE University

Young people carrying flags and torches marching down a street

The mystery behind what killed Botticelli’s muse: has a 550-year-old medical case been solved?

Paolo Pozzilli, Queen Mary University of London

Why Nigel Farage is resigning as a UK MP, only to stand again – expert analysis

Tim Bale, Queen Mary University of London; Lone Sorensen, University of Leeds, and Parveen Akhtar, Aston University

STING protein: our study found new ways for the body to activate – and possibly control – inflammation

Estanislao Nistal Villán, Universidad CEU San Pablo and Sergio Rius Rocabert, Universidad CEU San Pablo

Why Pope Leo’s visit to Lampedusa matters for migrants, the church and global politics

Sara Silvestri, City St George's, University of London

Climate law expert: Europe’s deadly heatwaves belong in court

Sandra Cassotta, Aalborg University

Extremely hot temperature reading on a beach in Europe.

How do governance frameworks operate and what can major public projects gain from them?

Maude Brunet, European Academy of Management (EURAM); HEC Montréal; Olivier Choinière, European Academy of Management (EURAM); Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), and Vedran Zerjav, European Academy of Management (EURAM); Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Ukrainian refugees wave goodbye as they depart on a train.

Ukrainian families have been torn apart by the war – reunifying them is no easy task

Irina Kuznetsova, University of Birmingham

A brief history of human pain

Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Aalborg University

Sad angel as a symbol of pain and death. Ancient statue isolated on a black background

The public isn’t bored with economists, management scholars and sociologists but engaging people has conditions

Quentin Plantec, TBS Education; European Academy of Management (EURAM); Cylien Gibert, TBS Education; Julien Cloarec, iaelyon School of Management – Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, and Marie-Alix Deval, ISTEC

Nato summit will reveal how alliance plans to manage European security as US cuts back its support

Mark Webber, University of Birmingham and Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham

A Turkish police guard stands with his gun raised in front of a billboard advertising the 2026 Nato summit in Ankara, Turkey.

Despite World Cup team’s diversity, France is still wrestling with unresolved issues of identity and representation

Tapiwa Seremani, IÉSEG School of Management

France striker Kylian Mbappé is congratulated by his teammates on the football field.

A large clock and thermometer in a city square during an intense heatwave. The thermometer reads 38 °C.

40°C in Paris: extreme summer heat is no longer exceptional for most of Europe

Javier Martín Vide, Universitat de Barcelona

World Cup’s credibility in question after Fifa volte face following call from Donald Trump

Josh Bland, University of Cambridge

A black and white archival photograph of women tending babies in a garden.

Why the UK government needed to apologise for its role in historical forced adoptions in England

Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Trinity College Dublin and Janet Greenlees, Glasgow Caledonian University

Why Pope Leo has excommunicated a group of conservative Catholics

Liam Temple, Durham University

Pope Leo XIV celebrating communion in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, June 2026.

How the Venezuelan people and diaspora are driving earthquake relief

Nieves Fernández Rodríguez, Universidad Nebrija

People speaking on the phone in a street.

A woman walking a dog along a snow-covered path

The Nordic Paradox: even the world’s most equal countries are failing to reduce violence against women

Enrique Gracia, Universitat de València

The strange history of Czech cactus hunters – and why some see themselves as Robin Hood figures

Jared Margulies, UCL

A cartoon drawing of a hiker scratching his head in confusion and trying to think of the directions he was supposed to follow.

The condition that causes people to get lost in their own home

Isabelle Kaiko, Leiden University; Ineke van der Ham, Leiden University, and Judith Schomaker, Leiden University

Summer’s new normal is a hazard that’s testing Europe’s climate resilience

Júlia de Freitas Sampaio, University of Luxembourg

A picture of the Eiffel tower basking in the hot sun with a thermometer displaying a high temperature.

Most EU citizens support economic growth even though climate experts question its role

Ivan Savin, ESCP Business School and Lewis King, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Firefighters in Greenland look across a bay towards mountains

‘This was something new’: what people in Greenland told us about learning to live with wildfires

Harold Lovell, University of Portsmouth; Mark Hardiman, University of Portsmouth, and Pelle Tejsner, University of Greenland

Five ways to make your clothes last longer

Réka Tölg, Lund University and Ingrid Haugsrud, Oslo Metropolitan University

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Un homme est couché dans un lit dans la pénombre.

You can dream while you’re awake. The boundary between wakefulness and sleep is a lot blurrier than you’d think

Nicolas Decat, Sorbonne Université and Delphine Oudiette, Inserm

A crowd of protestors in Tirana waving Albanian flags and placards depicting flamingo's.

Why a development project linked to Donald Trump’s son-in-law has rocked Albania

Altin Gjeta, University of Birmingham

Friedrich Merz walks towards his seat ahead of a press conference.

Germany’s proposal to ease trade tensions with China has not gone down well in Beijing

Tom Harper, University of East London

What Gaudí and the Sagrada Família can teach us about leadership

Yih-Teen Lee, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra)

The Sagrada Família showing its tower dedicated to Jesus Christ, featuring a huge three-dimensional four-pointed cross.

Is the Pope’s AI encyclical a warning on Tech Messianism?

Francisco De Abreu Duarte, European University Institute

Three lesser-known Antoni Gaudí buildings to visit to mark the centenary of his death

Javi Buron Garcia, University of Limerick

(L-R) Casa Vicens, Torre de Bellesguard and Cripta de la Colònia Güell

Analysing wildfire behaviour can help detect risk zones earlier and support fire-smart strategies

Marcos Rodrigues Mimbrero, Universidad de Zaragoza; AXA Research Fund and Jorge Félez Bernal, Universidad de Concepción

Family in dangerous river crossing during heavy flooding with dramatic sky

Does climate change lead to more migration? Here’s why researchers can’t agree on the evidence

Alexis Cloquell Lozano, Universidad Católica de Valencia; Beatriz Felipe Pérez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili; Joan Lacomba Vazquez, Universitat de València, and María Isolda Perelló Carrascosa, Universitat de València

The cost of living is soaring – why not try moving in together?

Tullia Jack, Lund University

Teenage exposure to sexual content in TV and movies may lead to pornography use in adulthood

Pedro Antonio De la Rosa Fernández-Pacheco, Universidad de Navarra; Álvaro Villagrán Sánchez, Universidad de Navarra, and Javier García-Manglano, Universidad de Navarra

A boy sitting on the couch with the TV remote next to him

New evidence reveals extent of anti-fascist motives behind ‘insane’ aristocrat’s plot to assassinate Mussolini

Giovanni Pietro Lombardo, Sapienza University of Rome and M. Andrea Pisauro, University of Plymouth

A police photograph of Violet Gibson taken after her arrest for the attempted assassination of Benito Mussolini in 1926.

The Caspian Sea has lost an area nearly the size of Sicily: human activities are a major reason why

Nima Shokri, United Nations University; Technical University of Hamburg and Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine

Type 2 diabetes patients often have high blood sugar while fasting – here’s why

Manuel Vázquez Carrera, Universitat de Barcelona

A man in medieval dress climbing some stone steps with the sea in the background.

In The Hand of Dante: a striking and ambitious cinematic fever dream

Laura O'Flanagan, Dublin City University

Map of the Persian Gulf, the Oman Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

The Strait of Hormuz is finally reopening but Europe’s food chain suppliers cannot afford to be complacent

Alireza Asgari, Clermont School of Business; Morteza Alaeddini, ICN Business School, and Philipp Sauer, Neoma Business School

What Kenya’s fish markets tell us about choosing between nutrients and contaminants

Kira Lancker, University of Copenhagen

Overnight trains: why sleeping all the way to your holiday destination is a growing (and green) option

Mehri Khosravi, University of East London; United Nations University

A young woman asleep on a bunk inside a train.

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