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How the Ceuta border crossing incident immediately played into the hands of Spain’s far right

Deniz Torcu, IE University

Ceuta migrant crossings: are calls for stronger border controls from 22 member states in line with EU law?

Karla Zeravcic, European University Institute and Marco Mauer, European University Institute

A low-angle shot of the statue of the Pillars of Hercules the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

Ceuta and Melilla: how the colonial legacies of these cities have shaped migration in the region

Parvati Nair, Queen Mary University of London

Many people crowded at a Moroccan coastal border.

Why finance jobs are widening income inequality in cities around the world

Marta M. Elvira, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra) ; Nils Neumann, University of Michigan, and Olivier Godechot, Sciences Po

How grief became a subscription service

Vitor Lima, ESCP Business School and Russell Belk, York University, Canada

An AI generated image of a woman connecting with a griefbot on her mobile phone, looking at a picture below on a desk of the deceased person.

‘They walk among us.’ The White House’s Aliens page and the dehumanisation of undocumented migrants

Fatima-Zahra Aklalouch, Université Paris Cité

A screen shot of the White House’s Aliens.gov home page. One can read : “They walk among us.”

Did the Berlin Pride attack target the LGBTIQIA+ community or European values?

Benno Gammerl, European University Institute; Riccardo Bulgarelli, European University Institute, and Zsófia Veszely, European University Institute

European Union and LGBT Pride flags flying at the European Council building in Brussels.

Science, religion, and political omens: the meaning of eclipses in ancient Rome

Javier Andreu Pintado, Universidad de Navarra

An etching of two men looking and gesturing at the sky, with astronomical instruments in the foreground.

We investigated Russia’s military indoctrination of Ukrainian children in occupied territories – what we found was more shocking than we could have imagined

Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham; Elīna Šteinerte, University of Bristol, and Hervé Ascensio, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100km of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago.

Europe’s stone age hunters made sea voyages to Malta – thousands of years before evidence of sails

James Blinkhorn, University of Liverpool and Eleanor Scerri, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

A middle-aged Asian woman with her arms outstretched and a happy expression

What ancient Chinese medicine can teach us about ‘consciousness health’

Antonio Martín, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón IiSGM ; Universidad Nebrija

Berlin Pride: ISIS still inspires terrorism in Europe – but who carries out these attacks?

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

Berlin's Brandenburg Gate is lit up in the colours of the rainbow flag, with flowers, candles and rainbow flags on the ground in front of it.

Why Spain needs to invest heavily in preventing fires, not just in fighting them

María-Luisa Chas-Amil, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Emilio Nogueira-Moure, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Planes fly over a forest with heavy smoke in the air.

Does Saudi Arabia want to develop nuclear weapons? Here’s what history can tell us

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

Flags of the United States and Saudi Arabia, together with a nuclear symbol, on a textured wall

Gironde wildfires: what the logistical challenges behind the mass evacuations tell us

Gilles Paché, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)

Skeleton with arms raised against a blue background.

Bones are much more dynamic than scientists once believed – they even have a daily rhythm

Annie Curtis, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and Cansu Gorgun, Università degli studi di Genova

An inscription in Etruscan hangs above the heads of a noble couple in this fresco from the Tomb of the Shields, Tarquinia, Italy.

Cracking the code: can AI help us decipher ancient languages?

Jane Adkins, Dublin City University

Spain needs a legal overhaul to protect homes from fire. Here’s what it can learn from Australia and Greece

César Martín-Gómez, Universidad de Navarra and José Manuel Cabrero, Universidad de Navarra

A house on a mountainside, with vegetation and smoke from fires in the sky.

Cerebral small vessel disease: new treatment possibilities for the little-known condition affecting millions of people

Claire Peghaire, Université de Bordeaux

An image of a cerebral vascular network, which consists of a great number of small vessels and capillaries (in blue), as well as larger vessels and arteries (in pink).

Carbon capture explained: how EU member states are funding and rolling out the technology to clean up Europe’s fossil fuel industry

Marzia Sesini, European University Institute; Adrien Nicolle, European University Institute, and Burçin Ünel, New York University

Updating Darwin: biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolution

Pim Edelaar, Lund University; Universidad Pablo de Olavide

Statue of Charles Darwin at the Natural History Museum

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Three ways boredom can actually be a benefit

Trudy Meehan, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

A woman daydreams while staring out the window.

Reading by ear: how audiobooks can help people with phonological dyslexia to enjoy books

Nadina Gómez Merino, Universitat de València and Marina Pi-Ruano, Universitat de València

A boy wearing headphones is reading an e-book.

What vegan and vegetarian diets can and can’t tell us about eating disorders

Bruno Bizzozero Peroni, Karolinska Institutet and María Valentina Díaz Goñi, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Woman's hands cutting vegetables on a wooden chopping board surrounded by many colourful fruits, vegetables and fresh bread

How next-generation photovoltaics could contribute to electricity storage

Vera Moerbeek, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS); Université de Perpignan Via Domitia

Illustration of a young man looking puzzled with question marks floatiing around his head.

The case for having an imperfect memory – a psychologist explains

Gillian Murphy, University College Cork

The funeral ceremony for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, in Tehran

An emerging Iran-Pakistan ‘Axis of Sympathy’ is reshaping southwest Asia’s power structures

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

Melts in your mouth, but not in your car: the ongoing scientific quest to create heat-resistant chocolate

Ana Isabel Terraes Huerta, Universitat de València and Eva Soriano Vega, Universitat de València

Why safe water is still lacking in the Marajó Archipelago, one of the world’s most water-abundant regions

Monique Medeiros, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA); Université de Montpellier

It’s not just business: why emotions are central to workplace management

José Navarro, Universitat de Barcelona

Why Odysseus couldn’t just say: ‘I’m home’

Stephan Blum, University of Tübingen

Houses in a small village surrounded by fire damaged hillsides after a fire.

Eight lifesaving ways to improve wildfire risk management

María-Luisa Chas-Amil, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Julia María Touza, University of York

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

Why do some people who trust in science also believe in scientific conspiracy theories?

Michele d'Errico, Trinity College Dublin and Taha Yasseri, Trinity College Dublin

Protesters holding placards at the 2018 Portland March for Science.

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

Emma Schwak, European University Institute

‘I can’t work in the farce of climate change cruise tourism anymore’: why Antarctic guides quit their dream jobs

Zdenka Sokolickova, University of Groningen; Christy Hehir, University of Surrey, and Elizabeth Cooper, University of Groningen

Great apes were using touch to reassure and keep the peace six million years before humans evolved – new research

Jake Brooker, Utrecht University and Zanna Clay, Durham University

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

People in the UK favour harsher punishment than Norwegians – belief in free will may help explain why

Zoe Stephenson, University of Birmingham

Putin under pressure but history tells us most Russian leaders die with their boots on

Bo Petersson, Malmö University

Head and shoulders shot of Vladimir Putin sitting at a desk with imperial Russian flag in the background.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera de Prat, Universitat de Barcelona

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

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Why finance jobs are widening income inequality in cities around the world

How grief became a subscription service

‘They walk among us.’ The White House’s Aliens page and the dehumanisation of undocumented migrants

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Berlin Pride: ISIS still inspires terrorism in Europe – but who carries out these attacks?

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Spain needs a legal overhaul to protect homes from fire. Here’s what it can learn from Australia and Greece

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