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Head waitress Fati at Bouillon Chartier, strikes a pose in the main dining room of this Parisian institution.

How Paris’ working-class dining experience is reshaping restaurant economics in France

Nathalie Louisgrand, GEM

Valentine’s Day: What’s love got to do with habit-building?

Julia Milner, EDHEC Business School

Why brands can become emotional lifelines in times of crisis

Laetitia Mimoun, ESCP Business School and Julien Schmitt, ESCP Business School

Impulse and inhibition: the complex ways bilingual brains balance reason with emotion

Irini Mavrou, Universidad Nebrija; UCL; Andrea Révész, UCL, and Andreas Kyriakou, Universidad Nebrija

Are pets good for kids’ mental health? Type of animal and duration of bond could make all the difference

Llúcia González Safont, Fisabio; Blanca Sarzo Carles, Fisabio, and Marisa Estarlich Estarlich, Universitat de València

How are Olympic host cities chosen?

Laura Donnellan, University of Limerick

A flag draped over the side of a chalet in Cortina d'Ampezzo, reading Cortina 1956-2026.

Menopause, hormones and the brain: how hormone therapy could help protect against Alzheimer’s

George E. Barreto, University of Limerick and Miguel G. Borda, Universidad de Navarra

What the troubling use of the term ‘ghettos’ reveals about Denmark’s attitude towards immigration

Garbi Schmidt, Roskilde University

Boy climbs on a staircase while a man walks by, with posters in the background.

Where are Europe’s oldest people living? What geography tells us about a fragmenting continent

Florian Bonnet, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques); Carlo Giovanni Camarda, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques); France Meslé, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques), and Josselin Thuilliez, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

An aerial view of the East German town of Magdeburg, capital of Land de Saxe-Anhalt.

Painting of a dark-haired woman cutting a lock of hair

Forget flowers: lovers in 18th- and 19th-century Ireland exchanged hair

Leanne Calvert, University of Limerick

Why Sweden’s young people are so good at English

Una Cunningham, Stockholm University and BethAnne Paulsrud, Stockholm University

Spain social media ban for under-16s: here’s what we know so far, and what we don’t

Tatiana Íñiguez Berrozpe, Universidad de Zaragoza; Ana Cebollero Salinas, Universidad de Zaragoza; Carmen Elboj, Universidad de Zaragoza, and Pablo Bautista Alcaine, Universidad de Zaragoza

When rights exist on paper but not in practice: how bureaucracy blocks access to welfare across Europe

Andrei Quintiá Pastrana, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Alba Nogueira López, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Middle-aged Caucasian social worker with a badge assisting client by stamping an official document in social services office

Not an artefact, but an ancestor: why a German university is returning a Māori taonga

Michael La Corte, University of Tübingen and Annika Vosseler, University of Tübingen

Your genes matter more for lifespan now than they did a century ago – here’s why

Karin Modig, Karolinska Institutet

AI is coming to Olympic judging: what makes it a game changer?

Willem Standaert, Université de Liège

An Olympic snowboard rider performs a rotation.

Spain’s mass regularisation for 500,000 undocumented migrants is not extreme, unprecedented or opportunistic

Asbel Bohigues, Universitat de València

Spain already regularised over half a million undocumented migrants in 2005. Here’s what happened to its economy

Joan Monras, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra)

Two black men standing on scaffolding working on the facade of a building

Painting of a castle on a hill with a Trojan couple in the foreground

Rethinking Troy: how years of careful peace, not epic war, shaped this bronze age city

Stephan Blum, University of Tübingen

Woman sits at a computer with two colleagues next to her. She is wearing a white t-shit and pink suit jacket.

The workplace wasn’t designed for humans – and it shows

Christine Ipsen, Technical University of Denmark and Maria Karanika-Murray, University of Leicester

Why futuristic, tech-centred ‘smart city’ projects are destined to fail

Pascual Berrone, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra)

Concept design of a tech city that ends in the sea with water and boats

Is CEO activism threatening democracy?

Aurélien Feix, EDHEC Business School and Georg Wernicke, HEC Paris Business School

CEOs are mixing business and politics beyond the boardroom.

The circular economy may not be taking off: Here are six ways stakeholders can make it happen

Arne De Keyser, EDHEC Business School and Katrien Verleye, Ghent University

Questions are being raised about microplastics studies – here’s what’s solid science and what isn’t

Michael Richardson, Leiden University and Le Yang, Leiden University

Paying attention to birdsong while walking in nature can boost wellbeing, my research shows

Christoph Randler, University of Tübingen

A mother points out some birds in the forest while on a hike with her two young sons.

Social media is boosting mental health disorders and suicidal thoughts among teens, particularly in girls

Olivia Roth-Delgado, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (Anses) and Thomas Bayeux, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (Anses)

A teen looks at her phone while holding her head in despair.

Small-scale farmers produce more of the rich world’s food than previously thought – new study

Oliver Taherzadeh, Leiden University

A customer filling a shopping cart in a supermarket in New York.

The new US food pyramid is scientifically questionable, and upends decades of trusted public health advice

Juan Alfonso Revenga Frauca, Universidad Internacional de Valencia; Universidad San Jorge and José Miguel Soriano del Castillo, Universitat de València

Menstrual leave: stigma and uncertainty mean these progressive measures are being underused around the world

Lidia de la Iglesia Aza, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Young businesswoman suffering bellyache working sitting at office

When should dentists prescribe antibiotics? Some countries don’t even have guidelines to answer this question

Maruxa Zapata Cachafeiro, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Mª de la Almudena Rodríguez Fernández, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Clock sculpture in front of the Saint Lazare station in Paris.

Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not

Florian Neukart, Leiden University

People in parkas protest in front of a red clapboard building holding signs that read Greenland is Not For Sale. Snowy hills are in the background.

Trump’s annexation of Greenland seemed imminent. Now it’s on much shakier ground

Eric Van Rythoven, Carleton University

74th F-89 Interceptor Fighter Squadron at Thule Air Base in Greenland in 1955.

Greenland: Staying with the Polar Inuit. How a secret military base helped trigger the silent collapse of an Arctic world

Ludovic Slimak, Université de Toulouse

Snow is vital for the Pyrenees – and it’s disappearing fast

Josep Bonsoms, Universitat de Barcelona

From Hamburg to Uganda: how an NGO learned to reinvent itself

Carolin Waldner, ESCP Business School; Andreas Rasche, Copenhagen Business School, and Stephanie Schrage, University of Kiel

School children gather in a village in Uganda

Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology

Johan Linåker, Lund University

Aerial image of the Swedish city of Helsingborg.

Humanity’s oldest known cave art has been discovered in Sulawesi – our new research suggests

Maxime Aubert, Griffith University; Adam Brumm, Griffith University; Adhi Oktaviana, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN), and Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Southern Cross University

A man in a dark cave pointing at ancient hand stencils on the rocky surface.

Amateur and professional runners during the Paris Marathon, with the Eiffel Tower visible in the background.

Does running wear out the bodies of professionals and amateurs alike?

Sylvain Durand, Le Mans Université

Air pollution may be linked to increased risk of motor neurone disease, our new study indicates

Jing Wu, Karolinska Institutet

How cocaine traffickers launder cartel money

Pierre-Charles Pradier, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

A hundred-dollar bill, a Bitcoin token, and a bag of cocaine.

Iran’s crackdown: why security forces are shooting demonstrators straight in the eye

Firouzeh Nahavandi, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Screens and social media are damaging kids’ conversation skills. Here’s why this matters, and how to get them back

Estrella Montolío Durán, Universitat de Barcelona

The hidden health dangers of electric scooters: how ‘assisted mobility’ is making us less mobile

Javier Brazo-Sayavera, Universidad Pablo de Olavide; Javier Molina García, Universitat de València; Mario Jordi Sánchez, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, and Palma Chillón Garzón, Universidad de Granada

Primer plano de la parte inferior de un patinete eléctrico.

Is democracy always about truth? Why we may need to loosen our views to heal our divisions

Frank Chouraqui, Leiden University

A black and white illustration of a fictional city.

From stadium to the wild: Sports clubs as new champions of biodiversity

Ugo Arbieu, Université Paris-Saclay and Franck Courchamp, Université Paris-Saclay

An empty gold-coloured frame hangs on a white wall, with the word "sold" written in red marker within the frame.

Why art is a prime target for organised crime

Guergana Guintcheva, EDHEC Business School and Bertrand Monnet, EDHEC Business School

How we unlocked the secrets of Denmark’s oldest plank boat – with the help of an ancient fingerprint

Mikael Fauvelle, Lund University

Painting of ancient Scandinavian sailors in a rough sea.

‘Is my boss a narcissist?’ How researchers look and listen for clues

Ivana Vitanova, EM Lyon Business School

A man wearing a business suit stands next to a glass wall with his image appearing in it.

Internet of beings: the dream of digitising human bodies for healthcare (and the nightmare)

Francesco Grillo, Bocconi University

Scene from the film Fantastic Voyage where the patients head is being prepped.

DNA from soil could soon reveal who lived in ice age caves

Gerlinde Bigga, University of Tübingen

Excavation at Hohle Fels cave in Germany.

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