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A Roman man sprinkles rose petals on a woman

Gladiator II: historians on the fate of the real Roman royalty featured in the film

Stephan Blum, University of Tübingen and Michael La Corte, University of Tübingen

Olaf Scholz in a TV studio

Germany set for snap election following collapse of Olaf Scholz’s coalition

Ed Turner, Aston University

The power station at a Volkswagen plant in Germany

Volkswagen: the end of a German industrial myth?

Frédéric Fréry, ESCP Business School

Donald Trump at a Nato meeting in a suit.

What Trump’s return might mean for Europe, and how it’s starting to prepare for the challenges

Amelia Hadfield, University of Surrey

What Trump’s victory means for Ukraine, the Middle East, China and the rest of the world

Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham

A silhouette of a woman looking at her phone with Donald Trump on a TV screen behind her.
How Europe can prepare for Trump 2.0 – an overview

Waya Quiviger, IE University

How Europe can prepare for Trump 2.0 – an overview
Trump’s speeches are chaotic, rambling and extremely effective. Aristotle can explain why

Loren D. Marsh, Humboldt University of Berlin

Trump’s speeches are chaotic, rambling and extremely effective. Aristotle can explain why
What a Trump presidency will mean for Europe’s economy

Mike Rosenberg, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra)

What a Trump presidency will mean for Europe’s economy
People walk past large 'welcome to Cop29' sign

Thousands of corporate lobbyists are at the UN climate summit in Baku. But what exactly is ‘lobbying’ and how does it work?

Christina Toenshoff, Leiden University

Geert Wilders walking down a street surrounded by press microphones.

Populist parties thrive on discontent: the data proves it

Rui Silva, University of East Anglia

Young man sitting on the ground with lots of squiggles and question marks on a white wall behind him, suggesting this is happening in his head.

Eight reasons why ADHD diagnoses are increasing

Sven Bölte, Karolinska Institutet

A dark green frog on a white background.

Chernobyl’s frogs are living long, healthy lives

Germán Orizaola, Universidad de Oviedo and Pablo Burraco, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)

Valencia floods: How proper response can stop a natural disaster from becoming a public health crisis

Valencia floods: How proper response can stop a natural disaster from becoming a public health crisis

Óscar Zurriaga, Universitat de València; Ángela Domínguez García, Universitat de Barcelona; Eduardo Briones Pérez de la Blanca, Junta de Andalucía; Federico Eduardo Arribas Monzón, Departamento de Sanidad de Aragón; Maria João Forjaz, Instituto de Salud Carlos III; Pello Latasa, Osakidetza - Servicio Vasco de Salud; Pere Godoy, Universitat de Lleida, and Susana Monge Corella, Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Restricting cars in cities: a cost-benefit analysis of Low Emission Zones

Ricard Gil, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra)

Restricting cars in cities: a cost-benefit analysis of Low Emission Zones
The evolutionary benefits of being forgetful

Sven Vanneste, Trinity College Dublin and Elva Arulchelvan, Trinity College Dublin

Woman slapping her head
When ads shock: subtle ways that disgust can shape our buying habits

L.J. Shrum, HEC Paris Business School and Elena Fumagalli, INCAE Business School

An illustration of a person's head, in profile, with an older-model television coming out of it.
A historical photo of people standing and sitting on the Berlin wall as it is about to be torn down.

Thirty-five years since the wall fell, Berlin is divided – over what to do with crumbling communist buildings

Katrin Schreiter, King's College London

A photo taken from a high window of brown flood waters flowing through a town street, with cars being swept along by the current.

Valencia floods: Our warming climate is making once-rare weather more common, and more destructive

Antonio Ruiz de Elvira Serra, Universidad de Alcalá

A satellite in space with Europe visible below

IRIS²: the new satellite constellation aimed at ensuring communications autonomy for the EU

DIRIS Jean-Pierre, Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES)

Europe is not prepared for the looming Lebanese refugee crisis

Barah Mikaïl, IE University

Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon in 2013.
How does REACH, the EU regulation governing chemical substances, work?

Johanna Berneron, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (Anses)

Industrial site
Do we need a European DARPA to cope with technological challenges in Europe?

David W. Versailles, PSB Paris School of Business and Valérie Mérindol, PSB Paris School of Business

DARPA headquarters
Why Europe should consider putting boots on the ground in Ukraine

Viktoriia Lapa, Bocconi University

Volodymyr Zelensky talking into a bank of microphones.
Deadly spiders in Europe: How worried should we actually be?

Rick Visser, Universidad de Málaga

Close up photo of a brown spider
Geopolitical and humanitarian perspectives on migration in Cyprus: the forgotten divided island

Fanny Christou, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI)

A 1976 stamp depicting a family of refugees in Cyprus
Sweden’s libraries caught in a political row about drag story hour

Lisa Magdalena Engström, Lund University; Fredrik Hanell, Linnaeus University, and Hanna Carlsson, Linnaeus University

A shelf of Swedish children's books.
Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal

Damián Tuset Varela, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal
Six female SS guards from Belsen standing in a row scowling at the camera.

Female Nazi concentration camp guards: the true horror lies in their similarities to ourselves

Angharad Hampshire, York St John University

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close up of rod-shaped microbes on grey background from microscope

Meet the microbes that transform toxic carbon monoxide into valuable biofuel

Maximilienne Toetie Allaart, University of Tübingen

Paris’s iconic Centre Pompidou: a cultural superstar facing economic and environmental challenges

Marie Ballarini, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL

Side view of Beaubourg and the roofs of Paris
The Mazan rape trial in France: does literature, with its ‘sleeping beauties’, glorify rape?

Sandrine Aragon, Sorbonne Université

The Mazan rape trial in France: does literature, with its ‘sleeping beauties’, glorify rape?
Destruction of Gaza heritage sites aims to erase – and replace – Palestine’s history

Pilar Montero Vilar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Photograph of an archaeological site next to the sea

Union

Ursula von der Leyen

The European Union is becoming too obsessed with defence

Richard Youngs, University of Warwick

By failing to support migrant entrepreneurs, Europe is missing out on opportunities for economic growth

Daniela Bolzani, Università di Bologna; Rosana Silveira Reis, ISG International Business School, and Vittoria G. Scalera, University of Amsterdam

By failing to support migrant entrepreneurs, Europe is missing out on opportunities for economic growth
The modern world’s relationship to time is broken – and it’s fuelling the rise of the far right

Jesus Casquete, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

The modern world’s relationship to time is broken – and it’s fuelling the rise of the far right
We polled EU citizens on what they want asylum policy to look like – their answers may surprise you

Natalia Letki, University of Warsaw; Dawid Walentek, Ghent University; Peter Thisted Dinesen, University of Copenhagen, and Ulf Liebe, University of Warwick

People on shore help pull a rubber dinghy full of people in life jackets from the ocean
The EU’s outsourced migration control is violent, expensive and ineffective

Barah Mikaïl, IE University

Refugee camp in Suruc, Turkey. 2015
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Two people hugging on the street.

The political, social and psychological toll of family deaths in war

Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and Enrique Acosta, Autonomous University of Barcelona

A new generation of telescopes will probe the ‘unknown unknowns’ that could transform our knowledge of the universe

Richard Massey, Durham University

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What causes burnout at work, and how can we prevent it?

Carlos Antonio Ferro Soto, Universidade de Vigo; Analía López-Carballeira, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and M. Angeles Lopez Cabarcos, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

What causes burnout at work, and how can we prevent it?
Is your child stressed, restless, hyperactive? They might be suffering from sensory processing issues

Patricia Jovellar Isiegas, Universidad San Jorge

Is your child stressed, restless, hyperactive? They might be suffering from sensory processing issues
The effects of binge drinking on teenagers’ brain development

Samuel Suárez Suárez, Universidad de Burgos and Jose Manuel Pérez García, UNIR - Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

Two young people sit on the floor leaning against each other, with three empty alcohol bottles next to them.
We study how plants ‘feed’ themselves to find more sustainable ways to feed the planet

Javier Erro Garcés, Universidad de Navarra

We study how plants ‘feed’ themselves to find more sustainable ways to feed the planet
Obstetric violence: abuse during childbirth is widespread, but the first step to fighting it is naming it

Patrizia Quattrocchi, Università degli Studi di Udine; Clémence Schantz, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Rodante van der Waal, Universiteit Voor Humanistiek; Stella Villarmea, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Virginie Rozée, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques)

Obstetric violence: abuse during childbirth is widespread, but the first step to fighting it is naming it
Sales jobs make people neurotic, but employers can protect workers’ health – just look at the construction industry

Selma Kadic-Maglajlic, Copenhagen Business School

Sales jobs make people neurotic, but employers can protect workers’ health – just look at the construction industry
How Covid-19 restrictions really impacted older people’s health across Europe

Jules Dupuy, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC); Éric Defebvre, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Thomas Barnay, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC)

How Covid-19 restrictions really impacted older people’s health across Europe

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Palliative and hospice care: why society cannot ignore the needs of terminally ill patients, and their loved ones

Palliative and hospice care: why society cannot ignore the needs of terminally ill patients, and their loved ones

Vilma A. Tripodoro, Universidad de Navarra

Eco-anxiety Q&A: how the IPCC’s vice-chair keeps her head cool on a warming planet

Diána Ürge-Vorsatz, Central European University

Eco-anxiety Q&A: how the IPCC’s vice-chair keeps her head cool on a warming planet
Glue in the face: how frogs’ sticky secretions defend them from attack

Shabnam Zaman, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

A small, orange frog sits on the grouns
Childhood diabetes cases have risen sharply over the last 30 years in Europe, but some countries are affected more than others – new study

Marta Carolina Ruiz Grao, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; Ana Díez-Fernández, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, and Miriam Garrido Miguel, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Childhood diabetes cases have risen sharply over the last 30 years in Europe, but some countries are affected more than others – new study
Poor indoor air quality isn’t just making us sick – it’s also polluting our cities

César Martín-Gómez, Universidad de Navarra and Arturo H. Ariño, Universidad de Navarra

Poor indoor air quality isn’t just making us sick – it’s also polluting our cities

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