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A person wearing a blue top walks on a cement path next to an advertisement for the core values of the University of Michigan.

Business schools are facing challenges to their diversity commitments. They must reinforce them to train leaders effectively

Alessandro Ghio, ESCP Business School

Donald Trump at the White House unveiling major new tariffs targeting dozens of countries.

US v. them: Trump’s tariffs and his economic vision of dominance

Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, Sciences Po

People help and prepare to help migrants who are disembarking from a boat.

Europeans have more flexible views on how to respond to irregular migrants than policymakers think – new research

Martin Ruhs, European University Institute

A black and white picture of the two founders of Microsoft, five years before it was created.

From IBM to OpenAI: 50 years of winning (and failed) strategies at Microsoft

Frédéric Fréry, ESCP Business School

Marine Le Pen is walking on cobblestones with a man in a suit behind her.

Marine Le Pen verdict ‘represents an effort to make democracy better’ in France – interview

Luc Rouban, Sciences Po

AI robot pets can be adorable and emotionally responsive. They also raise questions about attachment and mental health

Alisa Minina Jeunemaître, EM Lyon Business School

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is seen in front of a row of flags, including three blue European Union ones.

Giorgia Meloni’s government is still supporting Ukraine and backing NATO. Italy’s aerospace and defence sectors help explain why

Jean-Pierre Darnis, Université Côte d’Azur

Feeling dizzy and nauseous on the slopes? You might have ski sickness

William Emond, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard

A woman in a yellow top looks on as a man in a light green t-shirt props his head in his hand and has his eyes closed at a desk in front of a computer screen.

Theft, daydreaming and everything in between: most of us are a bit ‘deviant’ at work

Brad Harris, HEC Paris Business School

Protester hold up a world map with the words USAID SAVES LIVES on it in front of the US Capitol building.

The threat of indifference to poverty, environmental damage and disease – and what it will take to reinvent international solidarity

Pierre Micheletti, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Tall facilities at a thermal power plant emit a gray substance over a city, with smog in the background.

How countries define climate action in Paris Agreement pledges – and why a standard format could help assess outcomes

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

Donald Trump holds a signed executive order behind a table or a lectern bearing the US presidential seal at an indoor event.

Ending US birthright citizenship could have consequences for LGBTQ+ couples, lower-income parents and the surrogacy market

Ashley Mantha-Hollands, European University Institute et Jelena Džankić, European University Institute

A crowd marching and holding signs saying We Love Science

Academic freedom and democracy under siege: how a Nobel peace prize could help defend them

Stéphanie Balme, Sciences Po

An image of a submarine at the quay and two workers in white helmets

French nuclear deterrence for Europe: how effective could it be against Russia?

Benoît Grémare, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3

Assessing the damage of a Trump-Putin deal

Jacques Rupnik, Sciences Po

Rows of solar panels are located on a large field of light brown earth on a sunny day.

Renewable energy: rural areas can be the EU’s green powerhouse

Lewis Dijkstra, Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Telescopes in the Atacama desert in Chile

A new study reveals the structure of violent winds 1,300 light years away

Vivien Parmentier, Université Côte d’Azur et Julia Victoria Seidel, Observatoire Européen Austral

An aerial view of the city of Wuhan, China.

The ‘lab-leak origin’ of Covid-19. Fact or fiction?

Florence Débarre, Sorbonne Université

Five adults in business attire are surrounding a colleague who is seated and reading a document.

Team conflict at work can boost creativity, but it depends on the ‘fighters’ as much as the fights

Brad Harris, HEC Paris Business School

An aerial view of a snow- or ice-covered coastal landscape beneath an alternately clear and cloudy sky.

Sea-level rise: a new method to estimate the probability of different outcomes – including a worst case

Benjamin P. Horton, Nanyang Technological University et Benjamin S. Grandey, Nanyang Technological University

une personne ouvre un colis temu avec un cutter

The secret behind Temu’s rock-bottom prices

Henri Isaac, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL

A photograph taken from space over Mauritania.

A new theory explains how water first arrived on Earth

Quentin Kral, Université Paris Cité

A photograph of an anatomical mannequin's head with an exposed brain.

What happens in the brain when there’s a word ‘on the tip of the tongue’?

Frédéric Bernard, Université de Strasbourg

The ‘degrowth’ movement envisions global climate justice, but must adapt to global south realities

Claudius Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Europa-Universität Flensburg et Birte Strunk, The New School

A person at a demonstration holds a sign in French that reads "Let's plan for degrowth, not decrepitude".

Education for peace: the effort to teach children how to rebuild societies after WWII

Camille Mahé, Université de Strasbourg

Children wearing uniform shirts and shorts are running towards the viewer in front of a small château.

Cloud-based computing: routes toward secure storage and affordable computation

Robert Deng, AXA Research Fund

A digital image of a cloud-shaped object appears against a background of electronic coloured lights.

Generative AI, online platforms and compensation for content: the need for a new framework

Thomas Paris, HEC Paris Business School et Pierre-Jean Benghozi, École polytechnique

The upper third of a smartphone screen with app icons for ChatGPT, Microsoft, Meta and Google

Donald Trump holds up a text that includes what appears to be his signature in front of people with cameras.

Trump’s second tone: authoritarian, radical and triumphalist in a divided US

Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France

Seven adults in contemporary office-work clothing are sitting cross-legged on a wooden floor in meditative poses.

Meditation and mindfulness at work are welcome, but do they help avoid accountability for toxic culture?

Raysa Geaquinto Rocha, European Academy of Management (EURAM)

Donald Trump, Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk sit ringside.

Trump 2.0: the rise of an ‘anti-elite’ elite in US politics

William Genieys, Sciences Po et Mohammad-Saïd Darviche, Université de Montpellier

US national security adviser Mike Waltz, US president Donald Trump, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and US Senator Marco Rubio are seen standing in a brightly lit room.

Between Trumpism and the EU: Giorgia Meloni and the path ahead for Italy

Jean-Pierre Darnis, Université Côte d’Azur

How the Renault-Nissan Alliance overcame crisis and redefined collaboration over two decades

Magali Ayache, CY Cergy Paris Université et Hervé Dumez, European Academy of Management (EURAM)

Romance, turmoil, and dependency: the saga of the automotive industry in the United States

Fabien Nadou, EM Normandie

Volkswagen: the end of a German industrial myth?

Frédéric Fréry, ESCP Business School

The power station at a Volkswagen plant in Germany

Image d'un marché en plein air avec un étal de fruits et légumes avec des ardoises sur lesquelles sont écrites des prix

Sustainable consumption: too expensive for the poor, not enough for the wealthy

Benjamin Boeuf, IÉSEG School of Management

Breast cancer-related fatigue: the benefits of adapted physical activity

Victor Poupard, Le Mans Université; Omar Zanna, Le Mans Université et Stéphane Héas, Université Rennes 2

A woman in sportswear wears boxing gloves, with a pink October ribbon displayed on one of the gloves

How Jean-Marie Le Pen permanently reestablished the far right in France

Mathias Bernard, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)

Champagne, caviar or salmon: are luxury foods becoming more accessible?

Nathalie Louisgrand, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)

a slice of smoked salmon on a black plate

Jimmy Carter: president, pastor and prophet

Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France

Un cerveau au milieu d’un halo de lumière et de couleurs

Hallucinogens approved for treating psychiatric disorders: what does the science say?

Florian Naudet, Université de Rennes 1 - Université de Rennes

Is it time to recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan?

Robert Kluijver, Sciences Po

Beyond checking a box: how a social licence can help communities benefit from data reuse and AI

Stefaan G. Verhulst, New York University

A lit corridor in a data centre with servers with blinking lights on either side.

Learning from the withdrawals of UN peacekeeping missions in Mali and the DRC

Chiara Lanfranchi, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID); Margaux Pinaud, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID) et Sara Hellmüller, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

Départ de feu devant un portail sur lequel se trouve le sigle de l'ONU et l'inscription "MONUSCO"

Why personalised gifts are the real winners during the holiday season

Isabella Soscia, SKEMA Business School; Diletta Acuti, University of Bath et Marta Pizzetti, EM Lyon Business School

presents at the foot of a christmas tree. the light is golden.

Gabrielle Chanel: the untold story of a pioneering self-made woman

Séverine Le Loarne-Lemaire, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)

Mathieu Blazy at the end of a runway show, dressed in a white t-shirt and black pants, striking a playful pose.

Chanel is in search of a creative revival. Is Mathieu Blazy the right person for the job?

Delphine Dion, ESSEC

A satellite in space with Europe visible below

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

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

Can the UK’s ‘Online Safety Act’ tame the hidden violence in leisure communities?

Kristine De Valck, HEC Paris Business School; Marius K. Luedicke, Vienna University of Economics and Business et Olivier Sibai, University of Bath

Reconciling technology with humanism: the future of education in the age of generative AI

Massol guillaume, Université de Toulouse

A person seated at a table or desk it touching a digital image of a lightbulb with a graduate's cap on top.

Notre-Dame

Notre-Dame reopens in Paris 5 years after fire – its reconstruction preserves the past and illuminates France’s modern ambitions

Irit Kleiman, Boston University

A view of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris from the left bank on an overcast day.

The cost of heritage: Notre-Dame rises from the ashes, but will it remain free for all?

Chloe Preece, ESCP Business School

Notre-Dame’s bells have been blessed as the cathedral reopens – a tradition that dates back to the middle ages

Madeleine Burgess, Bangor University

Plastic pollution

Young people are seen collecting or sorting discarded plastic bottles, which lie in piles.

Market-driven approaches to plastic pollution won’t end inequalities – and waste pickers are speaking up

Manisha Anantharaman, Sciences Po

Plastic pollution: Why doing nothing will cost us far more than taking action

Mateo Cordier, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) – Université Paris-Saclay

A bird is walking on a beach strewn with plastic waste.

Plastic in the ocean and on our plates: What are the risks to human health?

Amélie Châtel, Université catholique de l’Ouest

A person holds a fork over a plate of fish and vegetables.

‘Will you buy fewer plastic bottles?’ A simple question can change our behaviour

Bing Bai, Université de Montpellier; Laurie Balbo, Grenoble École de Management (GEM) et Marie-Christine Lichtlé, Université de Montpellier

A truck displays a banner calling for Denmark to free the activist Paul Watson.

Paul Watson vs Japan: Disrupting the whaling industry’s logistics – and logic

Gilles Paché, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)

Reading dark romance: The ambiguities of a fascinating genre

Magali Bigey, Université de Franche-Comté

What CO₂ ‘jumps’ from Antarctic ice say about climate change

Etienne Legrain, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) et Emilie Capron, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Major cybercrime crackdowns signal shift in global cybersecurity strategies

Christine Abdalla Mikhaeil, IÉSEG School of Management; Carin Venter, IÉSEG School of Management et Jennifer L. Ziegelmayer, IÉSEG School of Management

Two computer monitors, one displaying a map of the world, are visible in darkness.

Leading the charge: how regenerative business leadership can improve social, environmental, and economic systems

Eric Coorens, Audencia; Céline Legrand, Audencia et Kaj Morel, Audencia

An agreement ends resistance to a renewable energy plant in French Guiana… but is it energy justice?

Alicia Phillips, Université de Pau et des pays de l'Adour (UPPA) et Emmanuelle Santoire, Université de Pau et des pays de l'Adour (UPPA)

How informing shoppers can help fight inequality

Brian Hill, HEC Paris Business School

How project governance helps navigate public-private ‘coopetition’ tensions

Anne-Sophie Fernandez, Université de Montpellier; Audrey Rouyre, Montpellier Business School et Isabel Estrada, University of Groningen

‘Noah’s arks’ for fruit trees: How conservation orchards preserve and boost biodiversity

Amandine Cornille, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) et Karine Alix, AgroParisTech – Université Paris-Saclay

Abbé Pierre in front of an Emmaüs banner.

How the Abbé Pierre Foundation and Emmaüs can overcome their founder’s cumbersome legacy

Ludovic Cailluet, EDHEC Business School; Hélène Gorge, Université de Lille et Nil Özçaglar-Toulouse, Université de Lille

Do recruiters truly understand the aspirations of the new generation of students?

Manuelle Malot, EDHEC Business School et Geneviève Houriet Segard, EDHEC Business School

Are managers at risk in an AI-driven future?

Wim Vandekerckhove, EDHEC Business School

The Mazan rape trial in France: does literature, with its ‘sleeping beauties’, glorify rape?

Sandrine Aragon, Sorbonne Université

2024 US presidential election: can we believe the polls?

Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France

Why do millions of Americans believe the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen’ from Donald Trump?

Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, CY Cergy Paris Université

Michel Barnier named French prime minister: ‘Emmanuel Macron just gave the National Rally the keys to the truck’

Frédéric Sawicki, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

ChatGPT in education: breakthrough or disruptive innovation?

Fanny Verrax, EM Lyon Business School et François Scheid, EM Lyon Business School

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

Diána Ürge-Vorsatz, Central European University

Breathing may introduce microplastics to the brain – new study

Michael Richardson, Leiden University et Meiru Wang, Leiden University

Microplastics next to the nib of a pen for comparison

The ESA’s Hera mission takes flight toward the asteroid deflected by NASA’s DART probe two years ago

Patrick Michel, Université Côte d’Azur

Artist's impression of the moment when the ESA's rocket opens to release Hera

As the oceans warm, deep-living algae are thriving – with major potential effects for the marine ecosystem

Johan Viljoen, University of Exeter; Bob Brewin, University of Exeter et Xuerong Sun, University of Exeter

In Lebanon, foreign investment soars despite ongoing challenges

Wissam Samia, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)

Five reasons why French business schools should value international students

Manuelle Malot, EDHEC Business School et Geneviève Houriet Segard, EDHEC Business School

How universities can unlock their entrepreneurial potential

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

photo nocturne de l'université de Berkeley en Californie

Gangs’stories

Gangs’stories : A glimpse of hard lives around the world

Dennis Rodgers, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

Gangs’stories: Soraya, the ‘real’ Queen of the South in Nicaragua

Dennis Rodgers, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

Gangs’stories: Danny’s tales of machismo in Glasgow

Alistair Fraser, University of Glasgow et Angela Bartie, University of Edinburgh

Gangs’stories: The Sierra Leonian gangster who gave up violence and drugs for poetry

Kieran Mitton, King's College London

Gangs’stories: From the streets of Dhaka to human-rights advocacy in Bangladesh

Sally Atkinson-Sheppard, University of Westminster

Boys in a field in Sylhet, Bangladesh 8 March 2014.

Gangs'stories: Marwan, or how to find redemption in Cape Town

Steffen Bo Jensen, Aalborg University

People living in the blocks of flats in Hanover Park, Cape Town, 2022.

Gangs'stories: How 15-year-old Jennifer became Honduras’ first female gang leader

Ellen Van Damme, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Environment

Climate crisis sees rise in illegal water markets in the Middle East

Christian Klassert, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ et Samer Talozi, Jordan University for Science and Technology

Maritime commerce and climate change: how effective would a carbon tax on shipping be?

Vianney Dequiedt, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA); Audrey-Anne de Ubeda et Édouard Mien, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)

The problems with climate scenarios, and how to fix them

Riccardo Rebonato, EDHEC Business School

Why the Pyrenees’ mountain lakes are turning green

Dirk S. Schmeller, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

How the genome diversity of major crops tells the story of their evolution

Jean Christophe Glaszmann, Cirad; Claire Billot, Cirad et Claire Lanaud, Cirad

What I learned about eco-anxiety after listening to the climate stories of 1,000 people from around the world

Emma Lawrance, Imperial College London

Life in the Anthropocene

Earth in the Anthropocene: how did we get here? Can we limit the damage?

Victor Court, Université Paris Cité

How agriculture can make the most of one of the world’s biggest carbon stocks, soil

Rémi Cardinael, Cirad; Armwell Shumba, University of Zimbabwe et Vira Leng, Université de Montpellier

Farmer standing in the fields next to plants.

Measuring the invisible: the tough job of calculating the carbon stocks and fluxes of a forest

Nicolas Barbier, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Bonaventure Sonké, Université de Yaounde 1; Le Bienfaiteur Sagang, University of California, Los Angeles; Pierre Ploton, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) et Stéphane Momo Takoudjou, Université de Liège

‘Legal animism’: when a river or even nature itself goes to court

Diego Landivar, Clermont School of Business

Aerial view of a waterfall in the valley of Vilcabamba, Ecuador, where an historic lawsuit was won by a river in 2011.

Science and tech

Neanderthal remains found in France reveals there were not one, but at least two lineages of late Neanderthals in Europe

Ludovic Slimak, Université de Toulouse

Seeing green: some older-car owners show that there’s more than one way of being eco-friendly

Gaëtan Mangin, Université Bourgogne Europe

Water frost on Mars: on the top of immense volcanoes, a briefly icy landscape

Frédéric Schmidt, Université Paris-Saclay et Adomas Valantinas, Brown University

The summit of Olympus Mons on Mars, with frozen water visible in the crater.

How science saved the ozone layer

Cathy Clerbaux, Sorbonne Université

How solar storms play havoc with our lives

Elisa Robert, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) et Mathieu Barthélemy, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Could tardigrades have colonized the Moon?

Laurent Palka, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)

Illustration of a tardigrade in front of the Moon.

Euclid telescope: A scientist tells us of his quest to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy

Henk Hoekstra, Leiden University

Is scientific discovery driven by great individuals or by great teams?

Denisa Mindruta, HEC Paris Business School; Janet Bercovitz, University of Colorado Boulder; Maryann Feldman, Arizona State University et Vlad Mares, INSEAD