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US-Iran failed first round of talks in Pakistan: where did it all go wrong?

Marwan Sinaceur, ESSEC

OpenAI gets set to go public: can we entrust the financial markets with ChatGPT and AI?

Frédéric Fréry, ESCP Business School

European digital identity wallets: how secure are they and what are the risks?

Maryline Laurent, Télécom SudParis – Institut Mines-Télécom et Claire Levallois-Barth, Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT)

Cloud tech outages: how the EU plans to bolster its digital infrastructure

Christine Abdalla Mikhaeil, IÉSEG School of Management

A large cloud hovers above a computer room.

Exploring conversational AI and poetry but not as we know it

Thierry Poibeau, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL

Human rights and the rights of nature are linchpins for truly sustainable development

Farid Lamara, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Delivery platform workers: a survey lifts the lid on extreme hardship

Marwân-al-Qays Bousmah, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques); Annabel Desgrées du Loû, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Anne Gosselin, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques); Flore Gubert, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Université Paris Dauphine – PSL et Kevin Poperl, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)

When war comes for Iran’s cultural heritage

Parsa Ghasemi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Has multilateralism hit a dead end? Could International organisations be collateral damage of the war in Iran?

Theresa Reinold, EDHEC Business School

From cowboy to crusader: how Trump distorts American mythology in the conflict with Iran

Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, Sciences Po

Donald Trump pictured at the White House

Does listening to audiobooks improve learning?

Frédéric Bernard, Université de Strasbourg

A group of students using smartphones and laptops and reading books.

A matter of taste: did Neanderthals really like Sapiens women?

Ludovic Slimak, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France; Université de Toulouse

Absinthe: what the ban on France’s aromatic spirit teaches us about modern day blaming and shaming

Tao Wang, EM Lyon Business School

Introducing a new citizen science nature app that’s geared towards the scientific community

Pierre Bonnet, Cirad et Alexis Joly, Inria

Where is transatlantic intelligence-sharing headed under the Trump administration?

Hager Ben Jaffel, Institut catholique de Lille (ICL)

How do Israel and Iran’s nuclear status differ under international law?

Catherine Maia, Sciences Po

The Sudanese revolution seven years on: undone but not defeated

Robert Kluijver, Leiden University

Italy: Middle East crisis pushes the Meloni government away from the US

Jean-Pierre Darnis, Université Côte d’Azur

Why without value sharing, there is no social justice

Huysentruyt Marieke, HEC Paris Business School

Four employees carry an arrow representing company profits on the rise

French local elections: political scientist on what’s next for the hard right and radical left

Frédéric Sawicki, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Female politicians can be punished at the polls for not smiling – but men aren’t

Iona Astier, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Quentin Lippmann, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) et Léa Dispa

Palm oil, cocoa, coffee… who’s going to tend to tomorrow’s large tropical plantations?

Alain Rival, Cirad

Beyond the ‘Spain is different’ slogan: putting an end to tourist clichés about Spain

Jorge Villaverde, Institut catholique de Lille (ICL); European University Institute

A graduate hat above a human hand against a blue-lit background

Generative AI in business schools: friend or foe?

Constantin Ciachir, EM Lyon Business School

How biological invasions are silently remodelling ecosystems

Franck Courchamp, Université Paris-Saclay et Laís Carneiro, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR); Université Paris-Saclay

Tsunami risk in the Mediterranean: why Nice should prepare an evacuation plan

Frédéric Leone, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III

A doctor holds a heart painted in the colours of the French flag with both hands.

France’s National Health system explained to US citizens in 2026

Jean de Kervasdoué, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM)

A new face for ‘Little Foot’, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton to date

Amélie Beaudet, Université de Poitiers et Dominic Stratford, University of the Witwatersrand

Arrowhead points found in Central Asia could prove the presence of ‘Homo sapiens’ 80,000 years ago

Hugues Plisson, Université de Bordeaux et Andrey I. Krivoshapkin, Russian Academy of Sciences

A woman makes a phone call, sitting at a cafe table where she is working on her laptop.

Is legal uncertainty softly killing remote-work innovation?

Kseniya Navazhylava, Audencia

Why we shouldn’t abandon handwriting at school

Atheena Johnson, Université Paris Nanterre

An awe-struck young woman looks at her computer.

Reinterpreting ‘awe’: why cross-cultural emotional intelligence needs to be handled with care

Craig L. Anderson, HEC Paris Business School

The built-up Indian city of Mumbai at sunrise, shrouded in thick smog.

Atmospheric dust: the overlooked suspect in urban air pollution

Emmanouil Proestakis, National Observatory of Athens

Lifting the lid on unknown coral microbiomes living in the Pacific ocean

Shinichi Sunagawa, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich et Chris Bowler, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL; Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

A photo of the Slovakian city of Trenčín and Trenčín castle on a hill in the background.

European Capitals of Culture: a diplomatic linchpin in an unstable world?

Maria Elena Buslacchi, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)

Agroecology: rethinking global policy efficiency and funding priorities to overcome the blind spot in climate action

Fabio G. Santeramo, Università di Foggia

Donald Trump in a room with European leaders and Volodymyr Zelensky.

Minding the gap between the art of deal-making and the art of diplomacy, or how to handle Donald Trump

Maxime Lefebvre, ESCP Business School

What is ‘Edge AI’? What does it do and what can be gained from this alternative to cloud computing?

Georgios Bouloukakis, University of Patras; Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT)

Too little, too concentrated: why AI start-up funding in Africa needs rethinking

Claire Zanuso, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

A carer helps an elderly patient to move around his home.

Home care: The Dutch model that challenges bureaucracy

Sharda S. Nandram, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Puneet K. Bindlish, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam et Raysa Geaquinto Rocha, European Academy of Management (EURAM)

Developing lab-grown human cartilage… using apples!

Karim Boumédiene, Université de Caen Normandie

Close up shot of a hand holding a red apple.

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

Julia Milner, EDHEC Business School

Catatumbo’s ‘Care-Land’: how local initiatives sustain humanitarian relief amid escalating violence in Colombia’s borderland with Venezuela

Silke Oldenburg, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID); Anna Leander, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID) et Nora Doukkali

Members of a Colombian association working in a field.

Dogs and cats carry invasive land flatworms from garden to garden

Jean-Lou Justine, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN) et Leigh Winsor, James Cook University

A cat and a dog are led together on the lawn.

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

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

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) et Josselin Thuilliez, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

In the AI-generated images, we can see that the skyscraper and the slide trombone are almost the same size.d

When AI goes haywire: the case of the skyscraper and the slide trombone

Frédéric Prost, INSA Lyon – Université de Lyon

An Olympic snowboard rider performs a rotation.

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

Willem Standaert, Université de Liège

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

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

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

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

School children gather in a village in Uganda

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

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

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

Ice Core Storage at the Ice Memory Sanctuary in Concordia, Antarctica.

The first ice core library in Antarctica to save humanity’s climate memory

Denaturalization in the Trump era: When the State questions the citizenship of millions of Americans

Ashley Mantha-Hollands, European University Institute

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

Sylvain Durand, Le Mans Université

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

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

Firouzeh Nahavandi, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Are we in an AI bubble? Ponzi schemes and financial bubbles: lessons from history

Paul David Richard Griffiths, EM Normandie

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

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

Is your dog or cat getting old? These simple gestures could help them live longer and happier lives

Sara Hoummady, UniLaSalle

Very beautiful ginger cat sleeping on a blanket on a sofa

The MAGA International: Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy as an ideological manifesto

Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, Sciences Po

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

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

Ivana Vitanova, EM Lyon Business School

‘We need to rethink how we approach biodiversity’: an interview with IPCC ecologist and ‘refugee scientist’ Camille Parmesan

Camille Parmesan, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS); University of Plymouth; The University of Texas at Austin

Why art is a prime target for organised crime

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

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

Coastal regions and climate change: how better risk assessment can help protect infrastructure and livelihoods

Anthony Schrapffer, PhD, EDHEC Business School

A man stands on land that has been devastated by Hurricane Melissa.

Why meetings can harm employee well-being

Willem Standaert, Université de Liège

A photograph shows, at left, what appears to be part of a wooden door to a confessional booth in a religious setting, next to a row of arched openings, with sunlight coming out of them, on a walkway.

How Catholic women in 18th-century Italy defied sexual harassment in the confessional

Giada Pizzoni, European University Institute

‘Digital sovereignty’: why the EU may be shifting from internet regulation to building homegrown tech

Michael FitzGerald, European University Institute

A man and a woman stand behind lecterns on a stage. The woman is speaking.

Higher education: why women in France are less likely to pursue science than men

Anne Boring, Erasmus University Rotterdam

A woman works in a laboratory with a microscope.

Educational pathways drive France’s gender pay gap – what our research shows

Louis-Alexandre Erb, Université Paris-Est et Yannick L’Horty, Université Gustave Eiffel

AI and online shopping: how Shein, Temu and others get you hooked

Ghassan Paul Yacoub, EDHEC Business School et Loïc Plé, IÉSEG School of Management

Several e-commerce apps are visible on a smartphone screen.

A strip of brown field is seen next to a vast green field, next to a paved two-way road, under a blue sky with white clouds.

Agriculture in Brazil: how land-use choices affect biodiversity and the global climate

Thomas M. R. Gérard, Utrecht University; Floor van der Hilst, Utrecht University et Judith A. Verstegen, Utrecht University

The problem with ‘mega-COPs’: can a 50,000-person conference still tackle climate change?

Dr Hayley Walker, IÉSEG School of Management

A crowd of people is seen in front of a building or event space in the distance.

Syrian forced migrants in Turkey have built businesses despite challenges. Here’s what has helped them succeed

Eren Akkan, Kedge Business School; European Academy of Management (EURAM); Burcin Hatipoglu, UNSW Sydney et Kerem Gurses, Universitat Ramón Llull

Three men work inside a bakery with blue-tiled walls.

Two adults appear to be looking into each other’s eyes while standing next to each other in an elegant, sparsely furnished room.

‘Minimalist’ lifestyles may not effectively tackle overconsumption. Can performance management help?

George Kassar, Ascencia Business School et Ahmed Benhoumane, Ascencia Business School

The memorial garden on Place Saint-Gervais, behind Paris’s city hall, for the 10th anniversary of the attacks of November 13, 2015.

Paris grapples with the remembrance of terrorist attacks, from 1974 to November 13, 2015

Sarah Gensburger, Sciences Po

With delay of pension reform, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu puts France’s Socialist Party back in the spotlight

Benjamin Morel, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu speaks in front of seated lawmakers in parliament.

Academic freedom: how to defend ‘the very condition of a living democracy’ in France and worldwide

Stéphanie Balme, Sciences Po

A demonstration in support of science in Toulouse, France in April 2025.

The troubling relevance of Woody Guthrie’s new album, released 58 years after his death

Daniele Curci, Università di Siena

People hold signs and gather outside the Woody Guthrie Center, a brick building with a mural of the folksinger on one side, in daylight.

Europe is allowing itself to be dominated by the US. It just isn’t admitting as much

Sylvain Kahn, Sciences Po

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, sitting on the left, shakes hands with US President Donald Trump, sitting on the right.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the courthouse on 25 September 2025 after being sentenced to five years in jail for criminal conspiracy over attempts to raise campaign funds from Libya. He is with his 2 lawyers and wife Carla Bruni.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy handed five-year prison term for criminal conspiracy over Gaddafi money

Vincent Sizaire, Université Paris Nanterre

Wearing a suit and tie, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu speaks in front of two microphones in daylight in front of a building.

Lecornu, Bayrou, Barnier: how the resignation of three French prime ministers signals a profound crisis in democracy

Rémi Lefebvre, Université de Lille

A bartender in an apron behind a counter. In the background, illuminated bottles of alcohol.

Sexual harassment, hostility… unforeseen consequences of the ‘customer is king’ mentality

Gordon M. Sayre, EM Lyon Business School

AI poses risks to national security, elections and healthcare. Here’s how to reduce them

David Rios Insua, Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (ICMAT-CSIC)

A human hand holds a stylus above the keyboard on a laptop. In the foreground, there is an illustration of symbols and connections associated with AI and computer systems.

Inside the new repairability scores for smartphones and tablets in the EU

Christoforos Spiliotopoulos, Joint Research Centre (JRC)

A person's hand holding a precision tool is visible above the inside of a smartphone.

A woman wearing a niqab holds up a smartphone with a sticker of a bird on it. A woman with uncovered hair is visible behind her.

The smartphone in Saudi Arabia: between women’s empowerment and surveillance

Hélène Bourdeloie, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord

From selling cars to selling handbags: with the arrival of Luca de Meo at Kering (Gucci, Balenciaga), is luxury becoming a sector like any other?

Ben Voyer, ESCP Business School et Perrine Desmichel, ESCP Business School

Jean-Paul Claverie, the adviser to LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault; Rima Abdul-Malak, the then French minister of culture; and Christophe Leribault, president of the Musée d'Orsay, stand in front of Gustave Caillebotte's "La Partie de bateau" (The Boating Party) following its arrival at the museum in Paris in 2023.

The group Louis Vuitton (LVMH), a gift to the Musée d’Orsay and a huge tax incentive – business as usual?

Tanguy Gatay, Université Paris Nanterre

An image of what appears to be a human’s face is visible on the screens of what appears to be a three-dimensional device.

How users can make their AI companions feel real – from picking personality traits to creating fan art

Alisa Minina Jeunemaître, EM Lyon Business School; Jamie Smith, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/EAESP) et Stefania Masè, IPAG Business School

A young girl with long pink hair, wearing a brightly coloured jumper, looks at her smartphone.

Millennial pink, gen Z yellow, brat green… Tell me your favourite colours, and I’ll guess your generation

Sabine Ruaud, EDHEC Business School et Rose K. Bideaux, Université Paris 8 – Vincennes Saint-Denis

A woman wearing a black shirt is standing and explaining something in front of a rectangular table where five or six people are sitting and looking at her.

Impostor syndrome: the cost of being ‘superwoman’ at work and beyond

Zuzanna Staniszewska, ESCP Business School et Géraldine Galindo, ESCP Business School

The history of strikes in France

Stéphane Sirot, CY Cergy Paris Université

People are visible amid a protest on a sunny day in Paris.

French national debt under presidents Chirac, Sarkozy, Hollande and Macron: a look at the numbers

François Langot, Le Mans Université

From left to right, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, current President Emmanuel Macron, and former president François Hollande appear in front of an open door.

A man is holding a crying baby in his arms.

What babies’ cries really tell us – and why maternal instinct is a myth

Nicolas Mathevon, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne

A display of counterfeit bags bearing the logos of the biggest names in luxury goods.

Counterfeit Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Hermès bags from China: examining an online phenomenon and its risks for consumers

Isabelle Chaboud, GEM

A vertical sign with the words "Hubert H. Humphrey Building" and "U.S. Department of Health and Human Services" stands on a gray stone plaza, with a large, low grayish building behind it, beneath an overcast sky.

‘Fraud, waste and abuse’: US healthcare caught in the crossfire of a political narrative

Lisa Baudot, HEC Paris Business School; Jared Koreff, Trinity University; Kazeem Akinyele, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh et Steve G Sutton, Norwegian School of Economics

Social connections matter for the well-being of neurodivergent workers – adjustments to office settings and routines aren’t enough

Raysa Geaquinto Rocha, European Academy of Management (EURAM); Louise Nash, University of Essex et Siddhartha Saxena, Heriot-Watt University

Four adults are talking while holding mugs or cups in an office setting.

Irregular migrants in Europe face obstacles to exercising legal rights – where they have them

Clare Fox-Ruhs, European University Institute

People hold signs with messages, written in French, calling for the regularisation of undocumented immigrants at a protest.

Swimming in the Seine in Paris: an old pastime resurfaces in the age of global warming

Julia Moutiez, Université Paris Nanterre

A black-and-white image of about 15 people sitting in or by the Seine River in Paris.

How to improve the monitoring of chemical contaminants in the human body

Chang He, The University of Queensland

A woman appears to look at the label of a household product.

A person puts a pair of brown shoes into a tray on a conveyor belt.

Why do we agree to take off our shoes at the airport?

Emmanuel Carré, Excelia

Teenagers no longer answer the phone: is it a lack of manners or a new trend?

Anne Cordier, Université de Lorraine

Three teens are focused on their phones.

Bali to Biarritz: Surf spot overcrowding and the fight to protect the essence of catching a wave

Jérémy Lemarié, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)

Surfing beginners learn surfing moves on a beach.

Testing between intervals: a key to retaining information in long-term memory

Émilie Gerbier, Université Côte d’Azur

How Bordeaux wine estates price their bottles

Jean-Marc Figuet, Université de Bordeaux

A curved row of bottles of wine on display in a wine shop.

A woman is sitting on a table and listening to another woman wearing a white coat and holding a tablet.

Patients who feel heard are more likely to stick with medical treatment

Diana Pérez-Arechaederra, ESCP Business School

A large cement plant on flat land under a blue sky is seen in the distance.

Doing business in conflict zones: what companies can learn from Lafarge’s exit from Syria

Nathalie Belhoste, EM Lyon Business School et Anna Dimitrova, ESSCA School of Management

Poland, divided between Trump and the EU

Jacques Rupnik, Sciences Po

A handbag made of blue denim, with what appears to be the pocket from a pair of jeans sewn onto it, is on a surface with other pieces of denim, a lace-like material, and scissors and thread.

Degrowth and fashion: how upcycling innovators show us how to rethink and reuse waste

Handan Vicdan, EM Lyon Business School

Recycling batteries from ‘urban mines’: how Europe can source critical raw materials at home

Martina Orefice, Joint Research Centre (JRC)

How high-latitude peat and forest fires could shape the future of Earth’s climate

Apostolos Voulgarakis, Technical University of Crete et Dimitra Tarasi, Technical University of Crete

Smoke billows above a line of trees with green leaves.

A river with brown water has partially flooded some nearby buildings.

Lower revenues, pricier loans: how flooding in Europe affects firms and the financial system they depend on

Serena Fatica, Joint Research Centre (JRC)

No packaging, no problem? The potential drawbacks of bulk groceries

Fanny Reniou, Université de Rennes 1 - Université de Rennes; Elisa Robert-Monnot, CY Cergy Paris Université et Sarah Lasri, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL

A green artillery carrier is seen on the floor of a trade show.

Defence firms must adopt a ‘flexible secrecy’ to innovate for European rearmament

Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini, HEC Paris Business School et Romaric Servajean-Hilst, Kedge Business School

From sovereignty to sustainability: a brief history of ocean governance

Kevin Parthenay, Université de Tours et Rafael Mesquita

How a postwar German literary classic helped eclipse painter Emil Nolde’s relationship to Nazism

Ombline Damy, Sciences Po

An image of a painting by Emil Nolde called Red Clouds. It is a watercolor on handmade paper, and it is 34.5 x 44.7 cm.

How pro-Europe, pro-US Poland offers the EU a model for how to handle Trump

Małgorzata Zachara-Szymańska, European University Institute

A red and white Polish flag, a blue and yellow EU flag, and a red, white and blue US flag flutter in front of a building in daylight.

Is air travel about to get greener? Our study shows how ‘coopetition’ is helping aircraft companies tackle sustainability

Audrey Rouyre, Montpellier Business School; European Academy of Management (EURAM); Anne-Sophie Fernandez, Université de Montpellier; European Academy of Management (EURAM) et Olga Bruyaka, West Virginia University

An airplane is visible on a runway at sunset.

A crowd of masked people on a station platform in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Covid-19 death tolls in Europe highlight stark regional differences in 2020 and 2021

Florian Bonnet, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques) et Carlo Giovanni Camarda, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques)

A wooden spoon and wooden bowl contain flour with powder. They appear on a grey granite table where there are also numerous wheat-coloured worms.

‘I will not eat the bugs’: examining a right-wing narrative about scarcity and insect consumption

D. D. Moore, European University Institute

AI methods help predict the emergence of ‘gazelles’ and other high-growth firms, but challenges remain

Tatiana Beliaeva, UCLy (Lyon Catholic University)

A person in a blue shirt is typing on a laptop with an illustration of blue, yellow and pink lines, as well as zeroes and ones, hovering above the keyboard.

Pope Leo XIV’s recent predecessors at the Vatican defended migrants. Will he do the same?

Speranta Dumitru, Université Paris Cité et Clément Mougombili, Université de Rennes 1 - Université de Rennes

Pope Leo XIV is pictured on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City on May 8, 2025.

Culture wars, political polarization and deepening inequality: the roots of Trumpism

Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, Sciences Po

US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House on May 1, 2025.

How industrial diversity affects local employment growth in France

Nadine Levratto, Université Paris Nanterre et Mounir Amdaoud, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord

A map with a French flag pinned into France.

Cyberattacks: how companies can communicate effectively after being hit

Paolo Antonetti, EDHEC Business School

A honeycomb pattern is overlaid on a blue background with words such as "cyber attack" and "malware detected" on it.

‘Piracy’ to legitimacy: how companies like French ride-hailing platform Heetch can make their mark

Maxime Massey, ESCP Business School; Philippe Naccache, INSEEC Grande École et Sylvain Bureau, ESCP Business School

Two children, a boy and a girl, are dressed in pirate costumes on a fake boat in a staged setting.

Threatening diversity, threatening growth: the business effects of Trump’s anti-DEI and anti-trans agendas

Matteo Winkler, HEC Paris Business School et Marcelle A. Laliberté, HEC Paris Business School

A person holds up a flag with horizontal stripes in light blue, pink and white underneath a cloudy sky with the sun shining through.

Pope Francis and Laudato Si’: an ecological turning point for the Catholic Church

Bernard Laurent, EM Lyon Business School

Pope Francis is looking at the camera and smiling.

A large, multicoloured capital letter G appears near a road in a wooded setting.

Google, antitrust enforcement and the future of European digital sovereignty

Anne C. Witt, EDHEC Business School

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

Alessandro Ghio, ESCP Business School

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

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

Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, Sciences Po

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

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

Martin Ruhs, European University Institute

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Brad Harris, HEC Paris Business School

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.

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

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

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

Stéphanie Balme, Sciences Po

A crowd marching and holding signs saying We Love Science

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, 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, 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, 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 Marie et Louis Pasteur (UMLP)

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; European Academy of Management (EURAM); Audrey Rouyre, Montpellier Business School; European Academy of Management (EURAM) et Isabel Estrada, University of Groningen; European Academy of Management (EURAM)

‘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; European Academy of Management (EURAM) et David W. Versailles, European Academy of Management (EURAM); 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

Are crows really that clever?

Mélissa Berthet, University of Zurich et Sonya Kaiser, Sorbonne Université

Health

Why do our muscles ache after a workout?

François Dernoncourt, Université Côte d’Azur et Clément Naveilhan, Université Côte d’Azur

Illustration d'un homme souffrant d'un point de côté.

Where do side stitches come from?

Clément Naveilhan, Université Côte d’Azur et François Dernoncourt, Université Côte d’Azur

Could protecting our proteins help us prevent ageing?

Miroslav Radman, Inserm

How air pollution can affect athletes

Valérie Bougault, Université Côte d’Azur

While jogging through town, a young woman rests with her hands on her knees and a protective mask over her face.

Walking or running: for the same distance, which consumes more energy?

Clément Lemineur, Université Côte d’Azur; Clément Naveilhan, Université Côte d’Azur et François Dernoncourt, Université Côte d’Azur

Illustration of two silhouettes, one walking, the other running.

Why do we yawn when we see someone else yawn?

Atlas Thébault Guiochon, Université Lumière Lyon 2

Deep dive

Financial sanctions: banks’ reactions depend on their location, research reveals

Matthias Efing, HEC Paris Business School

Un bateau glissant sur une mer d’huile dans laquelle se reflète le ciel étoilé

The study of dreams: scientists uncover new communication channels with dreamers

Başak Türker, Institut du Cerveau (ICM) et Delphine Oudiette, Inserm

Job hunting: why taking regular breaks is vital for your well-being and success

Serge da Motta Veiga, Neoma Business School

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Top stories

US-Iran failed first round of talks in Pakistan: where did it all go wrong?

OpenAI gets set to go public: can we entrust the financial markets with ChatGPT and AI?

European digital identity wallets: how secure are they and what are the risks?

Cloud tech outages: how the EU plans to bolster its digital infrastructure

Exploring conversational AI and poetry but not as we know it

Human rights and the rights of nature are linchpins for truly sustainable development

Delivery platform workers: a survey lifts the lid on extreme hardship

When war comes for Iran’s cultural heritage

Has multilateralism hit a dead end? Could International organisations be collateral damage of the war in Iran?

From cowboy to crusader: how Trump distorts American mythology in the conflict with Iran

Does listening to audiobooks improve learning?

A matter of taste: did Neanderthals really like Sapiens women?

Absinthe: what the ban on France’s aromatic spirit teaches us about modern day blaming and shaming

Introducing a new citizen science nature app that’s geared towards the scientific community

Where is transatlantic intelligence-sharing headed under the Trump administration?

How do Israel and Iran’s nuclear status differ under international law?

The Sudanese revolution seven years on: undone but not defeated

Italy: Middle East crisis pushes the Meloni government away from the US

Why without value sharing, there is no social justice

French local elections: political scientist on what’s next for the hard right and radical left

Female politicians can be punished at the polls for not smiling – but men aren’t

Palm oil, cocoa, coffee… who’s going to tend to tomorrow’s large tropical plantations?

Beyond the ‘Spain is different’ slogan: putting an end to tourist clichés about Spain

Generative AI in business schools: friend or foe?

How biological invasions are silently remodelling ecosystems

Tsunami risk in the Mediterranean: why Nice should prepare an evacuation plan

France’s National Health system explained to US citizens in 2026

A new face for ‘Little Foot’, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton to date

Arrowhead points found in Central Asia could prove the presence of ‘Homo sapiens’ 80,000 years ago

Is legal uncertainty softly killing remote-work innovation?

Why we shouldn’t abandon handwriting at school

Reinterpreting ‘awe’: why cross-cultural emotional intelligence needs to be handled with care

Atmospheric dust: the overlooked suspect in urban air pollution

Lifting the lid on unknown coral microbiomes living in the Pacific ocean

European Capitals of Culture: a diplomatic linchpin in an unstable world?

Agroecology: rethinking global policy efficiency and funding priorities to overcome the blind spot in climate action

Minding the gap between the art of deal-making and the art of diplomacy, or how to handle Donald Trump

What is ‘Edge AI’? What does it do and what can be gained from this alternative to cloud computing?

Too little, too concentrated: why AI start-up funding in Africa needs rethinking

Home care: The Dutch model that challenges bureaucracy

Developing lab-grown human cartilage… using apples!

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

Catatumbo’s ‘Care-Land’: how local initiatives sustain humanitarian relief amid escalating violence in Colombia’s borderland with Venezuela

Dogs and cats carry invasive land flatworms from garden to garden

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

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

When AI goes haywire: the case of the skyscraper and the slide trombone

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

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

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

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

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

The first ice core library in Antarctica to save humanity’s climate memory

Denaturalization in the Trump era: When the State questions the citizenship of millions of Americans

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

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

Are we in an AI bubble? Ponzi schemes and financial bubbles: lessons from history

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

Is your dog or cat getting old? These simple gestures could help them live longer and happier lives

The MAGA International: Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy as an ideological manifesto

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

‘We need to rethink how we approach biodiversity’: an interview with IPCC ecologist and ‘refugee scientist’ Camille Parmesan

Why art is a prime target for organised crime

Coastal regions and climate change: how better risk assessment can help protect infrastructure and livelihoods

Why meetings can harm employee well-being

How Catholic women in 18th-century Italy defied sexual harassment in the confessional

‘Digital sovereignty’: why the EU may be shifting from internet regulation to building homegrown tech

Higher education: why women in France are less likely to pursue science than men

Educational pathways drive France’s gender pay gap – what our research shows

AI and online shopping: how Shein, Temu and others get you hooked

Agriculture in Brazil: how land-use choices affect biodiversity and the global climate

The problem with ‘mega-COPs’: can a 50,000-person conference still tackle climate change?

Syrian forced migrants in Turkey have built businesses despite challenges. Here’s what has helped them succeed

‘Minimalist’ lifestyles may not effectively tackle overconsumption. Can performance management help?

Paris grapples with the remembrance of terrorist attacks, from 1974 to November 13, 2015

With delay of pension reform, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu puts France’s Socialist Party back in the spotlight

Academic freedom: how to defend ‘the very condition of a living democracy’ in France and worldwide

The troubling relevance of Woody Guthrie’s new album, released 58 years after his death