Iran ceasefire deal confirms what we’ve been saying for years: military might doesn’t workArshin Adib-Moghaddam, SOAS, University of London
US-Iran deal leaves the future of Lebanon uncertain – and subject to Israel playing the spoilerMireille Rebeiz, Dickinson College
What’s in the US-Iran peace deal? A lot of concessions and empty promises from Trump, in return for littleJessica Genauer, UNSW Sydney
The Strait of Hormuz is reopening, but global shipping won’t return to normal for monthsBehrouz Bakhtiari, McMaster University
Democracy’s next big test: could a Trump-endorsed US citizen become Colombia’s president?Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres, University of the Sunshine Coast
‘Park the bus’, ‘the false nine’ and ‘total football’: what do soccer’s strange phrases mean?Shane Pill, Flinders University
FIFA’s Haiti jersey ban echoes the long campaign to discredit and downplay the Haitian RevolutionJulia Gaffield, William & Mary
Jeremy Clarkson has aggressive prostate cancer. But what makes some cancers more aggressive than others?Sarah Diepstraten, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) and John (Eddie) La Marca, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
Hugh Jackman plays Robin Hood as wicked – it’s a badly timed take on the hero of the poorWilliam Hoff, The University of Melbourne
What is education for? Why new Korean drama Teach You a Lesson is topping the chartsYanyan Hong, Adelaide University
From prejudice to harm – current policies targeting trans people follow a clear pattern of escalationJaimie Veale, University of Waikato
Nigerians tell their stories of banditry. ‘A month will not go by without someone being killed in this village.’Oludayo Tade, University of Ibadan
Why the US government shut down Anthropic’s latest Claude AI modelFrancesco Bailo, University of Sydney
This successful Arctic fishing treaty has kept Russia, China the US working togetherDavid Balton, Harvard Kennedy School
Toy Story 5 pits traditional toys vs a tablet. In real life, families can combine the twoLisa Kervin, Monash University
How political leaders use combat spectacles to symbolize national power and purposeScott Atran, University of Michigan
Andy Burnham is back at Westminster: what this says about Britain’s changing political systemAndrew Stevens, Newcastle University
Earthquakes can be destructive for distant cities built on top of basins – now we know whyTimothy Stern, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Frozen fruit and canned veg are cheap, but are they as healthy as fresh food?Margaret Murray, Swinburne University of Technology
Appolonia: the story of an African kingdom that resisted the Atlantic slave tradeNana Kesse, Clark University
Anti-foreigner violence in South Africa is easily sparked: what hasn’t been done to deal with itAlan Hirsch, University of Cape Town
How Taiwan is balancing between American and Chinese visions of energy dominancePhilippe Le Billon, University of British Columbia
Germany pulled the plug on flagship FCAS fighter jet – the implications for European defence are worryingArun Dawson, King's College London
Ukraine war now longer than the first world war – the similarities are unsettlingFrank Ledwidge, University of Portsmouth
Love life: David Hockney, the artist who forced Britain to make room for colour, joy and queernessSimon Mckeown, Teesside University
Bingles, knuckleballs and ‘Beer Barrel Polka’ – hundreds of forgotten works showcase the eclectic world of baseball scholarshipTom Reinsfelder, Penn State
Marjane Satrapi’s masterpiece Persepolis transformed the world’s understanding of IranShadi Rouhshahbaz, The University of Melbourne; University of Newcastle
Two decades of research show Indonesia’s coral reefs are heat-tolerant — but only up to a pointTries Blandine Razak, IPB University
Greater international co-operation is needed to achieve the UN’s global forest goalsTerry Sunderland, University of British Columbia and Peter Wood
Why the electric SUV boom is a problem for climate, health and equityKeyvan Hosseini, University of Southampton and Dawn-Marie Walker, University of Southampton
Rhino horn: why South Africa wants to revive the international trade, and why critics fear the consequencesJason Gilchrist, Edinburgh Napier University
Does the body really ‘keep the score’ after trauma? How the debunked idea of ‘repressed memories’ is making a comebackAndressa Almeida, University of Sydney and Celine van Golde, University of Sydney
GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic show promise for more than weight loss. But what’s science vs hype?Paul Joyce, Adelaide University
The Milky Way was rewired by a cataclysmic collision billions of years ago. Now it is on course for anotherVasily Belokurov, University of Cambridge
Great mysteries of archaeology: an ancient Amazonian world revealed from the skyJosé Iriarte, University of Exeter
Alien first contact: how the new rules differ from science fictionMichael Garrett, University of Manchester
South African telescope detects record-breaking signal from the early universeThato Manamela, University of Pretoria and Roger P. Deane, Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy; University of Cape Town
China’s ability to weather Trump’s trade war was two decades in the makingGemma Ware, The Conversation
Apple chief executive Tim Cook resigns after 15 years. What’s next for the tech giant?Rajat Roy, Bond University
Why do men sexually harass women at work? Science offers two explanations – but only one of them holds up
What a US military base lost under Greenland’s ice sheet reveals about the island’s real strategic importanceListen
Instead of a soft power coup, the World Cup could be an ‘own goal’ for Donald TrumpCaitlin Byrne, Griffith University
Trump’s US-Iran ceasefire deal is a costly return to prewar conditions – and resolving nuclear questions will run into the ‘indivisibility problem’Farah N. Jan, University of Pennsylvania