The failure to stop 9/11 was a catastrophe. But even bigger mistakes were made in its aftermathGreg Barton, Deakin University
9/11 transformed our relationship with news – and laid the groundwork for today’s crisis of trustJared Ahmad, University of Sheffield
Correcting the map: How a UN resolution marks a step toward decolonizing world mapsSébastien Caquard, Concordia University
DRC’s cobalt exports contain unreported uranium – our study estimates the global nuclear riskRyan A. Manzuk, University of Wisconsin-Madison
E1: the illegal settlement at the heart of the UK’s West Bank trade banRory McCarthy, Durham University
UK plan to sanction Israel’s illegal West Bank settlements is a historic shift in tone and policyMohamed Ibrahim Hafez, Nottingham Trent University
Ratko Mladić: the war criminal who became a martyr for Bosnian SerbsIsabella Podwinski, The Conversation and Justin Bergman, The ConversationListen
Democracy meatballs: why IKEA is the place for Swedes abroad to voteNina Hillenberg, Torrens University Australia
Xi, Putin and Modi looking in different directions as Shanghai Cooperation Organisation marks 25th anniversaryStefan Wolff, University of Birmingham
Journeying through Syria’s shattered cities as they move from war to peaceOsman Bahadir Dincer, Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC) ; Bahar Baser, Durham University, and Zeynep Sahin Mencütek, Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC)
Raygun turned her Olympic flop into a media career. Now Netflix is helping with the rewriteDavid Rowe, Western Sydney University
Moscow has a long history of paranoia about Britain’s support for Russia’s enemiesPeter Whitewood, York St John University
Himalayan hazards are becoming more complex. Our warning systems need to catch upMehebub Sahana, University of Manchester; Nimesh Dhungana, University of Manchester; Priyank Pravin Patel, Presidency University, Kolkata, and Reshma Shrestha, Kathmandu University
DRC’s Ebola epidemic could be the worst in history: 4 things that could help end itYap Boum, Mbarara University of Science and Technology and Marie Roseline Belizaire, Universidad de Alcalá
Satellite images show how penguins’ diets are changing in response to Antarctic climate changeCasey Youngflesh, Clemson University
The rebuilding in Nepal needs to start now. This is what worked after an earthquake a decade ago – and what to avoidDavid Sanderson, UNSW
How ‘egalitarian’ Sweden became more comfortable with wealthHåkan Johansson, Lund University and Axel Vikström, Lund University
A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What happens now?Jacqueline Peel, The University of Melbourne and Wesley Morgan, UNSW
Early mammals weren’t all loners, as scientists thought – some already lived in pairs alongside the dinosaursCarsten Schradin, Université de Strasbourg; University of the Witwatersrand
Meta’s $18b settlement echoes past tobacco lawsuits – and how they avoided harsh penaltiesShelley Marshall, RMIT University
Why Pacific Island states should seek collective security for the regionAnne-Marie Brady, University of Canterbury
25 years after 9/11, what disasters reveal about Americans’ ability to reconnectTonya Cross Hansel, University of Texas at Arlington
Ceuta crisis: anti-migrant ‘invasion’ rhetoric threatens Europe’s food supply and economyDiana Tung, Universitat de Barcelona and Seth M. Holmes, Universitat de Barcelona; ICREA; University of California, Berkeley
I lived through the first Taliban girls’ school ban — watching it happen again is heartbreakingGhazaal Habibyar, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Bayeux tapestry: Matilda of Flanders – the woman who was instrumental to William the Conqueror’s successNatasha R. Hodgson, Nottingham Trent University
Robert Harris returns to ancient Rome with Agrippa – a novel about an empire’s forgotten architectCatherine Steel, University of Glasgow
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: a queer slasher about trauma and desireDarren Elliott-Smith, University of Stirling
Sunscreen for lakes and dams: could a thin floating layer of nanomaterial shield water from evaporation?Daniel Kwasi Kpeglo, University of South Africa
Butterflies are on the move as the planet warms: new researchShawan Chowdhury, Monash University; Aletta Bonn, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, and Jonathan Lenoir, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)
Wildfires: why media coverage doesn’t always make the climate connectionDoug Specht, University of Westminster
Africa’s Greater Horn region is facing a looming polycrisis fueled by conflict, prices, climate and diseaseDaniel Maxwell, Tufts University; Alex de Waal, Tufts University; Luka Kuol, University of Juba; Merry Fitzpatrick, Tufts University, and Peter Hailey, Tufts University
Behind the betel nut smile: the quiet epidemic of oral cancer in Papua New GuineaNerida Bun, The University of Papua New Guinea
How pigeon fanciers are helping scientists understand lung diseaseRichard Allen, University of Leicester; Louise Wain, University of Leicester, and Mark Spears, University of Dundee
Can Ozempic prevent cancer? A doctor explains why the headlines are easy to misreadZiyad Al-Aly, Washington University in St. Louis
When a teenager makes the ‘stupid choice’, their brain is working exactly as designedEvelyn Svingen, University of Birmingham
How a ‘psychic’ horse named Clever Hans changed the way we do scienceMatyáš Moravec, Queen's University Belfast
Sam Altman says we’re ‘in the singularity’ with AI. Here’s why he’s wrongKai Riemer, University of Sydney and Sandra Peter, University of Sydney
Al-Qaida and the Islamic State are both adopting AI – but differ in how they think about the technologySara Harmouch, George Washington University
The idea of the ‘company man’ was forged decades ago. Its problems still haunt leaders todayClaire Wright, University of Technology Sydney
These 3 charts show female-dominated jobs are actually the most exposed to AILeonora Risse, Queensland University of Technology and Elise Stephenson, Australian National University
Why you should live your life like an accountant – and how you probably already doJack Campbell, Dublin City University
Featuring Trump on US coins and bills would put America in rare companyJacques Hymans, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; University of Southern California
How Ukraine is bringing the war home to RussiaIsabella Podwinski, The Conversation and Justin Bergman, The ConversationListen
From Count Binface to AI Steve: why are we voting for joke candidates?Isabella Podwinski, The Conversation and Justin Bergman, The ConversationListen
Raygun turned her Olympic flop into a media career. Now Netflix is helping with the rewriteDavid Rowe, Western Sydney University
A record-shattering El Niño is almost here. Here’s what that means for the world’s weatherMandy Freund, The University of Melbourne
