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Keir Starmer giving a speech

Keir Starmer: what we know about Britain’s new prime minister and how he will lead

Mark Bennister, University of Lincoln and Ben Worthy, Birkbeck, University of London

UK election day 2024: what the experts say
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Keir Starmer with a red-tinted Downing Street behind him
UK election: Tory downfall is democracy rectifying its mistakes

Stephen Barber, University of East London

Rishi Sunak looking down whilst at a leisure centre in his constituency after holding his seat.
Legislative elections in France: ‘Emmanuel Macron has made the RN the main force of opposition to his policies’

Legislative elections in France: ‘Emmanuel Macron has made the RN the main force of opposition to his policies’

Mathias Bernard, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)

How (apparently) identical animals can have different genomes – new research

Cristian Cañestro, Universitat de Barcelona

Two piranhas face to face.
Two reasons I’m sceptical about psychedelic science

Michiel van Elk, Leiden University

Desiccated 'magic mushrooms'
How the Dutch became the tallest nation on Earth

Kristina Thompson, Wageningen University and Björn Quanjer, Radboud University

How the Dutch became the tallest nation on Earth
‘Make Europe Great Again’: far right Hungary takes over presidency of the Council of the European Union

Eszter Wirth, Universidad Pontificia Comillas

‘Make Europe Great Again’: far right Hungary takes over presidency of the Council of the European Union
Is social media fuelling political polarisation?

Antoine Marie, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL

femme aveuglée par les réseaux sociaux
Ukraine summit fails to provide a path to peace for Kyiv and its allies

Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham and Tetyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law Academy

Ukrainian president |Volodymyr Zelensky sits at a long table flanked by representatives from several other countries including Switzerland.
Digital multi-tasking is ruining our work, school grades and sleep – here are 7 ways we can reclaim our attention spans

Teresa Rossignoli Palomeque, Universidad Nebrija

Digital multi-tasking is ruining our work, school grades and sleep – here are 7 ways we can reclaim our attention spans
Nato’s next secretary general is outgoing Netherlands prime minister, ‘Teflon’ Mark Rutte

Lars Brummel, Leiden University

Netherlands prime minister Mark Rutte poses for a selfie with schoolchildren in the Hague, Netherlands, 21 June 2024

French elections

Is Macron pushing France toward a ‘strange defeat’?

Andrew Smith, Queen Mary University of London

Is Macron pushing France toward a ‘strange defeat’?
Could early school troubles of some National Rally voters explain the party’s appeal?

Félicien Faury, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) – Université Paris-Saclay

French far-right: could early school troubles of some National Rally voters explain the party’s appeal?
How ‘cohabitation’ could reshuffle the cards between president and prime minister

Alexandre Frambéry-Iacobone, Université de Bordeaux

French snap elections: ‘cohabitation’ could reshuffle the cards between president and prime minister
Snap elections in France: a political scientist lays out what’s at stake

Julien Robin, Université de Montréal

Snap elections in France: a political scientist lays out what’s at stake

Euro 2024

Footballers argue with a referee during a game

Football’s referee crisis: we asked thousands of refs about the abuse and violence that’s driving them out of the game

Tom Webb, Coventry University and Harjit Sekhon, Coventry University

Bukayo Saka, a young black English player in an England shirt.

Euro 2024: football is a magnet for online abuse – but it is also the ideal platform to challenge it

Gary Sinclair, Dublin City University

European elections 2024

The modern world’s relationship to time is broken – and it’s fuelling the rise of the far right

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

Marine Le Pen delivering a speech while a man in a suit stands in the background smiling.

EU parliament election sees shaken centre hold – but far right now has chances to show its strength

Amelia Hadfield, University of Surrey

EU and immigration

UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda may never happen but other European leaders still want to copy it – podcast

Gemma Ware, The Conversation

A small boat carrying what is thought to migrants near a tanker in the English Channel.
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
Why EU information campaigns are failing to deter migrants from leaving

Antoine Pécoud, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and Mélodie Beaujeu, Sciences Po

African migrants attempting to flee to Europe disembark in Sfax from a vessel belonging to the Tunisian coastguard, after having been intercepted at sea, on 10 August 2023.
The EU’s outsourced migration control is violent, expensive and ineffective

Barah Mikaïl, IE University

Refugee camp in Suruc, Turkey. 2015

New research

A digital depiction of Epstein-Barr virus as it would appear under a microscope.

Epstein-Barr virus: how does a common infection trick the immune system into attacking the brain in people with MS?

Olivia Thomas, Karolinska Institutet; Graham Taylor, University of Birmingham, and Jill Brooks, University of Birmingham

Shepherd’s graffiti sheds new light on Acropolis lost temple mystery – new research

Janric van Rookhuijzen, Radboud University

The Acropolis of Athens with the Parthenon.
The problems with climate scenarios, and how to fix them

Riccardo Rebonato, EDHEC Business School

The problems with climate scenarios, and how to fix them
Climate crisis sees rise in illegal water markets in the Middle East

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

Climate crisis sees rise in illegal water markets in the Middle East
Surging property prices: When will Europe’s cities become affordable again?

Geoffrey Ditta, Universidad Nebrija

Residential buildings in Dublin.
Europe’s climate laws could spell the end to low-cost flights – but what about private jets?

Fausto Corvino, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)

Europe’s climate laws could spell the end to low-cost flights – but what about private jets?
Our research reveals the scale of the EU’s dependency on imports for critical minerals needed for the green transition - here’s how that can change

Michalis Christou, Joint Research Centre and Samuel Carrara, Joint Research Centre

Our research reveals the scale of the EU’s dependency on imports for critical minerals needed for the green transition - here’s how that can change
How companies calculate their carbon footprints

Gianfranco Gianfrate, EDHEC Business School

fumée d'usine avec un ciel ensoleillé
Georgians rally against controversial ‘foreign agents’ bill – it’s the latest chapter in the country’s long history of political protest

Natasha Lindstaedt, University of Essex

A protester wearing a Georgian and European flag faces off with policemen blocking a street.
How 17th century refugees used the printing press to fight their oppressors – and laid the foundations of modern humanitarianism

David de Boer, Radboud University

How 17th century refugees used the printing press to fight their oppressors – and laid the foundations of modern humanitarianism
We need to talk about Chinese and US influence in Europe’s energy industry

Carine Sebi, Grenoble École de Management (GEM) and Patrick Criqui, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

We need to talk about Chinese and US influence in Europe’s energy industry
Religious discrimination against LGBTQIA+ children is deeply rooted in Europe’s religious schools

Anna C. Hickey-Moody, National University of Ireland Maynooth

A kid drawing a heart with the LGBT-flag colours inside
Why we can read Finnish without understanding it – a look at ‘transparent’ languages

Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, Universidad Nebrija

Why we can read Finnish without understanding it – a look at ‘transparent’ languages

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Catalonia independence: electoral shift marks the beginning of a new era in a region fraught with political tension

Catalonia independence: electoral shift marks the beginning of a new era in a region fraught with political tension

Víctor Climent Sanjuán, Universitat de Barcelona

For Europe to emulate Silicon Valley’s tech success, it should change its startup funding model

Michaela Hruskova, University of Stirling and Katharina Scheidgen, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Tech startup illustration with a rocket in the middle
How to buy a good pair of sunglasses

Jacobo García Queiruga, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Verónica Noya Padín, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

How to buy a good pair of sunglasses
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Henk Hoekstra, Leiden University

Euclid telescope: A scientist tells us of his quest to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy
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Daouda Coulibaly, EDC Paris Business School

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