41,000 Years Ago, Something Weird in Space Changed How Humans Lived on Earth
Wandering magnetic fields would have had noticeable effects for humans. Credit: Maximilian Schanner (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences,…
US testing quantum navigation aboard secretive military space plane
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On June 3, 2025, South Koreans will head to the polls to vote for a new president. The…
Three novels by Nobelist Han Kang explain South Korea’s fragility
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Europe-NATO scramble for a ‘coalition of the willing’ for Ukraine
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Congress, not POTUS, decides on government spending — how ‘power of the purse’ works
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Peace prospects slim unless Europe grips reality of Trump’s world
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LA fires, climate change and the coming collapse of insurance
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what to expect from science in 2025 – podcast
In a special episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast to start 2025, we’ve brought together three science editors…
Will China pay up to take the climate change lead?
The 2024 UN climate talks ended in Baku, Azerbaijan, on November 24 after two weeks of arguments, agreements…
The Indo-Pacific is too vast to be termed, meaningfully, a region
Over the past decade, the idea of an important geopolitical space called the “Indo-Pacific” has become integral to…
Russia’s ‘meat grinder’ tactics in Ukraine war perspective
Reports have emerged in recent months of particularly savage casualties among Russian troops fighting in the Donbas region…