Year: 2025

How Nato summit shows Europe and US no longer have a common enemy

The Nato summit showed up an increasing divide between Europe and the US, and their military priorities.

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Amid alarm over a US ‘autism registry’, people are using these tactics to avoid disability surveillance – podcast

Listen to disability surveillance expert Amy Gaeta on The Conversation Weekly podcast.

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UK’s F-35A fighter jet deal problem: the RAF has no aircraft to refuel them in mid-air

The F-35A is not compatible with the UK’s current fleet of tanker aircraft.

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Learning German has many benefits for young people – and it’s not as hard as its reputation suggests

Learning a language gives you unique insights into different cultures, societies and perspectives.

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Mattel and OpenAI have partnered up – here’s why parents should be concerned about AI in toys

What happens when your child’s toy appears to care for them – but doesn’t really?

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Who called Shakespeare ‘upstart crow’? Our study points to his co-author, Thomas Nashe

Perhaps he intended to denigrate Shakespeare as a jack-of-all-trades player-turned-playwright who should have stuck to acting.

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England’s free school meals rollout risks losing sight of which children need help most

Tracking child poverty will be harder without a clear way to measure it.

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Moving Notting Hill Carnival to Hyde Park would wrench it from the community and history at its heart

Holding the carnival in Hyde Park could alter the way that the carnival is enjoyed in ways that would be fundamental to the community it comes from.

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Alasdair Gray: unseen artworks offer insight into a profoundly creative and original artist

Gray’s artworks give us insights into the intensely personal psyche of a creative genius.

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People with severe diabetes cured in small stem cell trial

Lab-grown islet cells offer new hope for type 1 diabetes.

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