The EU’s new carbon tax is reshaping global trade – and starting to influence what people buy and how much they pay for it.
The warning lights from the cryosphere have been flashing red for several years and governments and policymakers ignore this at their peril.
Imperial nostalgia correlates strongly with support beyond the main parties: positively with Reform and negatively with the Greens.
From impulse buys to rising debt, buy-now-pay-later is now woven into many people’s Christmas budgets.
Listen to Pablo Uchoa, an expert in Venezuelan military scenario planning, on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Many people are turning to ‘heating hacks’.
A Brazilian study investigated the effects of microdoses of cannabis extract in patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease, and found cognitive decline stalled.
US science lost a great deal in 2025, including tens of billions of dollars of federal funding, entire research agencies and programs, and a generation of researchers.
Since fighting broke out in April 2023, some 150,000 people have been killed in Sudan and an estimated 13.5 million displaced.
A summit between the leaders of the US, India, Japan and Australia was expected in November. But it never happened.
Billie Jean King’s 1973 match was about social change. The upcoming Sabalenka-Kyrgios event – with its rules tweaks and its participants’ questionable politics – may leave women’s tennis worse off.
A trove of century-old belongings − from farm tools to pillowcases − tells the story of Filipinos who migrated to California to build a new life, a journey now honored in a Smithsonian exhibition.
The $4 billion school security industry can’t back up claims for its tech. The silver lining: That’s partly because there aren’t enough shootings to study.
There are several methods for detecting whether a piece of text was written by AI. They all have limitations – and probably always will.
Wolves and coyotes feed on similar things – but their diets aren’t identical. A researcher studied predator diets to investigate their differences.