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Brain implants, agentic AI and answers on dark matter: what to expect from science in 2025
In a special episode to start 2025, we’ve brought together three science editors from The Conversation’s editions around the world to discuss what to…
1 year, 2 months ago
How Zimbabwe reached the point of abolishing the death penalty
Zimbabwe is on the cusp of abolishing the death penalty after its Death Penalty Abolition Bill was approved by the senate on December 12. The bill is…
1 year, 3 months ago
Why distrust in powerful politicians is part of a functioning democracy
Surveys suggest that in many western democracies, political trust is at rock bottom. But is it really such a bad thing for people living in a democra…
1 year, 3 months ago
How do animals understand death?
An orca that pulled along the corpse of its baby for 17 days. An opposum that plays dead to fool predators. And a chimpanzee that cleaned the teeth o…
1 year, 3 months ago
The story of one Amazon warehouse in the UK that pushed to unionise
The online retail giant Amazon is known for its resistance to unions. In this week’s episode, we tell the story of what happened at one warehouse in …
1 year, 3 months ago
50 years since the discovery of ancient hominin fossil Lucy in Ethiopia, calls grow to decolonize paleoanthropology
It's been 50 years since the American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered the fossil of ancient hominin 'Lucy' in the Afar region of Ethio…
1 year, 3 months ago
The controversy over cod fishing in Canada
For generations, cod fishing was a way of life in Newfoundland and Labrador, the easternmost province in Canada. But in 1992, after cod stocks in the…
1 year, 4 months ago
Gangsters who leave their gang behind for something new
What happens when a gangster leaves their life on the street? How do they transition to something new? We find out through the life stories of two pe…
1 year, 4 months ago
What is motivating Americans as they decide who to vote for
Amid deep political polarization and extreme campaign rhetoric, the U.S. presidential election on November 5 is likely to be decided by a small numbe…
1 year, 4 months ago
Origins of South Australia’s mysterious pink sands revealed
Take a walk along a beach in parts of South Australia, and you may come across unusual patches of pink sand. When a team of geologists began analysin…
1 year, 4 months ago