An increase of just 0.03% in illegal gold mining is associated with a 20 to 46% increase in the local incidence of malaria in Yanomami lands in the Brazilian Amazon.
US policy towards Taiwan has always been complex and nuanced. All that may now change.
Eroding the gains made in education has severe consequences, especially for girls.
For two decades, researchers have studied soccer ball aerodynamics. Latest tests suggest the 2026 ball is more stable, but with a slightly shorter range.
Some engineers are prioritizing ‘design for demise’ and planning satellites that are more likely to completely burn up in Earth’s atmosphere at the end of their lifespan.
Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility – however unlikely – of survival.
We can study the cosmos by tracing debris from exploding stars right here on Earth.
A new study supports a burgeoning challenge to the assumption that pain requires a brain anything like ours.
The fragment wasn’t placed besides the body, but stuffed inside it.
Companies like Meta and IBM are exploring explore how AI can hyper-personalize ads, drawing from our chat histories, playing to our unique fears and vanities.
The pressure on Keir Starmer is relentless – but any challenge won’t play out like the prime ministerial topplings of the previous government.
Although Jimmy Donaldson might have you think otherwise, exploiting people for entertainment can’t be morally offset by doing good elsewhere.
Nothing angers Cubans more than being told by Americans how to run their country.
A virus doesn’t become a pandemic simply because it’s deadly.
In humans, social complexity usually involves clear governance hierarchies, with leaders and middle managers directing our activities. But ants don’t work that way.
The circular mass graves were filled with the bones of people and animals, often carefully arranged around a key person at the centre.
Surveys may overestimate belief in conspiracy theories because of trolls and jokers – but genuine believers can still cause real-world harm.
What’s happening in Afghanistan is not simply gender discrimination; rather, it’s pushing an entire gender out of public systems altogether in a policy of gender apartheid by the ruling Taliban.
A week after the asteroid impact, rotting vegetation, smoke and sulphur create a stinky planet. Plant and animal survivors succumb to the corrosive acid rain.
Cameras mounted on the referee, trialled at the Fifa Club World Cup last year, will show us what the ref can – and can’t – see.
The business start-up vibe of the Nairobi summit is no coincidence.
This shift is a clear reversal of Meta’s privacy-first posture, which Mark Zuckerberg announced back in 2019.
What makes for a good life? Simple: grinding through tokens.
Delcy Rodríguez has maintained tight control of political conditions inside the country, while prioritising economic liberalisation.
This is driven by an absence of legal accountability for attacks on civilians, aid workers and journalists in both Lebanon and Gaza.
A new study highlights how noise pollution in the ocean is changing animals’ behaviour.
The term Fenian can’t be untangled from a dark history of anti-Irish racism. That’s why Kneecap chose it.
Bilateral meeting between both presidents sent a clear signal to Lula’s domestic audience: the relationship with Washington is not broken, and it does not require a Bolsonaro to fix it.
Iranian tariffs in the Strait of Hormuz may change how oil is traded and priced, with implications for currencies, alliances and global economic power.
The profusion of video access to anywhere on earth, at any time of day or night, was unimaginable before Turner’s work to make CNN conceivable and then real.
Data show that South Africans have become more hostile towards immigrants.
Pakistan’s relationships with the US and Iran put it in a strong position to intervene – not to mention a need to stabilise its borders and protect its own economy.
This conflict is fast becoming a catestrophic US failure which could define Trump’s second presidency.
Economist Jiao Wang talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the way China has diversified its export markets away from the west.
Few people probably know the female songwriters featured in this article, yet Motown relied heavily upon their contributions to cement its place in music history.
Putin is under growing pressure at home as Ukraine continues to strike far inside Russia and more critics are voicing discontent with the war.
There are good reasons why we see AI chatbots as more than what they truly are.
Reading is arguably the most difficult task one must learn. To understand why it is difficult, one must understand the physiology of reading.
Cities around the world rely on trees to keep temperatures lower. New research shows trees are remarkably effective – but can’t do it all
Iran’s decision to levy tolls on ships passing through the crucial choke hold has an unlikely connection to the site of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet.’
People value human-created art not just for its quality, but because it represents effort, intention and lived experience.
Coral reefs underpin tourism and small fisheries, but are under threat from rising ocean temperatures.
Mali’s security situation requires resolution of Tuareg grievances, restoration of trust in the state, and political inclusion.
Hollywood loves a character who has the perfect total recall of a photographic memory. But this idea is a fantasy. It’s not how memory works – for good reason.
An epidemiologist explains why germs spread so easily on cruise ships, and how to stay safe on holiday.
Advances in genetic engineering have enabled researchers to seek ways to program new life. But has synthetic biology actually changed medicine and the environment, nearly two decades on?
The solutions they offer - economic shock therapy, militarized crackdowns and a lack of agency in foreign policy - are just old responses retooled with new aesthetics and a new international support network.
While the UAE and Saudi Arabia can at least partly circumvent the Strait of Hormuz, other Gulf states are less fortunate.
Astronauts report feeling profoundly awestruck when they go to space, an anthropologist reports. This experience shapes their perspectives even back on Earth.
The future of Shakespeare may well lie beyond the English language.
