The Conversation
Latest 100 items ordered by publication date.
Latest items (85)
- • The Conversation: Science, religion, and political omens: the meaning of eclipses in ancient Rome
- • The Conversation: Does Saudi Arabia want to develop nuclear weapons? Here’s what history can tell us
- • The Conversation | Deniz Torcu: How the Ceuta border crossing incident immediately played into the hands of Spain’s far right
- • The Conversation | Stefan Wolff: We investigated Russia’s military indoctrination of Ukrainian children in occupied territories – what we found was more shocking than we could have imagined
- • The Conversation | César MartÃn-Gómez: Spain needs a legal overhaul to protect homes from fire. Here’s what it can learn from Australia and Greece
- • The Conversation | Nadina Gómez Merino: Reading by ear: how audiobooks can help people with phonological dyslexia to enjoy books
- • The Conversation | Trudy Meehan: Three ways boredom can actually be a benefit
- • The Conversation | MarÃa-Luisa Chas-Amil: Why Spain needs to invest heavily in preventing fires, not just in fighting them
- • The Conversation | Gilles Paché: Gironde wildfires: what the logistical challenges behind the mass evacuations tell us
- • The Conversation | Marzia Sesini: Carbon capture explained: how EU member states are funding and rolling out the technology to clean up Europe’s fossil fuel industry
- • The Conversation | Pim Edelaar: Updating Darwin: biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolution
- • The Conversation | Ibrahim Al-Marashi: Berlin Pride: ISIS still inspires terrorism in Europe – but who carries out these attacks?
- • The Conversation: What vegan and vegetarian diets can and can’t tell us about eating disorders
- • The Conversation: The case for having an imperfect memory – a psychologist explains
- • The Conversation: Cracking the code: can AI help us decipher ancient languages?
- • The Conversation: How next-generation photovoltaics could contribute to electricity storage
- • The Conversation: Melts in your mouth, but not in your car: the ongoing scientific quest to create heat-resistant chocolate
- • The Conversation: Cerebral small vessel disease: new treatment possibilities for the little-known condition affecting millions of people
- • The Conversation: Putin under pressure but history tells us most Russian leaders die with their boots on
- • The Conversation: Why safe water is still lacking in the Marajó Archipelago, one of the world’s most water-abundant regions
- • The Conversation: Why Odysseus couldn’t just say: ‘I’m home’
- • The Conversation: It’s not just business: why emotions are central to workplace management
- • The Conversation: People in the UK favour harsher punishment than Norwegians – belief in free will may help explain why
- • The Conversation: Great apes were using touch to reassure and keep the peace six million years before humans evolved – new research
- • The Conversation: Six years on, why lobbying success for COVID victims’ association in Italy over pandemic mismanagement matters
- • The Conversation: An emerging Iran-Pakistan allegiance is reshaping southwest Asia’s power structures
- • The Conversation: An emerging Iran-Pakistan ‘Axis of Sympathy’ is reshaping southwest Asia’s power structures
- • The Conversation: ‘I can’t work in the farce of climate change cruise tourism anymore’: why Antarctic guides quit their dream jobs
- • The Conversation: Why looking out for ‘weak signals’ can help European companies stay in business
- • The Conversation: Why do some people who trust in science also believe in scientific conspiracy theories?
- • The Conversation: ‘Manchesterism’ is bigger than Andy Burnham
- • The Conversation: Eight lifesaving ways to improve wildfire risk management
- • The Conversation: Andy Burnham becomes prime minister after Keir Starmer leaves Downing Street for the last time
- • The Conversation: How Manchester created Manchesterism: from music and culture to political power
- • The Conversation: Critical thinking has become an AI-era buzzword. But what does it actually mean, and how do we teach it?
- • The Conversation: Spain wildfires: with 13 dead, we need to start measuring fire damage in lives – not just hectares
- • The Conversation: England out of the World Cup, but this team may have helped redefine a nation
- • The Conversation: Spain’s schools are still glossing over the Spanish civil war and the Franco dictatorship. How do we teach these crucial events properly?
- • The Conversation: Thomas Tuchel thinks differently, and draws on academia
- • The Conversation: Donald Trump is running out of options in Iran
- • The Conversation: The world’s first influencers were French and they emerged after the Revolution
- • The Conversation: How apocalyptic worldviews are moving from the fringes to the corridors of power
- • The Conversation: Composting and water cremation: how the eco credentials of alternatives to burial add up
- • The Conversation: Nato Ankara Summit: why only a federal, unified EU can mount its own credible military defence
- • The Conversation: The mystery behind what killed Botticelli’s muse: has a 550-year-old medical case been solved?
- • The Conversation: World Cup 2026: how are posts on diversity and inclusion being received on social media?
- • The Conversation: Making scientific knowledge free for all
- • The Conversation: STING protein: our study found new ways for the body to activate – and possibly control – inflammation
- • The Conversation: World Cup 2026: are Les Bleus a true reflection of French society?
- • The Conversation: Despite World Cup team’s diversity, France is still wrestling with unresolved issues of identity and representation
- • The Conversation: Le Pen to run for French presidency despite conviction – her protege Jordan Bardella would make a better candidate
- • The Conversation: With Marine Le Pen’s sentence the judiciary is giving French citizens the final say on her political future
- • The Conversation: Why Nigel Farage is resigning as an MP, only to stand again – expert analysis
- • The Conversation: Magnesium is essential, but supplements have limited benefits in healthy people. Here’s what the science says
- • The Conversation: Why Pope Leo’s visit to Lampedusa matters for migrants, the church and global politics
- • The Conversation: Culture is the far right’s secret weapon – and it’s winning over some of Europe’s most educated youth
- • The Conversation: Climate law expert: Europe’s deadly heatwaves belong in court
- • The Conversation: World Cup’s credibility in question after Fifa volte face following call from Donald Trump
- • The Conversation: The public isn’t bored with economists, management scholars and sociologists but engaging people has conditions
- • The Conversation: Nato summit will reveal how alliance plans to manage European security as US cuts back its support
- • The Conversation: How do governance frameworks operate and what can major public projects gain from them?
- • The Conversation: Why Pope Leo has excommunicated a group of conservative Catholics
- • The Conversation: A brief history of human pain
- • The Conversation: Ukraine war sparks fears of an organised crime resurgence in Russia
- • The Conversation: Why the UK government needed to apologise for its role in historical forced adoptions in England
- • The Conversation: From the Fourth of July to Bastille Day: How France and America reinvent their nations through ritual
- • The Conversation: You can dream while you’re awake. The boundary between wakefulness and sleep is a lot blurrier than you’d think
- • The Conversation: How the Venezuelan people and diaspora are driving earthquake relief
- • The Conversation: Most EU citizens support economic growth even though climate experts question its role
- • The Conversation: Five ways to make your clothes last longer
- • The Conversation: The strange history of Czech cactus hunters – and why some see themselves as Robin Hood figures
- • The Conversation: The Nordic Paradox: even the world’s most equal countries are failing to reduce violence against women
- • The Conversation: Ukrainian families have been torn apart by the war – reunifying them is no easy task
- • The Conversation: Is the Pope’s AI encyclical a warning on Tech Messianism?
- • The Conversation: The condition that causes people to get lost in their own home
- • The Conversation: ‘This was something new’: what people in Greenland told us about learning to live with wildfires
- • The Conversation: Germany’s proposal to ease trade tensions with China has not gone down well in Beijing
- • The Conversation: 40°C in Paris: extreme summer heat is no longer exceptional for most of Europe
- • The Conversation: What Gaudà and the Sagrada FamÃlia can teach us about leadership
- • The Conversation: Summer’s new normal is a hazard that’s testing Europe’s climate resilience
- • The Conversation: The cost of living is soaring – why not try moving in together?
- • The Conversation: Type 2 diabetes patients often have high blood sugar while fasting – here’s why
- • The Conversation: The Islamic legacy built into GaudÃ’s most famous designs
- • The Conversation: The Strait of Hormuz is finally reopening but Europe’s food chain suppliers cannot afford to be complacent
- • The Conversation: Teenage exposure to sexual content in TV and movies may lead to pornography use in adulthood