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India’s middle-class crisis: the great bifurcation and the Gen Z uprising

The student protests we have been witnessing in India can be explained in large part by the crisis facing the Indian middle class, marked in particular by graduate unemployment and a decline in average purchasing power. This is because the upper middle class has grown wealthier, while the lower-middle class…

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Iran war: Tehran’s assertive rhetoric signals a new and dangerous phase in conflict

Iran’s threat to target American warships with an enhanced ballistic missile appears to mark a new and potentially more dangerous phase of the Middle East conflict, six months in. Tehran says its solid-fuel Qassem Basir missile enables it to “take action against any threat, even before it is carried out”.…

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DRC’s Ebola outbreak has the potential to become a global pandemic. How to make sure it doesn’t

Given its speed, scale and scope, the Bundibugyo Ebola virus disease that broke out in the Democratic Republic of Congo in mid-2026 could become a global epidemic.

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South Africa has new electricity pricing rules after 18 years: what it gets right and wrong

The South African government has released a new electricity pricing policy for the first time in 18 years. The policy sets rules that the national energy regulator, the state-owned electricity utility Eskom and municipalities must follow when working out electricity prices.

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Partnerships between government, business and civil society are often tense: 3 tips on how to manage them

The Southern Africa Food Lab has brought businesses, farmers, government and community groups together since 2010 to help address the problems of hunger and malnutrition. When these diverse groups first came together, everyone agreed that the region’s food system was in trouble. The disagreement came next.

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Nonprofits spend too much time reporting to funders: a single universal template could help

Imagine being asked to prepare monthly reports that all demand their own classifications, measurement bases and templates.

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Huachuma, the Andean psychedelic cactus, is drawing Western seekers and raising ethical questions

For at least two decades, thousands of Americans have been going to Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil to look for ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew traditionally used in sacred ceremonies in South America. Ayahuasca contains the psychedelic compound DMT, N-Dimethyltryptamine, and researchers are studying its effects on several conditions, including depression…

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Could you survive The Oregon Trail? An emergency medicine doctor offers tips on how to not die in the great outdoors

If you grew up in the United States in the 1980s or ’90s, chances are you remember The Oregon Trail. For many like me, it was our first computer game and our first introduction to wilderness survival. We hunted buffalo, forded rivers, broke wagon wheels and, of course, learned about…

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AI is helping ease competition for scarce space on the airwaves

Every time you make a phone call, stream a video or connect to Wi-Fi, your device is sending and receiving invisible signals through the air. So are your baby monitor, garage door opener, your GPS, the weather-monitoring satellites and the radars keeping planes safely apart. All of these rely on…

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‘Star Trek’ and NASA have intertwined legacies – the show championed diversity and inspired generations of real space scientists

“Star Trek” began as a television series but grew into a cultural phenomenon.

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Tiny backpacks reveal the secret, sometimes circuitous migrations of small songbirds

Squinting through my binoculars, I scanned the dense branches of a black spruce, trying my best to catch a glimpse of the thin legs of a small black, white and yellow songbird. I was on the hunt for a yellow-rumped warbler – a bird affectionately called “butter-butt” by bird-watchers after…

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Chalmers says Intergenerational Report shows super puts Australia head of the pack in containing pension spending

Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Wednesday will release projections from the government’s Intergenerational Report to bolster Labor’s argument against One Nation’s proposal to allow homebuyers and renters access to some of their superannuation.

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Humanoid robots can sprint and box – but the real test is doing the laundry

At the recent World Humanoid Robot Games 2026 in Beijing, robots sprinted, boxed, played football and tackled tasks inspired by factories, restaurants and emergency situations. The robot Tiangong Ultra even completed the 100 metres in 8.64 seconds, quicker than Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second world record.

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Mentoring based on young peoples’ strengths can alleviate the crisis in education, training and employment

Nearly 1 million 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK are currently outside education, employment or training and the number is currently projected to increase.

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How studying astronauts could help tackle ageing on Earth

Astronauts who undergo long-duration spaceflight aboard the International Space Station often return with health problems that resemble some age-related conditions in people on Earth.

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Why should we care if there aren’t any squished insects on our windscreens?

This summer you may have wondered why you are seeing so few insects squished on your car’s windscreen, compared to a road trip several years ago.

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How the chemistry of Star Trek changed my life – from a gunpowder plot to ‘red hellfire’

I’ll admit it, I’m a Trekkie. I blame my mother.

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How ‘egalitarian’ Sweden became more comfortable with wealth

Sweden is imagined as the land of equality, modesty and Jantelagen – the unwritten rule that no one should think they are better than anyone else. But there has also been a fascination within Sweden with its billionaires, especially those who abide by these dominant cultural norms.

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Compulsory grammar tests in England’s schools aren’t improving children’s writing

For over a decade, children in year six – the final year of primary school in England – have taken the grammar, punctuation and spelling test as part of their Key Stage 2 Standard Assessment Tests (Sats). This GPS test has shaped how grammar is taught in primary schools.

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Denmark is a cycling nation, but our research shows rates are declining – here’s why

Across Europe, cycling is being promoted as a key solution to cleaner, healthier travel. The European Commission recently published its first progress report on the European Declaration on Cycling, highlighting billions of euros in investment, thousands of kilometres of new or upgraded cycle infrastructure, and growing political commitment to treating…

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Why does Southeast Asia keep breathing the same haze — and can ASEAN do more to stop it?

Southeast Asia has spent decades trying to tackle haze from forest fires. Yet every few years, the region finds itself breathing it again.. The transboundary environmental problem has become a recurrent phenomenon in the region.

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Top bureaucrats don’t want to be criticised on social media, but their fix may be unconstitutional

Australia’s top bureaucrats want parliament to curtail politicians posting clips to social media of senior public servants answering questions before parliamentary inquiries.

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Has hay fever season started early? And what’s the most common culprit?

The 2026 Australian pollen season has started, with some people in the eastern states reporting their hay fever symptoms have begun earlier than normal.

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What anglers have taught me about saving England’s sharks

I spent six days on a small fishing boat in the middle of the English Channel in July trying to catch a thresher shark. The weather was fickle, even at the height of summer.

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Like a Goya of Google, artist Jon Rafman fixates on the internet’s perverse pleasures

Jon Rafman is a master of turning the internet’s trash, excess and alienation into strangely seductive art.

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