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Middle East is the latest arena of political recalibration for Italy’s right-wing but pragmatic Meloni

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has made a political art of being many things at once.

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Iron overload: how tea, coffee, red meat and alcohol can affect absorption

Most of us are used to hearing about the risks of not getting enough iron. Yet having too much iron in the body can also cause serious health problems.

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We paid college students about $5 a night to sleep at least 7 hours – and their grades quickly improved

Paying college students about US$5 a night to sleep seven hours got them a quarter more nights of adequate sleep – and better grades.

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How libraries in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other Pennsylvania communities evolved from subscription clubs to vital public institutions

As a librarian who researches and writes about library history in Pennsylvania, I was delighted to see the American Library Association’s efforts to celebrate its 150th anniversary this year, while making several mentions of Pennsylvania.

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To crack the job market, internships can be just as key for young people as the degree

College students are facing one of the most precarious labor markets in years. A recent New York Federal Reserve study pointed to a sharp increase in the post-college unemployed compared with other workers, with explanations ranging from artificial intelligence job displacement to a broader slowdown in hiring.

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No, AI systems don’t have a drive to survive – a developmental psychologist explains why it only looks that way

In controlled safety tests described earlier this year, researchers asked AI models to solve a series of simple math problems. Partway through the exercise, the instructors warned the bots that if they tried to solve the next problem, the computer environment they were operating in would be shut down. In…

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Is science journalism dying? Comparing a ‘science crash’ 40 years ago to today

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Dengue-carrying mosquitoes expand their reach into new territories – including Florida

The Tampa Bay Times reported the death of an elderly woman on Sept. 8, 2026. Her family says local doctors attributed her death to dengue fever, although the Florida Department of Health has not yet confirmed that.

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How South Korea is tackling its super-aging problem – and what other aging nations can learn from its experience

In December 2024, the share of South Koreans ages 65 and older surpassed 20% for the first time, making it what demographers like us call a “super-aged society.” By August 2026 that share had risen further, to 22.1%.

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How ‘portfolio reasoning’ explains Trump’s constant reevaluation of America’s value

In January 2026, President Donald Trump told an audience of business and political leaders in Davos, Switzerland, that the United States needed the “right, title and ownership” to Greenland “because you need the ownership to defend it. You can’t defend it on a lease.”

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Iran’s threat to cut undersea cables in Strait of Hormuz poses a serious threat to Gulf states

The conflict between Iran and the US appears to have reached a stalemate. The US navy continues to prevent Iranian vessels or others transiting to or from Iranian ports. Iran, meanwhile, threatens shipping moving in or out of the Persian Gulf region via the Strait of Hormuz.

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When a bet may not be gambling – the puzzle of prediction markets

Regular stock exchange observers will know all about prediction markets. Users buy and sell contracts that pay a fixed sum if a specified event occurs – a sports team wins a match, a candidate is elected.

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Pisa results: England bucks global decline in reading and Wales falls behind

Every three years, the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) tests the reading, maths and science skills of 15-year-olds in countries across the world.

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Europe’s e-waste is a valuable resource – let’s not throw it away

Throwing something away that is urgently needed, expensive and difficult to source sounds crazy. Yet out of the 60 metals contained in old electronic devices like phones, screens or washing machines, only a few get recycled. That includes precious metals like gold or silver and some other metals like aluminium…

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Can an ancient virus be brought back to life? What 500-year-old smallpox DNA reveals

Smallpox is the only human infectious disease to have been eradicated worldwide. Researchers have now recovered fragments of ancient DNA belonging to variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox, from the naturally mummified remains of two Indigenous people buried in northern Chile.

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More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research

Content warning: This article discusses mass death, epidemics, frontier violence, and the structural violence experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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AFP commissioner urges ‘conversation’ about link between Australians’ level of illicit drug use and organised crime

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett has called for a national “conversation” about the link between Australians’ use of illicit drugs and organised crime violence.

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175 years of university architecture reflects Australian history. We shouldn’t let that history be lost

Half a decade ago, Australian universities were thrust into an international experiment in online learning and working. Suddenly, bricks and mortar campuses seemed redundant.

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Hanson ‘regrets’ hurt caused by remark about ‘primitive’ First Nations people

Pauline Hanson has expressed “regret” for describing Australia’s Indigenous people as “the most primitive race on earth”, saying it “wasn’t my intention to hurt people”.

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David Hockney: Portraits in Print reveals lesser-known aspects of the celebrated artist

I first fell under the spell of David Hockney’s prints as a student of printmaking and life drawing. Australia had been my home for only a few years and I found a key to my experience of movement and growth in the series A Rake’s Progress (1961–63), completed after Hockney’s…

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Poorly fitting sports bras are forcing some women and girls away from sport – new research

Australian sport has a participation problem, especially when it comes to girls and women.

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Was there really a female king in ancient Egypt 5,000 years ago? New study says yes

More than 5,000 years ago, a royal woman called Meretneith (also written as Merneith), lived in ancient Egypt. She was possibly the daughter of Djer, the third king of the First Dynasty, a period when the first kings ruled over a unified Egypt.

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Bluster and betrayal: Paul Barry probes how steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta hoodwinked the powerful

It is difficult to read Paul Barry’s The Big Steal without a mounting sense of outrage, not just at the British businessman Sanjeev Gupta, rightly described as a silver-tongued scoundrel, but at the greedy bankers, gullible journalists, naive politicians and incompetent regulators who allowed this global scam to happen.

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Why Sydney Sweeney’s controversial advert goes beyond sexualising women’s sport

Sydney Sweeney’s sports advertisement has been widely criticised by women athletes as sexualising athletes’ bodies.

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How does unthinkable policy become inevitable? The ‘Overton window’ is one possible answer

Not that long ago, Australians owned many public enterprises and lived behind high tariff walls. The country ran on cheap coal-fired power. A pro-China foreign policy and a large, bipartisan migration program worked to the country’s benefit.

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