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How prepared are the US and its allies for a protracted conflict in Iran?

If Israel and the US hoped their attack on Iran would force the country to capitulate quickly, they were wrong. Despite the death of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and many other senior figures, Iran has managed to continue firing drones and missiles at targets across the Middle East.

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Hyrox is booming worldwide – here’s how to train for this race safely and effectively

Once a niche challenge for hardcore athletes, Hyrox has become one of the fastest-growing fitness trends worldwide. It blends elements of endurance running with functional strength work in a way that appeals to both strength and cardio enthusiasts.

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Strait of Hormuz: Gulf states’ food security is at immediate risk but wider shortages could push up consumer prices globally

The Iranian regime has announced the closure of the strait of Hormuz and threatened to target ships attempting to transit the narrow waterway. Some have already been damaged. While this could seriously harm global energy supply and raise costs, the consequences actually extend far beyond these markets.

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Strength training may be the key to healthy ageing

Healthy ageing is about staying independent, maintaining mobility and continuing to enjoy everyday activities as you get older. For many people, what matters most is being able to get out of a chair without help, carry shopping home, climb the stairs and recover quickly after illness.

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Starmer’s Iran approach may anger Trump, but it fits with his foreign policy philosophy

Foreign policy doctrines are often forgotten as soon as they are written. Take the November 2025 US National Security Strategy, which told us that “the days in which the Middle East dominated American foreign policy … are thankfully over”.

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What would Winston Churchill make of war with Iran?

When Donald Trump criticised Keir Starmer for failing to sufficiently support American and Israeli operations against Iran, he did so with a historical flourish. “This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with,” he complained.

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Iran is putting pressure on the US-UK ‘special relationship’ – but it has survived worse over the years

The so-called “special relationship” between the UK and the US appears to be at its lowest ebb for decades. As he sat alongside the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, at a White House press call on March 3, Donald Trump bitterly criticised Keir Starmer for his refusal to let the US…

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Banning social media for under-16s won’t fix the real problem – the business model of these platforms is dangerous for all of us

Against rising adult concern about child sexual abuse content and children’s mental health, recent calls to follow Australia and ban under-16s from accessing social media in the UK are understandable. It reflects genuine parental anxiety about online harms.

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Pollution, noise and climate stress all pose a serious threat to heart health

In an unprecedented collaboration, the European Society of Cardiology, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the World Heart Federation have issued a joint statement calling for immediate action against environmental stressors – pollution, noise, climate stress – to reduce cardiovascular mortality.

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Teaching mathematical statistics: one lecturer’s way of testing what students understand

It’s getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics lecturer, Michael von Maltitz has tried a new way of getting students to learn, and of assessing what they’ve absorbed and retained. Students have to show and discuss how they arrived at…

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Colonialism in Africa: archaeology offers a deeper view

Colonialism has been a central part of history around the world, differing only in form over time and space. After all, whenever people have moved from one place to another, they have colonised spaces and other people or forms of life.

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Eczema and asthma in children: how household fuels are harming health in poor South African homes

In many households in Mabopane and Soshanguve – townships on the northern outskirts of South Africa’s City of Tshwane that are marked by high poverty, unemployment and informal economic activity – evenings follow a familiar pattern.

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Iran war fallout: risks for the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa

The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, in March 2026 marks the end of a political era in the Middle Eastern country. Khamenei was killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s capital, Tehran. This has triggered a war drawing in numerous countries across the Middle East.

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A new face for ‘Little Foot’, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton to date

What did the face of our ancestors look like 3 million years ago? Meet the reconstructed face of “Little Foot” – the most complete biological Australopithecus specimen that ever existed.

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How building with people who face barriers benefits everyone, especially during crises

Imagine approaching a curb in a wheelchair. The step is only a few inches, but for some of us, it might as well be a wall. Now imagine that wall turned into a slope. With that single design change, movement becomes possible again.

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Warming winters are reshaping Canada’s snowpack

Snow is Canada’s hidden reservoir. Each winter, the precipitation it brings is stored not behind dams, but across mountains, forests and prairies as snowpack. When temperatures rise, that stored water melts and is released gradually, sustaining rivers, groundwater, ecosystems, agriculture and hydropower.

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Behind women’s success is a sisterhood that sustains it

Success is often seen as an individual journey. The ambitious woman’s dedication and hard work get her where she wants to be. But social psychologists suggest something different: behind many women’s achievements lies a powerful and often overlooked support system — their friendships with other women.

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Will AI drones, robots and wearable sensors revolutionize workplace safety?

Around 60 per cent of Canadian employees can expect their job to be transformed through artificial intelligence (AI). For many, AI will complement, rather than replace, their work. For some, it could prevent illness, injury or death.

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How one massive gas field shapes the global stakes of conflict in the Middle East

The Middle East plays a central role in global energy and therefore global markets. As tensions escalate and the strait of Hormuz, a key trade route, faces disruption, headlines assessing the wider impact of the Iranian conflict often centre on oil and gas supply.

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‘AI will be the end of us’ – is Colm Tóibín right about the threat to creative writing?

In 1950, William Faulkner delivered a famous acceptance speech for the Nobel prize in literature in which he rallied for the “inexhaustible [human] voice” and his belief in its supremacy – not merely to endure but to prevail. Faulkner reasoned this was because the human voice, transmuted into art, possesses…

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Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority

Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, not the president. But most modern presidents and their legal counsel have asserted that Article 2 of the Constitution allows the president to use the military in certain situations without prior congressional approval – and have acted…

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Housing First helps people find permanent homes in Detroit − but HUD plans to divert funds to short-term solutions

A bureaucratic shift in Washington is threatening to undo years of progress in Detroit’s fight against homelessness, potentially forcing thousands of the city’s most fragile residents back onto the streets.

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Trauma patients recover faster when medical teams know each other well, new study finds

When a trauma patient enters the emergency department, their potential for survival often depends on what happens within the first minutes after their arrival. After studying trauma resuscitation teams at UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, the largest major trauma center in Pennsylvania, it’s clear that trauma teams aren’t organized ahead of…

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When unpaid cooking, cleaning and child care get a dollar value, income inequality in the US shrinks – but the gap has grown since 1965

When economists track inequality, they typically focus on income and spending.

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I study why zebrafish larva prefer to circle left or right, to understand how and why human brains encode right- and left-handedness

Being right- or left-handed is a familiar fact about yourself you likely don’t think about much on a day-to-day basis. However, your handedness affects how you interact with the world.

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