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Nutritional Dark Matter Explains Why Ultra-Processed Foods Harm Human Health Beyond Calories, Fats, and Sugar

Nutritional dark matter science published June 17, 2026 explains why ultra-processed food harms health beyond macronutrients: novel industrial chemicals disrupt gut, hormones, and brain.

Medical Daily · Jun 18

Your Brain Was Never Designed for This Much Bad News — Researchers Explain Doomscrolling's Health Effects and How to Stop

Researchers June 16, 2026: 40% of global news consumers avoid news; 17% of U.S. adults have severe Problematic News Consumption. Here's the science and the fix.

Medical Daily · Jun 18

Vodafone has suffered another major outage. A telco expert explains what went wrong

Vodafone Australia suffered a major nationwide outage today that may have affected millions of customers.

The Conversation · Jun 18

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Scientists Say Your Food Contains More Than 26,000 Chemical Compounds — and Most Have Never Been Studied for Health Effects

Food contains 26,000+ chemical compounds but nutrition science studies only ~150. Prof. David Benton explains "nutritional dark matter" in a ScienceDaily feature June 17, 2026.

Medical Daily · Jun 18

71 Amateur And Veteran Online Detectives Are Sharing Photos With Hidden Details (New Pics)

You don’t have to be a film noir detective with a stylish hat, black-and-white office, and femme fatale clients to put your sleuthing skills to the test. You can start by solving small mysteries in everyday photos that look ordinary. Well, suspiciously too ordinary… ‘When You See It’ is a…

Bored Panda · Jun 15

The mysterious tooth condition affecting millions of children

Your child’s small, delicate, chalk-white baby teeth fall out. In their place grow yellowish-brown, fragile teeth – much to everyone’s surprise.

The Conversation · Jun 15

Meet the internet movement trying to tackle the manosphere. It’s called BreadTube

The manosphere has frequently featured in news headlines this year. Some of these have focused on how the movement looks on YouTube – a platform that research suggests uses recommender algorithms to boost extreme content.

The Conversation · Jun 9

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Vision, Europe of the Future conference – in partnership with The Conversation

The Conversation is once again delighted to be a media partner of the think tank Vision, as it hosts its seventh ‘Europe of the Future’ conference in Siena, Italy.

The Conversation · Jun 8

The hunt for a new Ebola vaccine: two scientists explain the challenges

The ongoing Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda has now killed 61 people, with 359 confirmed cases. The Bundibugyo strain of the virus has a fatality rate of between 30% and 50%, and there is currently no vaccine approved for it. Two scientists at…

The Conversation · Jun 8

Detroit is spending millions on gunshot detection tech – is it an effective tool in the fight against violent crime?

Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison says alerts from ShotSpotter, a gun detection technology, help officers respond quickly to shootings.

The Conversation · Jun 8

Heartbreaking historical tales, unsettling scenes and shortlisted non-fiction – what to read, watch and see this week

This curation of The Conversation UK’s arts and culture coverage was first published in our fortnightly newsletter, Something Good.

The Conversation · Jun 5

Hanson’s gas policy follows the far-right playbook: attack ‘elites’ and push for drilling

New polling this week put One Nation ahead of Labor in the primary vote for the first time, as the party’s latest policy announcements signal greater political ambition.

The Conversation · Jun 2

New season of The Conversation’s award-winning Curious Kids podcast launching this June

The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast is back for a second season to answer some of the fantastic questions sent in by listeners around the world!

The Conversation · Jun 2

‘Utter disregard for the risk to human life’: Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI safety

The US state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging the tech giant and its CEO put profit over public safety with its flagship artificial intelligence (AI) product, ChatGPT.

The Conversation · Jun 2

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The Conversation · May 31

Men film themselves sexually abusing sedated women and share it with other men online. Why?

The world watched on in horror in 2024 as Dominque Pelicot and 50 other men were tried in a French court for repeatedly drugging and raping Gisele Pelicot over almost a decade. All of them were found guilty.

The Conversation · May 29

I’ve been studying racist costume parties for a decade, and colleges are failing at educating the students about why they’re wrong

In 2014, a group of students at Bowdoin College thought it would be fun to dress up as Pilgrims and Native Americans for a Thanksgiving-themed party. This is not the first or last event like this, nor is it unique to one college.

The Conversation · May 29

Dealing with the heat

This roundup of The Conversation’s environment coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine.

The Conversation · May 28

Murals, myths and belonging: how art is reshaping South Greenland

The morning sun lights up the ice-covered mountains around Narsaq, a small village in South Greenland. Turquoise icebergs float by the shores of the fjords, and seagulls gather on the cliffy rocks. An old man walks slowly along the colourful houses on the hill.

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The Conversation · May 22

What do the Commonwealth Writers Prize AI allegations mean for prizes – and short stories?

Another day, another literary scandal involving AI. It has been alleged that the judges of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize have been duped by an author using AI in his winning entry. Jamir Nazir’s The Serpent in the Grove, which won for the Caribbean region, was then published in leading…

The Conversation · May 21

Long COVID will cost the US an estimated $8 billion over just 3 years due to healthcare burden, managing symptoms and loss to the workforce

Headlines on long COVID have become much more rare than during the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Conversation · May 21

Where will money for the ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ come from? This man has been warning of Judgment Fund abuse for years

The creation of an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” at the Department of Justice may have shocked a lot of people, but not Paul Figley, a legal scholar and former DOJ staffer who has spent years warning that taxpayer money could be used by an administration for political ends in just this way.

The Conversation · May 21

How journalism can serve the greater good

In the washup following the federal budget last week, the ABC did a vox pop interview with a voter about a tax change that would leave him worse off. The answer he gave was unexpected. Instead of complaining, he told the reporter that he supported the change because it could…

The Conversation · May 20

We analysed the TikTok history of 142 men. Here’s what it taught us about the manosphere

Interest in the manosphere has recently surged yet again, with the recent Louis Theroux documentary catapulting the term “manosphere” back to the forefront of our cultural psyche.

The Conversation · May 19

Can you trademark identity? The new legal strategy celebrities are using against AI

In recent months, celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Matthew McConaughey and Jeremy Clarkson have turned to trademark law to protect aspects of their identity associated with their brands.

The Conversation · May 14

Grattan on Friday: Taylor’s bold budget reply is a mix of sound and dubious policy commitments

Angus Taylor might have reckoned he and the opposition are in such deep doo-doo that he might as well throw everything at Thursday night’s budget reply.

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