Political scientist Jesse Rhodes speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the latest results of the UMass Amherst poll on Americans’ attitudes about Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
Pink sand made up of garnet rocks on a beach in South Australia.
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Rsearch fellow Laura Cinti talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about her quest to find a female version of the endangered E. woodii cycad using drones and AI.
A woman in the Democratic Republic of Congo holds her one-year-old son infected with mpox.
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Virologist Wolfgang Preiser and paediatrician Ndia Sam-Agudu talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the latest mpox epidemic and how the disease has been ignored in Africa.
Treena Orchard and Carolina Bandinelli talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how dating apps have changed expectations about the search for love.
In the first of two episodes on geoengineering, The Conversation Weekly examines the case for repairing the climate with technological interventions.
Governments are starting to heed protests against deals like the Energy Charter Treaty that protect fossil fuel investors.
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Kyla Tienhaara, an expert on investor state dispute settlement, talks to The Conversation Weekly about growing momentum against this secretive arbitration system.
New pain management techniques could help the hundreds of millions of people suffering with chronic pain.
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Pyschologist Garriy Shteynberg talks to The Conversation Weekly about his theory of the collective mind – and why you should think about it when watching the Olympics this summer.
The far-right Rassemblement National party was pushed into third place in the second round of the French legislatives elections.
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Marine ecologist Isabel Key explains what she’s finding as she listens to the sounds of underwater seagrass meadows. Listen on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
The components of the FGC-9 3D-printed gun.
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Rajan Basra explains the backstory to the FGC-9, the world’s most popular 3D printed gun - and his search for its anonymous creator. Listen on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
A rise in people making the dangerous journey to the UK across the English Channel in small boats prompted a plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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Nando Sigona and Michaela Benson argue Britain’s Rwanda plan was brought about as a result of a Brexit-made policy failure. Listen on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Astronomers Vicent Martínez and Bernard Jones explain the mystery of the Hubble tension, and why it matters so much for our understanding of the universe, on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Neuroscientist John Kounios tells The Conversation Weekly podcast about what his new research with jazz musicians revealed about the brain mechanisms of creative flow.