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Donald Trump being surrounded by his security detail after being shot at a rally in Pennsylvania

How being shot might affect Donald Trump’s mental health – and that of millions of others

Simon McCarthy-Jones, Trinity College Dublin

A racoon stands with its front paws in a shallow body of water.

Biodiversity loss impacts our societies and economies – How can Europe confront the spread of invasive species?

Núria Roura-Pascual, Universitat de Girona

The chaos of choice: how do people pick their food products?

Elke Godden, University of Antwerp

The chaos of choice: how do people pick their food products?
Oral contraceptives: the risks and benefits of being on the pill

Joan Albert Arnaiz Gargallo, Universitat de Barcelona

Oral contraceptives: the risks and benefits of being on the pill
‘I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine’: what a JD Vance vice presidency could mean for the world

Ava Kalinauskas, University of Sydney and Samuel Garrett, University of Sydney

‘I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine’: what a JD Vance vice presidency could mean for the world
Tourism development doesn’t equal bad jobs – weak government protection does

Santiago Melián González, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Jacques Bulchand Gidumal, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Tourism development doesn’t equal bad jobs – weak government protection does
A bloodied, defiant Trump could become the defining image of the US election

A bloodied, defiant Trump could become the defining image of the US election

Emma Shortis, RMIT University

Several men dressed in dark suits help a white man who had been apparently shot.

‘One inch from a potential civil war’ – near miss in Trump shooting is also a close call for American democracy

Arie Perliger, UMass Lowell

The collective tomb at Bréviandes les Pointes, near Troyes, where all the skeletons have had their genomes sequenced.

A 4,500-year-old collective tomb in France reveals its secret – the final stage in the formation of a ‘European genome’

Eva-Maria Geigl, Université Paris Cité; Oğuzhan Parasayan, Institut Pasteur, and Thierry Grange, Université Paris Cité

French and British politics experts discuss what their election results mean for the right – podcast
Posters for the far-right Rassemblement National party in France
French elections: ‘Power will shift from the presidential palace to the National Assembly and the Senate’

Julien Robin, Université de Montréal

A crowd of people waving a French flag
Western movies: a 21st century renaissance

Ruth Gutiérrez Delgado, Universidad de Navarra; Alberto Fijo Cortés, Universidad Villanueva, and Gema Pérez Herrera, Universidad de Valladolid

Four men lead a cow along a wooden jetty on the shore of a river surrounded by trees
Xi and Putin talk up growth of their Eurasian bloc organisation as counterweight to Nato

Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham

Heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

European Union

Keir Starmer looks at the EU flags outside the European Commission in Brussels

Starmer must seize the chance to rethink the UK-Europe relationship – here’s how he can do it

Nick Whittaker, University of Sussex

‘Make Europe Great Again’: far right Hungary takes over presidency of the Council of the European Union

Eszter Wirth, Universidad Pontificia Comillas

‘Make Europe Great Again’: far right Hungary takes over presidency of the Council of the European Union
The modern world’s relationship to time is broken – and it’s fuelling the rise of the far right

Jesus Casquete, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

The modern world’s relationship to time is broken – and it’s fuelling the rise of the far right
We polled EU citizens on what they want asylum policy to look like – their answers may surprise you

Natalia Letki, University of Warsaw; Dawid Walentek, Ghent University; Peter Thisted Dinesen, University of Copenhagen, and Ulf Liebe, University of Warwick

People on shore help pull a rubber dinghy full of people in life jackets from the ocean
The EU’s outsourced migration control is violent, expensive and ineffective

Barah Mikaïl, IE University

Refugee camp in Suruc, Turkey. 2015

New research

Outlines of faces in blue with one green face outline near the centre

The people we like can influence the connections our memory makes

Ines Bramao, Lund University; Marius Boeltzig, University of Münster, and Mikael Johansson, Lund University

How (apparently) identical animals can have different genomes – new research

Cristian Cañestro, Universitat de Barcelona

Two piranhas face to face.
5G doesn’t affect your health – here are 5 points to put your mind at ease

Alberto Nájera López, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

5G doesn’t affect your health – here are 5 points to put your mind at ease
Climate crisis sees rise in illegal water markets in the Middle East

Christian Klassert, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ and Samer Talozi, Jordan University for Science and Technology

Climate crisis sees rise in illegal water markets in the Middle East
Grand Slam tennis: how economics shed light on champions’ performances

François Lévêque, Mines Paris - PSL

Grand Slam tennis: how economics shed light on champions’ performances
Two reasons I’m sceptical about psychedelic science

Michiel van Elk, Leiden University

Desiccated 'magic mushrooms'
How the Dutch became the tallest nation on Earth

Kristina Thompson, Wageningen University and Björn Quanjer, Radboud University

How the Dutch became the tallest nation on Earth
The first chemist in history may have been a female perfumer – here’s how the science of scents has changed since

Roberta Angioi, Dublin City University

Still life with open book on table with healing herbs and candles.
Digital multi-tasking is ruining our work, school grades and sleep – here are 7 ways we can reclaim our attention spans

Teresa Rossignoli Palomeque, Universidad Nebrija

Digital multi-tasking is ruining our work, school grades and sleep – here are 7 ways we can reclaim our attention spans
The problems with climate scenarios, and how to fix them

Riccardo Rebonato, EDHEC Business School

The problems with climate scenarios, and how to fix them
Shepherd’s graffiti sheds new light on Acropolis lost temple mystery – new research

Janric van Rookhuijzen, Radboud University

The Acropolis of Athens with the Parthenon.
Nato’s next secretary general is outgoing Netherlands prime minister, ‘Teflon’ Mark Rutte

Lars Brummel, Leiden University

Netherlands prime minister Mark Rutte poses for a selfie with schoolchildren in the Hague, Netherlands, 21 June 2024
Leadership and teamwork at high altitude: seven lessons from Everest

Edurne Pasabán Lizarribal, IE University and Borja Santos Porras, IE University

Leadership and teamwork at high altitude: seven lessons from Everest

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Is social media fuelling political polarisation?

Antoine Marie, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL

Climate crisis sees rise in illegal water markets in the Middle East

Christian Klassert, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ and Samer Talozi, Jordan University for Science and Technology

Climate crisis sees rise in illegal water markets in the Middle East
Europe’s climate laws could spell the end to low-cost flights – but what about private jets?

Fausto Corvino, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)

Europe’s climate laws could spell the end to low-cost flights – but what about private jets?
The horrifying human cost of big sporting events

Ofer Idels, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

The horrifying human cost of big sporting events
Epstein-Barr virus: how does a common infection trick the immune system into attacking the brain in people with MS?

Olivia Thomas, Karolinska Institutet; Graham Taylor, University of Birmingham, and Jill Brooks, University of Birmingham

A digital depiction of Epstein-Barr virus as it would appear under a microscope.

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