Congress (INC) Indian election: Modi win delivered thanks to faith in development pledgesThe Conversation UK - Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada India’s electoral colossus has re-elected Narendra Modi’s BJP party, following the largest democratic exercise in the world. India has united to put …
Congress (INC) Indian election: Modi win delivered thanks to faith in economic growth pledgesThe Conversation UK - Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada India’s electoral colossus has re-elected Narendra Modi’s BJP party, following the largest democratic exercise in the world. India has united to put …
Narendra Modi India election: how Narendra Modi won with an even bigger majorityThe Conversation UK - Katharine Adeney The stunning majority for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2019 Indian election is a massive political achievement for its leadership: the …
EU Referendum European elections – government was warned voters could be turned away at polling stationsThe Conversation UK - Alistair Clark As polling got underway in the European elections in the UK, stories began to emerge about EU nationals being turned away from polling stations …
Play buttonChimpanzees Chimpanzees spotted smashing open and eating tortoises for the first timeThe Conversation UK - Lydia Luncz and Alexander Piel and Fiona Stewart All chimpanzees eat animals at least sometimes, including anything from ants and termites to bushpigs and even baboons. Monkeys, in fact, are …
Play buttonChimpanzees Chimpanzees have been seen smashing open and eating tortoises for the first timeThe Conversation UK - Lydia Luncz and Alexander Piel and Fiona Stewart All chimpanzees eat animals at least sometimes, including anything from ants and termites to bushpigs and even baboons. Monkeys, in fact, are …
Daenerys Targaryen Game of Thrones: what Machiavelli might have made of the politics in WesterosThe Conversation UK - Toby James Warning: this contains spoilers for Game of Thrones, series eight. Alongside many other aspects of the final series of Game of Thrones, the …
Earthquakes Earthquakes or tiger attacks: understanding what people fear most can help prevent disastersThe Conversation UK - Hanna Ruszczyk It’s been more than four years since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake devastated Nepalese cities, claiming thousands of lives. Since then, there have been …
Climate Strike 'They'll give me a detention but it'll be worth it' – a climate scientist interviews his climate striking daughterThe Conversation UK - Mark Maslin Extinction rebellion, the climate strikes, Greta Thunberg and even the BBC and Netflix have changed the conversation on climate change. Even more …
Oceans Plastic poisons ocean bacteria that produce 10% of the world's oxygen and prop up the marine food chainThe Conversation UK - Petra Cameron and Philippa Kearney We’ve all seen the impact of our plastic addiction. It’s hard to miss the devastating images of whales and sea birds that have died with their …
Lunar gold rush is about to start – and we could exhaust the solar system in fewer than 500 yearsThe Conversation UK - Gareth Dorrian The US president, Donald Trump, has stuck to his plan to send humans back to the moon in the next five years, recently giving the project a US$1.6 …
Lunar gold rush is about to start – and we could exhaust the solar system in less than 500 yearsThe Conversation UK - Gareth Dorrian The US president, Donald Trump, has stuck to his plan to send humans back to the moon in the next five years, recently giving the project a US$1.6 …
Jamie Oliver Why did Jamie Oliver's eateries go bust? Don't blame the chain restaurant businessThe Conversation UK - Rachel Rich As the chain of mid-range Italian restaurants run by star TV chef Jamie Oliver goes into administration, the reactions will be mixed. Some may mourn …
Play buttonHealth (UK) Camel milk reduces cell inflammation associated with type 2 diabetesThe Conversation UK - Keith Morris The current trend for certain foods and dietary components to be called “superfoods” is frequently associated with exotic and expensive products. But …
Dementia The reality of caring for someone with dementia – stressful but rewarding tooThe Conversation UK - Warren Donnellan Dementia is set to become one of the biggest global health challenges of our generation. In the UK alone there are around 850,000 people living with …
Economy Using your smartphone at the supermarket can add 41% to your shopping billThe Conversation UK - Carl-Philip Ahlbom Are you constantly checking your phone when you’re out and about? Do you have trouble resisting the lure of ever more screen time? If so, be careful …
Autism Why a patient may need a companion to speak for them – and the difficult choices they faceThe Conversation UK - Charles Antaki and Deborah Chinn When a person whose communication is affected by a developmental disability (like Down syndrome or autism) needs to speak with a doctor, they often …
Culture (UK) Arsenal's Mkhitaryan omission from Europa League Baku final highlights football’s global politics at its most fragileThe Conversation UK - Simon Chadwick When English Premier League sides Chelsea and Arsenal meet in UEFA’s Europa League final on May 29, one of the latter’s big name players will not be …
Health (UK) More and more women are freezing their eggs – but only 21% of those who use them have become mothersThe Conversation UK - Zeynep Gurtin As the trend for older motherhood continues, amid warnings from experts about the sharp decline in a woman’s fertility in her mid-30s, more and more …
British Empire Brexit: how the end of Britain's empire led to rising inequality that helped Leave to victoryThe Conversation UK - Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson It was a man called Reginald Brabazon, Earl of Meath, who in 1903, two years after the death of Queen Victoria, suggested that her birthday, May 24, …
Fungi Complex life may only exist because of millions of years of groundwork by fungal forefathersThe Conversation UK - Katie Field Because of their delicate organic and decomposing nature, fossilised fungi are extremely rare. So rare, in fact, that a new discovery has just pushed …
Fungi Complex life may only exist because of millions of years of groundwork by ancient fungiThe Conversation UK - Katie Field Because of their delicate organic and decomposing nature, fossilised fungi are extremely rare. So rare, in fact, that a new discovery has just pushed …
Montreal Protocol How we traced 'mystery emissions' of CFCs back to eastern ChinaThe Conversation UK - Matt Rigby and Luke Western and Steve Montzka Since being universally ratified in the 1980s, the Montreal Protocol – the treaty charged with healing the ozone layer – has been wildly successful …
Barbados Zero-carbon electric transport is already in reach for small islandsThe Conversation UK - Tom Rogers and Destine Gay and Rebekah Shirley At a recent talk on the UK’s energy sector, the head of an electric utility company claimed that “the problem of decarbonising our electricity sector …
Gangs Gang culture appeals to disenfranchised young people – but 'social mixing' offers a way outThe Conversation UK - Robert F. Hesketh Over the past ten years, violence among young people involved in gangs has claimed hundreds of lives and dominated national debate in the UK. There …
Google Maps Revolt on the horizon? How young people really feel about digital technologyThe Conversation UK - Dr Mike Cooray and Dr Rikke Duus As digital technologies facilitate the growth of both new and incumbent organisations, we have started to see the darker sides of the digital economy …
Fish Small-scale fisheries have unintended consequences on tropical marine ecosystemsThe Conversation UK - Richard K.F. Unsworth and Dan Exton and Gabby Ahmadia Hundreds of millions of people in some of the world’s poorest countries are supported by small scale fisheries. These are usually self-employed …
European Parliament Five things to look out for in the European electionsThe Conversation UK - Amelia Hadfield Voters across Europe are about to head to the polls to elect 751 members to the European Parliament from across 28 separate member states, …
Philanthropy Philanthropy's bad reputation could put big donors off giving – here's why it mattersThe Conversation UK - Beth Breeze Within hours of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire, half a billion Euros had been raised in donations by leading French business people and their families …
Ukraine Ukraine: with parliament dissolved, new president must now get serious – here's howThe Conversation UK - Stefan Wolff and Tatyana Malyarenko Following his inauguration on May 20, Ukraine’s new president, former comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has quickly moved towards taking control of …
