By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
Marine conservationist Callum Roberts explains the significance of the new high seas treaty, and the grey areas it still leaves for our oceans.
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By Anna Katila, Presidential Fellow, School of Policy & Global Affairs, City St George's, University of London
As Trump threatens to take Greenland, the island’s Indigenous people say Denmark is making decisions about their future without them.
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By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine passed a significant milestone on January 13. It has now outlasted the 1,418 days it took Vladimir Putin’s notorious predecessor, the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, to bring his war against Nazi Germany to a successful conclusion.
The two wars are hard to compare in any reasonable way. But there are nonetheless some important parallels worth pointing out. Perhaps the most wishful parallel is that aggression never pays.
After some initial setbacks, Stalin’s Soviet…
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By Dani Dilkes, PhD student, Digital Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Mark Daley, Professor of Cpmputer Science & Chief AI Officer, Western University
Alternative educational movements offer insights about how to help university students find purpose and hope as they navigate an increasingly complex world.
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By Maxime Polleri, Assistant Professor, Université Laval
The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, near the shore of Lake Huron in Ontario.
Massive white containers encase spent nuclear fuel, protecting me from the deadly radiation that emanates from them. The number of containers is impressive, and my guide explained this waste is stored on an interim basis, as they wait for a more permanent solution.
I visited the site in August 2023 as part of my research…
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By Hasht-e-Subh Daily
The first requirement is that the film’s script must initially be submitted to the Taliban, and after the film is completed, it must be reviewed again.
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Thursday, January 15, 2026
Hearings continued on Thursday at the UN’s top court into The Gambia’s claim that Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya people, with allegations that military officials incited violence by calling the ethnic minority “Muslim dogs” who should be made “extinct”.
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By Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
The Islamic Republic appears to have survived another existential crisis. Scott Lucas addresses the key issues and considers the future for Iran.
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By Alex Fisher, Society for Applied Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leeds
Many women have experienced severe distress as Grok, the AI chatbot on social media site X, removed clothing from their images to show them in bikinis, in sexual positions or covered in blood and bruises. Grok, like other AI tools, has also reportedly been used to generate child sexual abuse material.
In response, the UK government has announced it will bring forward the implementation of a law, passed in June 2025, banning the creation of non-consensual AI-generated…
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By Enrique Gaztanaga, Professor of Astrophysics at Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth
Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time — shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen.
In 1935, while studying the behaviour of particles in regions of extreme gravity, Einstein and Rosen introduced what they called a “bridge”: a mathematical link between two perfectly symmetrical copies of spacetime. It was not intended as a passage for travel, but as a way to maintain…
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