How medieval lessons for managing floods could help those facing them in northern Italy today

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Northern Italy has been hit by a series of devastating floods in recent years. In March 2025 and the previous autumn, heavy rainfall hammered the region, swamping fields, farms and towns. More than 3,000 had to leave their...

Mexico’s cartels use violence against women as a means of social control

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Mexicos drug cartels are often described as powerful rivals to the state, with their influence measured in weapons, money and murdered officials. But this framing misses a fundamental truth. Organised crime in Mexico is...

Does the key to uniting against divisive politics lie in our personal lives?

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Modern Britain is plagued by a sense of disempowerment and political exclusion a feeling that is, somewhat ironically, shared between groups of people who otherwise feel divided from one another. This division has opened...

Is a quantum-cryptography apocalypse imminent?

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Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global security disaster? You might certainly get that impression from a lot of news coverage, the latest of which reports new estimates that it might be 20...

What are Canada’s governing Liberals going to do about AI?

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Fresh off his election victory, Prime Minister Mark Carney has been focused on standing up to Donald Trumps claims on Canada as the 51st state and American tariffs. But while that political drama unfolds, one topic that...

Even if Putin and Zelenskyy do go face-to-face, don’t expect wonders − their one meeting in 2019 ended in failure

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Delegations from Ukraine and Russia met for a second time in Istanbul in a month on June 2, 2025. Missing, again, were the countrys two leaders. For a fleeting moment ahead of the first meeting in mid-May 2025, there...

Internet-enabled orgasms: How teledildonics are changing the way we have sex

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Sex toys are fairly common in peoples sex lives, and broadly accessible both online and in brick-and-mortar stores. In the United States, more than 40 per cent of heterosexual women and men have incorporated vibrators into...