To placate pro-Moscow governments in Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia, the EU had to include an ‘opt-out’ clause for its support for Ukraine.

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system. A new study strengthens the case for Enceladus being a habitable world.

You don’t need to make dramatic life changes to improve wellbeing. A simple mindset change can help maintain long-term wellbeing.

Just as the protests outside asylum hotels of summer 2025 faded from headlines, some anti-immigration groups turned their attention to another target: English classes. On November 24, a protest was ...

December 16 marked 250 years since the writer’s birth – but at The Conversation, we have been celebrating all year.

The run-up to Christmas is marketed as joyful, but for a large number of households it brings family strain and a surprising amount of loneliness. Against this backdrop, it’s no wonder the idea of ...

Beneath the waves, however, a different story unfolds: shipwrecks become the foundations of new life. Rusting hulls, broken masts and even piles of wartime munitions can, through time, be transformed ...

At the General Assemblies, the federation presented Uzbekistan as the “star of the east,” seemingly without a single reference to Uzbekistan’s deeply problematic human rights record. In recent ...

We often imagine medieval life as dull, dirty and short, with little in the way of material comfort or decoration. However, medieval Londoners were importing toys, treats and trinkets by the boatload ...

In 1875, Arthur Liberty established a fabric company at the forefront of the aesthetic movement, and within 20 years was a byword for the very best in avant-garde textile design.

A Christmas Carol is usually read as a Victorian morality tale about capitalism and compassion. Yet an autographed script written by Charles Dickens during the American Civil War raises the ...

As the UK government launches its violence against women and girls strategy, the situation it is seeking to remedy makes for hard reading.