The kidnapping industry fuels insurgencies in Africa’s Sahel region.
Teen vaping offers a powerful lesson in how misinformation shapes behaviour.
The US and its allies have long used violence and ‘targeted killings’ to further their foreign policy aims.
On his journey to find home he must overcome all sorts of evil.
Two decades after the Women’s Health Initiative study, evolving research on menopause hormone therapy is shedding new light on women’s brain health.
Despite their seemingly secular modern-day iteration — featuring wine, chocolate or other products — Advent calendars continue to carry the spiritual foundation of the season.
America’s new vision of its place in the world has left its European allies wondering whether Nato can survive in its current form.
Nnena Kalu’s win shows how contemporary art can be more inclusive if more facilitation, like that provided by ActionSpace, can be supported.
Anthropologist Michael Rose speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how a official sounded the alarm about organised crime in Timor-Leste.
The new US national security strategy says Europe faces ‘civilizational erasure’ due to high levels of immigration.
US forces have seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast, a move Caracas has called an ‘act of piracy’.
Musician, mother, widow: this moving account of an extraordinarily creative life details the highs and lows of walking the earth as a woman.
Exotic animal cafes are marketed as harmless fun, but research findings suggest a more complex truth.
Health anxiety is real, common and costly – but healthcare has yet to catch up.
Farmers are struggling to adapt to climate change and its challenges, but new research has some helpful advice.
