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Spice Girls at 30: how girl power changed pop

Thirty years ago, five young women from the UK redefined what a pop group could be. When the Spice Girls burst onto the scene in 1996 with their debut single Wannabe, they helped to reshape discussions around gender, sexuality, power and pop culture.

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Can AI really spot the next football superstar – or is it changing the game in troubling ways?

Football fans everywhere are gearing up to celebrate the sport’s most skilled athletes as they prepare for the start of another Fifa World Cup. But few get to see how the next generation of Messis and Ronaldos are discovered.

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Anti-foreigner violence in South Africa is easily sparked: what hasn’t been done to deal with it

Threats and deadly conflict over migration are spreading fast in South Africa. This is hugely worrying and could result in widespread injury and killings, as it has in the past.

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AI in nature conservation: powerful tool or dangerous shortcut?

Conservationists analyse overwhelming volumes of ecological data in their work. For example, they might need to process decades of weather data or the movements of millions of insects. Up until now, these scientists and decision makers have had to manually find and sort information, then use statistical tools which often…

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Why impressionists loved to paint gardens

Dahlias thrust their colours skywards; hollyhocks frame a child at play; peasants tend cabbages; water lilies dot the surface of a pond. The “impressionist garden” captures all of these moments and more.

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US defies forecasts of economic slowdown, but its growth isn’t making ordinary people better off

US economic growth is picking up again after a slowdown towards the end of 2025. According to price data released on May 28, US GDP grew by 1.6% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026. This is despite energy prices rising and consumer confidence falling since the US president, Donald…

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Could the war in Ukraine bring political change to Russia?

Volodymyr Zelensky recently suggested that the war in Ukraine was beginning to turn in his country’s favour. The Ukrainian president insisted that Russia was “losing the initiative each day”.

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Who is allowed to walk on the beach? It depends on where you live

Summer is here – the perfect time to take a walk on a beach. But doing so is not always as simple as it might sound.

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How are Saudis viewing the US-Iran war? Our polling suggests Gulf kingdom is split on key issues

Since the beginning of the Iran war, Saudi Arabia has been grappling with how best to respond to the expansion of Middle East conflict.

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We ran 100,000 computer simulations of the World Cup. And the winner will be …

In times past, when we wanted to know which team would win the World Cup, we had to turn to seers with crystal balls, use divination via tea leaves, or hope for Paul the Octopus to tell us what would happen.

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Kids learn to bully from adults’ threats, manipulation and criticism – a child psychologist explains how parents can model better tactics

“Do what I say, or you’re not invited to my birthday party!”

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Philadelphia’s 2026 sports calendar is packed – but fans are being priced out

Sports have been part of America’s big birthday celebrations in Philadelphia dating back to the Centennial Exposition of 1876, which featured an international regatta and helped establish Philadelphia as a global center for rowing.

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Home insurance and the unraveling of Florida communities

While visiting family in St. Petersburg, Florida, in November 2024, I found myself walking down a quiet residential street in Shore Acres, a low-lying, bayfront neighborhood not far from where I grew up.

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Summer between high school graduation and college is a critical time for preventing risky behaviors – here’s how parents can play a key role

Early summer is a valuable time for parents and young people to prepare for the transition to college in the fall.

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Firefighters face a higher risk of skin cancer – nano fabrics with tiny, rough fibers can help keep them safer

Wildland firefighters are exposed to a mix of harmful chemicals in the smoke they breathe and the ash and soot that gets on their clothing. Over long assignments fighting fires that can last for days to weeks, those chemicals can be absorbed by their skin.

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Bingles, knuckleballs and ‘Beer Barrel Polka’ – hundreds of forgotten works showcase the eclectic world of baseball scholarship

Today’s fans may associate baseball research with cutting edge analytics. But long before data-driven tools like Statcast and FanGraphs, university students were conducting research about baseball.

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A philosopher’s take on NZ’s bill to define who counts as a woman or man

In August 2006, at the general assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Prague, astronomers voted on a new definition of a planet, and Pluto was demoted.

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How gaps in education, work and welfare support can push neurodivergent people into homelessness

Homelessness in the UK is reaching critical levels, with more than 380,000 people estimated to be without a home in England alone as of late 2025.

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Megacolon: when constipation becomes something more serious

The colon is about one and a half metres long and plays a vital role in moving waste through the body. In rare cases, it can become so stretched that it begins to lose its ability to work properly, like an elastic band that has lost its spring.

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Wes Streeting’s health bill brings back ‘democratic control’ of the NHS in England – but what does it mean?

Most NHS patients never think about who has legal responsibility for the health service. They notice waiting times, whether local services disappear and whether they can get treatment when they need it. But Wes Streeting’s new health bill changes who has the ultimate power to make those decisions, and may…

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Pizza lovers and savoury snackers: what secondary school pupils choose to eat

Changes are on the horizon for the food that students can choose in English schools. The government is proposing updates to the school food standards, which set out what schools can serve. The changes are aimed at increasing fibre and reducing fat, sugar and salt in school food. These will,…

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How positive tipping points may be the key to protecting tropical rainforests

The world’s tropical rainforests are edging towards collapse. But knowing how to stop deforestation isn’t enough to drive action. The challenge is aligning all the pieces of the puzzle to initiate substantial change. Now our research suggests the key is to persuade enough people to make the system tip in…

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Can AI help coastal cities prepare for rising seas and extreme events?

Our novel artificial intelligence model can predict extreme storm surges with high accuracy, including under future climate conditions. Because the AI model runs much faster, it can help researchers and practitioners better assess coastal flood risk for adaptation planning.

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World’s first AI-designed vaccine explained

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed what they describe as a fundamentally new type of vaccine using artificial intelligence (AI). The vaccine’s key component was designed entirely by AI and has now been tested in people for the first time.

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View from The Hill: Tony Abbott to tour the country, trying to energise Liberals

Tony Abbott, the Liberals’ new activist federal president, is preparing to convene meetings around the country in an effort to drum up membership and support for the struggling party.

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