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Global copper demand outstrips supply, threatening electrification and industrial growth

Demand for copper is surging because of demand from new technologies, but suppliers are struggling to keep up, and they are likely to fall further behind in the coming years, resulting in shortfalls globally. Even though copper prices are at historically high levels, the financial risk involved in mining means…

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Why are so many statues naked? An art historian explains this tradition’s ancient roots

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com.

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Florida’s proposed cuts to AIDS drug program threaten patient care and public health

More than 128,000 Floridians are living with HIV. The state has the second-highest rate of new HIV diagnoses after Georgia, with approximately 4,500 new diagnoses in 2023, the most recent year for which data is available.

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6 'lost' cities archaeologists have never found

Scholars know of some important ancient cities from texts, but they haven't been able to find them.

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Even with Trump’s support, coal power remains expensive – and dangerous

As projections of U.S. electricity demand rise sharply, President Donald Trump is looking to coal – historically a dominant force in the U.S. energy economy – as a key part of the solution.

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Outside the West, the Kundalini tradition presents a model of the ‘divine feminine’ beyond binary gender

The notion of the divine feminine is a recurring motif in American pop culture, playing with the assumptions people make when referring to God – often the deity described in the Bible – as “He.”

The Conversation

The remarkable rise of eBird – the world’s biggest citizen science project

The lights in the auditorium darken. The cacophony of voices subsides. The enormous screen comes to life, displaying a satellite image of Australia and the scattering of islands directly to the north. The contrast between the dry, orangey red of most of Australia and the deep green of Papua New…

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Happy Astronomy Day 2025! Celebrate by hunting these 6 spectacular night sky targets

Here are six stunning night sky objects to find as we celebrate astronomy day on Sept. 27.

Space

As National Park System visitor numbers hit record highs, here’s how visitors can adapt for a better experience

Visiting America’s national parks is a treasured public pastime. The wetlands of Congaree in South Carolina, the depths of the Grand Canyon in Arizona and the vistas provided by peaks in Yosemite in California are iconic American experiences for residents and for people who travel from other countries to vacation.

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Black Moon darkens August skies — here's how to hunt sparking wonders in the Milky Way this weekend

The Double Cluster, Wild Duck open Cluster, and Coathanger asterism are on display in August.

Space

California farmers identify a hot new cash crop: Solar power

Imagine that you own a small, 20-acre farm in California’s Central Valley. You and your family have cultivated this land for decades, but drought, increasing costs and decreasing water availability are making each year more difficult.

The Conversation

50 years after ‘Jaws,’ researchers have retired the man-eater myth and revealed more about sharks’ amazing biology

The summer of 1975 was the summer of “Jaws.”

The Conversation

“There are people out there that had paid £2,000 for a guitar…and we were still getting emails from people saying, ‘Where’s my stuff?’”: What happens when a guitar store goes bust? A former employee at one of the UK's biggest guitar stores tells all

GAK, based in the UK city of Brighton, opened in 1992 and has recently closed down after weeks of speculation – and employment uncertainty for its staff

Guitar World

Hidden London: Strawberry Hill House

Don’t scare easily? Then visit the inspiration for the first ever Gothic novel, says John Darlington

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10 Vacation Destinations Inspired by Beloved TV Shows

Whether you're ready to experience life like the lords and ladies of 'Downton Abbey' or you're craving an 'Emily in Paris'-style adventure.

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Egg prices soar as outdated supply chains crack under pressure

There may be no kitchen table issue in America more critical than the price of food.

Marie Claire

Why One Former Queen Was Held "Prisoner" at Kensington Palace by Her Mother

She was forbidden "from reading popular books" or walking "downstairs without holding someone's hand."

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"We were so fired up to go on before Jim checked out that we didn't acknowledge his death and grieve": When the music's over - the story of The Doors' strange afterlife

The death of talismanic frontman Jim Morrison in 1971 looked like it marked the end of the road for The Doors. But his bandmates had other ideas

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Lincoln called for divided Americans to heed their ‘better angels,’ and politicians have invoked him ever since in crises − but for Abe, it was more than words

Following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, community leaders, clergy and politicians including President Joe Biden have called on Americans to tone down white-hot political rhetoric. Some have invoked the words of one figure in particular: Abraham Lincoln.

The Conversation

500 years ago, Machiavelli warned the public not to get complacent in the face of self-interested charismatic figures

A United States president sought to remain in office after his term ended, maintains a worshipful following and has declared he will operate as a dictator only on “day one” if reelected. His cunning and manipulation of American politics and its legal system have, so far, blocked efforts to hold…

Al Jazeera

‘I am prepared to die’: Mandela’s speech which shook apartheid

Sixty years ago at the Rivonia Trial, Nelson Mandela made one of the most famous speeches of the 20th century.

LiveScience

13 treasures the ancient Egyptians buried with their dead, and what they mean

Here's why ancient Egyptians buried their dead with certain grave goods, such as the "Book of the Dead," gold tongues and scarabs.

The Guardian - UK

Grisly secrets of the ‘disappeared’ of Anglo-Irish war uncovered by research

Irish state’s founding fathers killed and disappeared five times more people than Provisional IRA would do over 30 years

The Guardian - UK

The Men of 1924 by Peter Clark; The Wild Men by David Torrance review – Labour’s first taste of power

One hundred years since Ramsay MacDonald led his cabinet of workers into Number 10, two engrossing books illuminate the party’s extraordinary leading players and their achievement, largely unheralded, in making the country more civilised

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Annotated version of Andreas Vesalius’s masterwork on human anatomy up for auction

‘Mind-blowing’ edition of 16th-century anatomist’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem estimated to be worth up to £1m

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