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The pseudoscientific attractiveness scale that grew out of incel forums and is now making money for looksmaxxing influencers

If you have teenagers in your life, they’ll probably have heard of the PSL scale. Or at least the language associated with it. Chad. Stacy. Normie. Subhuman.

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How our research led to a privacy complaint that pushed the World Anti‑Doping Agency to change its rules

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently announced the outcome of its investigation into the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), concluding a years-long examination of the organization’s data-sharing practices.

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Kidney disease is growing in Africa: big new study casts light on genetic risk factors

Every minute your kidneys are hard at work, filtering around 200 litres of blood, removing waste, balancing salts and fluids, and regulating blood pressure. This happens without any conscious effort on your part.

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Designing cities: should we build from scratch or keep history alive?

Cities are often described as living archives of human memory. Walk through an old neighbourhood in an Islamic city like Fez in Morocco or Cairo in Egypt, and you can see layers of history in its streets and buildings. Traces of the past remain visible in everyday life.

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Magic mushrooms: new African species sheds light on the history of the famous fungus

“Magic mushrooms” are consumed recreationally and for medicinal purposes around the world. These fungi gained their fame as “magic” because they produce chemical compounds (called psilocybin and psilocin) which have psychedelic effects.

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Diaspora communities carry the burden of watching war from afar

I live and work in Toronto, but as a Lebanese‑Ukrainian immigrant in Canada, my attention has been elsewhere since the United States and Israel launched their war with Iran. I refresh my phone constantly, checking in with family in Lebanon, scanning group chats, watching the news, hoping the next alert…

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It’s OK to love all the bees (the honey bees, too)

North America’s bee populations are in trouble, but don’t blame the honey bees. While some people argue that an overabundance of managed honey bees – those raised to help pollinate crops and produce honey – is causing native bees to disappear, the evidence doesn’t support the claim.

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We collected data on how 779 Michigan school districts are regulating student cellphones − here are the trends

What is the best way to handle cellphones in schools?

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Psilocybin mushrooms are going mainstream, but scientific research and regulation lag behind

Amid a renaissance in the science of psychedelics, public interest in psilocybin – or magic mushrooms, as they’ve long been known – is surging.

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AI can design and run thousands of lab experiments without human hands. Humanity isn’t ready for the new risks this brings to biology

Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended to govern those capabilities are struggling to keep pace.

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What a Chinese crackdown on corruption meant for Beijing’s high-end restaurant market

Corruption crackdowns are bad for businesses that thrive on their proximity to political power centers. In fact, they can change the physical layout of an entire industry.

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The good life requires two things, self-knowledge and friends – you can’t have one without the other

Friends can help us with all kinds of things in life. How could I forget moving that piano for friends in Chicago? Fortunately, none of us ended up in the ER.

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Pope Leo XIV’s Africa journey: How each stop reflects his message of peace

Pope Leo XIV will begin his journey to four African countries – Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea – on April 13, 2026.

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Trump administration’s lawsuits against Harvard and UCLA have roots in a decades-old fight over civil rights law

The Department of Justice announced in March 2026 that it is suing Harvard University and the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Standards-based grading offers a different model of assessing student learning in the classroom

Some school districts, including ones in Maine, New Mexico, Iowa and Oregon, are shifting to standards-based grading, where students are graded on the skills and concepts they learn instead of points accumulated from assignments and tests throughout the school year.

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The RCMP’s surveillance of Indigenous groups exposes a centuries-long pattern in Canada

News recently broke about how the RCMP’s security service infiltrated and surveilled Indigenous rights organizations in the 1970s.

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How AI’s language barrier limits climate disaster responses

A message appears online during heavy flooding: “This rain no be small o, everywhere don red.” Someone unfamiliar with the phrasing might hesitate. But for people in Nigeria, this message is immediate and clear: the flooding is severe and worsening.

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Why small discoveries (as well as big ones) have the power to inspire

This roundup of The Conversation’s environment coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine.

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Outside academia, people aren’t well informed about PhD research – and that’s a problem

Around 1% of the global population has a PhD. It’s the highest academic qualification, the result of years spent on original research. But – and this is a question that many PhD students will have faced, at some time or another – what’s the point?

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Could revisiting Asimov’s laws help us avoid AI’s ‘Chernobyl moment’?

The conflict in Iran – but also the war in Ukraine – show not only that AI is radically changing the economics of war (which may be good news), but also that we may be heading towards some kind of “Chernobyl moment”. We may soon experience a disaster that will…

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Has multilateralism hit a dead end? Could International organisations be collateral damage of the war in Iran?

One of the most striking aspects of the war with Iran is the extent to which it has highlighted the irrelevance of international organisations and multilateral approaches to resolving global conflicts.

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Grattan on Friday: Taylor and Canavan are chalk and cheese – and that’s a problem for Taylor

If you want a basic measure of the difference between Liberal leader Angus Taylor and Nationals leader Matt Canavan, compare these two reactions to US President Donald Trump’s extraordinary threat this week that “a whole civilisation will die tonight”.

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In mediating the US-Iran peace talks, Pakistan is flexing its geopolitical muscles

When news of the fragile ceasefire between the United States, Israel and Iran first broke, it came via a post on X by Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif.

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How does Medicare’s new Mental Health Check In work? Is this low-intensity CBT likely to help?

If you’ve been struggling with your mental health lately, a new free service could help. Medicare Mental Health Check In launched earlier this year to give more Australians access to mental health care.

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Will the conflict in Lebanon destroy the US-Iran ceasefire? Maybe, but it was already shaky

Just hours after the leaders of the United States, Israel and Iran reached a temporary ceasefire, it was clear that each party had its own version of what had been agreed to.

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