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EIT Water Secures €5 Million Grant for Its Start-up Phase
The Start-up Grant Agreement (SUGA) governing the start-up phase of EIT Water has now been signed, with the consortium set to receive €5 million to get EIT Water up and...
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Briefing – Regulation on the European Union Space Services Agency – 05-06-2026
On 7 April 2026, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation on the European Union Space Services Agency. The proposal aims to provide the current European Union Agency for the Space...
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Friday essay: love, sex and intimacy in the time of AI
We are designed to smell each other – but the custom-made soulmates of AI are frictionless, and always available. What if we fall out of love with our own kind?
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People are using AI to communicate without disclosing it. Is this morally wrong?
Not all deceptions are equal.
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Politicians have long misunderstood the ‘working class’. The rise of the far right shows how mistaken they have been
Class has always mattered, and now labour parties around the world are finding out why.
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Tantric workshops, couple swaps and toys: Intimacy and pressures on Married at First Sight exposed
Married At First Sight UK has become the centre of rape applegations. Now former MAFS Australia contestants and producers are speaking out about being coerced into intimacy.
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Starting kindergarten soon? Summer is a perfect time to support your child’s early literacy learning
The best part of having fun with rhymes and words, noticing letters and reading together is that interactions build both early literacy skills and family connections.
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US mortgage rates are staying high – and the Fed can do very little about it
Investors’ inflation expectations, much more than the central bank, are among the factors that affect the cost of home loans.
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Wildfires are reversing America’s progress on ozone pollution
The US had been reducing surface-level ozone, a harmful pollutant and the main component of smog, but that changed as wildfire activity picked up around 2015.
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Zelenskyy’s honouring of wartime nationalists is straining Ukraine’s alliance with Poland
Two years after Canada’s parliament unwittingly gave a standing ovation to a veteran of a Nazi SS division, Ukraine’s own president is honouring figures from the same dark chapter of...