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Judges announced for The Conversation Prize for writers 2026

The Conversation, Curtis Brown and Faber are pleased to announce our three judges for The Conversation Prize for writers 2026.

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‘Kidfluencers’ are everywhere on social media. Should Australia consider the Netherlands’ proposed ban?

The Dutch government is considering making it illegal to use children under 16 in paid social media content. The government argues such online content featuring children – designed to sell goods to child consumers – is basically involving them in child labour.

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PAHO Issues Formal Health Warnings for 2026 FIFA World Cup Fans Covering Dengue, Measles, Norovirus, and Heat Illness

PAHO's June 8, 2026 health guidance for World Cup fans warns of dengue, measles, norovirus, heat illness, and STIs across 16 host cities in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

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What’s the risk of humans getting sick from bird flu?

Australia was the only continent free of H5N1 bird flu, until last week when a brown skua was found in Cape Le Grand National Park in Western Australia, about 700km from Perth, with the virus. Within days, authorities identified at least 16 other dead birds.

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Today’s space race could turn fatal if we don’t agree on new rules

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen had an emotional message before he and three colleagues set off for the Moon earlier this year on the Artemis II mission: “We go for all humanity”.

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Andy Burnham is known as the ‘king of the north’. Could he become the UK’s next prime minister?

Andy Burnham has just won what might be the most consequential byelection in British political history. His win clears the way for him to enter parliament as a Labour MP and challenge Sir Keir Starmer to become prime minister of the United Kingdom.

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How America came to love football – what you should listen, read and see this week

This curation of The Conversation UK’s arts and culture coverage was first published in our fortnightly newsletter, Something Good.

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Nutritional Dark Matter Explains Why Ultra-Processed Foods Harm Human Health Beyond Calories, Fats, and Sugar

Nutritional dark matter science published June 17, 2026 explains why ultra-processed food harms health beyond macronutrients: novel industrial chemicals disrupt gut, hormones, and brain.

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Your Brain Was Never Designed for This Much Bad News — Researchers Explain Doomscrolling's Health Effects and How to Stop

Researchers June 16, 2026: 40% of global news consumers avoid news; 17% of U.S. adults have severe Problematic News Consumption. Here's the science and the fix.

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Vodafone has suffered another major outage. A telco expert explains what went wrong

Vodafone Australia suffered a major nationwide outage today that may have affected millions of customers.

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Scientists Say Your Food Contains More Than 26,000 Chemical Compounds — and Most Have Never Been Studied for Health Effects

Food contains 26,000+ chemical compounds but nutrition science studies only ~150. Prof. David Benton explains "nutritional dark matter" in a ScienceDaily feature June 17, 2026.

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71 Amateur And Veteran Online Detectives Are Sharing Photos With Hidden Details (New Pics)

You don’t have to be a film noir detective with a stylish hat, black-and-white office, and femme fatale clients to put your sleuthing skills to the test. You can start by solving small mysteries in everyday photos that look ordinary. Well, suspiciously too ordinary… ‘When You See It’ is a…

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The mysterious tooth condition affecting millions of children

Your child’s small, delicate, chalk-white baby teeth fall out. In their place grow yellowish-brown, fragile teeth – much to everyone’s surprise.

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Meet the internet movement trying to tackle the manosphere. It’s called BreadTube

The manosphere has frequently featured in news headlines this year. Some of these have focused on how the movement looks on YouTube – a platform that research suggests uses recommender algorithms to boost extreme content.

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Vision, Europe of the Future conference – in partnership with The Conversation

The Conversation is once again delighted to be a media partner of the think tank Vision, as it hosts its seventh ‘Europe of the Future’ conference in Siena, Italy.

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The hunt for a new Ebola vaccine: two scientists explain the challenges

The ongoing Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda has now killed 61 people, with 359 confirmed cases. The Bundibugyo strain of the virus has a fatality rate of between 30% and 50%, and there is currently no vaccine approved for it. Two scientists at…

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Detroit is spending millions on gunshot detection tech – is it an effective tool in the fight against violent crime?

Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison says alerts from ShotSpotter, a gun detection technology, help officers respond quickly to shootings.

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Heartbreaking historical tales, unsettling scenes and shortlisted non-fiction – what to read, watch and see this week

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Hanson’s gas policy follows the far-right playbook: attack ‘elites’ and push for drilling

New polling this week put One Nation ahead of Labor in the primary vote for the first time, as the party’s latest policy announcements signal greater political ambition.

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New season of The Conversation’s award-winning Curious Kids podcast launching this June

The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast is back for a second season to answer some of the fantastic questions sent in by listeners around the world!

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‘Utter disregard for the risk to human life’: Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI safety

The US state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging the tech giant and its CEO put profit over public safety with its flagship artificial intelligence (AI) product, ChatGPT.

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Men film themselves sexually abusing sedated women and share it with other men online. Why?

The world watched on in horror in 2024 as Dominque Pelicot and 50 other men were tried in a French court for repeatedly drugging and raping Gisele Pelicot over almost a decade. All of them were found guilty.

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I’ve been studying racist costume parties for a decade, and colleges are failing at educating the students about why they’re wrong

In 2014, a group of students at Bowdoin College thought it would be fun to dress up as Pilgrims and Native Americans for a Thanksgiving-themed party. This is not the first or last event like this, nor is it unique to one college.

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Dealing with the heat

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

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Murals, myths and belonging: how art is reshaping South Greenland

The morning sun lights up the ice-covered mountains around Narsaq, a small village in South Greenland. Turquoise icebergs float by the shores of the fjords, and seagulls gather on the cliffy rocks. An old man walks slowly along the colourful houses on the hill.

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