Fahroni/Shutterstock Due to the urgent need to cut fossil fuel emissions, the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is both inevitable and essential. The EU is aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport by 90% by 2040, and foresees 13 million zero and low-emission vehicles on the roads by 2025. Several European countries have introduced […]
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In 1981, Keith Hearne and Stephen Laberge asked dreamers to send "telegrams" to the outside world. More than 30 years later, scientists continue to blaze trails to communicate with the sleeping mind. Johannes Plenio/Unsplash, CC BY In his sci-fi film Inception (2010), Christophe Nolan imagined his protagonist slipping into other people’s dreams and even shaping […]
Read the articleDragon Images/Shutterstock Are you in a relationship with someone who grew up speaking a different language to you? Perhaps you’re dating, and wondering about your long-term future. You’re far from alone. In 2021, 9.5 million of the people in the UK – 14.1% of the population – had been born abroad. This means that the […]
Read the article‘Politically neutral’ Russian athletes can now enter the Olympics – but don’t expect many to compete
Earlier this month, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Russian and Belarussian athletes will be able to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics if they are politically neutral. The decision from the committee’s executive board reversed an earlier ban. The IOC made this change even though the Russian National Olympic Committee remains suspended from competition […]
Read the articleIn Spectre (2015), Daniel Craig and Ben Whishaw respectively play the world's most famous secret agent and his gadget supplier. Spectre Laser watches, fingerprint guns, explosives and, of course, over-equipped cars: the list of gadgets flaunted by James Bond is as bewildering as the mind of their inventor, Q. While some of these gadgets actually […]
Read the article27 December 2023 marks the centenary of the death of the French civil engineer, Gustave Eiffel. Many studies have looked at the way in which the tower that bears his name has inspired painters (Bonnard, Chagall, Delaunay, De Staël, etc.) and poets (Apollinaire, Cendrars, Cocteau, Queneau, etc.) since it was built in 1889 for the […]
Read the articleOnce again, France finds itself in the grip of a political crisis. After the pension reform of June, which prompted more than one million people to take to the streets, president Emmanuel Macron’s framework immigration bill passed on Tuesday December 19. It will now be sent to be reviewed by the constitutional council, a body […]
Read the articleDragana Gordic/Shutterstock As many as 90% or more of pregnant people experience some degree of nausea or vomiting, often colloquially referred to as “morning sickness”. For some, it is relatively mild, coming and going during the first trimester without much fuss. For others, it can be severe, life-changing and traumatic. But the term “morning sickness” […]
Read the articleFinnish former Prime Minister Sanna Marin gives a press conference in Brussels, Belgium 10 February 2023. Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock A video of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin dancing at a party was leaked in August 2022. There was massive media reaction to what was, essentially, a young female politician having a good time. Accusations spread like […]
Read the articleLa valeur d’un cadeau ne se résume pas à sa valeur monétaire. Lloydoramcdowell / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA What toy should I buy my niece for Christmas? No easy task, since I was never an eight-year-old girl. For my brother, a bottle of whisky. But hasn’t he stopped drinking it lately? And my aunt? The […]
Read the articleF Armstrong Photography / Shutterstock Across Western Europe, and the rest of the Global North, migrants do an increasingly large share of agricultural work. Though the issues caused by this vary among countries, there are universal problems such as workers being paid lower salaries than promised, and substandard, overcrowded housing that lacks sanitation and basic […]
Read the articleIn general, films in the original language and versions with subtitles in a range of different languages are both widely available in Europe. If the main aim of subtitles is allowing viewers to understand dialogue in films where they don’t know the language, subtitles are also being seen to an ever-greater extent through an educational […]
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