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In the western Canadian province of Alberta, a political battle is playing out on people’s front lawns. Separatists are flying the royal blue Alberta flag, others the red and white maple leaf of Canada to show their support for a united Canada.

It's all because a populist right-wing political movement wants Alberta to break away from the rest of the country. On October ...


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What is it that makes us conscious? How does the firing of neurons in one part of our brain make us feel aggressive, while others make us hungry or anxious?

These are the questions that drove the discoveries behind the 2026 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. One of the new laureates, Karl Deisseroth, a professor in the schools of medicine and engineering at Stanfor...


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Israel is heading to the polls on October 27 and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing perhaps the toughest political battle of his career.

He's been accused of treason over fresh allegations he was warned of a major Hamas plot ahead of the October 7 attacks.

In this week's episode of The Conversation Weekly, wDov Waxman, a political scientist and Professor ...


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As more incidents emerge of AI agents going rogue during testing, can we fully trust them?

In the latest hack, Australia revealed OpenAI agents hacked into a government database containing healthcare data.

As calls mount from some within the AI industry for a slowdown, in this episode AI expert Nick Jennings, the vice-chancellor and president of Loughborough Unive...


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