In an article first published on The Conversation, PAULA CORCORAN, a senior lecturer in health psychology at the University of London, says that perhaps the Friends actor's most last legacy will be that he brought "a human face to addiction"...

Planetary geologist VALERIE PAYRÉ looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at how the push to find out more about asteroids could open up new mining opportunities...

Catholic Bishop JOHN STOWE, president of Pax Christi USA, says - in an article first published on Religion News Service - that until he calls for a ceasefire, Biden will be at odds with a pontiff who rejects war as a tool for peace...

CHRISTINE SHEPARDSON, an historian of Roman Christianity at the University of Tennessee in the US, looks - in an article first published on The Conversation - at the complex history of Palestinian Christians in Gaza...

BRIDGET MOIX, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation in the US, says, in an article first published on Religion News Service, that the future for Palestinians and Israelis is being erased each passing day...

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KNOX THAMES and PETER MANDAVILLE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, write that a quarter of a century after passing the International Religious Freedom Act, global persecution continues while domestic battles around religious liberty have become increasingly partisan and high-profile...

Scholar of religion and politics, JEFFREY HAYNES, looks - in an article first published on The Conversation - at moves among some Christians to "remake Ghana according to their values and beliefs"...

In an article first published on The Conversation, JIM SMITH, professor of environmental science at the University of Portsmouth, looks at how effective decontamination efforts have been in th wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan...

Earlier this month, the US Government issued the first ever space junk fine. In an article first published on The Conversation, SARA WEBB, BRETT CARTER and CHRISTOPHER FLUKE look at the growing problem of space junk...

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