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He writes explainers and features focusing on US politics, technology, music culture and science. Dwayne has a particular interest in American political culture, writing on a range of topics from foreign policy and Black history, to the rise of political hip-hop.

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US election result: Where did Harris and her campaign go wrong?

Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession speech after the 2024 presidential election

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Do elephants really call to each other by name?

Elephants in the Samburu National Reserve, Kenya on November 23, 2023, one of the locations in which research into elephants' communications was conducted [Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images]

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The unlikely origins of some of the world’s favourite foods

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From beats to ballots: What political rap lyrics tell us

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What is a Godzilla anyway? The 70-year-old monster behind the movies

Fans pass a promotional poster for the Hollywood film Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire at a cinema in Shanghai, China, on March 23, 2024 [CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images]

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From Malcolm X to ‘reality rap’: Decoding hip-hop album art

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What is ‘Dreams on a Pillow’, the Palestinian game about the Nakba?

Concept art from the game, which is inspired by the events of the 1948 Nakba [Courtesy of Dreams on a Pillow]

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Are retailers using AI to access customers’ personal data and set higher prices for those they think will pay more?

A shopper in a supermarket in Windsor, Britain, 17 September 2025. In August 2025, UK food price inflation rose for the fifth month in a row, according to the Office for National Statistics, however, the overall rate of UK inflation remained at 3.8 percent, the same as July. The cost of food grew at an annual rate of 5.1 percent with beef, butter, milk and chocolate prices continuing to rise. EPA/NEIL HALL

Trump’s 2025 executive orders face legal pushback. But is the US headed towards a constitutional crisis?

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, la esposa de Kilmar Ábrego García, quien fue deportado por error a El Salvador, habla durante una conferencia de prensa en Hyattsville, Maryland, el viernes 4 de abril de 2025. (AP Foto/Jose Luis Magana)

Hip-hop’s political evolution: From coded resistance to modern social commentary amplifying unheard voices.

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Trump has said he is considering imposing a 10 percent tariff on China from February.

China's President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump

The game is based on the events of the 1948 Nakba, referring to the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians.

Concept art from the game, which is inspired by the events of the 1948 Nakba [Courtesy of Dreams on a Pillow]

Meta owned social media platforms ends third-party fact-checking, adopting community notes as its replacement.

Social media giant Meta on January 7, 2025, slashed its content moderation policies, including ending its US fact-checking program. (Photo by Drew ANGERER / AFP)

A new study challenges the conventional wisdom that crop diversity alone addresses nutritional deficiencies.

A local street woman vendor prepares food near an almost deserted road in Vang Vieng, Laos, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

The latest development in a growing trend for ‘military boardgames’ gives players the chance to ‘defend’ Taiwan.

A player tests "2045", a new board game by Mizo Games set against the backdrop of armed conflicts around Taiwan, in Taipei, Taiwan September 22, 2024. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Scientists have engineered the pests to provide enhanced immunity to the disease they transmit, according to new study.

A laboratory technician holds a mosquito at the World Mosquito Program factory in Medellin, Colombia, on June 4, 2024. - For almost a decade, the World Mosquito Program (WMP) has been replacing the local population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes with "biologically modified" insects of the same species to prevent the transmission of dengue fever, that has already caused thousands of deaths only this year in Latin America. (Photo by JAIME SALDARRIAGA / AFP)

Amnesty International claims Serbian activists’ phones hacked by police with spyware tools, raising privacy concerns.

A man uses his phone in Novi Sad, Serbia on April 25, 2024 [Shutterstock]

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