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Our motives for classifying animals may be more about guilt than curiosity.
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A computer modelling study suggests that oestrogen levels could get lowered by as much as 92%.
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Research found that inspectorates in Sweden, Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland did not make inspection reports public.
A tank in the Donbas, an area of eastern Ukraine where armed conflict with Russian forces has been going on since 2014.
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Western society has become strangely unaware of the horrors of modern war, says an expert.
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We watched 30 news programmes in five countries to see how they covered an IPCC report.
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If you’re reading this over a mug of tea or coffee, you’re using plants to alter your body chemistry.
The village well in Mchinji, Malawi. Just 37% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa will be using safely managed.
drinking water by 2030.
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Climate change and related droughts, hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather events are making it harder.
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Like many large institutions, the Met remains in denial about the scale of its racism problem. The Casey review falls short in its recommendations for how to address it.
Teenagers using social media filters.
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The damaging effect of social media filters is rarely taught in schools.
The new Italian government has proposed the world’s first ban on lab-grown meat.
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Stopping the production of lab-grown food will be bad news for the environment.
Voters now need to take ID to the ballot box in England, despite little evidence that fraud is a problem.
Labour’s attack ad.
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Beyond the ethical questions raised by an ad suggesting the prime minister doesn’t believe in sending sex offenders to prison is the matter of whether such negative campaigning even works.
Sikh men wearing the dastaar/turban in temple.
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The Sikh men we spoke to explained how wearing the turban signalled their observance to Sikhism and the life choices this entails, such as the protection of and service to others.
Virgin Orbit filed for bankruptcy in April 2023.
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Space flight has always been risky.
This is the second junior doctor strike this year.
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Junior doctors face immense pressure at work – and a growing number are choosing to leave the NHS as a result of these poor working conditions.
Vampire Survivors won Best Game at the 2023 awards.
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Vampire Survivors distils the essence of compelling ‘just-one-more-go’ design to create an extremely satisfying game.
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is one of the democratic leaders who have not condemned Russia for invading Ukraine.
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South Africa, India and Brazil are not prepared to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine.
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The rarely explained term is nebulous at best, and can mean many things – negative and positive – to different groups of people.
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Racism, classism and inequality affect migrants’ experiences of life in Britain.
The Day of Memory for Truth and Justice is held every year in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires commemorating the victims of the military dictatorship, March 24 1976 to December 10 1983.
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Hundreds of children were stolen from their parents during the dictatorship in Argentina, but over the years some have been reunited with their families.