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Explaining the rule of law crisis shaking the relationship between Poland and the EU.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a COP26 launch conference in February 2020.
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Electric vehicle sales are booming and coal power is dwindling, but structural obstacles to net zero remain.
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Several schools in Scotland have paused the rollout of facial recognition technology in school canteens following inquiries from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
Investors look at stock index screen in Beijing in 2009.
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What does communism 2.0 mean for democracy?
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Just like in real life, the idea that everyone in the game has a fair shot is quickly exposed as a fallacy.
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Every infected person is assigned a local case officer who can personalise the support they receive.
Exercise is still one of the best ways to boost longevity.
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Life-extension therapies may be coming sooner than you think.
An underground coal face exhibition at the National Mining Museum at Newtongrange in Scotland.
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How governments can ensure phasing out oil and gas won’t do more damage.
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Listen to the third episode of a new series from The Anthill Podcast ahead of the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.
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What research shows is important to win support for bold decarbonisation measures.
NSA’s Utah Data Center, taken by an employee of the Electronic Frontier Foundation during an airship flight.
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‘Hyperscale’ warehouses filled with computer servers use water for electricity and cooling.
Looking for light.
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People inevitably became less contented during the pandemic, but it’s part of a longer trend.
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The vastly differing environment would need a whole new approach to disposing of dead bodies.
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More ambitious plans for making the UK’s homes energy efficient could create 22,545 new full-time jobs.
Global plastic supply chains have been altered by COVID-19.
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The problem of increasing plastic waste has been exacerbated by the pandemic, requiring better regulation and monitoring to solve.
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The world is a much better place for the extra carbon being absorbed by forests, but it can never entirely offset emissions.
Huge amounts of revealing data can be collected from sensors attached to trees.
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Hooking trees up to internet-connected sensors provides a new way to study how they interact with the environment - and how the public interacts with their tweets.
Connections between brain cells.
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From robotic hands to brain-like computers, the Human Brain Project has produced some intriguing results.
Engraving of James McCune Smith by Patrick H. Reason.
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James McCune Smith was the first African American to receive a medical doctorate from a university. He dedicated his life to fighting injustice.
Courtship behaviour of a male and female hippopotamus in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, showing the larger head and tusk sizes of the adult male on left.
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Data collected from thousands of hippos helped show that while males are only slightly bigger than females, they have much larger tusks.