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Besides wondrous creatures, new discoveries and spectacular filming, Sir David Attenborough’s follow up to The Blue Planet comes with a stark warning about the future
One side of the argument.
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Move by the senate in Madrid came just after the Catalan parliament voted for independence.
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Simulations in a special chamber suggest how the Mars landscape could have been shaped under certain conditions.
Banksy’s Brexit mural.
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Are British universities under threat of censorship?
Cow’s milk … blamed for autism.
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We need to stop playing the blame game.
Careful crossing that road!
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Beware unicycling clowns …
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How a curious case of wanton and furious driving is leading to a much-needed overhaul.
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Private companies are increasingly challenging national space agencies in a new space race, which comes with great opportunities but also huge risks.
Full moon photographed from Earth.
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International plan for a lunar space station may lag behind efforts by private companies.
Cassini in front of The Lord of the Rings.
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As Cassini’s titanic mission comes to an end, we need to start thinking ahead. A combined mission to explore Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus would be a good place to start.
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If education really is for all, more must be done to help people of all ages to access it.
Trust me, I’m not the one to ask.
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In a language as idiosyncratic as English, linguistic pedantry is futile and misguided.
BBC Panorama went undercover at Brook House, near Gatwick Airport.
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BBC Panorama has exposed violence and abuse of detainees at Brook House immigration removal centre.
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In order to take Milton Keynes’ cultural bid seriously, you have to begin by taking culture seriously.
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Could the ‘magic money tree’ have been right under our nose this whole time?
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This sudden, 150,000-year long temperature spike has many parallels with modern climate change.
Mental health continues to be a problem among sexual minority teenagers.
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Despite progress on LGBT rights, improved psychological well-being of sexual minority young people is yet to be seen.
What Mars could have looked like during an ice age 400,000 years ago.
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Scientists used to believe that snowfall could never reach the ground.
The sun by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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Gravity waves recorded in the sun for the first time reveal some interesting facts.
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On the trail of the men of Britain’s Royal Aircraft Factory, who gave their lives to help create the world’s first air force.