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Cities represent an increasingly powerful force in global politics – but they’re still constrained by the agendas of slow-acting states.
Black and minority ethnic staff in universities are paid less than their white colleagues.
Genome-wide association studies are more like genome white association studies.
The benefits of being ‘mentally tough’ are many. Why let just those who are lucky to be naturally resilient benefit, when it can be taught to everyone?
Pet theft can devastate families and cause animals significant distress – the law needs to change.
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer win the Nobel Prize for Economics ‘for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty’.
Your brain balances messages coming from lots of different places to help you see, imagine, remember and dream.
In the absence of animals to help larger trees reproduce, forests are suffering.
Innovation in digital technology is accelerating – it has massive untapped potential for tackling the climate crisis.
Movie studios are launching their own streaming apps but record labels aren’t about to do the same.
As I found, academics engaging in fieldwork research are in a particularly vulnerable position.
Artificial Intelligence can perpetuate existing social imbalances in a harmful manner. Can this undesirable scenario be avoided?
Are Republican leaders overestimating the extent to which the public wants them to defend Donald Trump?
WeWork’s uncertain future reflects how investors have wised up to the hype around Silicon Valley start ups.
Scurvy cases in England have more than doubled in the past ten years. But malnutrition rates have more than tripled.
The voice of an ordinary 14-year-old Polish girl comes through loud and clear 70 years later.
What do the people of the Donbas want for their future?
We might lap up the spectacle of two high-profile women fighting publicly, but when do you ever hear about men having ‘cat-fights’?
Providing support and treatment might help reduce harmful drinking behaviours in seniors.
The Turkish offensive in northern Syria not only threatens international security, but destroys hope for a democratic alternative in the Middle East.
Once they faced extinction, now barnacle geese are thriving and adapting to climate change by finding new feeding grounds.
Our new pilot project in the Philippines hopes to empower rice farmers through bioenergy.
But out-of-date kit, lack of access to digital technologies and expensive mobile broadband packages can all act as barriers to being able to operate successfully in the digital world.
Greta Thunberg has received a lot of abuse for her campaign to provoke global action on climate change.