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Policies to tackle climate change will make it more expensive not to act.
Storming the legislature.
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The occupation of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council building on July 1 was met with calls for ‘zero tolerance’ from mainland China.
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The effectiveness of healthy-eating nudges increases as their focus shifts from thinking, to feeling, to doing.
Noctilucent clouds shine over Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales, UK, June 2019.
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‘Night-shining’ clouds normally found above the poles have now been seen as far south as Los Angeles.
Firefighters have NASA to thank for a lot.
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Did you know it’s a myth that Teflon came out of NASA?
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Do you get a sense of déja vu when you hear the foreign secretary talk about his Brexit plans? There’s a reason for that.
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We are living through the latest battle in a 300-year long ideological war over the meaning of humanity itself.
The moon covers much of the sun during the total solar eclipse, in Merlo, San Luis, Argentina, July 2 2019.
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While the world gathers to see an eclipse, what’s the rest of nature doing?
The first episode of a new podcast series marking the 50th anniversary of the moon landings.
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The first episode of a brand new podcast series to mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landings looks back at what going to the moon taught us and why we stopped sending people there.
Stormzy sets the crowd alight in 2019.
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From the hippie heaven of the 1970s to the massive mainstream event it is now, Glastonbury has always found a way to fuse popular culture with a potent political message.
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Most people follow some form of moral code, but to what extent they abide by these rules does differ in various situations.
What a good boy.
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Having different coloured eyes is quite unusual, but it happens in many species throughout the animal kingdom.
The mobile Soundforms stage brings indoor musical performances outside.
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Moving on from tiered seats and post-war black box stages, the design of theatres are changing again in response to new societal concerns.
What is happening to UK life expectancy?
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There were an extra 623,000 deaths in the UK in the year to mid-2018 – an increase of 3%.
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Britons are notoriously bad at learning other languages. Here are some of the things that they find difficult.
The low solar corona as viewed in extreme ultraviolet light. Bright regions are where the most energetic solar storms are born. An eruption in action can be seen in the bottom-left.
NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) satellite.
Scientists spend years preparing for the two-minute window of a total solar eclipse.
Participants undergoing a session of blood-flow-restricted training at the training facility.
If you see professional athletes with velcro bands around their legs, this is why.
Finding and filling gaps in knowledge.
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A culture of fear and blame in the NHS could be improved by a different approach to how nurses and doctors learn from gaps in their performance.
The Sea-Watch 3 search and rescue ship before it finally docked in Lampedusa.
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Carola Rackete, captain of an NGO search and rescue ship, was arrested by Italian authorities when landing in Italy. She isn’t the first to be criminalised for trying to save people at sea.
Steam rises from Neurath coal-fired power plant near Cologne, Germany. May 2 2019.
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A new study lays out what must happen immediately for any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
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Parenting: attachment is not, and has never been, the only way.
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Iran has long recognised the benefits of using cryptocurrencies to counter US sanctions.
The first whale to be taken from Japan’s waters since the country resumed commercial whaling, July 1 2019.
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Japan’s exit from the IWC should spur on more global cooperation on environmental issues, not less.
Wes Studi at the Rome Film Festival, October 2017.
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This overdue honour is a welcome sign of the growing power of Native Americans.