Seized: the Stena Impero in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.
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An international maritime lawyer explains whether Iran broke the law of the sea by detaining the Stena Impero.
Stressed out.
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Small businesses fail to recognise the business benefits and importance of prioritise staff mental health and well-being.
Move aside.
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We now have ‘Believe in Britain’ and ‘Make America Great Again’. This language posits itself as inclusive, but in reality creates the space for Trumpian excesses.
Johnson, likes scoops.
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Journalist, MP, London mayor, Johnson has left a trail of distruction in his wake.
Pork barrel politics?
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Parliamentarians and party members have held their noses and voted in a man deeply unsuited to lead. Now the British public must live with their choice.
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There’s a woeful lack of data on sexual offences within the military. And the data that is available indicates there is a significant problem.
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Inequality, poverty, austerity, pollution and a faster pace of life all put strains on city-dwellers – but insights from psychology could help create a more supportive urban environment.
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Reducing air travel may have a positive effect on climate change but it will inevitably damage developing countries that rely on tourism for their chances of prosperity.
Lyme disease: beware what bites you this summer.
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The Pentagon has been instructed by the House of Representatives to investigate whether ticks were infected with Lyme disease by the US military.
Electricity was frightful stuff in the 19th century and women played their part in its being accepted into homes.
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In the race to bring electricity to the masses, the crucial role that women played in it being accepted by the masses is left at the sidelines.
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Forty years ago this shocking event paved the way for a 24-year rule of fear that saw Iraqi citizens repressed, tortured and murdered.
The scaly-foot snail, otherwise known as the sea pangolin.
When Julia Sigwart went looking for the scaly-foot snail – or Sea Pangolin – in the deep ocean, they were hard to find. Now they are seen as endangered from the prospect of deep sea mining.
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Thousands of wildlife photographs are taken every day – they could prove very valuable for conservation.
Terry Wahls before and after she changed her diet.
A doctor with MS who experimented with diet and other treatments has experienced a slowing of her decline – now she’s researching why it happened.
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We can justify different standards for different Twitter users by turning to the philosophical ideas about public debate.
Imagining the interior of a living building.
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From building blocks made of fungus to self-healing concrete, architecture is using biotechnology to make buildings come alive.
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Cats and humans have different ways of communicating and sometimes that can lead to problems.
A waxwork likeness of Tom Hanks as Forest Gump at the Hollywood Wax Museum.
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Three classic examples of the “Mandala Effect” debunked.
A worker of the Democratic Republic of Congo Health Ministry checks people’s temperature in Goma.
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Ebola has now now spread to Goma – a city of 2m people.
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Rules against celebrity endorsements of medicines are there to protect consumers – it doesn’t matter how many followers influencers have.
Two different directions.
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Two leadership experts weigh up the characteristics of the Conservative Party leadership hopefuls.
Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger star in Tell it to the Bees.
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There was an outcry in the LGBT community when the ending of Fiona Shaw’s bestselling novel was changed for the film.
How far-right ideology slips through the extremism definition.
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Why the extremism definition is unfit for purpose.
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Our experiment shows we need to work out just how damaging discarded cigarettes are to plantlife.
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Happiness is a human construct, an abstract idea with no biological basis. But this is something to be happy about.