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.
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The favourite to become the next prime minister has never felt the need to apologise for his offensive remarks about Muslim women.
A new podcast series exploring the last 50 years of space exploration and the 50 years to come.
Funeral prayers were said for Mohamed Morsi in Istanbul Turkey, after his death in mid June.
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The Muslim Brotherhood has been slow to adapt to its new reality.
My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante, is now a successful television series.
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How important is the identity of an author? Can a novelist ever really ‘become’ someone else?
Astronaut David R. Scott, Apollo 15 commander.
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Here is how our mobile phones compare with the computer that landed man on the moon in 1969.
Shattered lives.
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Laws against ‘revenge porn’, upskirting, deepfake pornography are piecemeal, and a review will take years to conduct. Here are three things government can do now to support victims.
An mbu pufferfish wearing a particularly mesmerising Turing pattern.
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Alan Turing’s last published paper revealed the mathematics behind the beautiful patterns that adorn the natural world.
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A key tool for capturing and storing carbon may have been hiding in plain sight all along.
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Only through discussion and recognition of service and veteran mental health issues can these tragedies be prevented in the future.
An office open enough to bring you out in a cold sweat.
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Open plan offices can suck the life out of workplaces. But it doesn’t have to be this way.