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Treatment needs to focus on fewer antidepressants, more lithium and supportive group education.
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Scotland is eyeing another independence referendum and now Wales wants in on the act. England feels left behind and Northern Ireland is at the centre of the Brexit impasse. Things aren’t fine.
Syrian refugee families in Gazza village, in the Beqaa valley, Lebanon, January 30 2019.
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Syrian refugees in Lebanon know how best to manage their resources, but food aid currently prevents them.
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Not a single trial has investigated the best painkillers to use for children with cancer.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leading the Eid al-Fitr prayer ceremony in Tehran in early June.
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Donald Trump stepped back from launching US airstrikes inside Iran, but the conflict is unabated and there appears to be no way out of confrontation for now.
The fruit of your coins.
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Why the coming generation of cryptocurrencies could force us to rethink the entire monetary system.
British Steel workers face an uncertain post-industrial future.
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The experience of former industrial heartlands offers lessons in how to revitalise communities when big industries close.
More than just a good investment.
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Not all landlords see their properties purely as investments. As welfare reforms take hold, some are starting to take greater responsibility for the well-being of their tenants.
Celebrations after setting up the world’s highest weather station during National Geographic and.
Rolex’s 2019 Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mt. Everest.
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A climate scientist goes to work – at 8,500 metres.
A new podcast series from The Conversation exploring the last 50 years of space exploration and the 50 years to come.
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Carbon offsetting is one way of doing it – but sometimes the simplest methods work best.
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Discovery of genetic overlap between chronic pain and a host of other conditions could help provide better treatments.
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The ‘bad boy’ of 1980s US fiction is back with his first foray into non-fiction. As you’d expect, he’s still courting controversy.
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People with Alzheimer’s disease have lower rates of type 2 diabetes than the general population.
German referee Felix Brych looks at a replay of the video assistant referee (VAR) during the UEFA Nations League semi final soccer match between Portugal and Switzerland, June 2019.
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Many fans think the VAR is ruining the Women’s World Cup.
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Donald Trump says trade wars are easy to win. Is he right?
New sanctions heading Iran’s way.
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The US has imposed new sanctions against Iran’s top leaders, but its foreign policy has no clear focus.
Turkey on manoeuvres.
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Turkey and the EU are trading insults over the rights to exploit the huge gas reserves over the eastern Mediterranean island.
Protesters, most of them male, demanding the return of Formula 1 ‘grid girls’.
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It’s not about beauty, it’s about empowering women in sport.
US Air Force fighters during the 1991 Gulf War.
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If the US military were a country, its carbon emissions would rank between that of Peru and Portugal.
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People are increasingly considering themselves experts on drugs.
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Maps that divide the world into ‘no-go’ and ‘safe’ zones has created a new politics of danger.
A child about to have his rotten tooth capped at the author’s clinic in Khartoum, Sudan.
A cheap and simple technique could revolutionise treatment for tooth decay, especially in poor countries.
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We spoke at length with a series of self-identified preppers. It became clear that most aren’t so out of the ordinary.
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Far from being a technical, commercial instrument, money can be a social and political construct that has immense radical potential.