Getting into position.
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Luxembourg is creating a business environment to service the growing number of space start-ups.
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Scrapping the idea of a species is an extreme idea – but perhaps a good one.
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A new study shows these elephants boost the carbon stored in their forests by 7%.
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When it comes to inclusive education, England has gone backwards, with more and more students placed in segregated provision or excluded from educational opportunities.
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More than 1,000 people died as a result of drugs in Scotland last year.
La Belle Dame sans Merci, as painted by Frank Dicksee, circa 1901.
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Chichester Cathedral’s stone effigy famously influenced Philip Larkin’s An Arundel Tomb. But a new discovery suggests it may have inspired the tale John Keats wrote as La Belle Dame Sans Merci too.
The Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Rev Justin Welby (right) with the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu in February 2015.
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The church is itself divided on Brexit, but that doesn’t mean it can’t provide guidance for a polarised community.
Artist concept of settlement on Mars.
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A new study shows how to create a habitable region on Mars, allowing us to grow plants to fuel human exploration.
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App developers deploy three key tricks to make you a more loyal and proactive user.
Tribal members in a jirga, or circle – one traditional avenue for justice in Afghanistan.
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In countries where people access different justice providers, a hybrid model could pull them together and ensure better oversight and human rights.
Charles I in Three Positions by Anthonis van Dyck.
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John Major was right – it didn’t end well for the 17th-century king, who ignored parliament and lost his head.
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Salt consumption in China is among the highest in the world.
Media tour Hong Kong’s Legislative Council building after protesters broke in on July 1.
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Chinese media sees the protests very differently to Western media.
Flooding in Wainfleet All Saints, Lincolnshire, which received two months rain in two days in June 2019.
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Planning for the growing risks of flooding that threatens the UK’s cities, towns and villages is underway, but progress is too slow.
Victory is such sweet music for the England cricket team.
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It was the greatest advertisement for cricket, but now the game needs to be promoted to everyone, not hidden on pay-TV.
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Ultra-processed products have little or no intact ‘food’ remaining in them. And much-praised industry led reformulation is doing nothing effective about this.
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Brazil’s deforestation rate is back up. The UN Security Council has three main options.
Jeremy Renner and Robert Downey Jr. as Hawkeye and Iron Man
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As Marvel’s 22nd blockbuster looks set to become the most successful film of all time, is Hollywood running out of original ideas?
In the future, dietary advice will take our gut microbiome into account.
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Gut microbiota are better predictors of belly fat than diet.
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The latest data is not promising – central banks must react accordingly.
Jobs on the line.
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A number of banks are doomed to fail if they don’t adapt to the new realities of the finance industry.
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The referendum was an exercise in ends, not means. But the way Britain deals with the result is crucial.
To perform a sequence of actions, our brains need to prepare and queue them in the correct order.
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Knowing how the brain prepares for sequences of movements can help us better understand disorders such as stuttering and dyspraxia.
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More than ten years since blockchains were developed, their usefulness is only just being discovered.
A long way to go…
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At best, planting trees won’t be enough on its own to slow climate change. At worst, it’s a dangerous distraction.