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Harnessing the awe-inspiring living light and power of bioluminescent organisms could change the human world.
The fires tore through Mati, effectively sweeping it from the map.
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The fires tearing through the Athens region are not an act of God, but a direct result of corruption and systematic disregard for the law.
Scotland’s fruitpicking industry relies on migrant labour.
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Like many other parts of the UK, Scotland faces problems in attracting a migrant workforce that is crucial to the country’s future prosperity.
A new research project is helping Nigerien women access valuable, accurate information from which they are too often cut off.
How to change cycling’s concussion culture.
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More needs to be done to manage concussions in road cycling.
Sex workers protest in Westminster in early July.
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The opinions of current sex workers must be sought before any changes are made to the law governing the websites they use.
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Carbon offsets are a perfectly legitimate way to fight climate change (if they work).
She makes it look so easy.
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Go beyond the corporate jargon to really understand the freedom and challenges that come with being a digital nomad.
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Accusations of election rigging, opposition parties enraged and international relations tense. It won’t be an easy term for the man most likely to lead Pakistan.
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You have to be smart and fast to be a fighter pilot – but perhaps the most surprising challenge is the clothes you have to wear.
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The blood moon myths are many and varied, but, at the end of the day, it’s just an eclipse.
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A natural view of the world appealed to Albert Einstein.
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The difference between freedom and bananas helps explain.
T-cells (red) attacking cancer cells (white).
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CAR-T is a powerful new immunotherapy for treating leukaemia. We need to build on it to attack other, harder-to-treat cancers.
Tini Owens: refused a ‘no fault’ divorce.
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The Supreme Court ruled that a British couple must stay married until 2020 because there was no ‘fault’ in their marriage.
A rare edition of a Beano book, found in 2010 at a charity shop in St Andrews.
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For 80 years, The Beano has had the UK in stitches.
Illustration from NickDrnaso’s Sabrina.
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Graphic novels have a long history and are becoming an ever-more popular way of bringing profound and complex stories to life.
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There’s a good reason why Brexiters aren’t coming up with an alternative to Theresa May’s Chequers plan.
Professor Richard Dawkins next to a bus displaying an atheist message in 2009.
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Some ‘celebrity’ atheists espouse the very doctrines of violence that they accuse organised religon of.
The Brontë family, by Branwell, who painted over himself after realising the ‘composition was too cramped’.
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Since the 1930s, Wuthering Heights has been used to claim the Brontë family had an incestuous secret.
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With MPs on a summer break, Brexit takes a rest too, right? Wrong.
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The young activist acted morally and intelligently when staging her protest against the deportation of asylum seekers from Sweden.
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Early hominins are thought to have made a new shelter every night, which taught them how to adapt to changing conditions.
Houston we have a surfeit.
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Iridium’s latest launch brings its next-generation satellite network close to completion. But will it be put to the sword by a whole set of smaller rivals?
FIFA president Gianni Infantino and Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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New! Mega sports events wash your government’s tarnished reputation whiter-than-white.