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Is telling pregnant women to simply abstain really the best advice?
A lawyer reports from Ireland days ahead of this vital vote.
Aphids often appear in swarms around May and June but what risk do they pose to plants?
Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea Football Club, is facing a delay renewing his British visa.
Terrorist attacks are increasingly unpredictable. Manchester provides a key lesson in identifying how the gap between hypothetical plans and the reality of incidents is widening.
The dynamic between the master and the slave dominates accounts of AI at the moment.
Britons living in France are obsessed with how well integrated they are.
How funny women are turning to ‘femoir’ to promote female empowerment.
What is Ireland voting on and why?
How social media is beginning to shape the way the public commemorates tragedies like the Manchester attack.
How 4,000-year-old papyrus letters prompted the queen of crime fiction to write Death Comes as the End.
Even using public transport is better for your health than travelling by car.
Richer countries import products but not the emissions used to make them.
The data you create when using the internet can actually be used to discriminate against you.
London is a global financial centre that relies on money coming in from overseas. When the EU goes, what is left?
Ebola has spread to a large city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Perhaps the expert handling of the Fukushima nuclear leak could provide a template for what to do next.
Facebook has released the first batch of data about how many abusive or violent posts it has removed.
Even if survival rates for very premature infants have improved, it’s dubious that there is a moral reason to lower the abortion limit.
Series two of the award-winning show has now moved beyond the original novel.
Encouraging other languages in the classroom won’t lead to ‘anarchy’.
Small charities aren’t like small companies, and the way they operate may pose greater risks under GDPR than for others.
Conspiracy theorists have an à la carte attitude to data and trust, so what can scientists do about it?
What your career history means for your retirement future.
Amazon, Google and Apple’s attempts to understand the tone of human voices can reflect human biases.