Fishing ships in Lauwersoog, The Netherlands.
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Seagrass meadows play a significant role in supporting world fishery productivity.
Sensorium Tests, 2012, 16mm film, 10 minutes.
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Synaesthesia – a rare experience where the senses merge – comes in many different forms.
Israeli military personnel practicing their response to a chemical weapons attack.
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A decades-long policy of ambiguity means that Israel’s chemical arsenal remains the subject of speculation.
Technology involving virtual reality could teach us a lot about the human psyche.
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Studies in psychology cannot be replicated in the same way as in other fields. But technology could change that.
Celtic’s goal should be shared by others.
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The Scottish club’s move to support women’s struggles with menstruation and sport is the first of its kind.
Woman on the march.
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Palestinian women are the backbone of a fragmented and demoralised society.
Colombian soldiers at a concert tribute to the army.
EPA/Mauricio Osorio
As reports of crimes against humanity mount, Colombia’s post-conflict justice system is still moving desperately slowly.
Fixed-odds betting terminals have been called the ‘crack cocaine’ of gambling.
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That the government has finally moved to limit the damage is welcome, but there is much still to do.
Things don’t always go according to plan.
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More than half of vets consider a change of job, despite considerable financial, emotional and intellectual investment.
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Young Palestinian activists are risking their lives to protest against Israeli occupation – here’s why.
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The almost total ban on abortion in Ireland does not work to protect women’s health.
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British space firms would get a shot in the arm from building a new GPS-style system if the UK is shut out of the EU’s programme.
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Kim Kardashian West comes under fire for promoting an appetite-suppressing lollipop on social media.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in April 2018.
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What Prince Harry can learn from his predecessors.
Galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223 taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The inset image is the very distant galaxy MACS1149-JD1.
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, W. Zheng (JHU), M. Postman (STScI), the CLASH Team, Hashimoto et al.
Astronomers have indirectly spotted some of the first stars in the universe by making their most distant detection of oxygen in a galaxy that existed just 500m years after the Big Bang.
This is America.
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The music industry, like all other media, can be censored to some extent. So how does this change its output?
UK, EU, Wales.
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Scotland said no, so why would Wales say yes to letting the UK take over devolved powers?
Woody Allen.
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The social structures that once enabled male artists to exploit and abuse women must be cast into the past. But castigating their work to the scrapheap is an act of cultural suicide.
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Young people need more protection while they’re growing up.
EPA/Peter Powell
Theresa May’s party struggled to appeal to younger voters. But that wasn’t always the case.
Taken from Persepolis.
1. Marjane Satrapi
Why this art form is rather more than just biff, bang pow.
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Seattle City Council tried raising taxes to help the homeless, and now it faces a political firestorm. There are better ways to fight the good fight.
The shipping industry has been slow to use greener fuels.
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Shipping is becoming greener, but this brings new safety challenges.
Israeli forces fire tear gas at protesters from Gaza.
EPA/Atef Safadi
Thanks to a violent fringe of protesters backed by Hamas, a far larger non-violent movement is struggling to control the narrative of what’s happening in Gaza.
Christopher Austin
New research shows green-blooded skinks have evolved multiple times, which could help lead to explanation as to why.