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Designed to ease budgetry pressures, households in Scotland on Universal Credit can now opt for a fortnightly payment instead of being paid monthly.
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A mathematician has joined the dots between Alan Turing and chasing cells to find out how skin patterns are formed.
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Gene Roddenberry’s vision has been upheld by diverse casting, but storylines remain within mainstream 20th-century ideas of gender and identity.
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How a curious case of wanton and furious driving is leading to a much-needed overhaul.
What now?
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Trump’s America is marked by the clash of intransigent, bitter opinions. And it’s not just about gun control.
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Autumn is the first novel to tackle the UK’s impending departure from the EU.
A banner held up during a general strike in Catalonia on October 3.
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Here are the EU’s options.
YouTube stars Zoella and PewDiePie.
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Old-fashioned gender stereotypes are rife on YouTube.
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Uber’s business model suggests something has to give – either its imperial ambitions or its presence in markets which hold it to account.
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There is a gender gap in the music and sound industry. Inspiring young girls about careers in these fields has never been more important.
Olympus Mons, biggest volcano in the Solar System.
Justin Cowart
They erupted for billions of years and make Earth’s volcanoes look like molehills. Here’s what we know and what we don’t know about them.
The lion for real – or a tamed beast?
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Johnson trailed a speech about ‘letting the lion roar’. But you had to listen quite hard to hear it.
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Their quest to find ‘something bigger’ to devote our lives to is only a superficial change from religion – and it ignores the psychological reality of our ever-changing self.
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…just don’t call it the new phrenology.
Blade Runner 2049: a different world.
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They’re more than windows into the soul – they’re a portal into our possible future.
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The BBC’s dark drama reveals just how thin the veneer of middle-class respectability can be.
The thinker.
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This year three of his stories are being adapted for viewers.
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Hans Eysenck’s denial that he was Jewish throws light on the psychological problems faced by refugees who belong to persecuted ethnic groups.
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Being vegan and an athlete can go hand-in-hand, but it does take careful planning.
An election observer from the British High Commission in Nairobi.
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African democracies are embracing electronic voting far more confidently than the West.
‘You’re not allowed one without the other.’
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Electronic devices are making us sedentary – it’s time for a fix.
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Private companies are increasingly challenging national space agencies in a new space race, which comes with great opportunities but also huge risks.
Florence Buchanan
Public art and gender politics clash in corporate America.
This year’s winners.
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Razor-sharp, unconventional and fun on the dance floor. A colleague paints a colourful portrait of one of this year’s Nobel Laureates in physics.
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Crunching the numbers on 14 years of trading shows one of the assumptions about global markets is looking fragile.