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Aston Martin has rarely been considered an eco-friendly brand, but it has announced an electric car of considerable heft.
A rare find in an Exeter library helps explain why the local student vote switched from the Conservatives to Labour.
You can tell quite a lot about whether your favourite player might win or lose from the primal noises they make.
A freedom of information request reveals that Google wants its AI company DeepMind to get involved in the 100,000 Genomes Project.
Waste crime has the potential for easy, high profits and as such is set to join ranks with drugs and human trafficking.
In his lifetime Anthony Burgess was a strong advocate of free expression. A forthcoming book promises to bring his political writing back into focus.
He brought insights into modern society as well as marmalade sandwiches when he travelled to London from Peru.
Arthur Conan Doyle may have stitched something into the detective books that nobody ever noticed.
Woman’s Own magazine created a slimming culture in the UK that lasts to this day.
A rising generation of young people are growing up in peril.
Why do one big experiment when you can do millions of tiny ones?
Even cooks at top restaurants are putting customers’ health at risk.
The ‘privilege of unknowing’ allows onlookers to learn not to see, or otherwise sense, queer difference.
What drove young people to turnout in such high numbers to back Corbyn? And will they stick with him?
Calls for accountability at a time of tragedy or crisis are understandable - but scapegoats can distract attention away from the true lessons that need to be learned.
As a crackdown on Qatar goes off half-cocked, the world is worrying Saudi Arabia’s new order could be even more dangerous.
Humans tend to associate cats purring with happiness, but in turns out they also purr when in pain, hungry and alone.
Experiences of LGBT asylum seekers in Netherlands flies in the face of the much-vaunted Dutch reputation for tolerance.
Expecting tourists to pay a little more than locals is defensible – whether in Bruges, Venice or Thailand.
People from the lowest castes and ‘scheduled tribes’ are less likely to have electricity and clean gas, even compared to equally poor people from other castes.
A depressing ruling from a Court of Appeal and a triumph in Westminster all at once.
Subsidies aren’t working but there are other options.
The killing of a newborn baby by its mother is the most shocking of crimes - but more needs to be done to understand the mental condition of the women that do it.
Working with an embedded artist for a year helped one physicist realise that art and science share a lot of common ground