Scientists: your social media platforms need you!
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Scientists have never been more needed to challenge division, misinformation and harassment online.
Finally, our national obsession with weather is useful for something.
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Yesterday’s weather helps make sense of today’s, but how will this change as the climate changes?
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England’s out of the World Cup, but the UK can at least enjoy the weather… can’t it?
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Blockchains and AI could play a key role in the decentralised energy systems of the future.
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In the hunt for the next Messi, conventional wisdom favours football players with lots of experience at an early age. Research and England’s example may advocate a different approach.
Careful now.
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If you’re worried about food poisoning at your next barbecue, wait until you see what’s for pudding.
America’s dogs are a husk(y) of what they once were.
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America’s early dogs are all gone – save for their rather nasty cancer.
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Research is increasingly proving fingerprints can be used for much more than identifying people.
Off-grid mountain house.
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Lowering your carbon footprint by living off-grid is a sustainability dream. But how possible is it using current technology?
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Why working with friends – or making better friends with colleagues – is beneficial.
Tongass National Forest, Alaska.
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Can forests effectively remove carbon from the atmosphere?
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What do we really know about the link between a species’ sex life and how it evolves?
The chronarium sleep lab.
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Science festivals are booming and with their mixture of music and art they are opening the field to a whole new audience who are keen to be amazed.
Goodbye old friend.
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It’s a British icon that is loved by many but used by very, very few – it’s time for an upgrade.
Coming to a city near you soon.
Leading academics will discuss developments shaping the continent in an event that’s free and open to the public.
What did I do?
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Most of us keep tabs on other people’s wrongdoings but suffer from ‘ethical amnesia’ when it comes to our own missteps.
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The Premier League may well be flying, but right now, English football is dying.
Liverpool, just one of the regions to be electing a metro mayor next year.
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In May 2017 metro mayors will be elected in a number of cities and counties across England, but what are they and what will they do?
Thumbs up to expert opinion.
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Beware dumbing down.
Exploitation or empowerment?
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How sexual attraction to a disabled body is about more than just desires of the flesh.
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The ‘right to be forgotten’ won’t always help when someone posts something harmful about you – but there are other options.
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Most scientists have found a way to make religion and evolution compatible, but not in the way you might think.
Fly away on my Zephyr.
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Internet connections could one day come from solar-powered planes that fly for months or even longer at a time.
Ear trouble.
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Too much background noise has been linked to heart disease, strokes and even holding back children’s learning.
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Scientists have found a way to narrow down the best signs that a specific volcano is about to blow.