Norway’s Magnus Carlsen competing in Dubai in 2020.
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Air pollution causes chess players to make more errors – this may have implications for high-skilled professionals.
Virgin Orbit is launching satellites using a rocket slung under the wing of an aircraft.
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Efforts to launch rockets into space from the UK need to demonstrate reliability.
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Hearing someone’s voice can decrease feelings of loneliness and anxiety
For many young people, arcades and board game cafes are replacing traditional pubs and bars.
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Younger people are spending more on experiences, and cutting back on alcohol.
Striking miners face off against police in 1984.
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Workers have gradually lost all powers to take industrial action when they feel conditions are unfair.
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The current energy transition could herald a new copper world. But will it be a long-anticipated resource blessing or yet another global scramble for the precious metal?
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The UK needs an industrial strategy to counter the rise of EU battery manufacturing.
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Silence in mental illness comes in many forms. Some of it is even empowering.
Matteo Messina Denaro is pictured in the back of a police car following his arrest.
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The mafia boss is the last known face of the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate. But his capture represents the end of an era, not the end of the mafia in Sicily.
Dozens of displaced people gather along the fence of the MONUSCO base in DRC.
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A specific regional protocol could ease the management of internally displaced persons in the region.
US health data pioneer Ernest Codman at work on his national registry of patient outcomes, 1925.
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To understand the potential for machine learning to transform medicine, we must go back to the controversial origins of data use in healthcare
Key to preventing cholera is a good supply of water.
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Cholera has persisted longer in Africa largely due to worsening hygiene and sanitation situations in urban areas.
Killer robots don’t look like this, for now.
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AI enabled weapons (LAWs) are still in their adolescence, which means we still have a chance to influence their development. But we need to act now.
Women working in rural China close to the Tibetan border.
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Men in rural China spend more time in leisure or social activities, or just hanging around and resting.
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Those who feel disenfranchised from mainstream leaders are vulnerable to falling for the promises of online ‘leaders’ and ‘alt-moral entrepreneurs’.
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Why deep state conspiracies keep on spinning out of control.
Republican Kevin McCarthy has not managed to win enough votes to make him speaker of the House, so far.
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Breakaway Republicans are blocking the election of a new speaker of the US House of Representatives.
Sustainable finance.
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Transforming finance could help businesses become more compassionate and inclusive.
Chemists are often the unsung heroes of scientific breakthroughs that change our lives.
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Astounding leaps forward in diagnostics, recycling and food are just a few areas of chemistry that were once considered science fiction
A row of 1970s terraced houses in Bristol.
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Often sneered at for its avocado bathrooms and flared trousers, the styles and tastes of the 1970s are worth reconsidering for other reasons.