Pepper the robot visits Clinic Hospital in Barcelona, Spain, July 2018.
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Using robots to provide companionship is a slippery slope in removing the aged and infirm still further from human interaction.
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Most rural communities rely on untrained medical practitioners who are often trusted more than doctors.
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This celebrated research gives governments a reason to give climate change a low priority, but is based on spurious empirical data.
Victor Orban: Hungary’s prime minister.
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Fighting populism requires us to recognise its embeddedness in business elites. Viktor Orbán’s regime is a case in point.
Demonstrators protest demanding the resignation of the country’s interim president Jeanine Añez in El Alto, Bolivia, August 14 2020.
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Bolivia’s drug control strategy was once internationally applauded.
The Zimovs take some permafrost depth readings.
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The Zimovs want to restore the prehistoric ‘mammoth steppe’ ecosystem and see if it slows down – or even reverses – melting permafrost.
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Smaller countries have been competing for tourists for years. New remote work visas suggest they are now competing for citizens.
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New research shows that the oldest surviving anatomical atlas comes from Han Dynasty China, and was written over 2,000 years ago.
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Halide perovskites are cheap, versatile and remarkably efficient as both solar cells and light emitters.
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Finally we have a word to describe why wasps bother you in late summer: furlough.
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Zoos are struggling more than most businesses.
Health is a complex issue that requires an interdisciplinary approach to study and teach.
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The pandemic has revealed the complexity of new and ongoing health crises. Post-secondary institutions need to respond to this complexity with an interdisciplinary approach to teaching health issues.
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To date, there have been 47 face transplants worldwide, but it’s still very much an experimental procedure.
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There are four main ways that greening can benefit businesses.
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I published a book on what life might look like after the crisis. It already feels out of date.
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New scientific research reveals how Thomas Cromwell’s Machiavellian manoeuvring influenced his own depiction on the front of The Great Bible.
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Plastics are strong, durable, waterproof, lightweight, easy to mould, and recyclable – all key properties for construction materials.
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Most of the interviewees in the new documentary seek to correct what they see as unfair criticism of Anelka. Few discuss his failings.
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It seems likely we are going to need radical reductions in future ownership of private vehicles as we transition to cleaner transport.
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An evolutionary psychologist, politics expert and sustainability scientist discuss the potential for humanity to plan for the long term future.