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Taking part in sport can lead to a sense of belonging.
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Chimpanzees have been the focus of primate research for decades. But their close cousins, the bonobos, can offer us important insights into human nature too.
Loyal customers?
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Research shows what happens when people are forced to swap their favourite shops.
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Why diversity and not anti-racism?
Brazil’s president Lula met with US president Joe Biden in February 2023.
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Brazil’s new leader is treading a fine line between China and the US in his foreign policy.
A view of Fairbourne from above, showing the Mawddach estuary and the mountains of Eryri in the background.
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Fairbourne on the west coast of Wales is at risk from both rising sea levels and river flooding.
Donald Trump’s supporters do not seem dissuaded from voting for him despite an upcoming court case, polls suggest.
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The US constitution would not restrict Donald Trump from running for president, even if he is in the middle of a court case, or was convicted.
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The illegal migration bill is performative politics that allows the Conservatives to blame opponents ahead of a key election.
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After a pandemic and over a decade of public spending cuts, young people need investment not punishment.
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Many of the pioneers who began developing artificial neural networks weren’t sure how they actually worked - and we’re no more certain today.
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The ONS’ Coronavirus Infection Survey has ceased after three years. Two experts explain why it was a uniquely useful source of data.
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Prioritising economic growth without a plan to curb exploitative business practices is not a solution. The UK needs a return to the forward-thinking social reforms of 1945.
In a cubist painting, reality is more than a single perspective can capture.
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According to a school of thought known as QBism, quantum mechanics is a guide to action.
Mystic Meg in a promotional image.
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Critics of superstition have often painted openness to magical interpretations as weakness or moral failing.
Russian rhetoric about Ukraine echoes language used in the second world war by the Soviets seeking to stem independence movements. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin insisted on Ukraine getting a separate vote to the USSR at the United Nations, even though it wasn’t an independent state.
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Putin’s rhetoric over Ukraine has roots in the end of the second world war, attitudes explained by Paul Winterton, a British journalist at the time.
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Many teachers have reported thinking about leaving the profession.
Flags fly outside the UN building in New York.
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The UK is among countries cutting international aid payments, which could affect the world in four key areas: poverty, extremism, democracy and refugees.
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Broad definitions mean almost anything can be classed as antisocial behaviour.
Evaluating what citizen science is involves looking at the concept of science itself.
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Citizen science offers the possibility of a science for the people, by the people. And it could be used to challenge the status quo.
Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci.
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A document, which dates to 1452, shows that da Vinci’s father emancipated an enslaved woman named Caterina – Leonardo’s mother.