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This might sound over the top and rather wasteful. But rental wedding dresses are not uncommon.
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Clingy behaviour can be narcissistic, too.
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People have always been intrigued by illusions, but only in the last century have they been able to teach us about the workings of the brain.
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Life expectancy has more than doubled in the last two centuries. How much more can it increase?
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Why radical changes to society are needed if we are to escape environmental disaster.
In vitro fertilisation.
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New research can for the first time tell us what happens when women wish to go back to the clinic to use their frozen eggs.
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Ecosystem deterioration, along with climate change, is now becoming a controversial political question.
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Climate change is mentioned in British television about as often as zombies.
Outside Holnicote House children’s home, Somerset.
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This sorry tale of institutional racism represents a scandal to rival the treatment of the Windrush generation.
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New research suggests that even ecologically flexible baboons could be at significant risk of habitat loss and endangerment from anthropogenic climate change.
Waldseemüller map of the world, 1507.
A new look at Renaissance paintings demonstrates the world has always been global.
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Recognising the role of women in global child slavery is key to addressing it.
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Evidence for the benefits of empathy in healthcare is mounting.
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On the 500th anniversary Leonardo’s death and in appreciation of his rich and varied contributions, how can our educational systems inspire the same imaginative qualities in students today?
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As a society, we often don’t think about how legal professionals might be affected by the work that they do.
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Society needs cybersecurity professionals who can protect systems and mitigate damage.
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In economics classes, relentless growth is an unquestioned dogma. Yet this same economic growth is rapidly ripping apart the ecological foundations of our world.
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For the roughly 3% of people who have this condition, sweating can be almost constant.
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Humankind already has the knowledge to make sustainable and socially just ways of living on this planet possible. But new types of design and economics are needed for anything to change.
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Copious amounts of time spent looking at screens is likely affecting our health – so why aren’t we doing anything about it?