(L-R) Sally Rooney, J.D. Salinger, Vera Brittain and Douglas Coupland.
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The idea of generations as self-conscious group identities came into being with the trauma and upheaval of the first world war.
Portrait of power: NIkita Kruschev, left, with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, centre, and Leonid Brezhnev, right.
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Nikita Kruschev’s attempts to liberalise the leadership of the Soviet Union was ousted by his political rivals on October 14 1964.
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AlphaFold, which has been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry, could pave the way for new treatments and drugs.
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Most animals retreated to small, warmer enclaves. But some, like humans, seemed to have stayed where they were.
The first recorded case of Wetland virus was in 2019.
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Wetland virus caused flu-like symptoms that progressed into multiple organ failure in one patient.
Spooks: River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) and Frank harkness (Hugo Weaving) in the TV adaptation of Mick Herron’s spy novels.
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Over the years, sensational spy dramas featuring have mirrored the murky world of intelligence operations.
Female guards at Belsen concentration camp in 1945, photographed by the American Army.
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Women guards are often portrayed as masculinised sadists, but the more prosaic – and shocking – truth is they were often just normal women who acclimatised to the brutality of the Nazi regime.
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Lactate can help or harm. Microbes in our gut helps keep the balance right.
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And some dogs have the same genetic mutation linked to autism in humans.
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UN peacekeeping force Unifil is the only international witness to events on the ground in southern Lebanon as the IDF expands its incursion.
American black vultures scavenging a dolphin that drowned ensnared in fishing gear off the coast of the Brazilian Amazon.
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The average size of monitored wildlife populations has shrunk by 73% since 1970.
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How you deal with an embarrassing mistake is far more important than the blooper itself.
Two of three recipients of this year’s chemistry Nobel made their breakthrough with AI.
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AI will feature in future Nobel prizes as scientists exploit the power of this technology for research.
Globular cluster NGC 2005.
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If dark energy isn’t constant, we may need to rewrite the standard model of cosmology.
Conservation biologist Rebecca Cliffe fits an accelerometer backpack to a wild three-fingered sloth to measure its movement.
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Highland sloths are not able to slow their metabolic rate like lowland sloths when temperatures get too hot.
An Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, on October 6, 2024.
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Middle East experts Mireille Rebeiz and Amnon Aran talk to The Conversation Weekly about the recent escalation in the Middle East.
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The environmental impacts of a change in management and human activity depends on what, if any, development takes place and how it is managed.
Using computers to design and predict protein structures will revolutionise biochemistry.
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Burnout can be a serious condition and can show up in a variety of ways.
Safety first?
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If you’re tempted to do a make a couple of cheeky payments while waiting for the band to come on, think again.