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Oily fish like sardines and mackerel are proven to reduce metabolic syndrome, and catching them has a very low environmental impact.
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The EU’s pact signals the bloc’s most ambitious attempt to harmonise its migration policies. Yet, experts sound the alarm over its silence on search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean.
Hemicycle of the European Parliament in Brussels.
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Ten states are currently vying for EU membership, but most of them will face significant challenges.
Protesters from Extinction Rebellion hold up anti-fashion placards as they block a road on the third day of London Fashion Week in London in September 2019.
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Ballooning inventories are to blame for much of the fashion’s sector carbon footprint. Could on-demand production solve such problems?
Madrid city centre aerial panoramic view at sunset, 2020.
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Urban policy needs to look beyond housing development and address the land ownership patterns that underpin our cities.
Malgré l'essor des possibilités de télétravail, deux-tiers des employés à temps plein dans le monde ont travaillé cinq jours par semaine sur place en 2023.
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The appetite for remote working is not going anywhere. Faced with this phenomenon, managers can either double down on the old 9-to-5 model or offer ever tailored work choices to their employees.
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When presented with ID photos, those rated as more attractive were also deemed to be more trustworthy. Benefitting from good looks oneself doesn’t protect against being fooled.
The dolia defossa wine cellar of Villa Regina (Boscoreale).
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Roman wines may have looked and tasted better than long assumed. The answer lies in their use of clay jars, a technique still used in modern winemaking in Georgia.
Screenshot from the video game ‘The Stanley Parable’.
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Songwriting, theatre, rap and graphic novels have won literary awards, but video games remain an overlooked part of the wider literary canon.
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There are major gaps in space law, which could have dire consequences for space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life.
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President Tayyip Erdogan and his party suffered their biggest electoral blow in a nationwide local vote that reasserted the opposition as a political force.
Still from the film ‘The spirit of the beehive’, by Victor Erice.
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Cinema offers a unique way to pin down 500 years of Spain’s fragmented, shifting identity from 1492 to 1992.
Bonus afterglow led to boosted sales revenues, research carried over three years shows.
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Bonus afterglow led to boosted sales revenues and greater customer satisfaction across the board, research carried over three years shows.
Left, ‘Orange and Yellow’ by Mark Rothko, 1956. Right, day dress in orange wool crepe, by Cristóbal Balenciaga, 1967.
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Cristobal Balenciaga’s work developed alongside abstract artistic movements, which had a profound influence on his designs.
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Around 98% of all research is published in English, posing a serious problem for the global scientific community.
African migrants attempting to flee to Europe disembark in Sfax from a vessel belonging to the Tunisian coastguard, after having been intercepted at sea, on 10 August 2023.
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The argument is a familiar one: African citizens are unaware of the risks tied to the perilous journey across the Mediterranean and the West must therefore enlighten them.
While AI therapists and carers are rapidly gaining ground, it would be mistaken to consider their behaviour as empathetic.
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Artificial Intelligence’s capacity to mimic and identify emotions is worlds away from the human one to feel.
How can we explain the paradox of a matter that can be sticky and slippery?
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How can the same material, ice, have diametrically different physical properties - sticking and sliding?
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Laughter is one of the healthiest things a child can do, but it means very different things at different stages of brain development.
‘Are these even on?’: Gabrielius Landsbergis, Lithuania’s minister of foreign affairs, asks to be heard in Brussels.
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Lithuania doesn’t often set the agenda, yet it has been warning that Russia would invade Ukraine since 2008.