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Microplastics go largely unseen but are a scourge of the oceans. Filmmaker Jo Ruxton answers questions about the challenge of filming it.
The execution chamber at Utah State Prison.
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When drug companies refused to ship chemicals to the US for use in lethal injections it led to several botched executions, reopening the debate over the death penalty.
Eyeing up the future.
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There are three main types of forecast when it comes to the economic effects of Brexit – here’s how to tell the difference between them.
Blockade of Toulon by Thomas Luny.
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The British blockade of France wouldn’t have worked if it wasn’t for an ingenious experiment conducted half a century earlier.
In a room full of contemporary artistic greats, some see Shakespeare and Shakespeare alone.
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How one man’s death has somehow overshadowed the lives of many other crucial thinkers and writers of Shakespeare’s day.
John Whittingdale, centre, was chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee when the phone-hacking story broke.
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There’s no ‘public interest’ in this story, say the newspapers. As if that’s stopped them before.
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Britain’s longest-reigning monarch has seen a big rise in life expectancy since her birth in 1926.
What the Treasury says.
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New report says households will be £4,300 worse off if we leave the EU. Here’s the verdict.
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Stratford-upon-Avon is beginning to resemble Disneyland.
The health sector can learn from other industries that turn to operations research to fix everyday challenges.
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March 22, 2016
Mark Mackay , Flinders University ; Campbell Thompson , University of Adelaide ; Don Campbell , Monash University ; Geoff McDonnell , UNSW Sydney ; Joachim Sturmberg , University of Newcastle ; Leonid Churilov , Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health ; Malgorzata O'Reilly , University of Tasmania ; Mark Fackrell , The University of Melbourne ; Nigel Bean , University of Adelaide ; Paul Harper , Cardiff University ; Peter Taylor , The University of Melbourne ; Robert Adams , University of Adelaide , and Terry Young , Brunel University London
Fixing the hospital system is not just a matter of more funding. Hospitals need to work smarter, not harder.
Placebo surgery is not used often enough.
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A placebo is an important tool for finding out if a treatment works or not. A dummy pill is one thing, but is it right to perform placebo surgery on someone?
Fired up, ready to go.
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Hillary Clinton epitomises women’s shifting place in the American polity – and her struggles to win over younger women reflect that.
Topsy-turvy, inside-out.
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Is this the future of the piano?
On take-off and landing, the slightest distraction could prove fatal.
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No longer a toy: the industrial-grade lasers available online are a disaster in the making.
A doctor inspects the growth of cowpox on a milking maid.
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Edward Jenner deliberately infected a young boy with cowpox and then smallpox. But his method wasn’t as mad as is often made out.
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On welfare reform, it’s a question of listen and learn.
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The original jumbo jet revolutionised global travel but more efficient, reliable engines have spelt the end for the 747.
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An endless stream of self-obsessed selfies could signal your narcissistic streak.
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Why we should criticise Charlie Hebdo’s latest satirical take on racism.
We’re all watching each other on Facebook.
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Studies show that Facebook addiction and Facebook stalking are very real, and do us no good.