The Edinburgh and London Royal Mail.
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The Russian flu was the first truly global pandemic and it was spread by an interconnected world.
Quick on the uptake: Corona is one of a number of new films reacting to the pandemic.
Grandmuse Pictures
COVID-19 has hit the film industry hard, but some enterprising film-makers are already plotting ways to cope with the ‘new normal’.
A fragment of scroll from the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, under microspectral imagery.
The University of Manchester
What do you do when you find something amazing you didn’t expect, and there is no budget in your grant to investigate it?
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A new review assesses the potential long-term psychological impact of COVID-19.
Boris Johnson announces his new plan, to widespread confusion.
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Confusion abounds over what people are allowed to do now, which is the one thing you don’t want in a public information campaign.
A French soldier during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to Operation Barkhane in Mali in 2017.
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It’s been 60 years since most of France’s former colonies in Africa gained independence. But France still maintains a significant military presence on the continent.
Grime artist Lady Leshurr has released a song called Quarantine Speech that urges listeners to wash their hands.
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Releases created in lockdown have included messages to stay home and save lives.
3D medical illustration of coronavirus.
Corona Borealis Studio
Symptoms like loss of smell and taste are powerful predictors of COVID-19 infections.
Astronaut Peggy Whitson at the International Space Station in 2016.
NASA
Female astronauts may be better off avoiding combined hormonal contraceptive pills to control their periods in space, according to new research.
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Employment levels regularly dip after crisis.
A truck of displaced men, with Islamic State fighters believed to be among them, leaves the group’s stronghold in Baghouz in February 2019.
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Seven striking similarities between developments regarding Islamic State today and the period before its surge in 2013-14.
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire plays with cinematic conventions and anticipation of lesbian sex on film. Director Céline Sciamma offers a sophisticated take that is both explicit and elusive.
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Almost everyone agrees with lockdown measures, but their feelings about doing it are very different.
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Being a member of a certain age group shouldn’t be a liability.
A woman is tested in Ha Loi village in Hanoi which was put in 28-day quarantine on April 8 after a resident tested positive for COVID-19.
Luong Thai Linh/EPA
Intensive screening, testing, quarantine and public communication have helped keep numbers of COVID-19 cases in Vietnam very low.
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PODCAST: How the internet has and hasn’t changed the game for the spread of conspiracy theories.
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Despite an increasingly positive representation of old people in the media, it is not the reality for the majority whose frailty and vulnerability disturb society to the point of denial.
Giant advantages.
Bloomicon
Tax rates may be the same for big and small companies, but five charts show how things work out differently in practice.
Sudan’s new prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok. He recently survived an assassination attempt.
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Omar al-Bashir may be gone but Sudan still has a way to go before it enjoys a functioning democracy.
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CovidRADAR was developed in less than a week.