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A cosmological event could have unleased the huge comet or asteroid that led to the demise of the dinosaurs.
The talk on the sidelines in Paris is how businesses can tackle global warming.
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The business presence at COP21 may be on the sidelines but support for climate change is strong.
The new storage.
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More and more of us are computing on The Cloud. Do we know what we’re doing?
No signal in a city or on a train? Here’s why.
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Moving from microwave to millimetre wave wireless would see base station costs fall and bring an end to drop-outs and dead-zones.
Mary Robinson, championne de la justice climatique.
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L’envoyée spéciale pour le changement climatique de l’ONU et ancienne présidente de l’Irlande répond aux questions de six experts de The Conversation sur les négociations en cours à la COP21.
Robinson: ‘Climate change is a threat multiplier.’
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UN special envoy and former Irish president Mary Robinson talks to leading experts about the 2015 Paris climate negotiations.
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Fertility treatments might be designed to improve rather than save lives but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be publicly funded.
Welby is supporting a ‘forceful response’.
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A motion passed at the Synod is in direct contravention of Christian values.
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Indonesia’s haze made global headlines but an intense dry season has also sparked major fires in Brazil.
Headed for Syria?
Peter Gronemann
After Paris, the PM hopes to win support for extending airstrikes against Islamic State, but the plan doesn’t seem to have changed much.
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New technique captures 78% carbon using molten tin.
Me next!
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The question of who will replace the Queen as Head of Commonwealth is not as simple as it sounds.
Reclaiming the homeland.
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Furious nativist radicals are on the march – but are they really all birds of a feather?
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Cows are one of the least efficient ways to go from field to fork.
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The general synod meets in London with discussion on how to stop declining congreations high up the agenda.
The fathers of modern physics, including Einstein, Millikan, Planck and others, in debate.
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Physicists are working hard to unite Einstein’s theory of relativity with quantum mechanics. It’s no easy task.
Struggle to understand modern physics? Blame Einstein.
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Space, time and space-time: it’s all relative.
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‘Terrorism incubators’? The truth is far more complex.
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An apocalyptic vision drives the terrorist group.
Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare.
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It’s important to look beyond the same old gender sterotypes.