Laura de Mingo
Glamorous award ceremonies and popular TV shows can only get you so far – finding the time to do the science is still the most important thing.
Loosening their grip. Will markets exit oil like they edged away from tobacco?
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Efforts to break our financial addiction to the energy sector might find useful lessons in the slow decline of tobacco.
Right, what shall we do this year?
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It brings together 20 of the world’s most powerful leaders – but they achieve precious little.
France is looking for answers.
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A lot of people are marginalised or angry, but only a few go on to actually commit violent acts. Why?
Hot ticket.
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Narendra Modi’s visit to the UK has gone swimmingly – but the situation at home is far from placid.
Old junk: the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle crashing into Earth’s atmosphere in 2008.
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A crashing piece of space junk could be a a good fortune for researchers, despite falling on Friday the 13th.
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Recent Martian findings are just the latest discoveries of aurora on other planets, both in and out of our solar system.
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Combining age-related loneliness with other social issues could help breathe new life into public services.
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Lithium-air batteries demonstrate 90% efficiency in the lab, enough for commercial use. Perhaps the battery breakthrough we’ve been waiting for is here.
Flag carrier. Easyjet CEO Carolyn McCall.
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Measures to bring more female directors into the executive suite are failing to boost performance. Here’s why…
Taking off the label to charge more.
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Pharmaceutical companies aim to make a profit, but it took an industry insider to blow the whistle on some exorbitant drug costs the NHS was paying.
I’m not coming in. I might catch something.
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New research shows that bacteria is thriving on the ISS. But is that really such a bad thing?
There’s still potential for health apps, but good ones.
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Having ‘approved’ poor quality, privacy-busting and clinically dubious apps, the NHS Health App Library closes - but it didn’t need to be this way.
Tony Blair is given the US Congressional Medal of Freedom by George W Bush.
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The former British PM did not go far enough with his apology.
Women at the workhouse.
Peter Higginbotham
The policies and rhetoric around the drive to cut the welfare bill show the persistence of a 19th century approach to relieving poverty.
Gare aux ours ! Au Svalbard, cet archipel norvégien situé à la limite des océans Arctique et Atlantique.
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Pour étudier les dangers qui menacent les grands mammifères marins de l’Arctique, les chercheurs doivent se préparer aux rencontres impromptues.
Catch those z’s.
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The clocks going back hold the tantalising promise of an extra hour in bed. But the modern attitude towards that champion of indolence, the sloth, shows that sloth is still very much a deadly sin.
Researchers have noted a spike in workplace injuries and road accidents as we set the clocks forward.
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How daylight savings time could be harming us.
Kashmiri lawmaker Sheikh Abdul Rashid after an attack by activists from hardline group Hindu Sena.
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Attacks on Muslims for eating beef have raised tensions in India.
Shakespeare’s plays have kept “this glorious and well-foughten field” alive, championing its power as a myth of national unity and heroism.