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Comment un corps humain peut-il résister aux conditions extrêmes des profondeurs sous-marines ? Une plongée dans les eaux troubles de la physiologie.
Women's health in the months and years before they become pregnant can impact on their health during pregnancy and the baby's development, our new research shows.
How we showed the Atlantic circulation system is its weakest for 1,600 years.
New Zealand's coalition government plans to transition to a low-emissions economy while also addressing major urban issues such as unaffordable housing, inequality and poverty.
Thousands of staff are employed by the UN's Palestinian refugee agency. Their futures remain uncertain.
Despite its reputation, Russia has contributed much more to international law than it's sometimes given credit for.
Traditional picket lines feel outdated now that work is no longer a place that you go, but a thing that you do.
Spot removes traditional barriers to reporting abusive behavior, because participants can log incidents without talking to a human.
Diving without oxygen tanks requires you to enact some very weird and very strange and not all that well understood physiological feats just to stay alive.
Untuk menunjukkan sebuah dampak manusia yang benar-benar global dibutuhkan tanda dari lokasi terpencil dan perawan di Belahan Bumi Selatan yang muncul pada waktu yang sama dengan di utara.
New research shows that many adults across the world are financially illiterate and unable to complete even basic mathematical calculations.
Women with AIDS were excluded from the US definition of the syndrome until 1993. What's changed?
The word only appears 14 times in the UK's parliamentary record between 1803 and 2005. Now it is everywhere.
Surprising new results from the Juno mission may us help work out what's going on at Saturn and other gas giants, too.
Practice and experience is vital for acquiring a motor skill like handwriting.
The congestion charge has helped to ease traffic and raise funds. But the rise of Uber and other private hire vehicles have raised unforeseen challenges.
Refugees hold religious prejudices against each other too – separating them by religion is not the answer.
New cross-European study shows how Brexit will affect higher education beyond the UK.
Instead of nagging younger kids "not to forget", and trusting the power of the child’s developing memory alone, try to help them "offload" as much of the work as possible.
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Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
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Lecturer in Russian Politics, UCL
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Reader in Human Geography and Co-Director of the Migration Research Unit, UCL
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Urban Governance (Infrastructure Governance, Policy and Planning), UCL
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Lecturer in Economics and Social Statistics, UCL
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PhD Researcher, Material Culture Anthropology, UCL
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Margaret Pyke Professor of Reproductive and Sexual Health, UCL
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Research associate, UCL
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Honorary Professor in Physiology, UCL
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Research Associate in Paleoceanography, UCL
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Lecturer in Modern Eurasian History, UCL
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PhD Candidate and Tutor in MA Education, UCL
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Visiting Lecturer in History of Art, UCL
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