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The leading cause of death in the world are a group of illnesses known as non-commmunicable diseases. But a growing body of evidence shows they’re actually social contagions.
So what does the discovery of this great author’s bones actually change?
Native groups in a remote corner of Peru just took over 14 oil wells for a month.
Saturn’s tiny moon Enceladus joins Europa and Mars as possible locations for life beyond Earth.
When Europeans first arrived in the Americas they didn’t just make human history – they changed planet Earth forever.
Winners of the Wellcome Images Award 2015 tell us about how they got their special shot.
Dogger Bank, a popular fishing spot in the North Sea, could soon host up to 400 wind turbines.
Schools need to do more to protect both girls and boys from society’s gender stereotyping.
With opposition leaders in jail and an economy in tatters, Venezuela could be just around the corner from a formal state of emergency.
The army of teaching assistants working in English schools still have an unclear role in the classroom.
Labour’s much anticipated but yet-to-be confirmed policy to reduce the cap on university tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000 a year will be highly expensive, could leave universities £10 billion out of…
Screening can save lives, which is why the NHS offers checks for breast, cervical and bowel cancers. Breast screening tries to pick up cancer at an early stage when it may be more treatable. Cervical screening…
As Western societies have become more diverse due to immigration and cross-border mobility, the question of how welcoming their native populations are to newcomers has become ever more relevant. Exclusionary…
The Silk Road trial has concluded, with Ross Ulbricht found guilty of running the anonymous online marketplace for illegal goods. But questions remain over how the FBI found its way through Tor, the software…
Until now, the policies of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) have been symbolic rather than substantive. Policy statements by the party’s leader, Nigel Farage, have been designed to build a populist support…
Genomics is increasingly hailed by many as the turning point in modern medicine. Advances in technology now mean we’re able to make out the full DNA sequence of an organism and decipher its entire hereditary…
A British volcanologist has won one of the most prestigious awards in science – the Vetlesen Prize, which is considered to be the earth sciences equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Stephen Sparks of the University…
What on earth is going on in the oil market? Does the recent 60% collapse in oil prices in six months really reflect shifts in underlying supply and demand for crude oil? I’m afraid not, as I have been…
Climate change will cause all sorts of problems for humans in the future. It could cause mass migration and conflict as people flee flooded homes or arid farmland, and fight over ever more scarce resources…
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Chair of Academic Clinical Orthopaedics, UCL
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Lecturer in Law, UCL
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Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, UCL
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Emeritus Professor, Institute of Education, UCL
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Head of Digital Economy Research, UCL
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Professor of the Sociology of Gender and Education, Institute of Education, UCL
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Associate Professor and the Deputy Programme Director of Digital Humanities in the Department of Information Studies, UCL
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Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value and Founding Director of the UCL IIPP, UCL
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Honourary Lecturer, Department of History, UCL
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Associate Professor (Reader) in Finance and Accounting, UCL
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Researcher, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL
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Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Teachers and Teaching Research, UCL
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Senior Research Fellow and Alzheimer's Research UK David Carr Fellow, UCL
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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Visiting Professor of Practice at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL
