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War takes a terrible toll on medics, but many of the injuries are unseen.
Recent protests draw attention to antisemitic memes and tropes that persist on social media.
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Latest figures show antisemitism in the UK is on the rise, with new expressions of anti-Jewish hatred merely reviving older ones.
Doomscrolling can have a huge impact on our attention, memory and mood.
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What use are we in helping to solve difficult global challenges if we’re so depressed and cognitively depleted that we can’t think of the best actions to take?
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Estos son los monumentos que el mundo puede perder debido a la guerra de Putin.
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What the world stands to lose due to Putin’s unprovoked war.
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The fear that SARS-CoV-2 will evolve in animals and then spread back to us in a more virulent form is unfounded.
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Farming shellfish instead of large, predatory fish, is also better for the planet.
The end of an era.
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The plans to destroy a space station as large as the ISS have never been carried out before.
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Wellbeing is not just an individual thing, it plays out in relationships with people and animals and even plants and our environment.
The brains of gambling addicts activate in specific ways.
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There is evidence to suggest that dopamine plays a key role in gamling addiction.
Legumes are an excellent source of protein.
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Reviving long-lost legume species could help improve global food security and decrease world hunger.
In the nineteenth century, improved breeds and new agricultural technology underpinned exports of ostrich feathers from South Africa.
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This book is a history of individuals, ideas and institutions that were at the fulcrum of important scientific developments.
Geoengineering aims to intervene in Earth’s climate to fight global warming.
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The risks of using aerosols to reflect sunlight and cool the planet include creating extreme weather and worsening catastrophes.
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Vaccines are less effective at reducing the risk of viral mutation than they used to be – but they still make a difference.
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The levelling up white paper outlines plans for regional devolution in England, but they will be meaningless without reform at the top.
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A white paper that is central to the government’s mission – but lacks coherence.
AI is all about analysing huge amounts of data so why isn’t it used more in trading?
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Machine learning is based on analysing huge data sets and finding patterns in them, yet isn’t used much in financial market decisions.
One half of the fossil discovered in Northern England.
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Why our chance discovery of an Arthropleura as long as an alligator, while on holiday on a beach in northern England, was such a landmark moment.
Palestinian residents protest evictions in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
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How the Israeli authorities are using planning laws to expropriate Palestinian land in East Jerusalem.
Everything to play for?
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From games streaming platforms to the metaverse, the Japanese tech giant looks to be behind the curve.