The public loses when their only choices are inaccessible, impenetrable journal articles or overhyped click-bait about science. Scientists themselves need to step up and help bridge the divide.
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En cas de crise humanitaire, l’éducation est généralement négligée. C’est pire en zone de guerre.
First tip: learn to wobble.
Science and technology has always helped us feed the world. GM has more to offer, if we let it.
The relentless pursuit of showy flowers for garden display – as seen at Chelsea Flower Show – has seen some odd uses of radiation and chemicals .
People who speak two or more variations on a language get the same cognitive benefits as multilingualists.
How new medicines subsidised by individual nations in the EU is a complicated business.
Abduction, sexual violence, early marriage: a few of the choices facing adolescent girls who ought instead to be in school.
Take a break from Glastonbury prep to read this.
It is rare to hear from people in their tenth or eleventh decade but their voices are crucial to shaping end-of-life care services.
How a cabinet-maker and temperance preacher managed what the ride-sharing company is struggling to pull off.
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A podcast on time: telling it, perceiving it, doing it and travelling through it.
It’s not easy to make good food choices when there’s a takeaway on every corner.
A Brexit would be a chance to actually create a European project – but the EU needs to be dismantled first.
The economics of making biofuels from algae no longer add up, but a lesson from the oil industry could make them viable.
It is unusual for songbirds migrating from Europe to Africa to sing. A new hypothesis suggests an interesting reason for why such singing sometimes happens.
Les chercheurs ont démontré que l’intelligence est influencée par de nombreux gènes. Mais leurs recherches soulèvent des problèmes moraux.
It’s not the bell that needs attention, it’s the Elizabeth Tower that houses it and the Great Clock that makes it chime.
Boris Johnson has made this claim repeatedly – and he’s not the only one.
Research suggests that bilinguals have less insight into the way they perform tasks than people who only speak one language.
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PhD Candidate in History, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Research Fellow in Black Heritage, University of Cambridge
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Newton International Fellow, University of Cambridge
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer in Strategy, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Hatton Professor of Climate Law, University of Cambridge
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Assistant Professor in Development Studies, University of Cambridge
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Researcher, University of Cambridge
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Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Senior Project Manager, Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Social Psychology in Society, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor in English, University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Queens' College, University of Cambridge
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PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
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Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics and Centre Researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), University of Cambridge
