In many animals, including humans, adverse events in youth have lasting negative health effects over the life span. But new research suggests something different is going on in mountain gorillas.
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Diagnosis is more than the medical process of identifying an illness. It’s a social agreement about what counts as disease and a storytelling tool to make sense of dysfunction.
Many older people tend to trim their social circles and focus their social efforts on family and close friends. New research on our close primate relatives may help explain why.
It’s endearing to think of these glamorous pink birds finding the friendship group they fit into. But navigating flamingo social lives can help with conservation too.
These influential people go on to work in roles that enable them to use their contacts from their old jobs.
Proponents of mining in space often point to the potential benefits for Earth and its people. But this research casts doubt on many of them.
Sexuality in Ancient Rome was more preoccupied with power dynamics than it was with gender – as an expert in visual cultures of sexuality explains.
Western Sahara remains largely under occupation and without any kind of international human rights monitoring.
For now there is little hope of a peace deal, but back-channel agreements show that Ukraine and Russia are at least talking.
Aux niveaux actuels d'émissions, il y a 50 % de chances que la planète atteigne la hausse de température moyenne mondiale de 1,5 ℃ dans les 9 ans à venir.
Pada tingkat emisi saat ini, ada 50% kemungkinan bumi akan mencapai kenaikan suhu rata-rata global 1,5℃ hanya dalam sembilan tahun.
Con los niveles actuales de emisiones, hay un 50 % de posibilidades de que el planeta alcance el 1,5 ℃ de aumento de la temperatura media global en sólo nueve años.
At current levels of emissions, there is a 50% chance the planet will reach the 1.5℃ global average temperature rise in just nine years.
Flickering light can make people see different colours and shapes or feel altered emotions or sense of time.
Friendships are formed all across the animal kingdom and the ways in which they resemble human ones may surprise you.
Moscow’s preoccupation with the war in Ukraine has opened up an opportunity for Azerbaijan to put military pressure on Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Gulls have a reputation for being the bad boys of the seaside.
The Ajaokuta steel plant stands unused after 40 years of construction and US$8 billion in investment.
Protecting green turtles is difficult because they perform some of the longest migrations known in the animal kingdom.
Every tenth of a degree makes climate change significantly worse.
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Lecturer Politics & Public Policy, University of Exeter
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter
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Professor, International Politics, University of Exeter
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter
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University of Exeter
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Senior Lecturer in History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, University of Exeter
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Senior Lecturer in Critical and Green Technology Metals, University of Exeter
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Lecturer, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology, University of Exeter
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Exeter
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Associate Research Fellow, University of Exeter
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PhD candidate, College of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of Exeter
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Lecturer, University of Exeter
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Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate, University of Exeter
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Lecturer in Promotional Media, University of Exeter
