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From the halcyon days of Louis XIV, the French global seat of power was soon pulled down by corruption, elitism and arbitrary rule. Sound familiar?
Farmers were supposed to bet big on energy crops like short-rotation willow to help fuel the UK’s biomass fleet. It hasn’t worked out like that.
The number of people who identify with a religion is declining, but that doesn’t mean it’s on its way out.
In a world of blogs, twitter and open data, scientists need to think again about how they’d communicate a discovery of alien life.
Boris Johnson says so. But the reality about EU minimum wages and the effect on migration is more subtle.
Here’s how they could revolutionise science.
There are gains to be made from going green.
Israeli politicians have become obsessed with their country’s global image – and they’re shoring it up by cracking down on the debate at home.
The road to radicalisation can morph from an idea about noble deeds.
Their structures and funding give them scope and access that others don’t have, but foundations also lack accountability.
Be careful: many of us have tried at least two of them.
Was it a UFO? Was it a high-tech plane? Here’s what lucky people really saw over Scotland on February 29.
In ancient times, they were the shrines and ritual sites to the Greek gods. These days, they’re astonishingly unloved and neglected.
The British do love a scientist on their money, as RBS’s new choice of Mary Somerville for the £10 confirms. Is it time we thought out of the box?
Getting tellurium and phosphorus to form a molecule is stupidly hard and not very glamorous. Here’s why it’s worth the effort.
For better or for worse, various countries around the world charted a new course last year. What lies ahead for 2016?
You might be forgiven for wondering if there’s any connection between ITV’s Jekyll and Hyde and Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella other than the title.
Spain’s most controversial sport has been in strife lately. But anthropologist Robin Irvine explains why a year working on a bull-breeding estate made him optimistic for its future.
They’re good, they’re bad and they’re useful: we are still discovering what we can do with plant viruses.
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Associate lecturer in international relations, University of St Andrews
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Research Fellow, Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews
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Associate lecturer in the school of art history, St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies, University of St Andrews
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PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews
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Lecturer in Finance, University of St Andrews
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Lecturer, University of St Andrews
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astrophysics, University of St Andrews
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Visiting Scholar, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews
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PhD Student, University of St Andrews
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Lecturer, Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews
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Gifford Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, University of St Andrews
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Senior Researcher, School of Geography and the Environmen, University of Oxford, and Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews
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Professor of Practice in International Relations, University of St Andrews
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PhD Candidate, School of Modern Languages and Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews
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Professor, University of St Andrews
