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A century since chlorine gas was used at Ypres, beginning the era of chemical weapons, controlling lethal agents is harder than ever.
While the SNP’s manifesto is rather thin on immigration pledges, it does make a proposal to attract more international students – a group Scotland needs badly.
If Israel’s right-wing government hadn’t tried to shut Arab parties out of the Knesset, it might be doing better in the election now.
It’s the satellite you probably didn’t know that Earth has. If we could land on it, it could be pretty useful
Israel will hold an early general election on March 17. The campaign is already in full swing – and it is not confined to Israel’s borders. In the wake of anti-Semitic attacks in Copenhagen. This has infuriated…
Norway’s petroleum sector is its most important industry. The petroleum sector accounts for 21.5% of its GDP, and almost half (48.9%) of total exports. In 2013 Norway was ranked the 15th-largest oil producer…
Israel’s Knesset has voted to dissolve itself, and a general election is due to be held on March 17 2015. Binyamin Netanyahu’s third government was a fractious one from the start, with many coalition members…
Great tits are opportunistic copycats. Entire populations can be found performing the same arbitrary behaviour simply because birds copy one another, following a fashion. And it’s this behaviour, reported…
The medical school at the University of St Andrews in Scotland is among those that still dissects human cadavers. Each year we allocate one body to between 12 and 15 undergraduates in first, second and…
Belarus and Moldova are two former-Soviet states which have moved in very different directions since the end of the Cold War. Moldova has looked firmly west, but struggled to escape Russia’s influence…
Anxiety over the crisis in eastern Ukraine has ratcheted in recent days amid claims of an effective Russian invasion, and warnings of NATO making a 4000-troop reaction force available to the region. As…
Israel’s assault on Gaza has drawn international condemnation, sparked outraged protests around the world, and even roused talk of war crimes from the United Nations. But despite the onslaught of death…
When commercial whaling was banned in 1986 it put an end to a harvest that threatened the existence of some of the most majestic animals on Earth. With several species reduced to tiny fractions of their…
An elephant that supposedly cried tears when it was being rescued from an abusive home where it had been captive for 50 years created much excitment on social media. The experience of being cut loose from…
I recently wrote a piece for The Conversation in which I argued that for several important reasons, an independent Scotland would not be worse off than it is now – contrary to the views of a majority of…
A large majority of independent professional economists believe Scotland would not be better off if it were independent, according to a recent survey. A smaller majority believe the rest of the UK would…
Crickets are nothing if not noisy, but populations on two Hawaiian islands have embraced silence by rapidly losing sound-producing wing structures to avoid infestation by deadly fly larvae. In Current…
In Aesop’s fable of the boy who cried wolf, the boy warns farmers of imaginary wolves threatening their flocks just to laugh at the sight of them running to the rescue for no reason. Of course, when the…
A collaboration between historians, text mining, and information visualisation researchers has thrown up new insight into the hunger for sugar, coffee and rubber in the 19th century, as well as how fat…
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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
