Exploration of ancient magma chambers in fossil volcanoes has the potential to provide new sources of metals that will facilitate environmentally friendly technologies.
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The physiology underlying mother-infant bonding can help us understand the connections between positive relationships and health.
Once they faced extinction, now barnacle geese are thriving and adapting to climate change by finding new feeding grounds.
You wouldn’t think a kazoo could tell you much about the origins of language. But you’d be wrong.
Had the EU eliminated all subsidies between 2010 and 2017, its emissions would have been 9% lower over the period and governments across the EU would have saved US$441 billion.
Diving animals are incredible athletes.
Fish that live in the sea have found amazing ways to control the amount of water and salt in their bodies, and stay hydrated.
Putting all of our eggs in the net zero basket is merely kicking the can down the road.
Pledges on gender parity are not worth the paper they are written on if selection processes remain secret.
Hong Kong’s protesters like many Brexiters seek political freedom – but this may come at a heavy price.
Wolves are not bad – they’re just trying to survive in a world where they are unwelcome.
Annie Ernaux est restée longtemps une illustre inconnue dans la plupart des pays anglophones. Mais cette injustice est en passe d’être réparée, grâce à la traduction récente de deux de ses œuvres.
From the Archives: Ernaux’s English translation, Happening, has come to be seen as one of the great pieces of writing about abortion.
While everyone frets about the fate of big corporates, the little ones are growing agitated.
Climate change is an emergency which will hurt the planet’s most vulnerable people – the only irrational response is cool detachment.
The pressure in the deepest part of the ocean can be 1,000 times greater than the pressure we experience at sea level – but creatures that live and visit there have some very special features.
When it comes to riots, UK politicians need to acknowledge the real root causes, and address key issues such as failures in community policing.
Humans are social animals who like to communicate and copy each other. But key to this collective intelligence is flexibility and a little non-conformity.
Exactly 150 years after Mendeleev’s classic formulation, it’s time for one for the resource-hungry 21st century.
For all the attractions of little dwellings, there are some drawbacks that need to be factored in.
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Associate lecturer in international relations, University of St Andrews
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Associate Researcher in Biology, 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, 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
