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Teachers are increasingly being encouraged to take mindfulness courses so that they can begin teaching it to pupils.
Catch 22 as seen by George Clooney is just far too good looking.
Why you shouldn’t be afraid: it won’t steal our jobs or destroy the environment.
Air conditioning requires energy, and contributes to global warming – here are five ways of cooling which won’t cost the planet.
Fossils contain a thriving world of bacteria, proteins and perhaps even organic matter from dinosaurs.
If you think English footy fans have it hard losing in the semis in far away away tournaments, imagine being French and losing the Tour de France on your home turf every year.
What is Boris Johnson’s Brexit plan?
Already heat-stressed countries will see the largest absolute increases in humid-heat and have the least ability to adapt.
Young people with gender dysphoria have high rates of mental health issues which makes conducting ethical research trials complex.
He has picked his cabinet and purged his critics … what now?
You could jump much higher on the moon than you can on Earth – but you’d be in no danger of shooting off into space.
Faced with open and hidden prejudice, some British Muslims downplay their difference in public in order to succeed.
Listen up, conspiracy theorists – it is virtually impossible that there could be alien visitors on Earth.
Brexit should not be Johnson’s sole focus if he wants to re-engage the disaffected voters he’ll need to bring on side in a general election.
A survey by the Commission for Countering Extremism revealed many don’t feel able to define extremism – or found the government’s definition helpful.
Self-sacrifice isn’t all about selfish genes.
Even the remote open ocean offers no escape from industrial fishing for sharks.
Britain’s new prime minister has spoken … now he needs to act.
The head of Google’s Quantum AI Labs, Hartmut Neven, claims the current speed of development means a quantum computing breakthrough is near.
Scientists looked at thousands of studies to see how animals were adapting to higher temperatures.
It seems like an easy question, until you take a closer look. Then things get messy.
Why swimmers are protesting against China’s Sun Yang at the World Championships.
There is little evidence that pads alone will keep girls in school – stigma, lack of appropriate infrastructure, and embarrassment need to be dealt with too.
Instead of trying to explain the mystifying mathematics behind how algorithms work, this researcher started looking at how they actually ‘see’ the world we live in.