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Derbyshire police’s male-voice choir is out of tune with the modern world in refusing to admit women.
Racist behaviour in universities manifests itself in nuanced and covert ways.
A mythical Amazonia of lost tribes or lost cities is easy to challenge on a factual basis, but such objections appear rather feeble in the face of the power of cliché.
Companies should abide by a set of principles in their engagement in schools to ensure they provide accurate and positive portrayals of menstruation.
Cleaning up the oceans will require much better waste management in poorer countries.
Rhino resurrection is tempting, but if humans cannot save a species in nature, what future for animals that we manufacture?
It’s time programmers looked out old computer text adventures like Zork and Colossal Cave from the 1970s and 1980s.
There have been more than 50 murders in London already in 2018, and more in February and March than in New York.
The good news to this disturbing figure is that a strategy is in place to address some serious problems, including an end to child poverty by 2030.
Upsy Daisy and the Tombliboos are finely tuned in to the developing minds of toddlers.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has finally brought privacy concerns about personal online data to the masses – and action is urgently needed.
Humans are already imposing our barely understood sexual ethic upon machines.
How Vladimir Putin is using hostility towards Russia to bolster his own position at home.
More than 70% of female students, and 26% of male students, have experienced sexual violence while at university.
A long read on how science’s dark imperial past still shapes research today – and what to do about it.
A new study challenges the established view of what dark matter is.
Arts on prescription are changing the way we treat health problems.
The human spine can withstand heavy lifting, according to the latest research.
It’s time we changed our stereotype of the brutish, thuggish Neanderthals, and instead start viewing them with the respect they really deserve.
It’s all too easy to miss the point about sex work in areas hit by conflict and disaster. How about listening to the people who experience it?
There could be thousands of black holes at the heart of the Milky Way.
Ethical review is often seen as a barrier to research and innovation within universities, but it can be constructive. More attention should be paid to the potential benefits of the process.
Spotify chose an unconventional route for its listing on the New York Stock Exchange. But its gutsy move will be a worry for the banks and doesn’t guarantee a net benefit for the company.
Is being polite a commonly understood idea or is rudeness in the eye of the beholder?