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A new study suggests that high blood-sugar levels are an effect rather than a cause of type 2 diabetes.
Diving without oxygen tanks requires you to enact some very weird and very strange and not all that well understood physiological feats just to stay alive.
Russia’s economy is flatlining and the reasons boil down to poor governance.
Three researchers studied the “crop raiders” of the Brazilian rainforest in the hope of aiding both local farmers and wildlife conservation.
Hawking wasn’t able to give his students a gentle introduction, but he did provide a lot of inspiration and support.
The politics may have changed over the years, but the literary obsessions of ‘northern Britain’ seem hard to shake.
Back in the Middle Ages, as well as speaking English and Latin, many people living in Britain also spoke French.
Homeless people are far more likely to suffer sleep deprivation with all its associated problems.
The NHS could be future-proofed by adopting a model from the Bank of England, according to a student-led commission.
Scientists have discovered sophisticated tools in Kenya that are much older than expected.
It’s not just about Brexit. Unilever’s decision makes good business sense, too.
Russia operates a system you might describe as ‘electoral authoritarianism’.
Stephen Hawking thought a form of string theory could be our best bet for a ‘theory of everything’.
A heritage landscape researcher used the work of a Victorian aerial photographer to map a century of glacial loss in the Alps – and the results are staggering.
Old retail might be dying in the West, but it’s been given new life in China.
Politics has been disrupted by the financial crisis and the rise of new technologies. Rapid change suddenly looks a lot more possible.
But the British soon got the hang of profanity.
New research shows that many adults across the world are financially illiterate and unable to complete even basic mathematical calculations.
The voices and work of leading Muslim women are proving to be pivotal in changing the landscape of gender, race and religious inequalities.
It would diminsh the value of Britain’s multilingualism, promote a monolingual ideology and discriminate against speakers of other languages.
New research has found a tipping point which pushes the probability of rugby player concussion above 50%.
Sound alerts on digital devices are often annoying, so we’ve tended to opt for silence. In future, that could hold us back.
Women with AIDS were excluded from the US definition of the syndrome until 1993. What’s changed?
The Liverpool comic scored with the third-highest selling single of the 1960s.