This month Sweden built the first road that charges electric vehicles as they drive.
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Sweden’s smart road allows electric cars to charge in motion. But alternative technologies might be a better option.
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Most recreational users get their drugs from ‘social suppliers’. Law enforcement should concentrate on organised crime instead.
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Why does childcare work have such a status problem in Britain?
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Yet plastic itself isn’t inherently evil as sometimes the environmental benefits outweigh the costs. So how to tell good plastic from bad?
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The problem of antimicrobial resistance won’t go away as long as people in poor countries don’t have access to clean water.
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The BBC’s adaptation flopped in 2000. But times have changed.
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New research finds more CO₂ can actually make most plants smaller in the long-term - but the story for crops isn’t so simple.
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New research shows the Bajau Laut people of Southeast Asia have evolved bigger spleens to store more oxygen-rich blood.
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One in 20 young people are both cyberbully and victim.
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The audio version of an in depth article from The Conversation, which explores how antisemitism today is carved from and sustained by powerful precedents and inherited stereotypes.
Daryll Rowe.
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Cases like Daryll Rowe’s are very rare, but they have the power to transform both the law and public opinion.
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Character, resilience, convenience and sustainability are what make cities great places to live and learn.
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To understand how a new world war might play out, it’s important to remember just how powerful the US really is.
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We shouldn’t save play for the playground.
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Facebook is not just in the business of providing you with a service. It is also in the business of farming your data.
How long has this been here?
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From genes to wounds, science is making it easier to establish the order of events in criminal cases.
Stephen Lawrence’s murder eventually led to major police reforms.
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The murder of Lawrence opened the eyes of the British public to the reality of violent racism.
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Official advice to prediabetics on the best diet to avoid type 2 diabetes suggests that there is only one option. The latest research suggests otherwise.
Who runs the world?
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Russian domestic policy helps explain why women are happy to buy into new feminine ideals.
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A study has revealed how former Armed Forces personnel can get ignored and mistreated by an unsympathetic social security system.
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25 years ago, the Waco siege became a symbol of government attacks on religious and civil liberties.
Macedonian Slavic wedding in the Prespes region in the border between Greece and FYR Macedonia.
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For the Greek government, having people speaking Macedonian Slavic in its territory did not sit well with its national ideology.
The absolute best at international intervention, believe him. So, so good at intervening.
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Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron and Theresa May all have something to prove at home by bombing Syria.
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New research has found a way to speed up enzymes that break down the PET plastic in bottles.
I am robot.
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It is time we talked about one of the most unsung motifs in American fiction.