Prevention and cure.
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Just 60 minutes a week can have a very positive effect.
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Make that winter dram an intellectual one.
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It’s time for the left-leaning media to come off the fence.
Black hole Cygnus X.
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A sudden flare and cooling of gas around a black hole has enabled astronomers to measure the magnetic field of a black hole for the first time – finding it much weaker than expected.
IVF.
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Some social groups are falling through the gaps of fertility data. Men, ethnic minorities and the LGBT community have explicitly been excluded from surveys.
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British citizens are currently protected by the EU if their government fails them. That will no longer be the case after they leave the union.
Thunderstorm in New Mexico.
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Climate change can not be managed from a global perspective alone.
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Britain is not a good country in which to be born poor.
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Winter has once again brought severe air pollution to the Indian capital.
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Residents may be right to fear for their lives.
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The British government may reverse a 50-year-old railway policy.
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Current plans to eradicate polio mean keeping the virus alive – and risk restarting the epidemic.
The author’s dog, Zipper, as a puppy.
Emily Birch
The average owner spends between £21,000 and £33,000 on their dog in its lifetime.
Is it in his genes?
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New research offers insight into a thorny issue.
Saleh had been at the centre of Yemeni politics for four decades.
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Yemen now needs a new kind of politics where its people must be allowed to make their own future.
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The risks of big data are not getting enough attention.
Polish refugees in 1939.
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Then as now, volunteer groups are stepping in where governments won’t.
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The city is key to both Israeli and Palestinian identity.
The Wdowiak Ridge on Mars as seen by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
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Clay on early Mars could have formed under hot and steamy conditions, challenging the idea that it was created just like that on Earth.
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DeepMind’s machine learning collaboration with another NHS trust (this time, it’s applying the tech to breast cancer) kicks up more questions of trust.
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More than half of the global population do not have safe sanitation. What is the best way to go about changing this?
Ready to pop?
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An analysis of Bitcoin’s fundamentals shows how much of a bubble its price has inflated to.
Check mate.
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The latest episode of The Conversation's In Depth, Out Loud podcast, in which we read out a selection of long form stories.
Shepard’s sketches helped build the bear.
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Milne and Shepard were a classic partnership of children’s literature.
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Changing sexual mores can be tracked by watching the way 007 flirts with Moneypenny and the way she reacts.