The Zimovs take some permafrost depth readings.
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The Zimovs want to restore the prehistoric ‘mammoth steppe’ ecosystem and see if it slows down – or even reverses – melting permafrost.
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Experts from France, Spain and the UK explain how Europe should respond to a rise in coronavirus cases.
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New scientific research reveals how Thomas Cromwell’s Machiavellian manoeuvring influenced his own depiction on the front of The Great Bible.
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An evolutionary psychologist, politics expert and sustainability scientist discuss the potential for humanity to plan for the long term future.
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What if the being responsible for creating our world wasn’t God, but some far lesser, far more fallible being like a scientist or video game designer?
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This is the story of ‘Misha’, as I have come to know her. Both I and my research have been deeply affected by a polar bear I have never met face to face.
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Seventy-five years ago, the first atomic bomb exploded and a new world dawned.
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Frustrated by the inability to get good internet, a rural village decided to dig a superfast connection in themselves.
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The future of periods could be sustainable and cheap – but action is needed.
A cutting edge new research project is developing Lego-like bricks made from biomaterials to replace bone fragments in shattered limbs.
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Conspiracy theories about mobile phone technology have been circulating since the 1990s and the imagined potential of radio waves to remote control a population.
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Superbugs spread through the environment – and it needs urgent attention.
Charles Dickens in his study at Gad’s Hill Place in Kent, where he died in 1870.
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PODCAST: An audio version of an in depth article on what newly discovered documents reveal about the burial of Charles Dickens, 150 years after his death.
The Triumph of Death, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562.
A medieval historian and business studies expert discuss how pandemics past and present impact on big business.
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A decade of no grazing has demonstrated positive effects on the richness of bird species.
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More than 160 people across the UK have been keeping lockdown diaries as part of a new research project charting the pandemic.
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London is an alpha city – home to 100 billionaires. But does wealth bring social costs?
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A lot depends on China and India sharing the products of their pharmacuetical manufacturing with the rest of the world.
Alone or lonely?
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An audio version of an in depth article on the history of solitude.
Cholera would often turn its victims’ skin a bluish grey.
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There is a sad precedent of pandemic disease threatening the residents of care institutions – and of authorities not heeding the dangers.