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My passion for earthworms and ecology led me to continuing Darwin’s experiments in his own ‘back garden’
Stereotypes can creep in if ‘culturally sensitive’ robots are not designed with great care.
Over the past decade, I have documented the erosion of India’s once robustly democratic legal system as part of Prime Minister Modi’s ‘authoritarian playbook’
Unlike the risks from AI’s capabilities, the economic risks from new technologies are knowable and can be mitigated
This is the moment of truth. John’s story is no longer trapped in the clinical pages of a case file. ‘I’ve lost everything,’ he says. ‘I might as well be dead.’
Despite the relentless hardships and suffering, one thing appeared to unite the refugees I met: they wanted to seek sanctuary in the UK, no matter what.
The crisis in NHS dentistry is driving increasing numbers abroad for treatment. Here are some of their stories.
We envisage a future in which sleep is a routine target for reducing or preventing symptoms of mental illness, both in psychiatric settings and people’s homes
Historian and complexity scientist, Dan Hoyer, examines why past societies collapsed when faced with crisis, while others founds ways to survive and flourish.
As Elon Musk’s Neuralink begins inserting chips into human brains, we trace the history of ‘mind reading’ technology and assess the potential risks and rewards
Cobalt is a critical component in the production of batteries, smartphones, jet engines and electric vehicles. Yet miners who risk their lives digging it up receive almost none of the profits.
As the Holocaust passes out of living memory, such embodied memorialisation ensures people will still talk about what happened.
Years of political turbulence, economic shocks and the failure to ‘level up’ as pledged have turned English devolution into a key political and constitutional issue
Corporate and political actors know more about how our minds work than we do. The right to free thought can no longer be our ‘forgotten freedom’
Our research has identified four main barriers that stopped hundreds of sub-postmasters speaking out for so long.
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Fire is a social equality issue. Amid fresh concerns over rogue landlords and dangerous overcrowding, why have calls for change gone unheeded for so long?
Research decisions made by clinical psychologists in the 1970s can help explain why so many people, myself included, struggle to make sense of our obsessional thoughts.
The public are ambivalent about their medical data going to private companies, and missteps could erode vital trust.
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Professor of Modern History, University of Bristol
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Professor of Social History, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Winchester
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Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Work, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey
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Professor of Psychology in Epidemiology, UCL
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Professor Emeritus of Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Manchester and a Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of Oxford
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Visiting Researcher,, University of Oxford
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
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Associate Professor, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Neurology, UCL
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Lecturer in Sociology, Deputy Director of the Centre for Ageing and the Life Course, University of Liverpool
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Professor in Modern History, University of Birmingham
