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A lost album by the late Prince, set for release in 2023, promises to highlight how the pop pioneer played with gender roles.
To understand the potential for machine learning to transform medicine, we must go back to the controversial origins of data use in healthcare
The Conversation’s long reads editors choose some of their favourite reads of the year.
There are around 200 supervised injection facilities around the world but the UK government remains opposed to their introduction
Nurses describe what it is like to work on the NHS frontline – and what the cost is to them.
In contrast to their depiction in most mafia films, women are an integral part of these groups with their own criminal knowledge and capacity for violence
Most young people regard reining in the big social media platforms as only part of the solution to the ‘relentless stream’ of abuse and shaming they experience online
New data mapping death sentences in the Gulf states once again highlights Qatar’s questionable human rights record.
In England and Wales perpetrators of one of the gravest violent crimes, which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, are very unlikely to receive any punishment at all
Ruth Itzhaki has spent more than 30 years researching whether certain common viruses play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s. But for years her research was greeted with hostility.
Researchers spoke to families of athletes who had suffered from traumatic brain injuries during their sporting careers.
The gravity of the current situation is obscuring a less visible crisis – a failure of political imagination
Just months after the end of the second world war, the longest running study of health over the human life course in the world began – and it’s still going.
New research shows the region’s arts organisations were a critical source of support for vulnerable people during lockdown
A podcast and long read series exploring new research into the brain and dementia.
From more accurate climate modelling to the prospect of truly creative computers, the brain’s use of noise has a lot to teach us.
The discovery of a photograph of my grandmother perched on a bicycle holding a rifle was the first of many revelations about her life.
A cultural collaboration with deafblind people led to the development of a high-tech device to help navigate their world post-lockdown
The caves now serve as important safe spaces in an area designated ‘Firing Zone 918’ by Israel, as residents describe a growing wave of forced evictions and building demolitions.
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