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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.
Our prospects of a better, fairer future are inextricably linked with the minerals and metals beneath our feet. Is it time to make peace with the industry that extracts them?
BirthStrike offers a salutary lesson about how core messages can be misconstrued and misunderstood when put through a high-profile media lens.
As an anthropologist, I have chronicled the digital nomad lifestyle for the past seven years. The reality is far less glamorous than you might imagine
With a formidable Kremlinologist in charge and Donald Trump out of the presidential picture, has the CIA regained its influence amid the ‘new cold war’?
Amid the global threats posed by climate change, spiralling energy costs, insecure employment and widening inequality, the need to rethink our notion of progress is now an urgent priority.
DRC has the highest number of allegations of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers – yet no systematic research on the claims of their abandoned children has existed until now.
A double agent who operated for the CIA and the Dutch security service against the Stasi tells his story for the first time.
Pioneered by the Human Cell Atlas consortium, our understanding of the human body is about to be transformed – and with it, the way we treat and prevent disease
An Africa-based conservation expert explains why trophy hunting has not delivered for wildlife in most parts of Africa, and that local communities benefit next to nothing from its continued practice
The tax exemptions enjoyed by the UK’s charitable private schools are estimated to equate to 6% of England’s annual state school budget
Archival documents show that in the 1980s, British education officials refused to engage with Muslim communities about funding faith-based schooling.
Many primary school PE lessons have been outsourced to private sports contractors, resulting in the ‘deskilling’ of a generation of teachers.
Our net zero story has been recognised with a journalism award from Covering Climate Now, a 460-strong media partnership focused on driving coverage of the climate crisis.
Two years ago, the Recovery trial transformed COVID treatments around the world with a landmark finding that may have saved a million lives in just nine months
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Professor of Psychology in Epidemiology, UCL
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Professor of Social History, The Open University
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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 Research Associate in History, St Benet's College, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Winchester
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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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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
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Associate Professor, Queen's University Belfast
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Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Neurology, UCL
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Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor, Monash University. Professorial Fellow, Melbourne University, Monash University
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Professor of Behavioural Ecology, UCL
