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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.
Conspiracy theories about mobile phone technology have been circulating since the 1990s and the imagined potential of radio waves to remote control a population.
Superbugs spread through the environment – and it needs urgent attention.
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.
A medieval historian and business studies expert discuss how pandemics past and present impact on big business.
A decade of no grazing has demonstrated positive effects on the richness of bird species.
More than 160 people across the UK have been keeping lockdown diaries as part of a new research project charting the pandemic.
London is an alpha city – home to 100 billionaires. But does wealth bring social costs?
A lot depends on China and India sharing the products of their pharmacuetical manufacturing with the rest of the world.
An audio version of an in depth article on the history of solitude.
There is a sad precedent of pandemic disease threatening the residents of care institutions – and of authorities not heeding the dangers.
To ‘preppers’ getting ready for a global cataclysm, the COVID-19 pandemic is a mere ‘mid-level’ event.
We can lock in these changes to build sustainable cities out of the coronavirus crisis – here’s how.
The second world war offers a possible blueprint for confronting the ventilator challenge.
The airline industry has faced many crises before. But these pale in comparison to the economic hit that airlines are currently facing.
Most people in the West are used to some form of solitude from time to time. But this is a fairly new normal.
We could use this crisis to rebuild, produce something better and more humane. But we may slide into something worse.
The consequences will be far more severe and long lasting in poorer countries.
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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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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Associate Professor, Queen's University Belfast
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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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