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It is worth remembering that sleep ‘crises’ are far from new.
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Conventional approaches to assessing the impact of cameras on collisions may be overoptimistic.
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A history of Ayurvedic medical concepts is being exhibited at London’s Wellcome Collection.
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Incontinence is frighteningly common.
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Everyone knows that plastic waste is an environmental problem. So let’s get creative with it.
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The very existence of kindness and altruism seems to contradict Darwin’s theory of evolution. So how could kind behaviour have evolved?
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It seems almost inevitable that deep sea mining will open a new and substantial chapter of humanity’s relationship with the oceans.
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How can we sort out the crisis of contemporary democracy?
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It’s as if Socrates’ remark that ‘the trees teach me nothing’ is very much still the attitude today.
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We need to delve into the mucky complexities of fats, oils and greases in and beyond the home.
Biomedical innovations can work with traditional methods like x-rays to guide doctors’ decisions.
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African countries need to start producing and developing their own medical devices. Suitably skilled biomedical engineers are needed for this sort of innovation to take root.
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Throughout history, metaphors based around the testes and semen brought out very different sides of masculinity.
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Humans aren’t alone in wanting to take revenge – some animals like to get their own back too.
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University degrees perform the same function in 2017 as indulgences did in 1517.
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Devoting all energies to fight over an imaginary border deflects attention from the real issues.
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Why do roboticists dream of electric women?
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People working in caring professions are not superhuman.
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Huge hunks of meat and energy inefficient cooking methods make the Sunday roast a particularly unsustainable meal.
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The prospect of attempting to engineer the world’s climate has become a lot more real since the Paris Agreement.
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Choreographers could offer engineers tools to stimulate new ideas in city-making.