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Body-focused repetitive behaviours are related to obsessive compulsive disorder. You can stop the picking, pulling and biting.
Tom Ratz
New research into beetles shows larvae are stronger and grow better when raised by two parents working together than a single parent working alone.
Pygmies in the Dzanga-Sangha Forest Reserve, Central African Republic.
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Somewhere along our evolutionary path, we lost the ability to defend against hepatitis C. But not all humans lost this ability.
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Using lasers to trap and move particles changed the way we’re able to study microscopic life.
Are we clear?
Olekskliy Mark
You think you’re receiving tablets of stone, but really they’re more like custard.
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Scotland’s commitment to providing all students with free monthly supplies is showing the world how period poverty can be tackled.
Balls.
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If you think first past the post or the alternative vote can sort this out, dream on.
Mombasa passenger station using Chinese-built and funded trains.
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The Belt and Road Initiative will not be starting entirely from scratch. China has already invested heavily in several African railways.
A community built tree nursery in Chikwawa District, Malawi is one example of sustainability in action.
Deepa Pullanikkatil
Without contextual knowledge, education and adaptation, foreign or imposed practices or resources cause new sets of problems.
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Scientists have used ‘tree rings’ in coral to identify centuries of stress.
Listening and learning during a Sustainable Futures in Action meeting in Kampala, Uganda.
Molly Gilmour
Without change, the trajectory of growth and development in the world will remain consistent with that of the past 80 years.
Scotland’s fruitpicking industry relies on migrant labour.
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Like many other parts of the UK, Scotland faces problems in attracting a migrant workforce that is crucial to the country’s future prosperity.
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The best team to lift the trophy was Brazil’s star-studded 1970 team.
The distinctive fan-shaped roof of the O2 venue, caved in during the fire that also destroyed Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building.
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The loss of a one-time panorama building, reminds us how these 360° viewing experiences transformed the way people saw the world.
A date with destiny: Donald Trump and Anthony Kennedy.
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In 1987, Anthony Kennedy was nominated to end a titanic Supreme Court fight. Could his putative successor trigger another one?
Back to the drawing board: the proposed copyright reform is unworkable.
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A new copyright reform law has many up in arms – they want you to do something about it before it comes up for a vote.
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Often portrayed as an old plodding cart house, can the TUC become agile again?
Man the lifeboats!
Miriam Doerr Martin Fromherz
The new coalition’s spending plans will ramp up Italy’s annual budget by over €100 billion a year.
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Two separate studies have concluded that fracking was the likely cause of a fault line rupture, precipitating the 5.5 earthquake.
David Goodall a day before his assisted death in Switzerland.
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David Goodall had a good life and he wanted a good death, even though he wasn’t terminally ill. An end-of-life expert explains why he should have this right.