Blast off.
Sergey Nivens
Nearly 50 years since the first man walked on the moon, our morals are still stranded on Earth.
Home alone.
Heider Almeida
More homes, more homes, more homes. What about less elbow room instead?
Protesting in Berlin.
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Not the sort of amount you’d want to lose down the back of the sofa.
Giuseppe Conte, Italy’s new prime minister, will lead a government of populists.
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Populist politics can only be sustained if the reality of international co-operation is conveniently set aside.
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The large human brain has been thought to result from social demands. But new research challenges this idea.
Laser illumination in a light-sheet fluorescence microscope.
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Shaped light enables deeper imaging of biological samples under the microscope and avoids damage to the tissue.
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A podcast on intuition: from how it works in the body, to how to harness it, and the story of two scientists who followed a hunch – about quantum biology.
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Cannes is not so much a festival for new films and talent as a closed shop for the film industry’s elite.
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Indigenous communities lived in the Amazon for thousands of years without chopping down their forests.
Barking.
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The politics may have changed over the years, but the literary obsessions of ‘northern Britain’ seem hard to shake.
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Period product brands may appear all ‘woke’ and taboo busting, but we shouldn’t forget they helped create the taboos in the first place.
Road to nowhere?
Sergio Delle Vedove
Divine inspiration was at the centre of music for thousands of years – until post-war conservatoires got other ideas.
Chamonix used the Winter Games to cement its reputation as a ski destination.
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What’s in a name? Chamonix-Mont-Blanc was quick to harness the first Winter Olympics for its economic potential.
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An animal behaviour expert gives his view on finding that a killer whale can copy the sound ‘hello’.
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After the most recent elections, Catalonia’s secessionist coalition is free to form a government. But their president is still exiled in Belgium.
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It looks like the economists who warned of the potential damage to UK businesses due to Brexit were correct.
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The harassment at the Presidents Club Charity Dinner was horrible. Here are three lessons from moral philosophy on how to avoid it happening again.
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Wealth managers are playing an increasing role in determining what social causes are funded and how.
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The end of net neutrality in the US does not mean the rest of the world will follow – and there’s plenty of evidence that demonstrates continued commitment to open access.
Mars seen by Viking.
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If we find microbes on Mars, it will be difficult to exclude the possibility that we have accidentally brought them there from Earth.