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The cooling divide: how air conditioning is creating a new climate inequality
About 4% of UK homes have air conditioning, concentrated in wealthier households.
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Why Pope Leo has excommunicated a group of conservative Catholics
The schism reflects the deep divisions between conservative and progressive Catholics.
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Defence investment plan should make the UK more secure – but it will need to find the money from somewhere
Efficiency savings can be easier to find on paper than to achieve in real life.
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The politics of feeling: why did ‘boring’ prime minister Keir Starmer provoke such visceral reactions?
In the post-2008 world, the political climate is often determined by emotion rather than ideology.
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Nanobubbles cleaned up the Lincoln reflecting pool: here’s how they could be used on dying seas and lakes
Made internationally famous by their use to clean up the Lincoln Memorial pool in Washington, this tech is starting to be used globally.
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A brief history of human pain
While pain may be universal, our experience of it is anything but.
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Ukraine war sparks fears of an organised crime resurgence in Russia
Ukraine war likely to reinforce transformation to criminal networks that are more professional, militarised and embedded within state structures.
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Why Antarctica froze millions of years before the Arctic – new research
New solutions to two interlinked mysteries reveal how and why the Antarctic’s enormous ice sheet formed.
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New research challenges the idea that memories of childhood maltreatment can’t be trusted
A major new analysis of nearly 40,000 people finds memories of childhood abuse and neglect stay remarkably stable over time.
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70 years on from the killer smog: what clean air laws teach us about power, pollution and profit
Economic interests have shaped society’s response to pollution. Now, policy needs to align with the scientific evidence to clean up our air.