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What makes the ideal digital icon? A psychologist explains
To the designer Susan Kare, designing icons was about solving ‘the little puzzle of making an image fit a metaphor’. Forty years later, that challenge remains.
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Does screen time mean children are missing out on play?
Different play experiences may provide different developmental opportunities.
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Seaweed farming offers climate benefits, but regulatory gaps pose risks
Seaweed aquaculture is attracting attention, but improved oversight is needed to prevent ecological impacts.
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Malawi’s education choices in the wake of aid cuts
USAID’s closure, while painful and damaging, might give rise to a new arrangement beyond aid.
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Money, food and survival: what drives paid sex among young mums in 3 African countries
Programmes to address transactional sex need to be customised. The drivers change from country to country.
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A safe AI strategy for Canadian youth should include age-associated risks
Research on generative AI use among youth pinpoints design features that pose age-specific risks, which must be addressed before we adopt genAI into our schools and homes.
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Does the United Kingdom need a new Winston Churchill?
With Keir Starmer, the 5th British prime minister in ten years now sitting in an ejector seat, the nation is dreaming of a “new Churchill”, but is this the ideal...
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News is changing dramatically – here’s what the move away from mainstream media means for you as a consumer
Setting up shop outside mainstream news organisations and using social media platforms allows for greater creative and financial control.
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Why LGBTQ+ patients are paying for gaps in fertility care
For LGBTQ+ patients having a baby can mean extra hurdles, costs and longer journey because clinics and funding rules are still built around heterosexual families.
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Rural areas lag behind in cancer treatment and prevention – even as rich, urban areas increasingly leave dying from cancer in the rearview
Cancer deaths in the US have dropped steeply since 1991. But the medical and public health advances leading to these declines have been concentrated among high-income areas.