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In the Himalayas sandwiched between China and India there is a tiny country of around 800,000 people. You may never...
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Contemporary historians and anthropologists have adopted a different approach to answer the question. In fairness, today we have many more...
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! In 1818, Percy Shelley wrote...
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The Against Method Collective has put posters and manifestos up around campus, leafletted university buildings, and generated a slew of...
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It might not seem like a top priority when you have deadlines piling up and the shadowy figure of exams...
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Have you ever dreamt about being immortal? The desire of humankind to become eternal has been observed for centuries. Not...
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Following on from the great feedback we received for using reader artwork in previous issues, our Pictures Editor, Taryn Kalish, reached...
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Overshadowed by the remains of dinosaurs and hominids, the Cambrian period fossils tell the story of a revolution in evolution...
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The global energy landscape is changing dramatically and people are realising that our reliance on fossil fuels cannot last forever....
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Space has been designated as mankind’s province for all of civilisation. Many of our noblest and most technologically astounding pursuits...
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Ever since the enlightenment, humanity’s scientific progress has marched steadily forward. Famine, plague and two world wars have failed to...
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Thursday, 1st February 2018 didn’t come soon enough for some who took up the challenge of not drinking alcohol throughout...
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Science made headlines constantly in 2017, from the first report of a genetically modified human embryo to vast improvements in...
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We’ve all seen footage of sea birds with six-pack rings around their necks; of dolphins caught in discarded fishing nets;...
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Black Mirror returned to our screens this Christmas with a new season of six episodes eager to script our nightmares...
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Buzz Aldrin, formerly Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr, was born on 20 January 1930. This month the engineer, fighter pilot, and...
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One area that has recently brought about a lot of media attention is brain injury from sport, particularly the types...
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Science depends on international collaboration to prosper. This statement may not surprise you, but it was only in October of...
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Finding extra-terrestrial life on our nearest neighbour would be celebrated as one of the most important events of the last...
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I am a millennial. I have been since birth. As such, at the moment I received an email from the...
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Although we’re now searching for extraterrestrial life in other galaxies, there was once a time when we couldn’t even imagine...
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As Issue 38 of I, Science comes out Tuesday December 5th, get a cheeky flavour of Success in this special...
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Developments in science and technology continue to change the way individuals improve their overall health and wellness. From apps that can track...
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It is an undisputed fact that vast numbers of human beings enjoy wine the planet over. But knowledge of exactly...
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More than 20 years after his death, the American geochemist Clair Patterson is known for two achievements that would each...
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In a world where science is used to make most of the decisions about our lives, we still have an...
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Technology and health have been entwined throughout human history — discoveries in one lead to developments in the other. Now with...
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This is a Comment Piece and its views are exclusively those of the author. The free world stands at a...
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Trump vs. Science: In the pursuit of remerging as a self-sustained, global superpower, scientists allege policies based on "myth over...
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Thousands of scientists and organisations have been warning for years that even a small increase of global temperatures will trigger...
