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From industrial powerhouse to uncertain future: lessons from Britain’s chemical industry
Three decades after ICI was broken up in the clamour for a knowledge economy, UK chemicals output is down 60% in five years.
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Four foods with ancient roots that we still eat on Bonfire Night
The ritualised burning of the debris of the year can be dated back to pre-Christian times. Food was always an important part of the merrymaking.
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Jonathan Swift foresaw the pitfalls of AI in Gulliver’s Travels
On Gulliver’s third travel he meets the Projectors who have come up with a device that is surprisingly similar to our modern large language models.
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Canada-EU alliance: as a blueprint for a ‘middle-power bloc’ it has a lot of hurdles to overcome
The EU can’t agree what sort of relationship it wants with Canada.
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From Wales to Finland, minority language speakers still face prejudice
Research with Welsh-speaking families reveals a generational shift, while experiences in Finland show the problem is not unique to Wales.
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Climate change is killing hundreds of thousands – a kidney specialist’s concerns
The 2026 Lancet Countdown reveals the growing health toll of extreme heat, while references to climate and health in UN speeches have declined.
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When government fails, who helps citizens get answers? How South Africa’s community developers bridge the gap
Community developers make a complicated state easier for citizens to navigate – and community experiences harder for government to overlook.
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Farming subsidies in Zimbabwe do help spread crop risk, but impact on income is limited – research
Households with certain assets can diversify into activities that produce higher incomes.
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Can democracy be taught? Brazil is about to find out
Brazil has just made civic education compulsory in schools. Whether it takes hold will depend less on the law than on what happens in the classroom.
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Meta’s $25B fine left out accountability for the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal
A New Mexico judge’s fine hit Meta for deception about the data privacy violations, not for the harm they caused. A researcher who helped uncover the scandal explains.
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Nearly 7 in 10 professors report being bullied, often by students over grades
The rates are similar to high-stress workplaces like emergency services.
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As it gets harder to figure out what to eat, some Americans are turning to religion for answers
A scholar spent time with 4 alternative food movements to explore how religious Americans are choosing a ‘moral’ diet.