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Returning bones to Madagascar doesn’t just right a colonial wrong: why a royal skull still has power
Royal relics in Madagascar confer legitimacy on rulers.
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The enduring mystery of Scotland’s medieval cannibals
The most famous Scottish cannibal was Sawney Bean, a 16th-century man who, with his wife and children, supposedly killed and ate travellers to the Ayrshire coast.
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The Medicines Patent Pool is improving access to essential medication where it’s most needed, but does it make economic sense?
Three economists explore the viability of a UN-backed one-stop licensing ‘hub’ for making essential, often life-saving biotherapeutics and vaccines both affordable and more widely available.
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Climate change is driving some entire communities to relocate – but simply moving isn’t enough
Researchers spoke to relocated people in India and Bangladesh to find out what worked.
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Ceuta’s border crisis is about geopolitics, not just migration
Why is a European border located on African soil? And why has the dispute about Ceuta and Spanish colonization remained unresolved for so long?
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Can science museums help us talk about mental health?
Across the world, science museums are beginning to join conversations and develop work about mental health.
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AI companies look to the ocean as a place to put more data centers
Moving servers into the ocean does not make underlying environmental challenges disappear. And it creates new concerns as well.
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US government is pushing to gain unprecedented access to your medical records – as data protections are weakening
Large datasets can be useful research tools, but current government efforts to gather medical records depend on policy and technology that falls short of protecting people’s privacy.
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Comedy shows and college mysteries – the best things to watch, visit and read this week
From the best bits of the Fringe to a thrilling new mystery series, these are our top picks of the week.
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Traffic-calming schemes are controversial – here’s why some succeed while others fail
In Portswood, bus users enjoyed reliable journeys and a calmer high street. But some residents faced longer and less convenient car journeys.
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Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza? It’s the media
ANALYSIS: By Robin Andersen In a Double Down News (DDN) video report, British filmmaker Richard Sanders begins a summary of a “horrific new [United Nations] report” with a listing of three atrocities committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian children. Sanders tells of an infant who was shot in the head while breastfeeding in his mother’s arms, a 16-year-old
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Inducements are at the centre of the government’s long-awaited gambling reform. What actually are they?
What are betting inducements, which are a key sticking point in the government’s gambling reform bill?