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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a Halloween visitor from the spooky Oort Cloud − the invisible bubble that’s home to countless space objects
The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the Sun and eight planets as it extends trillions of miles into deep space. The spherical shell known as ...
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World Mental Health Day: In Trinidad & Tobago, a call to deal with bullying after a student's suicide
Harassment at work affects mental health and quality of life. But what happens when “work” is school, harassment takes the form of bullying, and there's seemingly no place to turn?
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A Chinese mining company relocated a whole Peruvian town. Now, they are struggling to survive
In 2013, a Chinese mining company forcibly relocated a community of 5,000+ people in Peru. Ten years later, the community is living in poverty and the company has failed to honor its promises.
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Nobel Increases Pressure on States to Join Nuclear Weapons Ban
Click to expand Image Atomic bomb survivors from Japan rally opposite the United Nations in New York during a meeting of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, November 2023. © 2023 Darren ...
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Atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, reshaping global weather patterns
They can also melt sea ice, with global climate implications.
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Nobel peace prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group for its efforts to free the world of nuclear weapons
Luc-André Brunet, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary International History, The Open University The 2024 Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese grassroots organisation created ...
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I was a beta tester for the Nobel prize-winning AlphaFold AI – it’s going to revolutionise health research
AlphaFold, which has been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry, could pave the way for new treatments and drugs.
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New rights for UK workers are unlikely to put enough money in the pockets of those who need it
Much of her 20-year career had left her with reliable employment rights in the civil service. But having made a career change and moved to a small business, she was now reliant on statutory sick pay, ...
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Venezuela: Decisive action by UN Human Rights Council supports victims and signals at perpetrators that the world is watching them
Today, the UN Human Rights Council took a decisive step to address the spiraling human rights crisis in Venezuela. The global human rights body adopted a resolution renewing, for a period of two years ...
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Why the Cimarons are one of the greatest British bands of all time – as documentary Harder Than the Rock shows
Harder Than the Rock is a rollercoaster of a film that charts the highs and lows of the music business, as well as its precarious nature. But it also highlights the passion, commitment and humility ...
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Climate emergencies threaten our collective security, but governments are flying blind into the storm
These are major threats to our collective security that arise not from hostile intent – like terrorism or war – but as a result of human error, structural ...
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Tunisia’s young democracy flounders as its president wins a second term
There was tension hanging in the air as I walked through Tunisia’s capital city, Tunis, in July, just months before the country’s latest presidential election. The conversations I had in cafes and ...