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If you think your toddler’s often ill, you’re right – what going to nursery means for catching colds and building immunity

There’s no nice way to put it: small children are snotty. A research study that tested children for multiple respiratory viruses every week for a year found that under-fives are carrying one or more viruses 50% of the time. A child aged 15 months will have 12-15 colds per year…

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How moss could help roads cope with heavy rain and reduce air pollution

Across Europe, many banks alongside motorways are planted with grass to stabilise soil and keep roadside landscapes tidy.

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The UK’s high electricity prices are here to stay. But could they offer an opportunity?

Four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world is bracing for another energy crisis. The US-Israel bombing of Iran and then the blockade of the strait of Hormuz have forced up the price of oil. The price of natural gas in Europe has also risen sharply.

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Human vision: what we actually see – and don’t see – tells us a lot about consciousness

What can you see right now? This might seem like a silly question, but what enters your consciousness is not the whole story when it comes to vision. A great deal of visual processing in the brain goes on well below our conscious awareness.

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When war looks like prophecy: How U.S. ‘end time’ narratives frame the war with Iran

After the United States and Israel began bombing Iran, killing some of the government’s top leaders — including its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei — some of U.S. President Donald Trump’s most loyal evangelical supporters quickly framed the war as a religious battle.

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Indigenous-led renewable energy projects offer benefits that reach far beyond reducing carbon emissions

The number of renewable energy projects that are fully or partly Indigenous-owned is growing quickly in Canada, and our new research suggests that their benefits reach far beyond reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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A concerto played with trash: Barbican offers a masterclass in thought-provoking classical programming

The Barbican Centre’s 2025-26 concert season, Fragile Earth: Sounds of a Living Planet, brings the connection between music and nature, and its vulnerability to climate change, to the fore.

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Can Wales’ wellbeing law survive the pressures of the next Senedd election?

With the Senedd (Welsh parliament) election due in May, Wales faces a test of whether long-term thinking can survive short-term political pressure.

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Saturday Night Live has thrived in the US for 50 years – but a British SNL faces an uphill battle

A tall, well-built man saunters past a band and onto the stage. He is handsome and slick, the parody of an American talk show host. Magnanimously he interviews the band, only to cut off one guitarist, patronise another and upstage the saxophonist with a mimed solo. And so, Swedish actor…

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British children are getting taller – and obesity may be the cause

British children are not getting shorter, despite claims to the contrary. In fact, they are getting taller.

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The Other Bennet Sister: this fresh take on Pride and Prejudice transforms the overlooked Mary

When Lizzy Bennet, the witty sister in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), asks: “What are men to rocks and mountains?” she is thinking about ways of understanding self and world through the notion of the sublime.

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Family planning helps prevent HIV from spreading: why are many Nigerians not using contraception?

Unintended pregnancies are more common in sub-Saharan Africa than the world average: up to 91 out of 1,000 pregnancies compared to 64 in 1,000.

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Mining companies and land rights in South Africa: how environmentalists have used the law to defend communities

Environmental activists in South Africa have been waging legal battles against the state and mining companies for years. This is often on the grounds that communities haven’t been consulted before mines were given permission to start digging and blasting on their land. Environmental justice researcher Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba has tracked…

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Ethiopia’s national dialogue was meant to heal the nation, but divisions are deepening

Ethiopia launched a national dialogue process in 2022 to address deep political divisions and help steer the country towards stability.

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Cacti may help explain a centuries-old mystery of evolution

This question of why some branches of the tree of life explode into thousands of species, while others remain small, has shaped evolutionary biology since Charles Darwin.

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Climate change could pose a major risk to cassava in Africa: study sets out what can be done now

Cassava is a starchy, tuberous root, introduced to sub-Saharan Africa by Portuguese traders centuries ago. It is a nutrition lifeboat for over 800 million people worldwide.

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Why Europe’s ‘open’ economy of innovation is exposed to global trade shifts

Last month the European Commission unveiled its new “Made in Europe” targets, tying access to subsidies in clean technology heavy industry and carmaking to local production and stricter conditions on foreign investment.

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Kent’s meningitis outbreak was years in the making – here’s why

Two young people are dead and 20 are receiving treatment after a meningitis outbreak at the University of Kent. The students caught up in it belong to a generation that has never been routinely vaccinated against the strain responsible.

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More and more teachers and students are using AI – even though it might do more harm than good

K-12 teachers and students across the country are increasingly using AI in and out of classrooms, whether it is teachers turning to AI to refine lesson plans or students asking AI to help them research a particular topic.

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Pittsburgh spends millions on juvenile detention – research points to cheaper, more effective alternatives

Data released in January 2026 to Allegheny County officials offers a clear look at who is being held at Highland Detention Center – and how much it costs taxpayers. The numbers show short stays, significant racial disparities and millions spent to operate the facility. These findings raise new questions about…

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Power outages can threaten the lives of medical device users – knowing who is most at risk will help cities respond

When the power goes out and stays off for hours, the result can be more than just a hassle – for millions of Americans who rely on medical equipment, losing electricity can become a medical emergency.

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What’s the equivalent of a wheelchair for a person with schizophrenia? How psychiatric rehabilitation brings community into care

Imagine your dream is to get a job at the local library. You have a love for people and for books. You also have schizophrenia, a psychiatric disability that makes life in the community more challenging.

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Millions of CT scans are done every year – most leave important data behind

Recently, a patient came to the hospital where I work with a persistent cough. Their doctor had ordered a CT scan – a type of imaging that creates detailed cross-sectional pictures of the body’s interior – to look for pneumonia or another infection.

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What an ancient Chinese philosopher can teach us about Americans’ obsession with college rankings

Each March, many of the country’s most selective colleges and universities release their admissions decisions, reviving debates over the roles of race, wealth and privilege – and putting Americans’ cultural obsession with rankings back in the spotlight.

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Spain-US rift: Pedro Sánchez’ defiance of Trump is dictated by domestic politics – but it’s also a litmus test for Europe

The war in Iran has yet again exposed the tensions between Spain’s Pedro Sánchez and Donald Trump. The two leaders have clashed repeatedly over the last year, including over Spain’s ongoing opposition to Israel’s conduct in Gaza, its refusal to raise Nato spending above 2% of GDP, and now its…

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