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Why The Higgs Boson Found At The Large Hadron Collider Could Be An ‘Impostor’

In 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland famously found a particle that acted like the Higgs boson, an elusive and long-theorized particle tha...

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Environment

The Eco Guide To Good Plastic

Cruel, but I had no choice. If we carry on creating and consuming plastic as we are now, and hoping that trainer innovation will do the heavy lifting (it won’t), by 2...

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Environment

Climate Change: Data Shows 2016 Likely To Be Warmest Year Yet

Temperature data for 2016 shows it is likely to have edged ahead of 2015 as the world's warmest year. Data from Nasa and the UK Met Office shows temperatures were about 0.0...

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Health

Can Wearable Sensors Tell When You're Sick?

It may one day be possible to spot illness the same way many of us already track our exercise habits and sleep patterns: with wearable sensors, researchers say. In a new st...

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Human Rights

Human Rights And Health Inequality. A Worldwide Phenomenon

A purely biomedical understanding of diminished health and preventable mortality misses key dimensions of social and economic issues.
1. The differences in health stat...

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Alternative Entertainment

Serge Attukwei Clottey : The Artist Urging African Men To Dress As Women

Serge Attukwei Clottey walked through Ghana’s capital city in his dead mother’s clothes to honour her memory – and to highlight injustice against women. I...

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Environment

How Big Oil Taught Big Tobacco To Bend Science

Over the past year, revelations about what the giants of the US petroleum industry knew decades ago about climate change have had a familiar ring to them.
Several obse...

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Sustainable Development

How Scientists Will Turn Your Smartphone Into A Lie Detector

This is the future one Toronto start-up, NuraLogix, is proposing. Their image processing software, called
Transdermal Optical Imaging, claims to decode hidden emotion...

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Gender

How Women Consume TV On Weekdays

Women drive television viewership in India. Understanding their TV consumption patterns has become very important for broadcast executives, content creators, advertisers an...

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Orcas Are First Non-Humans Whose Evolution Is Driven By Culture

You could call it a culture shock. Many researchers accept that cultural experiences have helped shape human evolution – and evidence has now emerged that the same ma...

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