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Editor's note
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The result of yesterday’s election in Russia was never really in doubt. Vladimir Putin was always going to win a fourth term as president. But he begins that term facing significant pressure from abroad – not least over a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in the UK. Given the extreme tension, Jennifer Mathers thinks it’s worth trying to understand how Putin, and indeed Russia, sees the rest of the world.
Farming in the Amazon is a tough business that’s made harder by animal “crop-raiders”. In order to help rural communities balance the pressure to conserve wildlife with their need to protect their livelihoods, Mark Abrahams and his colleagues spent a year in Brazil studying the animals that live on or near Amazonian farms, capturing tens of thousands of images along the way. In this stunning photo essay, he explains how the conflict between the human and animal inhabitants of the rainforest may not be in as deep as previously thought.
Computers use vast amounts of energy across the world, and generate so much wasted heat that companies like Facebook are placing new data centres in the Arctic to keep them cool. Oscar Céspedes says we urgently need to develop low-carbon computing.
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Laura Hood
Politics Editor, Assistant Editor
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Top stories
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EPA/Sergei Chirikov
Jennifer Mathers, Aberystwyth University
Re-elected for a fourth term, Putin is not on the best terms with the rest of the world. But does he actually care?
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Ocelot of trouble.
Mark Abrahams
Mark Ilan Abrahams, University of East Anglia
Three researchers studied the "crop raiders" of the Brazilian rainforest in the hope of aiding both local farmers and wildlife conservation.
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Oscar Céspedes, University of Leeds
We must develop the capability to meet our computing needs while using much less power and producing negligible heat waste.
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Health + Medicine
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Anne Marie Rafferty, King's College London; Jonathan Grant, King's College London
The NHS could be future-proofed by adopting a model from the Bank of England, according to a student-led commission.
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John Groeger, Nottingham Trent University; Rachel Harding, Nottingham Trent University
Homeless people are far more likely to suffer sleep deprivation with all its associated problems.
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Mark Turner, Nottingham Trent University
A new study suggests that high blood-sugar levels are an effect rather than a cause of type 2 diabetes.
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Dusana Dorjee, Bangor University
There's far more to meditation that sitting peacefully with crossed legs.
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Environment + Energy
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Sharon George, Keele University
Lowering your carbon footprint by living off-grid is a sustainability dream. But how possible is it using current technology?
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Arts + Culture
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Huw Grange, University of Oxford
Back in the Middle Ages, as well as speaking English and Latin, many people living in Britain also spoke French.
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Colin Kidd, University of St Andrews; Gerard Carruthers, University of Glasgow
The politics may have changed over the years, but the literary obsessions of 'northern Britain' seem hard to shake.
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Enrico Bonadio, City, University of London
Just because graffiti is illegal shouldn't mean an artist can't protect his work. The law should step in when big brands try to exploit street art.
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Politics + Society
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Sophie Ellis, University of Cambridge
Without public pressure, politicians won't make improving conditions in prisons a priority.
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Patrick Kiernan, University of Salford
The British PM says Russia is probably responsible for the attack on Sergei Skripal. But getting definitive proof could mean compromising British intelligence work.
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Natasha Rulyova, University of Birmingham
The reaction of much Russian media to the Russian spy attack highlights the paucity of different viewpoints available in Russian.
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Science + Technology
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Marika Taylor, University of Southampton
Hawking wasn't able to give his students a gentle introduction, but he did provide a lot of inspiration and support.
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Kevin Fong, UCL
Diving without oxygen tanks requires you to enact some very weird and very strange and not all that well understood physiological feats just to stay alive.
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Business + Economy
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Sergey V. Popov, Cardiff University
Russia's economy is flatlining and the reasons boil down to poor governance.
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