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Editor's note
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The Nazis are, once again, a subject of considerable cultural obsession. From The Man in the High Castle to the BBC's new adaptation of SS-GB, counterfactual Nazi nightmares are very much in vogue. This has happened once before, points out Sam Edwards – such alternative histories also proliferated in the 1960s. So what's behind their return?
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was recently left discombobulated after being subjected to a rather bizarre 19-second handshake by Donald Trump. And the US president knew exactly what he was doing, says psychologist Geoff Beattie. For Donald Trump, a handshake is far more than just a polite greeting – it's an opening salvo in a battle for supremacy.
We all like to believe that hard work and sheer determination can take us anywhere we like. But cognitive scientists have spent more than a century struggling to determine whether it is intelligence or mainly training that enables people to become experts on something. Now new research evaluating the cognitive ability of chess players has started to answer the question.
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Josephine Lethbridge
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BBC/Sid Gentle Films Ltd/Laurie Sparham
Sam Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan University
Why do alternative histories of a Nazified world again have such commercial and cultural traction?
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Politics + Society
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Geoff Beattie, Edge Hill University
Beware the 'clasp and yank'.
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Anna Tarrant, University of Lincoln; Michael Ward, Swansea University
Fathers aren't to blame for all of their childrens' problems.
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Paul Smith, University of Nottingham
Just a month after moving into the Élysée Palace, the new president will face the country's parliamentary elections.
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Michael Patrick Cullinane, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Iwan Morgan, UCL; J Simon Rofe, SOAS, University of London
Thanks to the US's polarised politics, presidents beloved abroad are controversial at home.
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Admir Skodo, Lund University
There are double standards underlying the difficulties faced by Afghan asylum seekers in the West.
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Science + Technology
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Giovanni Sala, University of Liverpool; Fernand Gobet, University of Liverpool
Practice may not make perfect, suggests new study.
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Bradley Elliott, University of Westminster
We asked an expert to explain why we get that odd fluttering feeling when we are nervous.
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Environment + Energy
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Emily Shuckburgh, University of Cambridge; Charles Kennel, University of California, San Diego; Chris Rapley, UCL; David Victor, University of California, San Diego; Stephen Briggs, UCL
We need international agreement on a set of Earth's 'vital signs' and how to measure them.
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Jonathan Bridge, Sheffield Hallam University
For a small price, Donald Trump could score the easy win he's been waiting for.
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Arts + Culture
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Paul A Taylor, University of Leeds
Liverpool FC has banned the newspaper from its matches. It's a fair result.
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Simon McEnnis, University of Brighton
Liverpool FC has imposed a complete ban on The Sun but it cannot prevent the tabloid newspaper from continuing to cover the club.
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Business + Economy
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Jeff Bray, Bournemouth University; Heather Hartwell, Bournemouth University
Seven million workers are missing out on information which keep keep them healthier.
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Eva Selenko, Loughborough University; Chris Stride, University of Sheffield
Psychologists rank job insecurity as one of the most stressful things about work – new research uncovers why.
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Health + Medicine
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Stefan Elbe, University of Sussex
When governments delay releasing information about disease outbreaks, algorithms come to the rescue.
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