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Editor's note
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Once Andy Burnham held office at Westminster. Later, he sought to lead the Labour party. Now, the former health secretary is bidding to be mayor of Greater Manchester, a city recently named as one of the most influential in Europe. Here, in a Q&A with Philip Brown, Burnham talks about the challenges devolution, Brexit and homelessness pose for the city. You can also watch a video of the interview if you follow the link.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars characters harvested drinking water from the air. Here on Earth we can do the same thing but our technology isn’t cost effective enough for the driest parts of the world that need water the most. Amin Al-Habaibeh explains a new device that could change this and how it compares with his own inventions.
Scottish cyclist Mark Beaumont is attempting to cycle round the world in 80 days. The nearest anyone has got so far is New Zealander Andrew Nicholson, who did it 123 days back in 2015. Sports health experts Neil Gibson and Ann-Marie Gibson have this five-point checklist on how to do it.
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Paul Keaveny
Commissioning Editor
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Top story
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Andy Burnham.
Mark Waugh Photography/University of Salford
Philip Brown, University of Salford
Former government minister vying to be the first elected mayor of Manchester speaks to Philip Brown.
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Science + Technology
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Amin Al-Habaibeh, Nottingham Trent University
Scientists have found a way to pull water from the air using only energy from the sun.
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David Rothery, The Open University
New findings make it hard to imagine a more important goal for solar system exploration than searching for microbial life in Enceladus' internal sea.
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Federico López-Terra, Swansea University
When is a joke not a joke? When it starts to erode a fundamental human right.
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Health + Medicine
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Neil Gibson, Heriot-Watt University; Ann-Marie Gibson, Strathclyde University
In July, Scots cyclist Mark Beaumont will attempt to cycle around the world in 80 days, smashing the world record by 43 days. Here's what he has to get right.
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Raquel Medialdea-Carrera, University of Liverpool
The Zika outbreak that started in Brazil in 2015 continues on five continents, causing neurological disease and birth defects.
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Trevor Simper, Sheffield Hallam University
It's all about what you do after you indulge.
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Politics + Society
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Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University; Bahar Baser, Coventry University
After years of creeping authoritarianism, Turkey's president is now set up to take the reins in earnest.
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Kevork Oskanian, University of Birmingham
The future of the relationship between the US and Russia depends on whether the Kremlin can find a way to interpret Trump's motives.
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Simon Sweeney, University of York
A network of EU experts helps monitor food safety, banking conduct and medicines. And no-one seems to have a plan for replacing them.
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Arts + Culture
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Alec Charles, University of Hull
It's time for the BBC to be more adventurous, but will it have the confidence?
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Margaret Mackay, University of Portsmouth
The rituals of Semana Santa during Easter Week bring Spain together and allow people to exorcise the country's ghosts.
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Business + Economy
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Scott Taylor, University of Birmingham
Independent brewer joins the long list of small counter-culture firms that sold us revolution and walked away wealthy.
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Morgen Witzel, University of Exeter
But standards of service are so low across the US airline industry that United may well get away with it.
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Environment + Energy
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Tom Rippeth, Bangor University
The link between melting sea ice and extreme weather has been known for a while, but now it's happening further afield.
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Paul Jones, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Pollution, poverty, disease and death: future cities will be grim places, unless we do things differently.
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Tom Baxter, University of Aberdeen
Shell's proposals to decommission its four Brent platforms are a test case for North Sea industry. But here's why decommissioning is not what it's cracked up to be.
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