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Editor's note
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Government health officials are sure that we’re not getting enough vitamin D and recommend taking a supplement for at least six months of the year. However, Tim Spector makes a convincing case that vitamin D as a supplement is not only useless, but having too much can actually do you harm.
In 2015, the 56,000-tonne cargo ship Bulk Jupiter sank, taking with it 19 of its 20 crew members. The cause was probably a strange phenomenon that causes solid mineral cargo to transform into a liquid state, which can lead ships to lose stability and eventually sink. Susan Gourvenec explores the mystery of why this well-understood problem is still causing disasters.
Many of us fear memory loss as we age. But is it only older people who should be worried? Daily use of technology is changing the way many of us now experience, record and recall events. Catherine Loveday argues that for a fuller and more detailed memory later in life, turn off your smartphone and enjoy the moment.
Northern Ireland has, this week, broken an inglorious record for lasting longer than any other peacetime developed nation without a government. How did this happen and can the depressing stalemate be broken?
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Clint Witchalls
Health + Medicine Editor
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Top stories
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Tim Spector, King's College London
Largest ever clinical study shows no benefit of vitamin D in preventing bone fractures.
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Susan Gourvenec, University of Southampton
We know how to stop solid minerals converting to a liquid state mid voyage – so why does it still happen?
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Catherine Loveday, University of Westminster
The risk smartphones pose to our memory is overblown, but they do get in the way of us making more detailed and authentic memories.
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Peter John McLoughlin, Queen's University Belfast
Belgium held the previous record with 541 days without a government. What's holding up power-sharing?
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Arts + Culture
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Sarah Dustagheer, University of Kent
Shakespeare can survive a little chipping away at his 400-year reputation.
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Khawla Badwan, Manchester Metropolitan University
Why our understanding of the relationship between ‘place’ and ‘language’ is crucial for social justice.
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Phillip Vaughan, University of Dundee
Expectations were high for the latest project from the creator of The Simpsons.
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Health + Medicine
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Liz Breen, University of Bradford; Emilia Vann Yaroson, University of Bradford
Could issues like price manipulation and over-regulation be having an impact on the medicine supply chain?
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Christopher Proctor, University of Cambridge
New approach to preventing seizures proves effective in mice.
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Karen Newbigging, University of Birmingham
Everybody benefits from more resilient children.
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Politics + Society
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Charlotte Kelly, University of Oxford
Dangerous, vulnerable or just plain stupid – these are some of the stereotypes which young people face when they come in contact with the law.
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Leah Barasa, Kenyatta University
The British prime minister's visit to Africa comes amid increased interest by China and France.
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Environment + Energy
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Jamie Pringle, Keele University; Sharon George, Keele University
Old landfills could be, quite literally, untapped gold mines.
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Science + Technology
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Penny Bickle, University of York
Archaeologists have discovered the world's oldest cheese, and it reveals how our ancestor's cooking methods helped the human diet adapt.
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