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Oscar weekend is upon us and La La Land is strong favourite to win Best Picture. But there’s so much more to cinema than the Hollywood bubble, as the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film show. Still, there’s a significant absence in the category – the best Brazilian film of the year, which was not submitted to the Oscars for political reasons.
We’ve also brought you stories this week on the dolphins that make optimistic decisions, the discovery of a new solar system, and what we can all learn from the world’s most notorious drug king pin.
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Taraneh Alidousti and Shahab Hosseini in Iran’s The Salesman.
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Pegah Shahbaz, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 – USPC; Anders Marklund, Lund University; Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University; Lothar Mikos, Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf; Marc Tabani, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
The best of global cinema from Germany to Iran and Vanuatu.
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The director and stars of ‘Aquarius’ protest the proposed impeachment of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff at Cannes in May 2016.
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Rodrigo Fonseca, Darcy Ribeiro School of Cinema
By denying 'Aquarius' its chance at the Oscars, Brazil's government summoned memories of dictatorship-era censorship and brought the film unprecedented attention.
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Swimming in synchrony is a fundamental social behaviour for dolphins and is thought to reinforce their bonds.
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Isabella Clegg, Université Paris 13 – USPC
A new study of captive dolphins has found that those engaging in synchronised swimming make more optimistic judgements about an unknown event.
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Artist impression of the Trappist-1 System.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/spaceengine.org
Elizabeth Tasker, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Scientists have discovered seven Earth-sized planets packed around a dim star.
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Female scientists are often more productive than their male colleagues but much less likely to be recognised for their work.
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Lorena Rivera León, United Nations University
Female scientists publish more and better research but are promoted less. New research from Mexico exposes gender gap in science there, and across the globe.
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El Chapo after his arrest in January 2016.
Thomas Bravo/Reuters
Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong
Joaquin Guzmán is Mexico’s worst 'bad hombre', but his extradition to the US won't stop the Sinaloa Cartel.
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The story that refuses to go away.
Michael Kooren/Reuters
Jan Lemnitzer, University of Southern Denmark
An adversarial international commission of inquiry, similar to one instituted to resolve a dispute between Britain and Russia in 1905, could break the deadlock over the downed flight.
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