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Growing up in a El Salvador is hard to do. Young people in the country’s capital, San Salvador, have found themselves caught between gangs and state repression. Luke Grover, who has spent time volunteering at and researching a youth centre in the city, reports first hand on how few options remain for those living in one of the country’s most violent neighbourhoods.
Plus read more from The Conversation on North Korea, gene editing, a German spy story and global inequality.
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Clampdown: gang members arrested in El Salvador in 2016.
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Luke Grover, University of Liverpool
Young people in El Salvador are finding themselves caught up in the war between the gangs and the state.
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Science + Technology
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Julie Louise Bacon, UNSW
The CRISPR gene-editing technique raises new questions about how we measure time and conceptualise history. Here, a cultural theorist takes on the philosophical side of this scientific breakthrough.
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Ian Towle, Liverpool John Moores University
Diet and disease leave characteristic marks on our teeth which can reman for millions of years.
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Michał Filipiak, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University
Bees need pollen to survive and grow, but not all plants can provide the right mix.
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Environment + Energy
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Andrew Hopkins, Australian National University
The right kind of algae can be converted to biofuel, and there are potential side benefits for carbon capture.
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Francis Massé, York University, Canada
Military style anti-poaching is often criticised because it alienates communities living around protected areas. But these initiatives give them an incentive to protect the species.
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Fazilda Nabeel, University of Sussex
Millions of livelihoods depend on the Indus Basin aquifer.
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Arts + Culture
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Keith R Allen, Institute of Contemporary History Munich - Berlin
The 1954 defection of West Germany's first domestic spy chief and ardent anti-Nazi rocked the world – and then he returned to Bonn.
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Valérie Sabatier, Grenoble École de Management (GEM); Mark Smith, Grenoble École de Management (GEM); Michel Albouy, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
Despite an international context in transformation, the doctorate seems to have difficulty evolving in Europe. What are experiments have been tried and what are the avenues of innovation?
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Business + Economy
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Steve Schifferes, City, University of London
Inequality was the hot button issue at the triennial meeting of the world's top economists.
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Politics + Society
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Ra Mason, University of East Anglia
Far from a belligerent rogue state, North Korea is isolated, broke and hungry for attention.
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Lyn Snodgrass, Nelson Mandela University
South Africa has one of the worst records of violence against women in the world. But not all women in the country seem to want to change this.
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