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Editor's note
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Anyone looking for an excuse to nibble on a bit of brie this weekend will welcome a recent paper in the journal PLOS Medicine that suggests saturated fat from cheese could help prevent type 2 diabetes. While we often hear that low fat is best, this might just be one excuse to indulge in a bit of what you fancy.
Today, the European Space Agency is launching a spacecraft from French Guyana that will, it hopes, eventually reach the planet Mercury. The Bepecolumbo mission has been 25 years in the making and David Rothery will be watching anxiously to see if everything goes to plan.
Back down on Earth, thousands of protesters are expected to descend on London to call for a people’s vote on Brexit. After yet another meeting in Brussels leaves Theresa May approximately nowhere, they perhaps have a point. Andy Price thinks it would help if we stopped letting the hardcore Brexiteers mouth off with quite so much confidence about what “the people” want.
The latest episode of The Anthill podcast is out, and this month we’re investigating extremes, from how radical right parties are challenging Europe to what it’s like working in some of the world’s most dangerous places. Take it from me, it’s extremely good.
There’s also a crash course in K-Pop for those of us who can’t quite understand what all those teenage girls are shrieking about, and a report from some Canadian scientists who think they’ve solved a vexing Arctic mystery.
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Laura Hood
Politics Editor, Assistant Editor
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No need to feel guilty.
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Fumiaki Imamura, University of Cambridge
Recent research suggests that biomarkers for dairy fat are inversely associated with the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
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BepiColombo MPO at Mercury,
Spacecraft ESA, Mercury NASA
David Rothery, The Open University
It will take more energy to get the BebiColombo spacecraft inro a stable orbit around Mercury than it would to send it all the way to Pluto.
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Andy Price, Sheffield Hallam University
Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks for a minority of a minority, so why are we letting him dictate government policy?
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Jonathan Este, The Conversation; Laura Hood, The Conversation; Annabel Bligh, The Conversation; Gemma Ware, The Conversation; Madeleine De Gabriele, The Conversation
A podcast on extremes: from far-right politics, to life in conflict zones and the extreme weather of Australia.
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Animals in the western Arctic have higher levels of mercury in their bodies than those in the eastern Arctic.
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Feiyue Wang, University of Manitoba
A new study demystifies regional differences in mercury levels in marine animals in the Canadian Arctic.
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Armida L. M. van Rij, King's College London
UK and US relations with Saudi Arabia were already under serious scrutiny – even before the disappearance of a prominent Saudi journalist.
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Stephanie Dennison, University of Leeds; Stefania Pozzi, University of Leeds
Their compilation album Love Yourself: Answer sold 2.5m copies – that's twice as many as One Direction's last album.
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Sophie Medlin, King's College London
Don't try this at home, kids.
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Mark Kleinman, King's College London
There are early indicators that London's fortunes could be shifting.
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Martin Archer, Queen Mary University of London
The Earth's magnetic field lines whistle after solar outbursts.
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Jo Waugh, York St John University
Despite the myth of consumption as an ethereal, wasting disease, the more prosaic truth is that the Brontës likely infected one another with tuberculosis.
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Catherine Armstrong, Loughborough University
Slavery still exists and it happens in plain sight.
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Indu Vibha Meddegama, York St John University
Languages are said to be disappearing faster than endangered species with a different one dying every two weeks.
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