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Cheetahs really don’t like being in captivity. Compared with their wild counterparts and with other captive big cats, cheetahs in zoos suffer from unusual and otherwise rare diseases such as gastritis in alarming numbers. Adrian Tordiffe explains how he set out to understand why so many of these already endangered animals die once they’re locked up.
One of Donald Trump’s priorities on entering the White House was to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement – or NAFTA – with Mexico and Canada. It’s a policy that won him key support from blue-collar workers. But, as Iván Farías Pelcastre and Scott Lucas outline, the Trump administration’s plan to do this fails to understand a few of the trade agreement’s fundamentals.
Today, some of the frontiers of the Roman Empire are national boundaries. But what was life like along these borders under the Romans? Emily Hanscam is part of a team of archaeologists looking for clues at Halmyris, which was an old frontier fort situated on the Danube in modern-day Romania.
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Stephen Harris
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The cheetah population almost halved since 1975 with only an estimated 7,100 left in the wild today.
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Adrian Tordiffe, University of Pretoria
Captivity isn't kind to cheetahs where most develop diseases that are unusual in big cats. It's never been clear why this is the case, but understanding their metabolism might provide the answer.
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Business + Economy
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Iván Farías Pelcastre, University of Oxford; Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham
The Trump administration has outlined its plans to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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Javier Garcia-Bernardo, University of Amsterdam; Eelke Heemskerk, University of Amsterdam; Frank Takes, Leiden University; Jan Fichtner, University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Ireland are among the rich countries that funnel major corporate money into secret offshore tax shelters, according to a new study.
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Rob Gowers, Anglia Ruskin University; Jukka Aminoff, Anglia Ruskin University
Blockchain technology is familiar to us in the form of digital currency bitcoin. And if it makes it way to the mainstream, could it change the way the world does business forever?
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Politics + Society
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Emily Hanscam, Durham University
Excavating the history of migration along the frontier of the Danube.
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Senthorun Raj, Keele University
Even the Wolfenden report cited the need to protect the public from that which disgusted them.
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Michael Lovelock, Cardiff Metropolitan University
The media has the power to influence the nation - so why are we letting it promote blatant homophobia?
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Charlotte O'Brien, University of York
There is a serious gender imbalance on this important team, which could lead to bad decisions being made.
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Science + Technology
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Milda Perminiene, University of East London
A review of the research suggests
that pressure to put on a happy face could make us more aggressive.
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Ian Crawford, UCL
Even if alien life is never discovered, all is not lost.
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Arts + Culture
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Liam Mcloughlin, University of Salford; Stephen Ward, University of Salford
MPs come in for a lot of abuse online. But who are the haters and is the media partly to blame for the way it reports politics?
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Health + Medicine
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Gerard Gormley, Queen's University Belfast
Doctors are taught how to treat skin cancer – but not necessarily how to empathise with those who have it.
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Cities
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Deanna Dadusc, University of Brighton
In Europe's refugee squats, dignified existence and political resistance go hand in hand.
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Environment + Energy
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Michael Tausz, University of Birmingham; Rob MacKenzie, University of Birmingham
Can forests effectively remove carbon from the atmosphere?
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