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Editor's note
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Bears once lived all over Europe. Then, as humans gradually turned their forests into farms, the bears retreated into the continent's remotest corners. Most of these remnant populations have long since died off, but 50 bears are still lingering in a mountainous corner of central Italy. They have been cut off from all other bears for at least six centuries, writes Carlo Meloro, and they're evolving into a new subspecies.
The last time someone discovered a new form of carbon (graphene), it won them a Nobel Prize. The latest breakthrough is a type of carbon as hard as diamond but stretchy like elastic. Elton Santos explains how its structure gives it these amazing properties.
Donald Trump's governing style has few precedents in American history, but there's a close parallel to be found in 17th-century Europe. Linda Kiernan explains that Trump is running the White House much like France's Louis XIV ran his court – but with none of the subtlety or stature that made the Sun King into a towering political force.
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Will de Freitas
Environment + Energy Editor
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Carlo Meloro, Liverpool John Moores University
Of the 14 subspecies of brown bear, this is the most endangered.
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Business + Economy
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Enrico Bonadio, City, University of London
American companies are given the green light to deploy "edgy" branding, however offensive it might be.
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Xavier Font, University of Surrey
Barcelona is under huge strain from tourism growth, but at least it is trying to do something about it. You could help as well...
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Politics + Society
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Adam Elliott-Cooper, King's College London; Philip Hubbard, King's College London
The tangled web of responsibility for London's council estates could cloud investigations into the Grenfell Tower fire.
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Amy Binns, University of Central Lancashire
How much did social media have an impact on the campaigns of Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn?
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Heather Widdows, University of Birmingham
The pressures of perfection.
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Billie Jeanne Brownlee, University of Exeter
Anti-refugee sentiment is growing in Beirut.
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Leanne K Simpson, Bangor University
Military families may be the force behind the forces – but deployment can harm them, too.
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Linda Kiernan, Trinity College Dublin
At the Versailles court, a well-directed glance could decide a person's fate. Imagine if Donald Trump were so subtle.
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Science + Technology
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Elton Santos, Queen's University Belfast
Compressed glassy carbon could be used to make better bulletproof vests or new types of electronics.
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Education
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Andre Spicer, City, University of London
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Chris Husbands, Sheffield Hallam University
The TEF's focus on outcomes is a potential game changer for universities.
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Health + Medicine
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Katherine Albertson, Sheffield Hallam University
New research on an addictions project for veterans shows success it is not about recovery in isolation, but about finding a sense of purpose in the community after military service.
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Stuart Beattie, Bangor University; Tim Woodman, Bangor University
Confidence in sports, exams and other endeavours in life, can be counter-productive.
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Arts + Culture
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Steven Barnett, University of Westminster
Journalism is the first casualty as two UK newspapers with competing world views go to war.
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Balsam Mustafa, University of Birmingham
The destruction of the al-Nuri Mosque and its minaret is a sad blow to Iraqi culture – and a rallying cry too.
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Richard Thomas, Leeds Trinity University; Stephen Cushion, Cardiff University
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John Harris, Glasgow Caledonian University
The birth certificates of the 41 players in the squad touring New Zealand are an eclectic mix.
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Brexit
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John Varano, University of Oxford
The workload is huge. So how is the civil service doing at preparing for the changes ahead?
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Anne Wesemann, The Open University
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