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Editor's note
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Vaccines are routinely – and rightly – voted as one of the greatest inventions of all time. And work by scientists in Denmark have discovered that vaccines do more than protect against the disease they were designed to combat. They seem to prime the innate immune system to defend against other, non-related infections, thereby saving countless more lives. But the key is the order in which vaccines are given, as Christine Stabell Benn
explains.
Swashbuckling pirates of the high-seas may seem far removed from today’s génocidaires or war criminals. But in the 17th and 18th centuries, pirates posed a genuine existential threat to society – and, as Mark Chadwick explains, their prosecution forged the way for today’s international criminal justice system.
In order to encourage diversity, many large organisations have developed spaces – both physical and online – specifically for their employees from minority groups. This can be an extremely positive move, explains Christopher Begeny. But there are downsides too – and firms must find additional ways to reduce discrimination in the first place.
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Clint Witchalls
Health + Medicine Editor
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Top stories
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Child ready to receive measles vaccine, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.
Christine Stabell Benn
Christine Stabell Benn, University of Southern Denmark
Vaccines have 'non-specific effects' that have the potential to save millions of lives.
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Blackbeard: an early international criminal.
Capture of the Pirate, Blackbeard by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris via Wikimedia Commons
Mark Chadwick, Nottingham Trent University
How pirates helped to shape international criminal law.
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Christopher Begeny, University of Exeter
Strategies to support a diverse workforce can be beneficial – but may have unintended consequences.
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Health + Medicine
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Adam Watkins, University of Nottingham
Traditional belief has held that the underlying cause of miscarriage can be found in mothers, but half of recurrent miscarriages have another cause.
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Shelly Haslam-Ormerod, Edge Hill University
"Millennial snowflakes" are derided as weak and sensitive but this nastiness is patently false and actively harms progress on tackling mental health.
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Adrian Martineau, Queen Mary University of London
Vitamin D shows promise in treating COPD in people who are deficient in the vitamin.
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Eran Elhaik, University of Sheffield
Circumcising newborn boys could increase their risk of cot death, here's why.
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James Doonan, Bangor University
Scientists still rely on a set of 19th century postulates to identify disease-causing organisms but more than 100 years of research shows why we need to move on.
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Brian D Earp, University of Oxford
Why 'unconstitutional' anti-FGM law was set on a collision course with US supreme law.
'Unconstitutional' US anti-FGM law shows urgent need to prevent all child genital cutting
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Business + Economy
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John Colley, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
There are a lot of similarities between the state of tech companies today and when the 2000 dot-com bubble burst.
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Caroline Nye, University of Exeter
Like Japan, the UK is facing an ageing population that is compounding other problems putting pressure on the labour market.
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Politics + Society
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Alex Oaten, University of Birmingham
When heated debate spills over into abuse, it's a problem for democracy.
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David Phinnemore, Queen's University Belfast
The Northern Ireland Assembly will be consulted on the backstop, but there will no veto.
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Arts + Culture
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Anita Radini, University of York; Christina Warinner, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History; Monica Tromp
Male monks were not the sole producers of books throughout the Middle Ages.
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Science + Technology
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Jon Roozenbeek, University of Cambridge; Melisa Basol, University of Cambridge; Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge
WhatsApp has become a haven of misinformation in developing countries.
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Environment + Energy
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Parakram Pyakurel, Southampton Solent University
Until we cut consumption, we will only shift problems from one natural resource to another.
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