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Editor's note
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Despite a controversial EU ban on neonicotinoid insecticides, research on whether they actually harm bees has so far been inconclusive. Now a new study shows that while these insecticides do reduce survival rates of bees in certain conditions, they actually have an important role to play. Ben Woodcok discusses how to interpret the findings.
One of the very many unanswered questions about Brexit is how it will affect the rights of the thousands of British people who own homes in France. Diana Cooper-Richet charts the history of a lengthy love affair with holiday homes across the channel.
The Summer of Love in 1967 has gone down in history as the year the hippy movement burst forward, when LSD fed big ideas and love could solve everything. It may have all ended when a series of events changed the face of free love, but 50 years on the individualism it embraced still resonates.
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Will de Freitas
Environment + Energy Editor
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Top story
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Lucy Hulmes / CEH
Ben Woodcock, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Here's how to take the sting out of these harmful pesticides.
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Politics + Society
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Diana Cooper-Richet, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines – Université Paris-Saclay
While people from many nations have chosen to make their home in France, the British were among the first and remain the most numerous.
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Tristen Naylor, University of Oxford
It's the end of the world (order) as we know it.
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Charlotte Galpin, University of Birmingham
Government plans to introduce official documents for EU citizens to prove their right to live in the UK have some people surprised.
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Samuel Langton, Manchester Metropolitan University
But with many different demands on police time, some not relating to crime, it's hard to estimate.
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Aldo Zammit Borda, Anglia Ruskin University
The terrorist group is trying to destroy a religious minority.
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Nic Cheeseman, University of Birmingham
Zambia's president is securing powers to consolidate his political control while generating 'plausible deniability' to whether or not he has fatally undermined democracy.
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Arts + Culture
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Nicholas Campion, The University of Wales Trinity Saint David
The year 1967 isn't a golden fossil sealed off in time.
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Alec Charles, University of Hull
He has a memorial in Westminster Abbey, but Philip Larkin is often dismissed for his perceived misogyny and racism. This is a great pity.
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Business + Economy
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Meysam Tayebipour, Lancaster University
The deal will give a much-needed boost to Iran's economy and lend important support to Rouhani's government.
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Education
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Damien Page, Leeds Beckett University
What schools should be doing to deal with the crisis in children’s mental health.
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Health + Medicine
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Mikel Mellick, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Sport has a mental health problem, but rugby might have the answer.
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David Ljungman, Harvard Medical School ; John G. Meara, Harvard University; Yihan Lin, Harvard University
Almost one-third of human disease requires surgery, but most of those people who need surgery are not getting it. Here's why we need to make surgery more accessible.
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William Proctor, Bournemouth University
Many psychologists claim that 13 Reasons Why could incite young people to take their own lives. But their claims aren't supported by evidence.
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Science + Technology
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Robbie Rae, Liverpool John Moores University
Snail shells appear to be part of the creatures' immune system.
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Edward Hockings, University of the West of Scotland
A freedom of information request reveals that Google wants its AI company DeepMind to get involved in the 100,000 Genomes Project.
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Michael E Price, Brunel University London
Many scientists say there's no purpose to life – but a theoretical study suggests there could be.
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