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Editor's note
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War has broken out on the streets of Britain. Citizens are arming themselves to the hilt to defend their chips, cheeseburgers and toupées from an airborne menace making daily assaults on their freedom. If you too have ever been stared down by a gull the size of a small dinosaur, you'll recognise the problem. And these terrifying beasts are no longer menacing seaside towns alone – they're heading inland.
Those of us who aren't under constant attack from angry birds are trapped inside the house looking for our keys. Researchers have been looking into why we seem to spend so much time shuffling around hunting for small, everyday items. It turns out we're just doing it wrong.
Marine scientists have also been reporting bad news from the deep ocean this week, after finding that even at depths of 10,000 metres and more, sea creatures are still feeling the effects of man-made pollution.
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Laura Hood
Politics Editor, Assistant Editor
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Top story
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When the chips are down.
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Mike Jeffries, Northumbria University, Newcastle
What's the answer? Fight or flight?
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Science + Technology
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Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge; Camilla d'Angelo, University of Cambridge; George Savulich, University of Cambridge
Three experts reveal all.
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Viren Swami, Anglia Ruskin University
It is possible to stop recreating destructive patterns.
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Anna Maria Nowakowska, University of Aberdeen; Alasdair Clarke, University of Essex; Amelia Hunt, University of Aberdeen
It turns out that most of us waste a lot of time looking for lost objects in the wrong places.
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Health + Medicine
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Oli Williams, University of Bath; Kevin Deighton, Leeds Beckett University; Michelle Swainson, Leeds Beckett University
Scientifically you can be overweight and healthy - and yet there is still an obesity stigma.
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Patricia Skinner, Swansea University
For those with facial conditions and injuries, makeup can be the difference between living and having a life.
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Peter Lambert, Aston University
Antibiotics are wrongly being prescribed for infections where they won't work and cutting this down could help combat resistance. But change isn't as easy as just providing the means.
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Zaki Hassan-Smith, University of Birmingham
New research has linked vitamin D to increased leg strength including power, velocity and jump height.
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Luke Beardon, Sheffield Hallam University
Donald Trump claims that there is a tremendous increase in the number of people with autism. Is he right?
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Marcus Rattray, University of Bradford
For two centuries, the only serious painkillers have been derived from opium. Scientists may have found a less deadly alternative.
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Business + Economy
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Martin Parker, University of Leicester
All the politicians and journalists claim to care about Stoke, but none of them live here.
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Daniel M. Knight, University of St Andrews
Before the financial crisis struck, you could breathe the overwhelming air of prosperity on the bustling streets of Trikala.
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Politics + Society
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Paul Rogers, University of Bradford
Could the Iraqi army's banner offensive against IS tear it apart?
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Tom Smith, University of Portsmouth
Long regarded as something approaching a saint, Myanmar's de facto head of state appears to be running out of moral capital.
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Jack Sargent, University of Exeter
Dating apps are convenient – but they lack the sensuality craved by Victorian aesthetes.
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Mark Button, University of Portsmouth
New research suggests the road to bribery is more of a steep cliff than a slippery slope.
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Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London
Student protesters thought they were silencing someone they despise. But they actually gave their opponent a far louder voice.
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Magnus Linden, Lund University
After World War II, psychologists identified character traits that explained why so many people were complicit in Hitler's crimes. Are we seeing something similar now?
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Donald Nordberg, Bournemouth University
The divine right of kings was dismantled after a bloody conflict nearly 400 years ago. The impulse which led to that change should protect us from the reign of the White House emperor.
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Rakib Ehsan, Royal Holloway
Pre-referendum polling suggested South Asian voters were quite pro-Remain, but more recent data tells another story.
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Arts + Culture
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Jon Agar, UCL
Hidden Figures is certainly inspirational, but the racial politics of the space programme were hardly so easily settled.
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Sam Solnick, University of Liverpool
In the face of planetary problems such as climate change, does national citizenship lose its meaning?
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Education
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Helen Nichols, Leeds Beckett University
University students are learning with prisoners about crime and punishment.
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