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Editor's note
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If you’re vegan, you can eat avocados and almonds to your heart’s desire, right? Wrong. Well, it depends on how you justify your veganism. Commercial farming of these foods can rely on migratory beekeeping, where bees are transported in to pollinate crops. To many that’s exploitative, writes Dominic Wilkinson, but to others it’s “sufficientarianism”, where you’re doing as much as you can and you have to draw the line somewhere.
Hepatitis C virus infects more than 71m humans, causing liver scarring and even cancer. There is a molecule that could protect us from this virus, but it is weakened in humans. Connor Bamford and John McLauchlan explain how they discovered a non-weakened version of this molecule in chimpanzees – and in one small group of hunter-gatherers in central Africa. Their finding could provide clues to fighting the disease.
Katla, a large volcano in Iceland, last erupted exactly 100 years ago. It isn’t “due” another eruption, but that didn’t stop recent headlines spinning an innocuous paper about its carbon dioxide emissions into a story of imminent doom and destruction. Kate Smith looks at volcanic “fake news” and what to do about it.
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Jo Adetunji
Deputy Editor
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Top stories
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Avocadon’t?
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Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford
You have to draw an ethical line somewhere so if you were vegan, would you still eat avocados?
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Pygmies in the Dzanga-Sangha Forest Reserve, Central African Republic.
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Connor Bamford, University of Glasgow; John McLauchlan, University of Glasgow
Somewhere along our evolutionary path, we lost the ability to defend against hepatitis C. But not all humans lost this ability.
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Katla last erupted in 1918 – but there is no evidence to suggest that it will erupt again soon.
ICELANDIC GLACIAL LANDSCAPES / wiki
Kate Smith, University of Exeter
We can't say that Katla in Iceland is 'due' to erupt, no matter what you have read.
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Arts + Culture
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Emily Spiers, Lancaster University
There are so many opportunities for women in Hollywood these days, as long as they play roles that were originally intended for men.
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Stephanie Dennison, University of Leeds; Stefania Pozzi, University of Leeds
Their compilation album Love Yourself: Answer sold 2.5m copies – that's twice as many as One Direction's last album.
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Jonathan Spangler, Manchester Metropolitan University
At least one second daughter of a second son of the British monarch has ended up on the throne in her own right.
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Environment + Energy
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Alice Venn, University of Bristol
How can we hold governments accountable to their climate commitments? A recent case might hold the answer.
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Liudmila Osipova, Bangor University
As the Maasai people of Kenya seek to expand their agricultural developments, the lives of one of Africa's greatest creatures are being severely disrupted.
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Health + Medicine
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Fumiaki Imamura, University of Cambridge
Recent research suggests that biomarkers for dairy fat are inversely associated with the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
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Business + Economy
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Koldo Casla, Newcastle University
Record numbers of families rent privately in England. But the law has not kept a fair balance between landlord and tenant rights.
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Science + Technology
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Doug Specht, University of Westminster
Dealing with graphic videos and images can harm journalists' mental health.
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