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Editor's note
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NASA recently released some interim findings from a health study involving astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly, who are identical twins. Scott spent an entire year at the International Space Station while Mark stayed at home, enabling scientists to compare their bodies at a molecular level. Nick Caplan takes a look at the results and explains why they are so important if we are to ever send humans to Mars.
Recent epics such as 12 Years a Slave and Birth of a Nation have examined the place of the transatlantic slave trade in America's founding history, but these films and others owe a debt to the "mondo" films of the late 1960s and 1970s. Now largely forgotten, these "shockumentaries" were slammed as grotesque in their day but, argues Mark Goodall, in pushing boundaries they granted these modern films the artistic leeway to show humanity at its worst.
An estimated half a million people took to the streets in Romania as part of an ongoing protest against an emergency decree being forced through parliament by the government. Dan Brett explains what's behind the biggest uprising since the fall of communism.
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Miriam Frankel
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Top story
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Separated at launch. Scott and Mark Kelly.
NASA
Nick Caplan, Northumbria University, Newcastle
A twin experiment in space can help us prevent diseases on Earth.
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Arts + Culture
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Mark Goodall, University of Bradford
The mondo film, for all its faults, encapsulates our tangled responses to the darkest moments of our collective history.
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Silvio Carta, University of Hertfordshire
Public spaces are becoming new arenas for people power – and it's all down to how you use your smart phone.
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Valerie Derbyshire, University of Sheffield
Despite the escapist nature of these romance novels, there is a considerable amount of realism contained within their pages.
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Politics + Society
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Dan Brett, The Open University
The government claims to have backed down on a controversial emergency decree in the face of mass demonstrations. But all is not what it seems.
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Paul Smith, University of Nottingham
After a big weekend of campaign launches, most candidates are now in place for the 2017 presidential race.
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James Samuel Johnson, University of Leicester
Beijing has traditionally retained its nuclear weapons on a no-first-use basis, but it's ready to deploy them more assertively.
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Matthew Flinders, University of Sheffield
Does the holder of the key have the right to lock the door on the leader of the free world?
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Des Freedman, Goldsmiths, University of London; Justin Schlosberg, Birkbeck, University of London
It's not alternative facts we need to worry about, it's the fact that moguls still dominate the media, both old and new.
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James Rodgers, City, University of London
Reuters' boss has advised his journalists to operate as if America is an authoritarian state.
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Christine Schwöbel-Patel, University of Liverpool
The court needs to address charges of neo-colonialism.
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David Churchill, University of Leeds
Should we hold victims responsible for crimes committed due to their own carelessness? The Victorians said we should and they may have had a point.
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Aimee Ambrose, Sheffield Hallam University
Renters worry that asking their landlords for better insulated homes could cause a rent hike.
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Environment + Energy
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Costantino Grasso, University of East London
Republicans have decided to deliberately give a green light to secret and potentially corrupt deals abroad.
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Alister Scott, Northumbria University, Newcastle
It's time for governments to think long-term about the kind of places they want to create.
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Health + Medicine
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Ian Hamilton, University of York; Mark Monaghan, Loughborough University
Drug use is down – but that's a long way from the whole story.
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