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Editor's note
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President Donald Trump's push to repeal "Obamacare" collapsed on Friday when a replacement bill was withdrawn. Via our colleagues in the US, we bring you expert reaction to what the failure means for the Trump administration, Congress and healthcare in the US.
In the wake of the Westminster attack there has been frenzied speculation about the level of the terror threat in the UK – even after weekend reports indicating that it appears to have been the action of an individual. Lee Jarvis warns that hyperbolic approaches to threat measurement probably don’t lead to very effective counter-terrorism policy.
Early computer gamers played either to the sound of silence or the most basic monotones as designers put graphics before music. But the invention of a sound chip called the Sound Interface Device changed all that. As James Newman writes, SID paved the way for a revolution in realistic video game sounds and music.
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Jonathan Este
Associate Editor
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Top story
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Lisa Schwetschenau, who has multiple sclerosis, shown in a photo in Omaha, Nebraska on March 16. She worries that she could lose some of her essential health benefits under the new proposed health care law.
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Simon Haeder, West Virginia University
Essential health benefits under Obamacare are suddenly the center of controversy in the proposed replacement bill. If certain health benefits are so essential, why are they so loathed? Here's a look.
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Politics + Society
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Richard Arenberg, Brown University; Christopher Sebastian Parker, University of Washington
Trump cuts bait, Ryan loses his nerve – and the Obamacare repeal goes down without a vote. What's next for Congress and the GOP?
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Lee Jarvis, University of East Anglia
Hyperbolic approaches to threat measurement don’t lead to very effective counter-terrorism policy.
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Alexandra Pimor, Liverpool John Moores University
Sixty years since the Treaty of Rome was signed, the EU goal still remains clear: peace.
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Stephanie Jones, Bangor University
The ONS says less Brits are volunteering - but the truth is they're doing it in different ways.
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James Samuel Johnson, University of Leicester
The US's military heft in East Asia may have met its match.
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Alex Balch, University of Liverpool
And what businesses can do to support them.
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Science + Technology
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James Newman, Bath Spa University
From niche player to chart hit, the characteristic sound of videogames has had a considerable influence on music.
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Stephen Hicks, University of Southampton
Research into the 2016 Kaikoura quake revealed a domino effect that could change our understanding of seismic events worldwide.
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Viren Swami, Anglia Ruskin University
Most of us tend to be attracted to people who are similar to ourselves. But there's an important exception to this rule.
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Arts + Culture
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Barnaby Haran, University of Hull
The Royal Academy’s two shows allow us to dive into the history of US/Soviet relations at their most vivid.
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Andrew Kirkland, University of Stirling
Scotland faces another exit at the World Cup qualifiers stage. Time for radical thinking.
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Sarah Olive, University of York
He was pigeonholed as a 'crime writer' but Dexter's intelligent style set him above the genre.
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Health + Medicine
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Orla Hardiman, Trinity College Dublin
The causes of motor neurone disease and schizophrenia have something important in common.
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Eric Brymer, Leeds Beckett University
Why extreme sports can change your life for the better.
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Business + Economy
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Lindsey Appleyard, Coventry University; Shaun French, University of Nottingham
Banking in a highly financialised society like Britain could be seen as akin to a fundamental human right.
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