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Editor's note
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Saturn’s largest moon Titan is one of the most intriguing places in the solar system. Not only is this icy world eerily similar to our own planet, it may be able to host some form of primitive organisms – making it the ideal place to study how life arose on Earth. But it is difficult to peer through the moon’s smog-filled atmosphere, meaning we don’t know much about what’s going on on its surface.
Now a team of scientists have used radar to create the first ever global map of the moon, uncovering many secrets about its terrain. David Rothery explains.
Back on Earth, it wasn’t long ago nationalisation wouldn’t have been mentioned in an election. But polling suggests it can be a vote winner, and Labour’s manifesto launch today can be expected to bang the drum for public ownership. But does it make economic sense? Kevin Albertson says it does.
Meanwhile, Stephen Coleman reports from Leeds where he watched the election debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn with 100 undecided voters. With abundant evidence that debates have an effect on undecided voters, he explains who came across best.
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Miriam Frankel
Science Editor
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Top stories
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Titan imaged in the near infrared by the Cassini orbiter on November 13, 2015.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho
David Rothery, The Open University
Saturn's largest moon has been fully mapped for the first time.
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Kevin Albertson, Manchester Metropolitan University
A breakdown of the theory behind nationalisation and privatisation of key public services, as well as what has happened in practice.
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Which did you hate least?
ITV/Jonathan Hordle
Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds
Both party leaders seem to elicit stronger negative responses than positive.
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Health + Medicine
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Samuel Couth, University of Manchester
New study finds that musicians, music directors and production staff have nearly double the risk of getting tinnitus compared with people employed in quieter industries.
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Science + Technology
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Michael Caldwell, University of Alberta; Alessandro Palci, Flinders University
The discovery of a perfectly preserved snake skull fossil answers many questions about the evolution of snakes from lizards.
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Samuel Levin, University of Oxford
Somewhere out there, just maybe, an alien – probably stranger looking than in our wildest imagination – might be pondering this very question.
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Politics + Society
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Dave Beck, University of Salford
Food poverty is increasingly generating child victims, whose only salvation comes from donations of emergency food provisions.
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Blessing-Miles Tendi, University of Oxford
When the military intervened against Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe in 2017, it wasn't widely called a military coup. New research shows that's exactly what it was.
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Keith Parry, University of Winchester; Eric Anderson, University of Winchester; Matthew Smith, University of Winchester
Rising Australian cricket star Will Pucovski is one of a recent trio of professional cricketers to take a break from playing to boost their mental well-being.
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