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Editor's note
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Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey is perhaps the most surprising moment of his presidency so far. Luca Trenta calls Trump’s given reasons absurd
– and as more Republican senators speak out against him, the backlash is only going to intensify. Meanwhile Paula Serafini ponders a corruption of the American Dream, in which an image of Trump standing on a star-spangled tank with gold fixings, cash, and an eagle with a machine gun, can be claimed as a triumph by Trump supporters and a laugh-out-loud parody by his detractors.
Humans have always been obsessed with the idea of eternal youth. Though we may not have figured out how to stop the process of growing old there’s some good news. A new study has used epigenetics to create a tool that can predict ageing in mice. Wolf Reik and Oliver Stegle explain how it may even help us slow down the ageing clock.
And a beach in Ireland has “reappeared” some 30 years after it was washed away by a strong tide. Simon Boxall explains what happened, and where all the sand had been hiding.
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Andrew Naughtie
International Editor
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Luca Trenta, Swansea University
The White House's absurd rationale for firing Comey could mask something deeply disturbing.
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Politics + Society
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Sam Power, University of Sussex
The decision not to take action against a number of election candidates is not a whitewash, but it shows that the law needs a rethink.
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Martin Moore, King's College London; Gordon Neil Ramsay, King's College London
As the media again become a battleground in this election, what can we learn from how the Brexit campaign was covered?
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Matteo Bonotti, Cardiff University; Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost, Cardiff University
The English language will be one of the most important things the UK leaves behind in the EU.
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Paula Serafini, University of Leicester
One of Trump’s selling points was that he would 'make America great again': this meant bringing back the American dream.
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Paul Smith, University of Nottingham
Despite being widely tipped as the next leader of the Front National, the young deputy is dropping out.
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Anna Sergi, University of Essex
In ’Ndrangheta mafia families, the inter-generational links go deep.
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Kelly J. Stockdale, Teesside University
The new psychoactive drug Spice is taking its toll on frontline policing.
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Environment + Energy
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Simon Boxall, University of Southampton
A entire beach in Ireland has returned 33 years after being washed away.
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Robert Lambert, University of Nottingham
Fifteen charter planes arrived in Orkney after a red-windged blackbird was spotted.
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Science + Technology
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Wolf Reik, University of Cambridge; Oliver Stegle, European Bioinformatics Institute
A new study in mice raises hopes that we could live longer and be healthier.
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Jenna Kiddie, Anglia Ruskin University
Our feline friends have a reputation for being distant – but are cats really that cool?
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Arts + Culture
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Rachael Durkin, Edinburgh Napier University
The Scottish capital is reopening a well kept secret: one of the world's finest collections of vintage sound machines.
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Hans-Ludwig Buchholz, University of Aberdeen
Through subtle parallels to our own lives and choices, literature can help us make sense of political upheavals.
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Business + Economy
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Janette Rutterford, The Open University
If the UK fails to maintain its global outlook, it could lose business to a globalist France.
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