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Researchers are increasingly uncovering how severe the impacts of bullying can be. For young victims, the negative effects on mental and physical health can last decades. Despite this, it keeps happening in schools and workplaces, partly because people rarely interfere to stop it.
In some workplaces, up to 60% of employees report doing nothing when witnessing bullying. Psychological research has tried to crack the psychology of these “bystanders”. One factor seems to be that people simply feel less personally responsible to act when there are other people around. Another culprit is failing to see the situation from the victim’s perspective.
But new research has discovered that bystanders actually have a lot of power, and there are effective actions both individuals and organisations can take to stop bullying.
Meanwhile, according to a new assessment, one in five reptile species face extinction. But with more than half of all crocodile species being a high priority for conservation, we may be able to prevent some of this damage over time. This wasn’t an option for the dinosaurs, however, who famously went extinct when an asteroid hit Earth. As a new documentary about a ‘dinosaur graveyard’ explores what may have been their final day on Earth, an expert scrutinises the evidence.
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Miriam Frankel
Science Editor
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Are you a bystander?
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Kara Ng, University of Manchester; Karen Niven, University of Sheffield
The majority of people who witness workplace bullying do nothing about it.
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A yacare caiman (Caiman yacare) in the Pantanal wetlands of Bolivia.
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Louise Gentle, Nottingham Trent University
More than half of all crocodile species are a high priority for conservation according to the assessment.
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David Attenborough presents the BBC’s groundbreaking documentary, Dinosaurs: The Final Day.
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Michael J. Benton, University of Bristol
A recent BBC documentary examined fossils thought to have been made when an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Ukraine Invasion
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Emma McClean, University of Westminster; Aidan Hehir, University of Westminster
UN peacekeeping and security efforts have always been plagued by the Security Council veto. But moves are afoot to solve this problem.
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Alexander Mihailov, University of Reading
Democratic nations are adept at evolving to deal with economic shocks.
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Politics + Society
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Mark de Rond, Cambridge Judge Business School
Paedophile hunting follows the archetype of the ‘hero’s journey’.
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Rowan Cruft, University of Stirling; Natalie Alana Ashton, University of Stirling
The digital public sphere is constantly evolving, so we need a regulatory framework that helps to structure public discussion, and in turn guide our own public contributions as citizens.
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Environment
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Charlie Gardner, University of Kent; Emily Cox, Cardiff University; Stuart Capstick, Cardiff University
Extinction Rebellion targeted the department responsible for climate change policy.
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Henrike Schulte to Bühne, Zoological Society of London; Doug Weir, King's College London; Jan Nyssen, Ghent University; Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
We used satellite imagery to track the decline of vegetation since the civil war began.
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Health
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Thea van de Mortel, Griffith University
All up, your risk of catching COVID on a flight is very low. But there are things you can do to lower that risk even further.
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