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Those of you lamenting a post-COVID return to sitting in stifling meeting rooms and sweating on crowded dancefloors might be pleased to hear that all the heat you’re expending could be used to cut energy costs.
Researchers are working on heat-pump systems allowing thermal energy from bodies at rest – or play – to be stored for later use heating buildings, reducing the need for fossil fuel-driven heating systems as well as making bills cheaper. One day, “smart buildings” may even be able to adjust their temperature based on the number of people inside them.
What’s on the cards for Twitter now it’s being bought by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk? It’s certainly unlikely to be his vision of a free-speech utopia, given growing government restrictions around what can be said online. And the invasion of Ukraine by Russia has led to questions about whether Europe’s far-right politicians will maintain their friendliness with Putin’s regime.
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Imogen Malpas
Commissioning Editor, Environment + Energy
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Capturing energy from clubbers could help power homes and buildings.
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Amin Al-Habaibeh, Nottingham Trent University
Extracting and storing human body heat we generate could improve building sustainability while cutting bills.
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The Elon ranger.
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Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London
We may be besieged by private companies in online spaces, but only up to a point.
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Toby Greene, Bar-Ilan University
Research shows that Europe’s far right has deep ideological and practical ties to Putin’s Russia.
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Business + Economy
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Samantha Evans, University of Kent; Madeleine Wyatt, King's College London
Climbing the ladder is not a simple process.
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Leïla Choukroune, University of Portsmouth; Elisabeth Mavropoulou, University of Westminster
Many crew members from merchant ships have escaped, but plenty more are stuck on cold ships with supplies of everything from food to medicines fast running out.
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Science + Technology
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Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University
Twitter, more than other social media platforms, fosters real-time discussion about events as they unfold. That could change now that Musk has gained control of the company.
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Nicole Andrejek, McMaster University
Like other gender gaps, it is important to continue pushing past individual explanations and understand the gender gap in orgasms as a form of gender inequality.
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Environment
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Rebecca Willis, Lancaster University
After years of complex legal processes and misinformation, the mine’s fate hangs in the balance.
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Health
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Danielle Perro, University of Oxford; Christian Becker, University of Oxford
Women with endometriosis already wait up to eight years for a diagnosis in the UK. Post-pandemic delays could make this even worse.
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