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Chatting with friends and colleagues, it seems like quite a few of us don’t feel like we’re getting enough sleep right now, thanks to the huge disruptions to our lives the pandemic has brought about.
Our growing concern with getting a good night’s sleep has led to a boom in wearable sleep trackers, which estimate how much sleep you actually get by measuring body movements or heart rate during the night. But as Matthew Reid explains, these sleep tracking devices might not always be as accurate as users think — and for some, monitoring technology could actually keep them up at night.
Meanwhile, researchers studying glaciers from the end of the last ice age have been looking back 12,000 years to try to understand how climate change may alter our weather today. And astronomers watching
two galaxies merge have shown for the first time that the resulting rapid expulsion of gas may be what stops some galaxies from forming new stars.
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Heather Kroeker
Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine
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Sleep trackers use an algorithm to estimate how much time you spent asleep based on body movements.
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Matthew Reid, University of Oxford
Despite the appeal of sleep trackers, they could cause unwanted anxiety for some.
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As the jet stream moves northwards, the UK can expect more storms and flooding in the winter.
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Brice Rea, University of Aberdeen
Ice Age glaciers can help us track the jet stream 12,000 ago, and by comparing its path today we can see how it's moving northwards, changing weather patterns and indicating climate change.
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Elliptical galaxies are filled with extremely old stars.
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Annagrazia Puglisi, Durham University
These results might lead us to revise our understanding of how galaxies stop forming their stars.
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Business + Economy
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Rita Fontinha, University of Reading; James Walker, University of Reading
How can businesses overcome institutional hurdles to transition to a four-day week?
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Michael Plouffe, UCL; Thomas Gift, UCL
From pandemic stimulus to China relations, it will soon become clear that there is a new broom in town.
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Joe Deville, Lancaster University; Rebecca Florisson, Lancaster University
The UK would not be surprising if pressure mounted for the government to engage in wholesale reform of the social security system. It's largely an inadequate buffer from shocks on household finances.
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Education
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Edward Cartwright, De Montfort University
We need to return to a norm of families only accessing in-school provision where it is absolutely unavoidable.
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Karen Clegg, University of York
Take part in collaborative working and play to your strengths.
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Politics + Society
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Catherine Stinton, University of York
Far-right activists are usually characterised as men. But women have always played an important role in these movements.
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Environment + Energy
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Peter S. Ross, University of British Columbia
Microplastic pollution is a global issue, but where do they come from and how are they transported across the ocean? A new study finds polyester microfibres are common throughout the Arctic Ocean.
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Arts + Culture
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Robert Morrison, Queen's University, Ontario
'Bridgerton' alludes to and obscures social, racial and political tensions in England’s Regency era, the extraordinary decade that marks the dawn of the modern world.
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