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Researchers at Oxford University have spent the past year assembling a database of every available COVID-19 policy on earth, from school closures to stay at home orders, contact tracing systems and vaccine rollouts. Their findings show that no country was predestined to do well or poorly when it comes to coronavirus – no matter if they were democracies or autocracies, rich or poor, or run by populists or technocrats. And in the years ahead,
we’ll only truly recover from this pandemic if countries start working together.
When we think of wildfires, we tend to think of Australia, California or southern Europe. But as the climate changes, the UK could be in danger of burning too. A team of climate researchers has built a model to predict how bad things could get in the years to come.
And scientists are trying to redefine precisely how long a second is using ultrafast lasers. If they succeed, they could help us detect gravitational waves.
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Megan Clement
Commissioning Editor, COVID-19
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Senegal has kept cases low and the economy running.
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Thomas Hale, University of Oxford
For one year, 600 people tracked 20 types of coronavirus restriction in 186 countries – here's what they found out.
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A wildfire rages near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.
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Nigel Arnell, University of Reading
Most fires are started by humans, but warmer and drier summers will mean a small spark will more easily turn into a serious fire.
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Measuring time.
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Ben Murdin, University of Surrey
New research has tested the latest generation of atomic clocks.
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Politics + Society
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Juliana Sutanto, Lancaster University
News organisations are wracking their brains on how to get people to their sites.
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Frances Darlington-Pollock, University of Liverpool; Ludi Simpson, University of Manchester; Mark Green, University of Liverpool
Hundreds of thousands more people died between 2010-11 and 2017-18 than anticipated. Austerity could have something to do with it
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Devran Gulel, University of Portsmouth; Leïla Choukroune, University of Portsmouth
Turkey has withdrawn from a convention to protect the rights of women that was signed in its capital city.
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Business + Economy
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Rory Hopcraft, University of Plymouth; Kevin Jones, University of Plymouth; Kimberly Tam, University of Plymouth
The Suez Canal is the ideal target for causing maximum disruption to global trade.
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Jane Parry, University of Southampton; Michalis Veliziotis, University of Southampton
A year of working from home has become normalised for many jobs. We're now learning a great deal about its effects on the workforce and our lives.
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Health + Medicine
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Richard Hoffman, University of Hertfordshire
If so, it's just one lifestyle risk among many others.
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Anita Milicic, University of Oxford
Adjuvants have been giving vaccines their oomph since 1925.
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Science + Technology
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Mohamed Mostafa, Cardiff Metropolitan University; Chaminda Hewage, Cardiff Metropolitan University; Simon Thorne, Cardiff Metropolitan University
If it hosts the same violent rhetoric that saw Parler forced offline, Trump's platform may be a short-lived adventure.
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Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, University of Cambridge; George Savulich, University of Cambridge
As the UK's first clinic to offer psychedelic drugs for mental health disorders opens, a study reveals that informed users don't have problems with self control.
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Arts + Culture
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Maggie Jackson, Teesside University
From talking about death to understanding grief, these picture books can help parents start a difficult conversation about death with young children.
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East Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB11PT, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland — Anglia Ruskin University
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East Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB11PT, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland — Anglia Ruskin University
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East Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB11PT, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland — Anglia Ruskin University
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