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Over the past few decades, the UK has become an international leader in child poverty. Not in defeating it, but in enabling it. The average child has shrunk in height and goes hungry more often. While other nations have been closing the poverty gap, in Britain, hardship is on the rise.
In his new book, Danny Dorling investigates how this state of affairs has come to pass in one of the world’s richest nations. Ahead of its publication, he shares his key findings with Conversation readers.
New research suggests that an El Niño weather pattern may have been what wiped out 90% of the world’s species more than 250 million years ago – and its authors explain why here.
Those plants that survived were highly resilient. Could it be down to their secret communication skills?
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Grace Allen
Education and Young People Editor
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Danny Dorling, University of Oxford
Children are becoming poorer in the UK – more so than in other countries.
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252 million years ago, there was only one supercontinent: Pangaea.
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Alex Farnsworth, University of Bristol; David Bond, University of Hull; Paul Wignall, University of Leeds
We modelled the climate during this period and discovered episodes of intense ocean heating.
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Sven Batke, Edge Hill University
How do plants communicate, and how does it differ from us?
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World
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Jack L. Rozdilsky, York University, Canada
An apparent second assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reflects a disturbing development in American politics.
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Jessica Wax-Edwards, University College Cork
Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador is days from retirement, yet his social media following continues to grow.
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Politics + Society
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Stephen Cushion, Cardiff University
The numbers suggest that many people have not given up on TV news, but rather have gone online in addition to watching television.
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Arts + Culture
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Emily Hauser, University of Exeter
Hera might not have been a passionate apiarist but there’s some truth in Kaos’s twisting of the tales
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Giulia Champion, University of Southampton; Akshata Mehta, University of the Western Cape; Mia Strand, Nelson Mandela University
Marine art is an important form of storytelling. Visual, performance, sculptural and moving image arts have driven the evolution of marine sciences too.
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Jack Fennell, University of Limerick
When Agatha Harkness was created by Marvel in 1969, the comic code prohibited vampires, ghouls, werewolves and horror content.
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Environment
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Sam Hampton, University of Oxford; Lorraine Whitmarsh, University of Bath
But structural barriers to lifestyle change, like housing tenure, prevent wider transformation.
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Giulia Champion, University of Southampton; Akshata Mehta, University of the Western Cape; Mia Strand, Nelson Mandela University
Marine art is an important form of storytelling. Visual, performance, sculptural and moving image arts have driven the evolution of marine sciences too.
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Health
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Judith Smith, University of Birmingham
The government has announced three major reform priorities for the NHS. If successfully implemented, they could start to transform the health service.
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Adam Taylor, Lancaster University
Several children have died after attempting these social media crazes.
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Science + Technology
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Daniel Brown, Nottingham Trent University
This month, they spotted just the ninth asteroid to be detected before impact with Earth.
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Saul Justin Newman, UCL
Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.
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