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Space milestones: here are the missions to look forward to in 2020
SpaceX’s Dragon 2 will carry humans for the first time in 2020. NASA/SpaceX
Gareth Dorrian, University of Birmingham and Ian Whittaker, Nottingha...
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Why people leave Facebook – and what it tells us about the future of social media
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Mark Whitehead, Aberystwyth University
The number of active users of Facebook (those people who have logged onto the site...
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The fourth industrial revolution could lead to a dark future
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Jamie Morgan, Leeds Beckett University
Cast your mind back a decade or so and consider how the future looked then. A public ho...
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Could 5G replace cable broadband?
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Mohammad S. Hasan, Staffordshire University
Millions of people in developed countries still don’t have access to superfast bro...
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Fitness gurus and 'muscular Christianity': how Victorian Britain anticipated today's keep fit craze
Weightlifter Eugen Sandow might be compared to a Victorian fitness ‘influencer’. Wellcome Images/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY
James Stark, Universit...
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You're probably more susceptible to misinformation than you think
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Darren Lilleker, Bournemouth University
Online misinformation works, or so it would seem. One of the more interesting stat...
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Facial recognition: research reveals new abilities of 'super-recognisers'
When it comes to faces, most of us are typical-recognisers, with just a small percentage classed as super-recognisers. Shutterstock
David James R...
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Ageing: how our 'epigenetic clocks' slow down as we get older
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Leonard Schalkwyk, University of Essex and Jonathan Mill, University of Exeter
From the tap dancing 90-year-old to the 40-...
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Protein powder, shake, and supplement: how much can our body actually use?
Do we really need that post-workout shake? Syda Productions/ Shutterstock
David Rogerson, Sheffield Hallam University
Once only used by bodybuild...
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Amazon Echo’s privacy issues go way beyond voice recordings
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Garfield Benjamin, Solent University
Amazon Echo and the Alexa voice assistant have had widely publicised issues with privacy. Wh...
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Not bot, not beast: scientists create first ever living, programmable organism
Simon Coghlan, University of Melbourne and Kobi Leins, University of Melbourne
A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biolo...
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How to make the perfect cup of coffee – with a little help from science
Jamie Foster, University of Portsmouth and Christopher H. Hendon, University of Oregon
Have you ever wondered why the coffee you make at home tast...
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