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How a study in the Stockholm subway could help prevent violent crime

Society

How a study in the Stockholm subway could help prevent violent crime

We need to learn the lessons from an ingenious piece of research done in Sweden and radically change policies around interpersonal violence, says Jens Ludwig

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2DF6M9A Young boy struggling with large yellow umbrella on beach in stormy weather. Winter beach scene.

Technology

Storm clouds threaten a promised AI revolution in weather prediction

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Your imagination holds the power to make you healthier and happier

Mind

Your imagination holds the power to make you healthier and happier

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A person breathing outside with trees in the background

Mind

How to boost your brain power just by changing how you breathe

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D4B636 Brighton Sussex UK 11 March 2013 - A damaged Brighton and Hove city council parking meter in Queens Park

Environment

Hiking parking costs is a great way to reduce car usage

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This is how to avoid annihilating ourselves in a nuclear war

Society

This is how to avoid annihilating ourselves in a nuclear war

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China's national flags flutter in front of a coal-powered power station in Datong, China's northern Shanxi province on November 3, 2021. (Photo by Noel Celis / AFP) (Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment

Why the climate crown is ready for China to take – if it wants to

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2T1GT7B Artwork of Accelerating Universe

Physics

How dark energy findings may inspire a new generation of physics nerds

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When it comes to crime, you can't algorithm your way to safety

Technology

When it comes to crime, you can't algorithm your way to safety

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The complexity of female sex hormones calls for more science, not less

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The complexity of female sex hormones calls for more science, not less

Women were historically excluded from health studies on the grounds that hormone fluctuations introduced "noise" into the data, and this has left us with a lack of understanding about a range of conditions

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Life

Is the fungal science in The Last of Us going off the rails?

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Mind

Science is a Pandora's box – but we should open it anyway

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Life

What if we could experience life as another species?

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Society

Don't ban kids from social media; create a site that works for them

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