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Five books by Maryse Condé to introduce you to the award-winning Guadeloupian writer

Her stories and essays unpicked the complexities and after-effects of colonialism in searing and incisive ways.

26/04/2024

Artificial sweetener could harm your gut and the microbes that live there – new study

The new generation of artificial sweeteners was meant to be less harmful than the previous generation. A new study suggests they might be just as harmful.

26/04/2024

A new dash for copper is underway - how will it play out? Expert Q&A

The global economy is going through a transition in various ways. Emerging markets are expanding their industrial capacity quite rapidly and copper is a critical industrial metal, so that’s creating demand.

26/04/2024

Waste pickers play a key role in the fight against plastic pollution – insights from South Africa into how their voices can be heard

Because waste pickers go through trash and leave behind everything without value, they know better than anyone which plastics should be eliminated.

26/04/2024

Purple Hibiscus: Ibrahim Mahama’s Barbican installation wraps the brutalist building in bright cloth and reveals a hidden history

The bright pink fabric swaying gently in the wind stands in stark contrast to the grey tones of the brutalist architectural complex.

26/04/2024

TikTok users claim freezing bread can make it healthier – here’s what the science actually says

Freezing bread can not only cut down on food waste, it may also have modest benefits for your health.

26/04/2024

‘Polite littering’ is a rubbish problem – here’s why the British approach to tackling clean ups is not working

Some littering is conscious, some is created unintentionally. Tackling the reason it was created could make clean-up tactics more effective.

26/04/2024

Species living closely together in symbiosis is far older and way more common than you might think

Symbiosis is so much part of life on Earth that it has shaped the evolution and structure of cells. It’s happening almost everywhere we look, including inside our gut.

26/04/2024

What is childhood dementia? And how could new research help?

Children with childhood dementia progressively lose all previously acquired skills and abilities, such as talking, walking, learning, remembering and reasoning.

26/04/2024

What do we lose when our old suburbs disappear?

I live on the edge of Parramatta, Australia’s fastest-growing city, on the kind of old-fashioned suburban street that has 1950s fibros constructed in the post-war housing boom, double-storey brick homes with Greek columns that aspirational migrants…

26/04/2024

We reconstructed landscapes that greeted the first humans in Australia around 65,000 years ago

By detailing the landscape at the time of first humans’ migration into Australia, we can better understand how people travelled and where they settled.

26/04/2024

The planetary orbit in Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ is random and chaotic, but could it exist?

The Netflix series ‘3 Body Problem’ is based on Liu Cixin’s scifi novel that follows what happens to the alien residents of a planet that orbits two stars.

25/04/2024

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