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Netball Super League 2025: the Nottingham Forest rise to success!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Netball Super League 2025: the Nottingham Forest rise to success!

...resources, and a built-in fanbase, Nottingham Forest Netball is well positioned to be one of the most competitive new teams in the NSL. Let’s face it, with the men’s football club’s rising profile during the 2024–25 season, Nottingham Forest’s success can only benefit netball. The football club’s rising profile will generate more media attention and fan...
Rocky relations: Why an isolated rock in the Atlantic is a sought after and contested place
Nature & Environment

Rocky relations: Why an isolated rock in the Atlantic is a sought after and contested place

...resources, is the primary source of the interest in this single unforgiving and unliveable rock. [Rockall with birds flying] Arguably there can be few places in the world, so small, so isolated, and so perilous, that have generated international disputes, and filled as many newspaper and online column inches as has Rockall. The dispute goes back to the middle of the...
An American Classic: How Spam became a success
Money & Business

An American Classic: How Spam became a success

...resourcefulness. Spam ‘hits the spot’ Spam isn’t exactly the most exciting product. The original recipe included chopped pork shoulder meat with ham, salt, water, sugar and sodium nitrite. (This remained unchanged until 2009, when Hormel added potato starch in an effort to eliminate one of the product’s less attractive features: the gelatin layer created by the...
COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit
Nature & Environment

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit

...resource extraction. In the UAE, sovereign wealth fund Mubadala is tasked with enabling this transition. It has invested in a variety of high-tech sectors, spanning commercial satellites to research and development in renewable energy. But even if the UAE was to achieve net zero by some measure domestically, continuing to export oil internationally means it will be burned...
Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...resource and species-rich hay can still provide a wide range of nutrients and medicinal compounds for pasture-fed livestock. [brown calf grass field] [lamb sheep meadow] Livestock grazed on species-rich meadows may enjoy better health owing to a wide range of natural antibiotic and antiparasitic compounds produced by meadow herbs. The timing of haymaking is a critical...
Hidden soil allies – fungi that help plants face drought
Nature & Environment

Hidden soil allies – fungi that help plants face drought

...resources to grow, especially in dry or poor soils. For farmers, this means healthier crops with less dependence on synthetic fertiliser. [Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal structures in the root and benefits for crops. ]Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal structures in the root and benefits for crops.Show description Spores are thick-walled, multi-nucleate reproductive structure...
How did Aretha Franklin inspire the civil rights movement?
History & The Arts

How did Aretha Franklin inspire the civil rights movement?

...resources” two years before. She won 18 Grammy Awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award (in 1994) and presided over a rich recorded musical legacy preserved in 42 studio albums, 131 singles, six live albums and more. Her iconic performances and productions came to define the term “soul music” in the 20th century, setting the standard for black female vocal...
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

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