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How testosterone affects risk taking behaviour article icon

Science, Maths & Technology

How testosterone affects risk taking behaviour

What role does testosterone play in risk taking behaviour?

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Our sense of balance article icon

Science, Maths & Technology

Our sense of balance

We all know that our ears play a major role in our sense of balance - but how?

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The immune system article icon

Science, Maths & Technology

The immune system

The human immune system is incredibly complex - how does it work?

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Oliver Sacks: article icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

For Vaughan Bell of Mind Hacks, the more Sacks wrote, the more we were inspired - and the more we knew of the man himself

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Fracking: No need for all the fuss article icon

Science, Maths & Technology

Fracking: No need for all the fuss

Geologist David Rothery considers the benefits of fracking against the environmental concerns.

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Life with the lions: Why relocating South African lions to Rwanda might create its own problems article icon

Science, Maths & Technology

Life with the lions: Why relocating South African lions to Rwanda might create its own problems

The reintroduction of lions to Rwanda after twenty years might seem like a conversation success story - but it's a little more compliacted, explains Laura Bertola.

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Small Data: Summer petrol prices article icon

Money & Business

Small Data: Summer petrol prices

It's August - and many families will be heading off soon on summer holidays. But how has the cost of petrol changed over the last ten years?

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Why would you want your own web domain? article icon

Digital & Computing

Why would you want your own web domain?

New services are making it easier to have your own home, under its own address, on the internet. But why would you want to do that? Tony Hirst explains.

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Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack? article icon

History & The Arts

Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?

Hackers have exposed the details of millions of users of a site designed to help married people cheat. Nobody comes out of the story looking particularly good - but who is more sinned against than sinning?

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How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do? article icon

Science, Maths & Technology

How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?

Indian-born Sundar Pichai has been appointed CEO at Google. How did India react to the news? Like anything, with jokes and Wikipedia edit wars.

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Postcards from the doctor: Spreading health care messages in India article icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Postcards from the doctor: Spreading health care messages in India

How do you spread healthcare messages amongst people too poor to access the for-profit health system in India? One doctor found a low-tech approach works.

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The world's busiest railway station - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai article icon

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The world's busiest railway station - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai

Find out more about the world's busiest railway station - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai, India.

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