As Ukraine faces an uncertain future amid the ongoing invasion by Russia, historians around the world are looking to the past to better understand the motivations of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the future. Few are as well-placed to analyze how Putin’s interpretation
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British Reporter — A Scottish start-up at the Higgs Centre for Innovation, has raised £3.5 million to give robots a sense of a touch.
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Wondering is a series of random questions answered by Harvard experts. For the latest installment, we asked the human evolutionary biologist Erin Hecht, whose research focuses in part on neural and behavioral variation in domestic canine breeds, if your dog would care
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British Reporter — There are more than 7bn people on the planet, and each of them has their own unique face. The sum of a person’s eyes, nose, cheeks and mouth all individual to them. And now, new research shows that the
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British Reporter — As smart watches are increasingly able to monitor the vital signs of health, including what’s going on when we sleep, a problem has emerged: those wearable, wireless devices are often disconnected from our body overnight, being charged at the
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British Reporter — MRC-funded scientists at the University of Exeter have discovered how to recreate the early structure of the human embryo from stem cells in the laboratory. Scientists at the University of Exeter’s Living Systems Institute, working with the University of Cambridge,
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British Reporter — An international team of scientists led by The University of Manchester have discovered 179 kidney genes responsible for high blood pressure. High blood pressure, known as “silent killer”, is one of the most common human diseases and remains the key
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