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New study will help uncover new ways of discovering history’s “lost worlds”

Philosophy, art and music will be used to explore the science of the deep past’s “lost worlds” as part of...

Historian secures prestigious prize to launch long-term research project on British anti-slavery

The global history of the British anti-slavery movement is to be the focus of a new and long-term research project...

Refugee legal reforms will have a disproportionate impact on sexually diverse asylum claimants, study warns

Refugee legal reforms will have a disproportionate impact on sexually diverse claimants, academics have warned. Researchers have said the Nationality...

Ocean circulation, ice melt and increasing tourism could all be contributing to Arctic microplastics

Scientists measured microplastic concentrations in the highly productive Barents Sea and suggest that ocean circulation, ice melt, tourism, inadequate waste...

Drifting crustaceans could hold key to climate change

The vast quantity of tiny animals in the global ocean could play a vital role in slowing climate change, scientists...