Schools already treat some life skills, such as swimming, as essential.
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Public trust in UK water companies is low, and this could be a challenge when the country faces another serious drought.
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Sleep depends partly on body temperature. When nights stay hot, these low-cost cooling strategies may help.
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Critics are calling the agreement a “complete capitulation” by the US.
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Fitness trackers often privilege steps over strength, rest and context, which can leave some users with a distorted view of health.
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AI is learning to lie — and then gaslight you about it.
Researchers found that when AI models are gently nudged with false information, they’ll often invent details, defend the falsehood and stick to it even after being corrected.
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Although visible mending was once seen as a quiet, grassroots resistance movement to fast fashion, its popularity is fast growing.
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No vaccinated young woman in England has died of cervical cancer in years. Japan’s vaccine scare shows how easily that progress can unravel.
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Neuroscience provides plenty of evidence for raising the age from ten.
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‘End-time’ leaders are muscling their way into the top tiers of government and business.
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Climate expert Ioana Colfescu talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about predicting the impact of El Niño.
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The Virtual World of Stonehenge has been released to coincide with the summer solstice.
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Fathers are more involved than ever. So why do so many still feel overlooked and unsupported?
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Of all the characteristics we might prize in a leader – competence, integrity, careful judgment, ethical courage – why do people rate charisma so highly?
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Makerfield’s new MP said the area would give its name to a new test to ensure fairness for neglected areas.
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New research suggests that exercising together can improve parents’ and children’s health, thinking skills and motivation to stay active.
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If Burnham becomes PM, it shows that Westminster is no longer the only route to the top job.
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Iran’s contribution to the global economy is not centred merely on oil, as the war has shown.
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The island’s history was marked by mixture and cultural reinvention.
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Gangs offer belonging, identity, protection and support for young people.
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Research suggests smell may help us sense illness, emotion and risk long before we notice anything consciously.
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Billed as Russia’s Michael McIntyre, Sasha Nezlobin is having to almost start again in exile.
https://theconversation.com/exiled-russian-comic-sasha-nezlobin-brings-laugh-therapy-to-edinburgh-fringe-288971
Even after accounting for other factors, black detainees remained more than twice as likely to be strip-searched as their white counterparts.
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A third of police forces across England and Wales are judged by the inspectorate as “inadequate” or “requiring improvement”.
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Sperm activity in bees dropped after being exposed to heatwave conditions.
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Victorian architects knew how to design homes to stay cooler, and their techniques could be used today.
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Seven of the best films celebrating the notion of fatherhood.
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The Treasury has tended to keep a tight rein on spending.
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How to place disabled people, who are some of the most vulnerable, at the centre of climate change negotiations.
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You can wear a mask, pull up a hood, avoid looking at a camera – but you cannot easily change how you walk.
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Songs about fathers and fatherhood range in tone from joy and and celebration to absence, tension and grief.
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The key issue is no longer simply who gets into television, but who can afford to stay and build a long-term career.
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This looks like the beginning of the end for Starmer – and the end of the beginning for Burnham.
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The high drama of Douglas Stuart’s new novel sometimes feels like a soap opera – but his lyrical prose and atmospheric narrative elevate the genre.
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There is no one way to be an astronaut; you can’t go to astronaut school.
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In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV has called for much closer regulation of AI technology, particularly in military settings.
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The heatwave in May meant people started to use more water to stay cool, and on their plants.
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The Backrooms began with a single image: a claustrophobic warren of tawdrily yellow, windowless rooms with aged carpets and harsh overhead fluorescent lights.
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Swift appears to be the first musician to take this step.
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Up to 19 million people in the UK face digital poverty — and digital access is now a human right universities can’t afford to ignore.
https://tcnv.link/Gdm3pJH
With such cuts in programming and in jobs, will the BBC be able to maintain its high level of trust and attention?
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A large trial found no evidence that Hepa air filters reduce respiratory infections in care homes, challenging assumptions about their role in infection control.
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There have always been competing ideas about what it means to have free speech.
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How a bedbound patient and a 73-page study changed the way doctors make decisions.
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These games should compel traditional sport to solve its fundamental problems and reflect upon the true value of sport and athletes.
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Our picks this week include a history of how America came to love football, a book about freedom of speech, an adaptation of a Woolf book and two artistic takes on nature.
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These online networks expose and reinforce a culture in which women’s consent, autonomy and bodily integrity are devalued.
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Italian and British governments conspired to brand Violet Albina Gibson ‘insane’ as it was politically expedient.
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What people believe about choice and responsibility shapes what they think prison is for.
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