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AI Breakthroughs And An 11% Surge In Math Majors
Once again, maths is the most popular A-level subject. There were 115,380 entries in the subject in 2026, an increase of 3.9% from 2025. Further maths AS-level entries enjoyed an 8.5% increase from 20...
Earth Sciences
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How Do Scientists Know Climate Change Made A Heat Wave Worse?
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all?For many years, scientists could...
Life Sciences
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Are You Your Brain Or Your Body?
Neuroscience treats consciousness as something produced by the brain but a recent paper suggests that conscious experience is shaped through a continuous, rhythmic dialogue between the brain and body;...
Medicine
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Tariffs Have Been Good For U.S. Whiskey Drinkers
Alcohol is a legitimate class 1 carcinogen but if you are going to roll the dice with cancer, tariffs have made it more affordable. In 2018, the Trump administration began to place retaliatory ta...
Physical Sciences
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The US Creating Starfleet Academy Sounds Exciting
He didn't call it a Moonshot or a Manhattan Project of Space, that is the kind of language his political opponents use(1), President Trump announcing a U.S. Space Academy invoked something even bolder...
Social Sciences
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People Who Appropriate Oppression Are Harming Socialization By Their Kids
Actors are famous for manufacturing traumatic situations about every movie they've done but the public builds that into their psychological makeup. People just chuckle that millionaires on union-run f...
