Anybody within the eruption zone would be pulverised by blasts, crisped by the heat, or asphyxiated by ash.
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Researchers travelled across Damascus, Rural Damascus, Aleppo and Raqqa observing firsthand how Syrians are navigating the country’s transition.
How big policy areas like crime, education, transport and energy have changed.
There is not only one way to learn to read, as people who are deaf, blind or dyslexic demonstrate.
A visit to my friend in a remote Yorkshire village led me into a three-month immersion in one of Britain’s most remarkable forms of social care.
How has the UK’s health changed since 2001?
The changing face of demographics, immigration, social attitudes and LGBTQ+ politics.
Every container opens onto its own distinct social world.
How finances and the economy have changed over 25 years.
How the political debate has shifted in the last 25 years.
The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave consciousness.
Research has found that when you manipulate people to doubt free will, bad things happen – including cheating and aggression. But does it hold up?
Italian and British governments conspired to brand Violet Albina Gibson ‘insane’ as it was politically expedient.
Archaeologists thought ancient Amazonia was only home to wandering people, but new technology has uncovered complex societies living in forest cities.
Researchers interviewed almost 30 religious leaders across all six major religious faiths in the UK to find out how AI was affecting them.
Could psychopathy be something we’ve just imagined because it’s convenient? Some experts believe so.
It’s the ultimate win-win that food scientists have been seeking for over a century. But replacing the sweet stuff turns out to be much harder than anyone imagined.
‘It dawned on me that I felt lonely’: how my research into friendship gave me a new perspective on my social life.
A week after the asteroid impact, rotting vegetation, smoke and sulphur create a stinky planet. Plant and animal survivors succumb to the corrosive acid rain.
Attenborough has influenced everything from conservation and documentary production to the communication of the biggest story of all – climate change.
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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Chargée de recherche CNRS, Géographe et politiste spécialiste des frontières et migrations, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Plymouth
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Winchester
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
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Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey
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Professor of Neurology, UCL
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Associate Professor, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor in Modern History, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Social History, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Winchester
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Professor of Modern History, University of Bristol