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22 Mar 2016: From increased job prospects and economic growth to international relations and diplomacy, there are many clear benefits to multilingualism, yet the strong presence of diverse languages within the UK is often

15 Mar 2016: Rather than addressing the root causes of Germany’s social and economic problems, they blame migrants for everything that is going wrong. ... Baden-Wuerttemberg is considered one of Europe’s economic powerhouses, and has the lowest unemployment rate

19 May 2016: App-based ride company Uber has been battling the “establishment” around the world, from traditional black taxi drivers in London to regulators in Australia.

15 Sep 2016: Now, in the paper published in Nature Communications, the Cambridge researchers have gone one stage further, to test the latest predictions of what should happen at high energies, where the original

18 May 2016: It was written within the tradition of ‘stadial’ theories of economic development; these ‘universal histories’ sought to understand all cultures in all places and times.

19 Jan 2016: The harder the material, the larger the value. The Vickers hardness test uses a square-based pyramid diamond tip to make the indent. ... Unfortunately w-BN is extremely rare in nature and difficult to produce in sufficient quantities to properly test

24 Feb 2016: assesses biophysical and socio-economic consequences of sea level rise and socio-economic development, taking into account coastal erosion, coastal flooding, wetland change and salinity intrusion.

28 Oct 2016: Pregnant mothers – particularly older mothers, whose offspring are at greatest risk of developing such disorders – are offered tests to predict the likelihood of genetic abnormalities.

9 May 2016: To conclusively test this hypothesis, researchers would need to follow individual birds between their breeding and non-breeding grounds and monitor changes to their song and their breeding success.

28 Oct 2016: Our researchers have used Batten disease sheep to validate behavioural tests which will now be used to investigate Huntington’s disease, a more common, but equally devastating disease.

15 Jan 2016: New research on butterfly genomes has revealed that the genetic components that produce different splotches of colour on wings can be mixed up between species

20 May 2016: Adolescence is a key time in an individual’s development, and is a period where some teenagers begin to show signs of major depression. One of the major risk

23 May 2016: economic and ethical considerations associated with the public funding of new drugs.

8 Aug 2016: So the uncertainty over the status of non-UK nationals from the EU and European Economic Area is especially disquieting. ... Here is a challenge that the government needs to meet squarely head on if it values national research excellence and its

13 Oct 2016: Borrowing a technique widely used in biomolecular simulations, called the Multistate Bennett Acceptance Ratio, they developed a method which systematically tests the limits of one particular basin of attraction. ... To test this, the team modelled an

11 Jul 2016: In 1967 the British government decided to devalue sterling after several years of poor economic performance, mirroring the declining role of Britain in the world. ... 30%. The world order had changed after the war and the US had a stronger economic

7 Oct 2016: the University of East Anglia, the University of Sheffield and the University of Exeter, and supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

30 Aug 2016: To understand this, the researchers conducted lab tests in which they added each of the five mutated forms of alpha-synuclein, as well as a standard version of the protein, to ... The first round of tests examined the initiation of aggregation, using

15 Apr 2016: As more economic and cultural activity moves online, the data centres which house the servers needed to handle internet traffic are consuming increasing amounts of energy.

22 Nov 2016: This idea was put to the test: after a surgical accident, a one-year old boy was castrated and given a vagina.

4 Oct 2016: The research has provided insights into why we make particular food choices, with potential implications for our understanding of obesity. This is one of the

28 Oct 2016: and food-sharing in jackdaws, to tests of what jays and rooks understand about tools.

1 Apr 2016: Both minority groups suffer from deep-seated prejudices and discrimination.”. One possible reason for raised levels of psychotic disorders in minority groups is their lack of economic and social status.

15 Apr 2016: As far as big life decisions go, choosing when to lose your virginity or the best time start a family are probably right up there for most people. It may seem

23 Sep 2016: Here’s what I found…. Rising employment for women partly reflects macro-economic changes. ... Similar changes have occurred in Zambia. From the mid-1980s, families' economic security worsened due to trade liberalisation, resulting factory closures,

23 Nov 2016: Researchers have developed a new imaging technique that makes it possible to study why proteins associated with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases may go

16 Nov 2016: Ultimately, ‘racial’ discourses developed partly because the French needed to justify discrimination and segregation towards people who were viewed as a threat to French socio-economic and imperialist ambitions. ... Researchers have shown that this

6 Jun 2016: Water is an issue that cuts across all aspects of social and economic life in India.

22 Jan 2016: Measuring certain kinds of brain activity may help doctors track and predict how patients will react to anaesthesia before going under for surgery, our

17 May 2016: tests in different kinds of places. ... doing these tests in different kinds of places.

11 Oct 2016: For example, based on indirect evidence in one geographical region in the UK, the introduction of faecal occult blood test in the UK is likely to have reduced the proportion of

28 Apr 2016: died. While history painting – the depiction of epic scenes of historical, biblical or mythological content – was seen initially by the Academy as the supreme test of an artist’s skill, portraiture

8 Apr 2016: Women are screened for the condition through a blood glucose test at around 8-12 weeks into pregnancy. ... Current guidelines in the UK and the USA recommend that mothers found to be at greatest risk should then be offered a full test at between 24 and

19 Apr 2016: To test whether the gene functions in the same way in skate embryos, Gillis and his colleagues inhibited Sonic hedgehog at different points during their development.

22 Dec 2016: His work led to the first ever 'test tube baby', Louise Brown.

14 Apr 2016: Every single person is different. We all have different backgrounds, views, values and interests. And yet there is one universal feeling that we all experience

27 Oct 2016: In September 2009 he sent Hillary Clinton to the UN’s Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) conference.

28 Oct 2016: Over a billion people worldwide use Facebook daily – one in seven of the global population – and social media use is increasing at three times the rate of

3 Feb 2016: The converts were from a diverse range of geographical and socio-economic backgrounds.

14 Apr 2016: The researchers found that when making hypothetical food choices, lean and overweight people showed highly comparable patterns both in terms of their choices

26 Apr 2016: NatureBuzz, which is available to download free on iOS and Android platforms, asks participants three times per day to answer questions about how they feel,

1 Dec 2016: Now, researchers from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge have launched an online survey looking at the relationship between political

25 Jan 2016: Marshall and her colleagues used visual modelling to test how conspicuous individual lizards would be to a bird’s eye against the backgrounds they had chosen to sit on.

18 Jun 2016: When King’s College was bequeathed a library of some 4,000 books by George Thackeray, who was its Provost from 1814 to 1850, the gift arrived as a mixed

9 Aug 2016: A new study has found that having a positive relationship with a teacher around the age of 10-11 years old can markedly influence the development of

25 Jul 2016: In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University of Cambridge and University College London

16 Jun 2016: In a study published today in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods to look at the brain

6 Jul 2016: Computer models of the expanding Universe use the distribution of cluster masses as an observational test of whether they are correct.

17 Nov 2016: The studies are part of BLUEPRINT, a large-scale research project bringing together 42 leading European universities, research institutes and industry

18 Jul 2016: The ability of biological molecules, such as our DNA, to replicate themselves is the foundation of life. It is a process that usually involves complex cellular