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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.