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The changes do not stop Facebook itself from collecting young users’ data and keeping it.

An immense trove of the most important royal historical material for decades has just quietly been made public in the United Kingdom.

Dying in Varanasi is everyday. That’s not to say dying is ordinary. On the contrary, it is a sacred art form, a spiritual passage that is part of the daily practice of living.

As a tree scientist who works with urban trees, I can assure you some large, old trees are well worth leaving alone, even you find them annoying sometimes.

Equality and corruption perceptions appear to explain more than 80% of the differences in trust levels between nations.

Some people may be spiteful to pull others down, while others act this way to get ahead.

Instead of any attempt to address the root causes, the main response to riots in London and other cities was to penalise protest.

Brits have gained weight during the pandemic, but historically diets alone have not created better health.

A new study reveals how female climate scientists are perceived by their peers during media interviews.

Universities will need strategies that can defuse constant disruption of learning due to student protest.

While some German museums are returning some of the famous Benin Bronzes, most remain in museums in Europe and the US even as calls for restitution grow.

Africa needs to embrace a new approach that focuses on what countries in an embattled region – as a ‘community’ of regional states – can do to intervene.

Governments should drop the idea of herd immunity. It risks leaving people feeling disillusioned by vaccination campaigns.

Ozone pollution is on the rise, and it’s getting into people’s homes.

More than 40 fire scientists and forest ecologists in the US and Canada teamed up to investigate why wildfires are getting more extreme. Climate change is part of the problem, but there’s more.

The Tokyo Olympic Games are being called the most gender-equal Games ever — but does that label hold up under scrutiny?

Mandating vaccines risks turning a highly effective public health intervention into a contentious battleground — but it also may save lives.

Discussions on the renaming of Ryerson University must prioritize the public interest and meet the collective responsibility to engage with Canada’s history of Indigenous oppression.

Learning that our brains process information differently when we’re standing up or lying down has implications for how we study and assess brain function.

As wildfires continue to edge closer to towns and agricultural areas, grape producers and wine-makers in the Okanagan must once again deal with this increasingly frequent threat of smoke taint.