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The legitimacy of the IQ test is still hotly debated.
Private companies are increasingly challenging national space agencies in a new space race, which comes with great opportunities but also huge risks.
As despotic personality cults go, Stalin’s example still leads the pack. But North Korea’s ruling family have taken it to a new extreme.
Rational arguments and myth busting often won’t help you change the mind of a conspiracy theorist. But there are other ways.
For over a century, British authorities have ignored the exploitation of working-class girls.
On the trail of the men of Britain’s Royal Aircraft Factory, who gave their lives to help create the world’s first air force.
When Enlightenment thinkers were looking for a way to build a healthy and productive society, they hit upon the tuber.
The quest for technology to be the salvation of humankind neglects to consider some darker truths that lead to dystopia.
Decriminalisation changed the way homosexuality and gay culture were portrayed on screen.
The legacy of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which partially decriminalised male homosexuality 50 years ago.
Cold War, dictators and cover-ups – Ebola’s secret history.
Woman’s Own magazine created a slimming culture in the UK that lasts to this day.
When the political becomes personal.
It was Winston Churchill who led the charge for the UK’s first living wage. But you’d never have guessed the Conservative Party would adopt the policy with such gusto in the 21st century.
The in depth story of a student project that paved the way for a society-level shift in how we use computers.
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