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Surrogacy in keeping with Chinese tradition
Surrogacy is on the rise in China, even though it is officially banned. The anthropologist Renyou Hou examines how the technique could alter family…
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Fertility and the environment, a tricky equation
As birth rates are declining the world over, economists have studied the impact of environmental concerns on fertility choices.
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Long-forgotten women's health
Designated as Women's Health Month internationally, October is dotted with dedicated awareness campaigns and events. Yet health is another area in…
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Dwarf elephants and the Cyclopes
A million years ago, long before mass tourism, the Mediterranean islands were home to dwarf elephants. Although tiny when compared to their ancestors…
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Windows to a dream world
Virtual globes, 2D or 3D representations of the world produced from digital data, can fool us into thinking that we now know everything there is to…
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Live from Mesopotamia, 4,000 years ago
The oldest private correspondence in human history is about marriages and divorces, trade and tax evasion, livestock breeding or weaving… Women’s…
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Jewish presence predates Islam in Arabia
The discovery of a previously unknown village in a region of Saudi Arabia that was thought to be only sparsely populated during Late Antiquity…
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The brain knows the score
Behind the pleasure of listening to a song lies an astonishing brain activity: an anticipatory mechanism that translates simple vibrations into…
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Maths and the beach
Holiday-makers cross paths at the beach, but so do multiple facets of physics and mathematics. Three research projects are working to better describe…
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Summer programme: ‘Breizh, ur bed da zizoloiñ pe da adzizoloiñ’ — Brittany, a world to (re)discover
Wind-swept cliffs, ancient forests, coastlines shaped by the tides... Through this selection of films, Brittany is revealed in a new light.
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