Two independent teams have found compounds including nitrogen and carbon dioxide on Comet 67P, which can form sugars and amino acids.
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A woman left out of her mother’s will has won £164,000 in the courts but that doesn’t mean you need to rewrite yours.
It’s groundhog day for Greece as the third bailout package is negotiated. And there’s no reason to think this one will be any more successful than the last two.
Whatever the pretext, Turkey’s latest push against the Kurds will do nobody any favours.
The sharing economy could bring about the end of capitalism: that’s the provocative claim made by economic journalist Paul Mason. But research indicates that it actually has many possible futures.
A “triple lock” election commitment to keep taxes down is just pushing the pursuit of revenue into other areas – with the threat of more to come.
The frontrunner for the Labour leadership has some good ideas that were rejected by voters when they elected Margaret Thatcher.
It’s not enough to be an elite athlete these days, you have to construct your own narrative for success.
It’s summer, which means that the inevitable annual scrum to read the newest and hottest book on the block has begun. How exhausting.
Upstarts on the left and right are proving that people of all political leanings want change.
Care for older people can be more than old peoples homes or hospitals.
Simple mathematics suggests that if there are aliens out there, they should have reached us by now. So is it really worthwhile trying to communicate with them?
The government is already under fire for failing to protect Kurds from Islamic State.
Political tensions between Russia and the USA along with new players in the space industry could change the future of space collaboration.
As big browsers and sites like YouTube drop support, are our Flash days numbered?
Lack of impact craters intrigues space experts who say it suggests the dwarf planet may be geologically active.
For the first time, teachers have voted for the best ebooks to use in school.
After a decade in space, New Horizons has finally completed its fly-by of Pluto. And the fact that it is no longer a planet makes it all the more interesting.
For decades, higher education in developing countries has not been a priority for international aid donors. That is now changing.
The arithmetic for town halls and previously endangered Whitehall departments is now distinctly rosier.
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Academic Lead, Access Participation and Success Faculty of Business and Law, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Financial Management, The Open University
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Lecturer in Biomedical Health Science, The Open University
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Associate Lecturer, The Open University
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Visiting Academic, The Open University
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Lecturer in Social Work, The Open University
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Research Fellow, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics, The Open University
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Visiting Fellow in History, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer In Popular Music, The Open University
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Visiting Fellow, The Open University
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Professor of Politics & International Studies, The Open University
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Professor of Transport Strategy, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Art History and Heritage, The Open University
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Professor of Finance, The Open University