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Anatomy of terror: What makes normal people become extremists?

16 August 2017

It takes more than religious fanaticism or hatred to make someone take innocent lives, but recognise the true roots of ISIS-inspired terror and they can be addressed
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Atomic Legoland: How to build wonder stuff from the atom up

16 August 2017

Miracle materials that would supercharge clean energy are on the cards now we can play with individual atoms. We just need to work out how to arrange them

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