Category: Science, Technology & Engineering
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Why Can One Aircraft Stop Gatwick?
Gatwick’s extraordinary single-runway performance comes with an obvious weakness. Its standby runway is too close to the main runway for normal simultaneous use.
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What Is a Heat Dome—and Is It Really a Dome?
The phrase sounds dramatic, but the physics is familiar: persistent high pressure, sinking air, clear skies and heat accumulating day after day.
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How Much of Everyday Life Is a Negotiation?
A recent experience-sampling study found negotiation processes in roughly one-third of reported social interactions, although formal bargaining was rare.
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How Do Airshows Keep Spectators Away from the Risk?
The space between an aircraft and a crowd is designed as carefully as the manoeuvre itself—and repeatedly reconsidered after accidents.
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Why Can Birth Trauma Be Missed After the Baby Comes Home?
Birth-related PTSD can involve flashbacks, avoidance, hypervigilance and distress. It may overlap with postnatal depression, but it is not the same condition.
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Can You Be Trained to Spot an AI-Generated Face?
A brief training programme improved people’s ability to identify AI-generated faces, with gains still visible weeks later. That does not turn the eye into forensic software.
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How Can a Glacier Hide Under a Mountain of Rock?
Gravity measurements in Utah suggest that some apparently rocky landforms contain far more ice than their surfaces reveal.
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Why Do Online Communities Grow More Negative with Age?
Older groups accumulate norms, status and old arguments. Those features can strengthen identity while making disagreement sharper.
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What Did “Bubble Boy” Teach Medicine About the Immune System?
The famous plastic bubble was not a cure. It was a protective environment that bought time while doctors confronted one of the immune system’s most severe inherited disorders.
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Why Minecraft Became a Laboratory for Imaginary Societies
Blocks make structures visible, but shared servers reveal something less tangible—how people divide labour, govern space and turn a blank map into a community.
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