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7 Reasons Adults Quietly Distance Themselves From Their Parents
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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Breaking away from parents is not like changing your telephone number. It usually happens through tiny fractures: messages left unanswered,...
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China and NASA’s Quiet Call to Avoid a Satellite Collision
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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The call came without a dramatic countdown or a Hollywood-style warning siren. Instead, it was a discreet digital alert between...
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Ionocaloric Cooling Could Offer a Safer Way to Chill Things
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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Meet ionocaloric cooling, an emerging approach to reducing temperatures that could replace current cooling techniques with a process that is...
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Working Pensioners: When Retirement Exists Only on Paper
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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At around 6.30 am, Mr Krüger pulls crates of bread rolls across the car park of a supermarket in a...
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How to Turn a Plastic Bottle into a Bird Feeder
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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A clear, lightweight plastic bottle sits beside a bin, seemingly destined to vanish into a lorry, a sorting centre or,...
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How China turned the South China Sea into hard land, one grain at a time
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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On a misty morning in the South China Sea, a Filipino fisherman steers his boat towards a place his grandfather...
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How a Psychologist Explains Happiness and Contentment
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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A psychologist explains why contentment is not a matter of chance, but is closely linked to our mindset and small...
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Mercury Retrograde and Moon in Taurus Bring Complete Happiness to Three Zodiac Signs
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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Messages lag, plans are put on hold, and the body craves bread, sleep and touch. Three zodiac signs do more...
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New driving licence rules divide young drivers and seniors
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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The waiting area at the licensing centre is unusually hushed, rather like a doctor’s surgery before results are given. To...
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Wild chimpanzees and the mystery of sacred trees
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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This article was written by Laura Kehoe of Humboldt University of Berlin and was first published by The Conversation. On...
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Equal Inheritance: When Fair Does Not Feel Equal
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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The solicitor’s envelope lies open, and the figures are clear: every child will receive precisely the same portion. Two daughters...
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China’s Solar Overcapacity: Why Cheap Panels May Not Last
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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The very panels that once powered China’s global solar surge are now stacking up in warehouses, while prices plunge and...
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Choco the Dog Found by Microchip After Four Lost Years
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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At a small animal shelter in Michigan, volunteers turned up one morning to discover a dog waiting quietly beside the...
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Why Executives Still Fear Remote Work Discipline
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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It is the kitchen table, a coffee that has gone half-cold, a Slack notification at 7:42 a.m., and a child...
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18th-Century Explorer’s Ghost Ship Found off Western Australia
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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The sonar image appears before anything else: a faint, pale shape against a black screen. It is a rectangle far...
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The Small Shift That Makes Cleaning Feel Less Exhausting
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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The vacuum is still whirring when it hits you: that faint, sinking sense of dread. You have been cleaning for...
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Esperanza’s Horoscope for Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo and Virgo
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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The heavens lean towards balance, and Esperanza speaks with the same measured rhythm. Addressing Aries through Virgo, she blends intuition...
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Fujian transit through Taiwan Strait raises fresh East Asia security questions
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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China’s newest aircraft carrier has discreetly passed through one of the world’s most fraught waterways, prompting renewed questions over power,...
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Zebra Mussels Found in Coastal Marina Trigger Urgent Warning
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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A bizarre, spiny form was attached to a marina piling, a place normally occupied only by barnacles and seaweed. Within...
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2025 Tax Relief for Pensioners: Key Measures and Eligibility
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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In 2025, pensioners will see their tax burden ease against a backdrop of persistent inflation and strained household budgets. Public...
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How nature can change our sense of time
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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Do you sometimes feel there are simply too few hours in the day? Time can seem to speed past, leaving...
