Public research university in Norwich, England, with schools spanning environmental sciences, biology, social work and business; known for climate science.
A UEA-led team with South African colleagues reports that a prepared light beam grows left- and right-handed spinning regions in free space. The university says beam structure sets where they appear, with no special lenses, mirrors or materials.
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Cambridge and UEA researchers found women with autoimmune disease 74% likelier than men to report a psychosomatic misdiagnosis. The figures rest on patients' own recall in a mostly female, mostly UK sample.
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International IDEA's review of 39 national elections in 2025 recorded disinformation narratives in at least 62% of them. Its authors still judge election quality broadly stable and offer 20 case studies as lessons for other countries.
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Benjamin Santer's team argues more than 30 years of fingerprint research make the human-warming case stronger than in 2009. Their Earth's Future review answers a July 2025 Department of Energy report that questioned the science behind the EPA's Endangerment Finding.
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University of East Anglia researchers interviewed 48 people who used Letter Swap, an online adoption-contact platform piloted by eight agencies in England. Some families built stronger ties, though with no comparison group the study cannot say the platform beats annual letters.
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In University of East Anglia beetle lines where females had five males to choose among, genomes ended up carrying fewer damaging mutations at similar diversity. Mutation load, more than the mating arrangement, predicted which populations died out under inbreeding.
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A UK cohort of more than 180,000 women links HRT to 10 percent lower dementia risk, and 26 percent after surgical menopause. Neither of this week's papers is a trial, and they disagree on mechanism.
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A study of Philippine cough and cold prices confirms real savings on Pfizer lines after the 2019 deal, then finds Sanofi, never a party to it, raised prices by more than Pfizer's fell.
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