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Jessica Miller visits the graduate show by Final year BA (Hons) Photography students from Norwich University of the Arts.

The Taliban is moving in, all around Afghanistan. The gains in lifestyle and in freedom that occurred during the years the U.S. was involved are sure to disappear quickly. This has happened before. It did not need to happen this time.

The global energy transition is seen as an important response to the growing security challenge of climate change. Going low-carbon will alter the way we produce, what we trade, and with whom we exchange goods and services. It will also impact the security landscape: the pathways toward carbon neutrality will unleash political tensions between those with more and those with less ambition and lead to heated debate around how to get to the final destination. As the EU positions itself as a global climate leader through its European Green Deal, it needs to prepare for new types of external polic...

A strategic review of the fund, as well as Aviva Investors' redemption request assumptions, concluded that its "ability to fully benefit from the economies of scale and the diversification of investments that collective investment schemes normally bring would soon be limited". "Size is particularly important for funds that invest in property directly because the costs involved in acquiring, managing and disposing of properties are usually much higher than the costs associated with other asset types," Aviva told investors. "As such we have concluded that it would now be in investors' interests...

Credit: University of Nottingham A new method to analyse the blood thinning drug Heparin has been developed that can pinpoint contaminants more accurately and quickly, providing greater quality control and safety. An interdisciplinary team from the University of Nottingham's Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine have used the latest chemical imaging technology to identify contaminants in Heparin at the nanoscale, a discovery that manufacturers could use to improve the quality and safety of this widely used anticoagulant drug. The research has been published in Communications Chemistry. Heparin is...