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Ministers will increase the threshold for taxing inherited farmland from £1m to £2.5m after months of pressure from campaigners and MPs representing rural areas.In a statement…

The Hungarian-born physicist Leo Szilard was the inspiration behind the idea of the Szilard point, a term used in cost–benefit analyses of grant proposals. Credit: Bettmann/GettyCompetition…

Dying is a process and in a person’s final hours and days, Nickie and her Threshold Choir are there to accompany people on their way and…

The chemical industry finally got its wish. Industry lobbyists have long pushed the federal government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk…

The National Union of Students (NUS) has warned that a three-year freeze on the salary threshold for loan repayments could leave new graduates struggling to afford…

Our planet is sick, and its life-threatening symptoms are getting worse, a new report warns.Earth has been pushed past multiple physical and chemical boundaries crucial for…

The world’s oceans have failed a key planetary health check for the first time, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, a report has shown.In…