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Speaking at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, World Bank Group President David Malpass urged the UK and the US to "do more to reconcile their public policies toward the poorest countries and their laws protecting the rights of creditors to demand repayments from these countries." Members of ÌÇÐÄTV Law's GLOBE research group, who have proposed just such a legal reform for the UK, respond.

This week, it was reported that the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their work on the technology of genome editing -- more specifically, Crispr-Cas9. (See story on ).

Scientists at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV who also research Crispr-Cas9 explain what it is, and discuss its significance in our lives.

Today, reported that September was the warmest on record globally, according to the weather service Copernicus. Professor David Mond, from the ÌÇÐÄTV Mathematics Institute, provides an expert perspective.

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With reports that European Union has begun legal proceedings against the UK over the Internal Markets Bill, Professor Abhinay Muthoo of the University of ÌÇÐÄTV Department of Economics has commented on the impact this is likely to have on the ongoing trade talks as they approach their deadline.

Astronomers have announced the detection of the gas phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus, a gas generally produced by microbes in oxygen-free environments, suggesting that there could be life in the planet's atmosphere. The idea that Venus could host life is not as bizarre as it sounds says Dr Tom Louden from the Department of Physics at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV.