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An open cast mine in Arizona - pic from above showing black earth and a bit of heavy plant machinery for scale

Earth

What's behind bankruptcy of world's largest private coal firm

US giant Peabody Energy filed for bankruptcy today. Its decline is part of a larger trend ushering in the end of coal and rise of renewables

News

Scientist checking marijuana plants at a federal marijuana facility at the University of Mississippi

Health

DEA mellowing out on cannabis would make medical research easier

News

A black and white ruffed lemur stares at the camera from a tree

Life

Lemur extinctions in Madagascar leave behind doomed orphan trees

News

A pregnany woman having an ultrasound scan

Health

Records reveal gender-selective abortion taking place in Canada

News

G. H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons) and Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) walk together, deep in conversation

Humans

The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould

CultureLab

Cell infected with HIV. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of HIV particles (yellow) budding from the membrane of a host cell (red).

Health

HIV defies attempt to edit virus out of human cells with CRISPR

News

skyscrapers

Life

Savagely malled: Why 'smart' cities aren't so smart

CultureLab

speech waveform

Humans

Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?

CultureLab

A very pregnant lady

Health

Some stillbirths are avoidable if we know enough to act in time

Comment

People using cellphones in Zambia

Technology

AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS

UNICEF is testing a machine learning system to boost the quantity and quality of health advice provided via a popular text-based service in Zambia and Uganda

News

Health

NHS England backtracks from rolling out HIV-prevention drug

News

Space

Feedback: Poppers burn a hole in the UK's blanket drugs ban

Regulars

Humans

The Myth of the Moral Brain: Could a drug make us nicer people?

CultureLab

Life

Being a beast: What happens when people live as other animals?

CultureLab

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