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drugs and alcohol

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

The US Drug Enforcement Agency is mulling its classification of marijuana and reviewing the science - something its tough laws have stymied

News

LSD tablets packaged in a sheet with colour illustration printed over it

Health

It’s crazy that latest LSD study is first to scan brains on acid

Comment

Multicoloured brain scans

Health

First LSD brain imaging study offers insights into consciousness

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

Armed soldier stands guard with rectangular packs ablaze in the background

Health

Just say maybe: Is the world ready to abandon the war on drugs?

Insight

speech waveform

Humans

Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?

Andy Clark’s masterly book overturns traditional views about our brains, arguing they make internal models of reality which they then compare with incoming data

CultureLab

Health

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

Comment

Health

Calls for pharma to follow GSK and make drugs more accessible

News

Technology

AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS

News

Health

NHS England backtracks from rolling out HIV-prevention drug

News

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