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AI alchemists spit out the recipe for any molecule you want to make

It's a nightmarish amount of work to figure out how to build a molecule from scratch. Now machines can do it and it will mean a bounty of new drugs and materials

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Health

Half-hearted cannabis legalisation move leaves patients in limbo

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Health

Medicinal cannabis will be available in the UK from next month

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Health

Nobody can agree about antidepressants. Here’s what you need to know

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Health

Skin genetically engineered to destroy cocaine could prevent addiction

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Health

Alcohol advisers threaten to quit health body due to industry links

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Life

A startling sexual side-effect to yawning – and other past stories

Regulars

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Health

Opioid crisis: powerful but non-addictive drug could replace morphine

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Technology

A trip into the past: Swiss watches, Korean ginseng and UK tea breaks

Regulars

We dream even when under general anaesthetic

Health

We dream even when under general anaesthetic

When we're under general anaesthesia, we are still internally conscious and we even have dreams, but we don't remember them because anaesthesia gives us amnesia

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Health

Women in England to be allowed to have abortions at home

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Mind

Why taking ayahuasca is like having a near-death experience

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Health

Ecstasy-like drugs might relieve social difficulties in autism

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Health

Deaths caused by the opioid fentanyl are rising in the UK

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