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Technology

Technoaddicts: turn on, touch in, swipe out

Once it was substances, now increasingly it's behaviours – a new book argues that our gadgets are designed to keep us obsessively scrolling and tapping

Culture

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Earth

Volcanoes: Oxford exhibition gives the fiery inside story

Culture

Spraying fertiliser on wheat

Earth

A loaf of bread emits half a kilo of CO₂, mainly from fertiliser

News

A cigarette

Health

Having a cigarette may make your body crave coffee too

News

Strange futures, with air islands and dung radios

Technology

Strange futures, with air islands and dung radios

Culture

Coal getting passed arounf the Australian parliament

Earth

There's no such thing as 'clean coal' – it’s dirty and expensive

Analysis

The EU’s renewable energy policy is making global warming worse

Earth

The EU’s renewable energy policy is making global warming worse

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HIV

Life

HIV vaccine therapy lets five people control virus without drugs

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Woman running

Health

Exercise reduces death from breast cancer relapse by 40 per cent

News

whale skin

Life

Sperm whale's skin comes off during mass 'scratchathon'

A transparent chunk of skin got rubbed off during a short period when dozens of the animals gathered, apparently to socialise and groom each other

Regulars

Health

Timing when you get pregnant could prevent a miscarriage

News

Life

Metabolic switch may bring on chronic fatigue syndrome

News

Technology

Science Museum’s Robots: Who is really pulling the strings?

Culture

Life

400 pilot whales stranded on New Zealand’s ‘whale trap’ beach

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