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Space

Is Elon Musk's playboy space odyssey really the future we want?

The Falcon Heavy rocket’s first launch has put a red Tesla Roadster into space. The images are beautiful and fun, but the wider implications aren’t great

Analysis

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Health

Pregnant women have to navigate a minefield of painkiller advice

Analysis

Wikie a killer whale, swims with her calf in Marineland aquatic park

Life

‘Speaking’ orca is further proof they shouldn’t be kept captive

Analysis

CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing complex

Health

Calm down – China is not racing ahead with human CRISPR trials

Analysis

1.5 to stay alive

Earth

No, the worst-case climate change futures haven’t been ruled out

Analysis

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Technology

Algorithms that change lives should be trialled like new drugs

Analysis

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Earth

UK's plastic bag ban is a pitiful attempt at a greener future

Analysis

Spouts carry meltwater from the surface of the Austfonna Ice Cap

Earth

If the sea floor is sinking, are we safe from sea level rise?

Analysis

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Technology

We should teach kids how to use social media, not scare them off

Analysis

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Life

China's plan to stop recycling the world's rubbish may backfire

China is giving Western nations a headache with a ban on imports of "foreign garbage" to recycle, but the move is also creating a Chinese cardboard shortage

Analysis

Health

How Trump’s ‘ban’ on science words could harm public health

Analysis

Technology

Children are becoming problem gamblers due to a legal loophole

Analysis

Health

Joke Christmas medical journal papers make unfunny bad science

Analysis

Health

Why it's good that NHS England is cutting back on prescriptions

Analysis