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Earth

NASA’s planetary protection officer will defend Mars, not Earth

A NASA job advert has made for excited headlines, but the agency isn’t hiring someone to protect us from aliens – it wants someone to protect alien microbes from us

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Technology

You’re wrong, Amber Rudd – encryption is for ‘real people’

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Health

Why the latest advice on stopping antibiotics is long overdue

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Health

UK ban on polluting cars by 2040 is just a cynical smokescreen

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Life

Now North Sea cod is sustainable, is it really ok to eat?

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boy having the HPV vaccine

Health

Refusing boys HPV vaccine saves the NHS cash but is bad science

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Humans

How the opioid crisis may have saved US healthcare

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Technology

Why your favourite websites are protesting over the net's future

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Earth

Uninhabitable Earth? In fact, it’s really hard to fry the planet

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Health

Should cash-strapped NHS pay for unproven gene sequencing?

The UK wants to make genomics a central part of healthcare, but we don't yet know enough about our genes to be sure it will bring benefits

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Technology

North Korean missiles could soon reach the US. Can we stop them?

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Life

Abortion law needs a UK-wide update, not just Northern Ireland

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Technology

Google’s €2.4bn fine is small change - the EU has bigger plans

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Health

Don’t blame Instagram for the rise of botox and lip fillers

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