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Making AI research classified will harm US science

The US is mulling controls on the sharing of AI, but science can't grow in isolation, says Mark Riedl

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Putting a price on CO2 is a smokescreen that hides its human cost

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Environmentalists must embrace nuclear power to stem climate change

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An AI apocalypse isn't the problem – technology-driven inequality is

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There is no fundamental difference between male and female brains

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Kaveh Madani

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Iran's imprisoned conservationists need scientists to speak up

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Brazil’s next president threatens the people and forests of the Amazon

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Dorothy Hodgkin

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Why Dorothy Hodgkin should be pictured on the UK’s new £50 note

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Venezuela’s cryptocurrency is about much more than its economic crisis

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Scientists should use their clout to get a less bad Brexit for all

Europe’s scientific elite say a hard Brexit will damage science. They should be supporting those who face much worse consequences, says Ehsan Masood

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Technology

Presenting robots as people stops us thinking clearly about AI

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Environment

Banning straws isn't enough. We must get serious about climate change

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Technology

Making games like Red Dead Redemption 2 shouldn’t be such hard work

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Health

Half-hearted cannabis legalisation move leaves patients in limbo

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