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Stay informed with commentary and opinion pieces on the latest issues in science, technology, health and the environment, written by expert Â鶹´«Ã½ journalists and world-leading researchers and thinkers.
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Health

Time for the UK to stop dithering and add folic acid to bread

With yet more evidence in favour of fortifying flour with folic acid to help avoid serious birth defects, it's time the government acted, says Geoffrey Webb

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a cloned monkey

Life

First monkeys, and then us? Human cloning must stay off limits

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Earth

Our best way to geoengineer the climate may well trash Earth

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Humans

We've stopped trusting social media – and that's a good thing

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Members of the European Parliament, including German co-president of the Greens parliamentary group, Ska Keller (C), take part in a voting session on the 'Conservation of fishery resources and protection of marine ecosystems through technical measures' at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on January 16, 2018

Earth

Commercial electric pulse fishing should be banned for now

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Trump, this 'shithole' continent pioneered heart swaps and more

Humans

Trump, this 'shithole' continent pioneered heart swaps and more

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Health

Johann Hari doesn't know depression's real causes – no one does

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Naked volunteers pose for the US photographer Spencer Tunick in the ice-cold Swiss glacier of Aletsch, the largest in the Alps, as background for an environmental campaign about global warming

Earth

Tiny individual decisions really could help avert climate chaos

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Scientists looking through pink and blue dishes

Humans

Survey reveals extreme gender bias plagues STEM – it must change

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Emission nebula Sharpless 2-106

Physics

The ugly, fractured reality of the cosmos deserves our attention

A puzzling clash between perfection and imperfection in our universe is getting fresh attention. This great cosmological mystery merits it, says Geraint Lewis

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Earth

Tackle UK's killer toxic air before waging war on ocean plastic

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Space

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket test is the start of a race to Mars

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Health

Shocking drop in life expectancy shows US still in bad health

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Life

Why complex life could prove remarkably common in the universe

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