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Health

The alarming drop in US life expectancy shouldn’t be a surprise

Life expectancy is down in the US for the first time since the worst years of the AIDS epidemic. It is a critical moment for health policy, says Laudan Aron

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More potent stun guns for British police will enrage critics

Technology

More potent stun guns for British police will enrage critics

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US agency DARPA has set up a robotics challenge to encourage innovation

Technology

A state splash on science could bring fortune to Brexit Britain

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Public protest over executive pay

Humans

Moral consensus: a CEO should earn five times what workers get

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Cuban hospital

Health

In Castro's Cuba, this is what life as a doctor was really like

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Hacker

Technology

Can nation states hit back at cyberattackers with ease? No way

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Earth from space

Technology

Truly global internet access will be a double-edged sword

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Time to stage trials of engineering the atmosphere to cool Earth

Earth

Time to stage trials of engineering the atmosphere to cool Earth

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Mist clears to reveal the satellite dishes of GCHQ

Technology

New UK surveillance law may see mass data shared with Trump's US

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EM drive

Space

Is new talk of interstellar drive too good to be true?

Speculation about the EM drive, a proposed fuel-free, physics-busting starship engine, is back but is it still strictly for dreamers, wonders Geraint Lewis

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Health

All UK doctors should join the call to decriminalise drugs

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Earth

Donald Trump's climate sceptics are coming to drill, baby, drill

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Humans

My biology made me do it? Why some voters may embrace the right

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Humans

Primal fear can blinker our decisions, even in elections

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