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Artist's impression of sunrise on another world

Space

If Earth-like planet Proxima b has life, what might it be like?

Author Stephen Baxter wonders if the newly discovered Proxima b could resemble Per Ardua, the life-bearing world he imagined around the same nearby star

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Humans

"Intersex" athlete Caster Semenya rightly free to run at Rio

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An overweight man

Health

UK childhood obesity plan is a spineless, worthless document

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Zoltan Istvan, head and shoulders, pictured in black and white with clouds in the background. He's white, square-jawed and arrogant-looking

Humans

Meet the US presidential candidate campaigning for immortality

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Contrails from planes

Earth

Chemtrails conspiracy theory gets put to the ultimate test

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supercollider cartoon

LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

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LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

Physics

LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

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Can we reduce mass shootings by changing how they are reported?

Humans

Can we reduce mass shootings by changing how they are reported?

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Gluten-free water: surely that's not a real thing is it?

Health

Gluten-free water: surely that's not a real thing is it?

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A view from the front of the gigantic Ark

Humans

School field trips to creationist Ark? Sink that idea right now

A huge Noah's Ark "theme park" stuffed full of baffling pseudoscience is no place for educational trips of any sort, says Josh Rosenau

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Health

Beyond drugs: the war on lifestyle disease needs new tactics

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Life

Transgender Olympians in Rio don't have an unfair advantage

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Humans

Banking is still risky business as usual despite new rules

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Humans

Dragnet to find Turkey coup plotters is harming academic freedom

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