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Broadband speed test under way

Technology

Legal right to fast internet won't heal the UK's digital divide

Universal internet access sounds great, but empowering 12 million digitally excluded adults requires a major skills gap to be plugged, says Martha Lane Fox

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Indian villagers throw containers attached to ropes into a well to collect their daily supply of potable water after a tanker made its daily delivery at Shahapur, some 130 km southwest of Mumbai, on May 13, 2016

Earth

India's drought foretells of greater struggles as climate warms

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Cancel the Olympic Games in Brazil because of Zika? No way

Health

Cancel the Olympic Games in Brazil because of Zika? No way

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Campaigners carrying banners, one reading

Health

Doctors of America, you are free to counsel patients about guns

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Dubai skyline reflected, stormy sky, seen from old town

Life

Fake mountains to make rain? It's last-gasp geoengineering

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A cut out face of a man wearing black clothes

Technology

Right to be forgotten online still divides the world

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Melissa and Jasmine Hemsley holding plates of food

Health

The Hemsley effect: why we fall for celebrity food advice

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transcranial magnetic stimulation happeding on someone's brain

Technology

Will brain stimulation for autism diminish my special talents?

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Researcher works on human embryos in dish

Life

When does life begin? Lab embryo advance reopens a big debate

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People wearing hoodies with their backs to the camera looking out over rooftops

Health

Equally long lives for rich and poor? This dream is in retreat

For the first time since the Victorian era, the gap in life expectancy between the top and bottom of society is widening. We must fix this, says Les Mayhew

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Health

Processed food bad, natural food good? We've got it so wrong

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Life

Record ivory burning shows world is failing Africa's elephants

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Life

An Earth made verdant by greenhouse gases brings its own dangers

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Health

Purple pain: Why grief runs so deep when a pop icon dies young

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