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Time to kick cigarette butts – they're toxic trash

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Time to kick cigarette butts – they're toxic trash

Poisons leach from the 4 trillion cigarette filters that we chuck each year, harming health and environment alike. They should be banned, argues Thomas Novotny

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What's eating Luis Suarez: the psychology of biting

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What's eating Luis Suarez: the psychology of biting

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How to curb the threat of homecoming jihadist fighters

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Compassion in conservation: Don't be cruel to be kind

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Compassion in conservation: Don't be cruel to be kind

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Why electric car maker Tesla has torn up its patents

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Why electric car maker Tesla has torn up its patents

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My dive into the blighted future of acidified oceans

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Wireless devices: a health threat during pregnancy?

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Wireless devices: a health threat during pregnancy?

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Making science cool won't win over the denialists

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Making science cool won't win over the denialists

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Online feminism meets neurosexism on festival circuit

Online feminism meets neurosexism on festival circuit

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The US is right to indict China's state hacker unit

Technology

The US is right to indict China's state hacker unit

The US is hoping to shock China into talks over its industrial cyber espionage programme, says foreign relations expert Fred Kaplan

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Prosecuting mothers-to-be won't help disabled babies

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Health

Is the UK being too hasty over three-parent babies?

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Dredge-and-dump will damage the Great Barrier Reef

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Vote UKIP and risk the future of British science

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