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Technology

Those GDPR emails should stop soon, but our data nightmare won't

Your inbox is full of pleading emails because the EU’s new data rules come into force this week – but they might not actually do anything to improve your life

Insight

Doctors examine medical images

Health

How Theresa May’s plan for an AI-powered NHS could go very wrong

Analysis

Colourful cupcakes

Health

Could a tax on chocolate make us healthy? Let’s not be too hasty

Analysis

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

Technology

Novichok attack tests the world's chemical weapons treaty

Analysis

Hospital oncology sign

Health

Our cancer strategies aren't working - it's time to change that

Comment

Children at school

Humans

Does your kids’ DNA matter more than which school they go to?

Analysis

Military personnel in protective clothing removes vehicles from a car park in Salisbury, Britain, 11 March 2017

Humans

The Novichok spy attack was brazen – it needs a tough response

Comment

A large outdoor screen on the side of a building showing predictions about UK election results in2017

Technology

Election polling accuracy has not improved since the 1940s

Analysis

A dog wearing an electric shock collar

Life

Shock collars are a bad way to train dogs so let's ban them

Comment

Donor registration screen

Health

Why the UK's new opt-out organ donation plan probably won't work

Plans for the whole of the UK to shift to a system where consent for organ donation is assumed may actually do very little to save lives

Analysis

Humans

Ancient 'dark-skinned' Briton Cheddar Man find may not be true

News

Health

Fears of Brexit chaos for medicines agency should worry us all

Comment

Earth

UK's plastic bag ban is a pitiful attempt at a greener future

Analysis

Technology

Children are becoming problem gamblers due to a legal loophole

Analysis