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Even the 'best science' doesn’t have the final word on covid-19

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Even the 'best science' doesn’t have the final word on covid-19

Models of what impact interventions will have on the new coronavirus's spread are imperfect, so factors other than the science play an important role too, says David Adam

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Is your salad going to kill you?

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Is your salad going to kill you?

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T59H63 Farmer in tractor preparing land with seedbed cultivator

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All the reasons why organic food doesn’t deserve such bad press

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Twitter was once a fun place – now it is heading towards destruction

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Twitter was once a fun place – now it is heading towards destruction

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Covid-19: The science of uncertainty can help us make better choices

Humans

Covid-19: The science of uncertainty can help us make better choices

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Going car-free was painful – but you should do it too

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Going car-free was painful – but you should do it too

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China has shut all of its wild animal markets – it was long overdue

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China has shut all of its wild animal markets – it was long overdue

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The atmosphere gets in the way of the universe’s most amazing objects

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The atmosphere gets in the way of the universe’s most amazing objects

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E-scooters are a disaster for cities – but we must embrace them

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E-scooters are a disaster for cities – but we must embrace them

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The 'ancestral diet' doesn't make sense and relies on lazy stereotypes

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The 'ancestral diet' doesn't make sense and relies on lazy stereotypes

Eating like your ancestors did 5000 years ago is a fad on the rise. James Wong wonders if following the "ancestral diet" means he should eat pangolins or live a life of abject poverty

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Coronavirus: How maths is helping to answer crucial covid-19 questions

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Technology

Election cyberattacks? It’s incompetence we need to worry about

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Humans

Same-sex attraction isn't an evolutionary paradox - here's why

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Environment

Net zero goals are galvanising action on climate change at long last

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