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Keep up with a rapidly-changing world by reading New Scientist's exclusive insights into how developments in science, health, technology and the environment are influencing your life
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Health

How 'stem cell' clinics became a Wild West for dodgy treatments

Hundreds of clinics offering unregulated stem cell therapies have sprung up across the US and Australia thanks to lax oversight

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Space

We must accept more risks if we want space travel to take off

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Health

NHS is switching to cheaper mimics of expensive cancer drugs

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Technology

People without electricity could end up living the energy dream

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Health

Restarting dead people's hearts lets doctors reuse their organs

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Technology

US cyberweapons have been stolen and there's nothing we can do

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Life

Fertility clinics are fudging IVF stats to look more successful

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Technology

Tesla's electric trucks are great but they won't save the planet

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Humans

Biohackers are using CRISPR on their DNA and we can't stop it

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Technology

Letting robots kill without human supervision could save lives

Calls to ban killer robots ignore the fact that human soldiers can make lethal mistakes. If driverless cars will save lives, perhaps armed machines can as well

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Health

Is modern life making today's teenagers more depressed?

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Earth

We all get poorer every time a climate disaster strikes

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Technology

Police body cams were meant to keep us safer. Are they working?

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Technology

The stock market is run by wild robots we don't fully control

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