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Don't restrict women's contraception rights through moral panic
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NASA’s deep-space mission to a $10 quintillion all-metal world
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Environment
Meet the 'climate kids' suing the US government over global warming
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Life
Banana-y bread and onion beer: How yeast can trick our tastebuds
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This one particle could solve five mega-mysteries of physics
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Health
Tight underwear really is linked to lower sperm counts in men
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Humans
'Hey': short messages are the best dating site strategy, study says
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Space
Neutron stars bend light so much we see their front and back at once
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Technology
US Navy wants to fire a slime cannon at boats to stop them escaping
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Health
Inducing labour at 39 weeks leads to fewer emergency Caesareans
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Environment
Another supervolcano in California is not as dormant as we thought
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Environment
Alien grass is making California wildfires three times as frequent
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Physics
High-speed electrons prove Einstein was right about the speed of light
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Life
We have measured the speed of death and it’s 2 millimetres an hour
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Earth
The Meg: Real Megalodon shark would eat Jason Statham for breakfast
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Environment
New Zealand becomes the latest country to ban plastic bags
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Technology
Bots on Amazon's Mechanical Turk are ruining psychology studies
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Humans
Tools reveal Easter Island may not have had a societal collapse
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Environment
Rock layers show our sun has been in same cycle for 700 million years
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Space
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is on its way to the sun, via Venus
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Mind
We've identified the brain cells that let you control urination
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Physics
Ancient natural nuclear reactors show how to store radioactive waste
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Earth
Asteroid strike may have forged the oldest rocks ever found on Earth
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Technology
Google just made it much harder to build a serious quantum computer
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Technology
DeepMind's AI can spot eye disease just as well as top doctors
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Technology
US police testing AI that learns to spot crimes in CCTV footage
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Environment
Why forecasting how hot it will be in 2022 is mostly a gimmick
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Environment
Sterile fish could help wild salmon dodge the ‘gene pollution’ effect
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Space
Weird circles in the sky may be signs of a universe before ours
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Health
Sticking brain cells together with glue could boost and protect memory
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Analysis
Earth
Don’t give up, we can survive even a Hothouse Earth
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Technology
Fortnite is coming to Android, but players risk downloading malware
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Life
Gluten-free dogs? Pets deserve better than this evidence-free fad
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Life
No contraceptive is perfect, but can you trust apps to stop pregnancy?
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Technology
It's time to embrace video games as an Olympic sport
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