We need to grab some rocks from Mars – let's just get on with it
30 May 2018
A mission to collect samples from the Red Planet and return them to Earth is our best chance of finding life on Mars, says Joelle Renstrom
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World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran
30 May 2018
DNA from ancient bones suggests that the people who spoke an ancient language lived somewhere south of the Caucasus mountains in western Asia
Women aren't being told real risks of cervical cancer screening
30 May 2018
Efforts to prevent cervical cancer seem so straightforward that few women question them, but unnecessary treatment can cause miscarriages and premature births
Ireland votes to reform abortion laws in referendum landslide
30 May 2018
The Republic of Ireland has voted to repeal the law that bans most abortions. The prime minister hopes new laws will come into effect by the end of 2018
Cosmic cooperation is just what space exploration needs
30 May 2018
Questions such as whether Mars ever hosted life are too big to be left to any one nation – efforts to join forces on space missions are the future
It’s time we stopped dismissing women’s health problems
30 May 2018
Controversy about cervical smear tests is just the latest in a series concerning women’s health. It’s time to talk about inequality in the doctor’s surgery
Papua New Guinea bans Facebook for a month in fake news blitz
30 May 2018
The country is planning a month-long Facebook shutdown to conduct research on the social media network, weed out fake users and stem "false or misleading” information
GM golden rice gets approval from food regulators in the US
30 May 2018
The genetically modified rice, designed to prevent blindness in undernourished children, was judged safe to eat last week by the US Food and Drug Administration
AI inspired by the film Spotlight could track down child abusers
30 May 2018
Journalists at the Boston Globe painstakingly sifted patterns in public records to find priests who had sexually abused children. Now an AI might do the same
Mystery ghost ape species found hidden in bonobo’s genome
30 May 2018
A comparison of chimpanzee genomes has found signs that a previously unknown species of chimpanzee once lived in the forests of central Africa
