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Schools, genes and peers affect your development (1)

12 June 2019


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Don't get left high and dry talking about rising seas

12 June 2019


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Climate sacrifices must be made by all, equally

12 June 2019


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Who should pay when medical drugs become too expensive to buy?

12 June 2019

We depend on private companies to develop new drugs and treatments, but their need to profit has far-reaching consequences


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Feedback: What did big tech find when it looked inside a black hole?

12 June 2019

The unsuspected reach of Instagram, plus freedom molecules, spoons for peace and graph axes of evil in our weekly round-up from the weirder side of science


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Godzilla: King of the Monsters reveals our obsession with radiation

12 June 2019

Godzilla is back in the film King of the monsters. Japan’s nuclear-powered creature exposes our obsession with radiation, says Simon Ings in his latest column


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Don't miss: Celebrity prisons, virtual thrills and a dive under Paris

12 June 2019

Watch surveillance run amok at the cinema, fly through the air like a virtual bird, and spot the joins between science and fantasy in Anaïs Tondeur's latest art show


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Dark matter can't be seen, so this gallery is making it sing

12 June 2019

Dark matter may have physicists stumped, but Science Gallery London has found clever ways to explore the elusive matter filling our universe


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Fate vs free will: A new book clarifies the determinism debate

12 June 2019

We're not wrong to think we have free will, but The Science of Fate by Hannah Critchlow reveals the moral complexities underpinning our sense of unlimited choice


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How climate change is hitting crab hunting in the mangroves of Brazil

12 June 2019

This spectacular mangrove forest on Brazil's Caratingui river provides rich ground for local crab hunting and protects the coastline -- but for how much longer?


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