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Make a living will if you want to decide how your life will end

10 July 2019

For our own sakes, and for those we leave behind, we need to think about how we want to die. Otherwise someone else will decides what happens to you at the end

Earth's helium is running out and it has dire consequences for science

10 July 2019

Helium's essential for party balloons, but also for MRI scanners, physics experiments and space rockets. But supplies on Earth are getting dangerously low, warns Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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