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Jess Wade giving a lecture

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It is 2018, so why are we still debating whether women can do physics?

A talk by a physicist at CERN suggesting that women aren’t as good as men at physics has sparked outrage. I was there, and people are right to be offended, says Jess Wade

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Close-up of the tip of a syringe in a petri dish

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US review of fetal research signals the return of the abortion wars

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We challenged MI5’s mass surveillance. Then they spied on us

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Smart pills can transmit data to your doctors, but what about privacy?

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Why wouldn’t you want to live forever? New Scientist editors debate

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person in hospital

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Heart-tugging tales of crowdfunded cancer 'cures' fuel quack medicine

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Is the rise of populism over or only just beginning?

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits a school in Istanbul

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It's an outrage that Turkey is ditching Darwin from science textbooks

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A sample and genetic information

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Genetic studies intend to help people with autism, not wipe them out

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Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong in First Man

Space

People calling Ryan Gosling's First Man unpatriotic are stuck in 1969

A blockbuster Neil Armstrong biopic fails to show the US flag being planted on the moon, angering some people. They're living in the past, say Nicholas Borroz and Egemen Bezci

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Humans

Hey America, you can finally choose to elect people who rely on facts

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Why an orbiting moon station is the worst idea of the new space age

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Health

Here's why the ban on vaping on trains and buses should stay for now

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Humans

Call off the grizzly bear trophy hunt, it's immoral and unscientific

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