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Book review

How opium, caffeine and mescaline shaped the world – and got us hooked

Mind

How opium, caffeine and mescaline shaped the world – and got us hooked

Michael Pollan's This is Your Mind on Plants explains how the psychoactive plants that produce opium, caffeine and mescaline fuelled innovation, sedatives and even the expansion of the transatlantic slave trade

Culture

Secret Worlds review: Immerse yourself in amazing animal senses

Life

Secret Worlds review: Immerse yourself in amazing animal senses

Culture

Harsh peer reviewer comments disproportionately affect minorities

Humans

Harsh peer reviewer comments disproportionately affect minorities

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Mind

Science isn't as solid as it should be – but science can fix it

Leader

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Health

Why so much science research is flawed – and what to do about it

Features

Bottle and a half of wine is new UK weekly alcohol limit

Health

Bottle and a half of wine is new UK weekly alcohol limit

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For health tech to thrive, don't keep the evidence under wraps

Health

For health tech to thrive, don't keep the evidence under wraps

Comment

Can open access publishing be a smart career move?

Can open access publishing be a smart career move?

Careers

Cloned stem-cell study under fire for sloppy errors

Health

Cloned stem-cell study under fire for sloppy errors

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Physics

Higgs boson gets peer-review seal of approval

Two landmark papers are published in the same journal as the original Peter Higgs paper that suggested a mass-giving boson

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Earth

Climate panel adopts controversial 'grey' evidence

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Journal editor given ultimatum over peer review

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Iran showing fastest scientific growth of any country

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CRAP paper accepted by journal

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