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Health

Some stillbirths are avoidable if we know enough to act in time

Some stillbirths can be prevented if at-risk babies are induced in time. New NHS guidelines will help but scientists could do much more, says Jop de Vrieze

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Health

Calls for pharma to follow GSK and make drugs more accessible

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Technology

AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS

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Big Ben poppers

Space

Feedback: Poppers burn a hole in the UK's blanket drugs ban

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Health

NHS England backtracks from rolling out HIV-prevention drug

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Humans

The Myth of the Moral Brain: Could a drug make us nicer people?

CultureLab

Human embryo at the 4 cell stage

Health

Embryo cells decide their future only two days after conception

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A worker looks at giant wind turbine parts

Earth

Investment in renewables was double that of coal and gas in 2015

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A new power plant is planned for Hinkley in Somerset

Earth

Should the UK pull plug on Hinkley Point nuclear power station?

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Health

US introduces measures to tackle opioid painkiller epidemic

Electronic prescriptions and revised prescribing guidelines are the latest approaches to tackling the epidemic of opioid-related deaths in the US

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Humans

Eugenic America: How to exclude almost everyone

CultureLab

Humans

Racism, photography and DNA: can we right past wrongs?

CultureLab

Life

On the trail of some of the world's rarest monkeys

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Earth

Energy-related CO2 emissions held steady despite economic growth

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