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drilling site in Lancashire

Earth

The push for UK fracking may be 55 million years too late

Cuadrilla is pressing ahead with a project to drill for shale gas in Lancashire, but a geologist thinks plans for industrial-scale fracking may be doomed

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Letters from Charles Darwin

Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

Culture

A multicoloured pill capsule

Health

Psychedelic medicine: the potential, the people, the politics

Features

One chimp embracing another

Life

Grown-up chimps are less likely to help distressed friends

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statins

Health

Genetic test helps people avoid statins that may cause them pain

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A macaque

Life

Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar

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People clinking glasses of whisky

Humans

Why adding a drop of water can make whisky taste even better

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Robin Carhart-Harris

Humans

Meet the man giving people psychedelics for science

Features

baby being born healthy

Health

Why UK midwives are back-pedalling on natural childbirth

Analysis

Al Gore

Earth

Al Gore: The return of climate science’s preacher man

Climate denialism seems to loom large, but after 10 years delivering his message globally, Al Gore believes we’re on the road to salvation

Culture

Health

Trump says he’ll declare US opioid epidemic a national emergency

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Life

Primate brains react differently to faces of friends and VIPs

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Health

Side effects kill thousands but our data on them is flawed

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Health

Type 1 diabetes may be halted by experimental immunotherapy

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