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energy and fuels

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Humans

Learning to be fair: Lessons from the deep past

While Thomas Piketty's bestseller fuelled a major rethink on economics and inequality, creating change is tough – and may depend on reimagining hunter-gatherer societies

Culture

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Health

UK relaxes blood donation rules for gay men and sex workers

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Health

Monthly injections could replace daily pills for people with HIV

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The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth

Earth

The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth

Culture

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Earth

California climate case turns up the heat on fossil fuel giants

Comment

plastic bottles

Earth

Throwaway culture: The truth about recycling

Features

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Health

Prenatal test spots genetic anomalies linked to miscarriage

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Life

The day Hope the whale stole the show

Culture

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Technology

Hailing e-Volvos as imminent saviours of the planet is nonsense

Comment

A bus being filled with biofuel

Earth

Use waste rather than crops for biofuels, says UK report

Liquid biofuels can help reduce carbon emissions, but the focus should be on making them from wastes such as cooking oil, says major review

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Life

Whales sneak into shallow water to eat salmon from hatcheries

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Physics

Mathematics has a bad hair day

Culture

Earth

Invisibility cloak makes solar panels work more efficiently

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Space

Titan's conditions could be just right to power US-sized colony

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