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energy and fuels

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Humans

Past, present, future: How do we deal with time?

How do we shape the past? Or the future? Is boredom in the present good for us? Two new books take on the complexities of how we experience time

CultureLab

An open cast mine in Arizona - pic from above showing black earth and a bit of heavy plant machinery for scale

Earth

What's behind bankruptcy of world's largest private coal firm

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New Scientist checking marijuana plants at a federal marijuana facility at the University of Mississippi

Health

DEA mellowing out on cannabis would make medical research easier

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A black and white ruffed lemur stares at the camera from a tree

Life

Lemur extinctions in Madagascar leave behind doomed orphan trees

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A pregnany woman having an ultrasound scan

Health

Records reveal gender-selective abortion taking place in Canada

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G. H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons) and Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) walk together, deep in conversation

Humans

The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould

CultureLab

Cell infected with HIV. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of HIV particles (yellow) budding from the membrane of a host cell (red).

Health

HIV defies attempt to edit virus out of human cells with CRISPR

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Life

Savagely malled: Why 'smart' cities aren't so smart

CultureLab

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Humans

Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?

CultureLab

A very pregnant lady

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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Technology

AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS

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Space

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

Regulars

Health

NHS England backtracks from rolling out HIV-prevention drug

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Health

Embryo cells decide their future only two days after conception

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