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Reform damaging prisons, or risk losing the fight against crime

Humans

Reform damaging prisons, or risk losing the fight against crime

Penal reform in the UK and beyond will only work if rehabilitation – not harmful retribution – is at the heart of prison systems, says Arne Kvernvik Nilsen

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A shadowy hand picks through a shelf of medical records

Technology

Hackers stealing and selling your health records must be stopped

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People protesting against the use of trans fats in food

Health

Time is right for a global ban to end trans fat health scandal

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Kosmicare banner and teepees at night

Health

Putting healthcare first can save festival drug users from harm

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Wildlife hero Chris Packham: anti-conservationists will not win

Life

Wildlife hero Chris Packham: anti-conservationists will not win

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A map of where Zika is active

Life

US plan to fend off Zika with sterile mosquitoes faces catch-22

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Artist's impression of sunrise on another world

Space

If Earth-like planet Proxima b has life, what might it be like?

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Humans

"Intersex" athlete Caster Semenya rightly free to run at Rio

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An overweight man

Health

UK childhood obesity plan is a spineless, worthless document

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Zoltan Istvan, head and shoulders, pictured in black and white with clouds in the background. He's white, square-jawed and arrogant-looking

Humans

Meet the US presidential candidate campaigning for immortality

Forget Trump and Clinton, I'm campaigning for the US to embrace technology with the potential to make us immortal, says White House contender Zoltan Istvan

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Earth

Chemtrails conspiracy theory gets put to the ultimate test

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LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

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Physics

LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

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Humans

Can we reduce mass shootings by changing how they are reported?

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