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Health

New techniques may soon make designer babies a reality – are we ready?

As tests that screen embryos for complex traits become available, it's time to decide how to use these ethically – and where to draw the line

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If Finland struggles to recycle, what hope the rest of the world?

Environment

If Finland struggles to recycle, what hope the rest of the world?

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Come and join as a trainee subeditor

Come and join as a trainee subeditor

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schoolgirls

Physics

Swelling the number of women in physics will require a broad alliance

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border control

Technology

AI lie detection at border control should proceed with caution

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conference

Physics

The LIGO collaboration must respond to gravitational wave criticism

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cars

Health

Driving a car in the city should be the new smoking

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Reagan and Gorbachev

Technology

Trump pulling the US out of a nuclear treaty is anything but smart

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MRI

Technology

Data-driven medicine is welcome but patients must always come first

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Let’s embrace the joy of moonmoons and more playful scientific terms

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Let’s embrace the joy of moonmoons and more playful scientific terms

Some say the astronomical term moonmoon makes light of a serious field of study, but it seems a shame to abandon it for po-faced alternatives

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Environment

We’ve missed many chances to curb global warming. This may be our last

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Comment

It has been a good/bad week for women in physics

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Health

Paralysis need not mean paralysis for life

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Physics

Mathematicians must be more prepared to test their truths

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