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Speed-limiting technology could have averted train derailment

The technology that could have prevented the deadliest train crash in the US in 20 years already exists but has yet to be rolled out across the country

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Earth

2 ºC warming goal shaky as governments throw cash at fossil fuel

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Health

Vital antibiotics research needs radical new incentives

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Earth

New Zealand’s worst earthquake fear confirmed by sediment survey

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Environment

60 Seconds

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Environment

Last chance plan to save world’s rarest ape, the Hainan gibbon

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Space

Secret US X-37B plane takes to the skies to experiment in space

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Earth

Americans face six-fold hike in exposure to extreme heat by 2070

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Health

Home-brew heroin: soon anyone will be able to make illegal drugs

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Life

Unravelling capitalism’s hidden networks of power

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Health

Bad memories drive lab rats to rescue drenched companions faster

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Life

Oldest broken bone reveals our ancestors’ switch to life on land

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Health

Barcode your egg and sperm cells to avoid IVF mix-ups

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Supernova space bullets could have seeded Earth’s iron core

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Environment

Bigger brains help female fish outwit predators and live longer

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Health

Young blood helps repair fractured bones of ageing mice

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Humans

Your brain’s unique response to words can reveal your identity

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Health

Iron levels in brain predict when people will get Alzheimer’s

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Earth

Exact map of salmon journeys drawn from strontium in their ears

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Life

Zoologger: The clumsy tree-dweller transforms into a gliding ace

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Health

Flies share basic elements of human fear – but is it emotion?

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Technology

Virtual worlds so good they’ll change our grasp on real life

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Technology

One Per Cent

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Humans

Pics and chat data are hackable on apps like Tinder and Grindr

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Technology

The internet is running out of room – but we can save it

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