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Killer robots: It’s time to decide who pulls the trigger
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Advice on how much booze we should drink must remain advice
The new UK guidelines on drinking are welcome, but if anti-alcohol lobbyists overreach and tell people to give up, the public will quickly switch off
Opinion
Technology
Killer robots: It’s time to decide who pulls the trigger
Opinion
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Humans
Peterborough Pompeii rises from the ashes after 3000 years
The first excavations of an amazingly well-preserved archaeological site offer an unprecedented glimpse into Bronze Age life in the British Isles
News
Mind
MPs suggest smart drugs and nutmeg for exemption from drugs law
News
Earth
California’s massive methane leak prompts action to capture it
News
Space
Philae lander fails to respond to last-ditch efforts to wake it
News
Environment
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Mind
US and UK update recommendations on sugar and alcohol
News
Health
Global watchdog needed to spot the next Ebola-like outbreak
News
Physics
New rumours that gravitational waves have finally been detected
News
Physics
Time might flow backwards as well as forwards from the big bang
News
Humans
Dinosaurs took part in building competitions to attract females
News
Life
Impulsive people may have less free will than the rest of us
News
Mathematics
Mathematicians invent new way to slice pizza into exotic shapes
News
Life
Shark virgin births seen in two generations for the first time
News
Space
Famous Wow! signal might have been from comets, not aliens
News
Your gut’s trick for controlling the bacteria that live in it
News
Earth
Marks of the Anthropocene: 7 signs we have made our own epoch
News
鈥楲ocked-in’ people show signs of awareness with maths puzzles
News
Icy find under comet 67P’s skin could make sense of its origins
News
Humans
Iceman 脰tzi may have had stomach ache when he was murdered
News
Space
Star clusters could host long-lived technological civilisations
News
Male spiders lure aggressive females with peek-a-boo paddle game
News
Health
Sound of your own voice may help you understand your emotions
News
Technology
First ever pictures of single proteins thanks to graphene sheet
News
Environment
Moonlight helps plankton escape predators during Arctic winters
News
Technology
The firms who will beat Google to get us into self-driving cars
News
Earth
Climate change credibility tool shows what news you can trust
News
Technology
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Opinion
Earth
Climate change means the flood defence rule book needs a rewrite
As the world warms, we will have to review all manner of basic assumptions to keep flood protection measures robust, says Jim Hall
Opinion
Health
Mexico’s sugary-drink tax was all fizz for very little pop
Opinion
Life
Imagine storing all the world’s archives in a box of seeds
Opinion
Health
There’s a savant in you 鈥� and this man wants to find it
Opinion
Analysis
Features
Humans
How to master your habits and take control of your life
Habits rule our daily lives, but understanding how they become ingrained in the brain could help you nail the habits you want to keep and drop the ones you don鈥檛
Features
Earth
Can this starfish-killing robot save the Great Barrier Reef?
Features
Environment
How to find ET: 7 ways aliens might give themselves away
Features
Culture
Technology
Big Bang Data offers worries, wonders and some cats
On the first of the 12 days of CultureLab, Alun Anderson tells of how in a world made of data, an exhibition underlines the choice between the heaven of superconnection or the hell of surveillance
Culture
Life
The Society of Genes: Time for a subtler picture of evolution
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Laser-etched food promises a digested read
Plus Amazon exports unusual units, patent office powers down, and Peak District's black hole could be the ultimate tourist trap, and more
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