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Health
US introduces measures to tackle opioid painkiller epidemic
Electronic prescriptions and revised prescribing guidelines are the latest approaches to tackling the epidemic of opioid-related deaths in the US
News
Environment
Never-before-seen life spotted by Hawaiian deep-sea expedition
News
Earth
Weather records broken as world faces alarming levels of change
News
Physics
NASA is sending a 3D printer and a fire starter to the ISS
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Blind woman is first person to receive optogenetics therapy
News
Earth
Why Obama’s Supreme Court nomination is good for the climate
News
Earth
Oil tax breaks in UK’s budget criticised by climate campaigners
News
Environment
Reviving Europe’s long-lost beasts through mass rewilding
News
Health
Women live longer than men but suffer more years of poor health
News
Earth
Pluto gives up its icy secrets as New Horizons data pours in
News
Environment
Manta rays are first fish to recognise themselves in a mirror
News
Health
Frozen rabbit kidneys could solve organ shortage for transplants
News
Physics
LIGO could catch dark matter made of black holes
News
Health
Human stem cell with half a genome could help infertile couples
News
Environment
On the trail of some of the world’s rarest monkeys
News
Earth
Invasive Soviet water flea cuts US lake鈥檚 visibility by a metre
News
Environment
Aquatic plant that feeds like a Venus flytrap faces extinction
News
Physics
Material that can grow when stretched is inspired by Islamic art
News
Environment
Snapping shrimps make less noise in acidifying oceans
News
Environment
Fish with rainbow skin shows how cells move when skin regrows
News
Technology
New alloys could lead to next generation of nuke plant metals
News
Health
Right-leg prostheses give sprint para-athletes an edge on bends
News
Health
Artificial DNA folds into parcels that can survive inside us
News
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News
Health
iPhone app tracks 600 patients in biggest ever Parkinson鈥檚 study
News
Technology
Visions of the singularity: how smart can AI get?
News
Technology
Helpful ghost hands teach beginners how to build new things
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Health
Graphene smart patch for monitoring diabetes could save lives
News
Land of fire and ice
News
Opinion
Health
Meningitis B row shows flaws in how vaccine decisions are made
We can only make good healthcare decisions with good evidence to base them on. In the case of the meningitis vaccine, the advice may be flawed, says Clare Wilson
Opinion
Health
Europe must ease the impact of trauma on refugees, not worsen it
Opinion
Health
UK’s sugary drink tax signals welcome stand against industry
Opinion
Health
I鈥檓 finding new ways to beat antibiotic resistance
Opinion
Features
Life
Nature鈥檚 brain: A radical new view of evolution
How does natural selection create so much complexity so fast? A bold new theory says it learns and remembers past solutions just as our brains do
Features
Health
Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?
Features
Space
Pluto: A whole new world in 5 strange photos
Features
Culture
Humans
Racism, photography and DNA: can we right past wrongs?
Capturing differences between people can easily fuel prejudice: two books explore how pseudoscience helped make ideas about race and how real science unmakes them
Culture
Humans
How Astro Noise show interrogates the world of surveillance
Culture
Humans
Eugenic America: How to exclude almost everyone
Culture
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Humans
Feedback: Lawmakers鈥� raw milk celebrations hit a sour note
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