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Revealed: What the UK public really thinks about the future of science

The 2018 ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓÆµ Asks the Public survey reveals that people are well-informed about science and technology, but politicians are ignoring their hopes and fears

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Only one in five UK adults would choose to live forever if they could

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Space

A third of us would go one-way to Mars – but it may shrink your brain

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Life

Artificial genes show life does not have to be based on DNA

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Physics

Hydrogen can form ‘ghost bonds’ with something that isn’t even there

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Space

Why a rake on the moon messed up our theories of life on Earth

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Humans

You should soothe babies who wake at night – it speeds sleep training

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Environment

Acid is dribbling out of the melting permafrost in the Arctic

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Health

New Apple Watch heart monitor sounds great – here’s why it may not be

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Space

We’ve found a pulsar spinning so slowly that it shouldn’t exist

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Health

Gluten may be making you tired and depressed according to a new study

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Technology

AI tries bad improv comedy to trick people into thinking it is human

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Environment

Half the planet should be set aside for wildlife – to save ourselves

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Technology

Watch this robotic fruit fly swoop, dive and perform impressive flips

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Health

Bandages laser-bonded to your skin may fix wounds better than stitches

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Environment

We may have reached Madagascar 6000 years earlier than once thought

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Life

Peaceful basking sharks can leap just as powerfully as great whites

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Just one tiny piece of plastic may be enough to kill a baby turtle

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Health

BPA-free plastics seem to disrupt sperm and egg development in mice

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Health

An antioxidant might lead to new therapies for bone arthritis

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Physics

Watch a blast of sound turn floating drops into bubbles

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