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Read expert opinions from the world's leading scientific minds on everything from science's big conundrums and latest research outcomes to future science

Children on the stairs in a school

Humans

Theresa May’s grammar school meritocracy is a deluded idea

If the government's vision of a new raft of selective schools to create a meritocracy comes true, it will cement the UK's dire inequality, says James Bloodworth

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Health

Doctors must let patients decide whether to take statins

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A map of where Zika is active

Health

US plan to fend off Zika with sterile mosquitoes faces catch-22

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An overweight man

Health

UK childhood obesity plan is a spineless, worthless document

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Zoltan Istvan, head and shoulders, pictured in black and white with clouds in the background. He's white, square-jawed and arrogant-looking

Humans

Meet the US presidential candidate campaigning for immortality

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Contrails from planes

Sponsored

Chemtrails conspiracy theory gets put to the ultimate test

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Arjen Hoekstra

Earth

We can avoid a water crisis, but the fix will be hard to swallow

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Andrew Wakefield

Health

Warning: Wakefield’s anti-vax film may make you sick

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Carroll

Mind

It’s mind-blowing what our puny brains can do

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Front page of The Sun newspaper, headlined 'World's end'

Sponsored

Ease up doom mongers, Planet Nine is not about to destroy us

Contrary to tabloid tales, a distant extra planet in our solar system is not about to send comets raining down on us, says astronomer Phil Plait

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Humans

Time to declutter – what consumer VR means for interior design

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Earth

I’m creating supercharged corals to beat climate change

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Humans

Migration: Do we want to go forwards or backwards?

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Earth

Colonise Mars as humanity’s plan B? It’s a dangerous fantasy

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