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Technology

How the US almost introduced a universal basic income 鈥� 50 years ago

With automation threatening jobs, US president Richard Nixon proposed a universal minimum income - an idea that only recently has come back in vogue

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Space

Cookies and slime in orbit: What’s the point of PR stunts in space?

Comment

The global economy is broken, it must work for people, not vice versa

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Mind

Life鈥檚 winners think success was earned even if it was down to luck

Humans

Japan’s return to commercial whaling has no economic or cultural case

School climate strikers

Environment

We鈥檙e living through a climate emergency. Time to start acting like it

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Humans

Don鈥檛 miss: Renaissance investigations, social insights and space cops

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Environment

Loss of the UK鈥檚 ash trees due to fungal disease may cost 拢15 billion

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Environment

A planet of nearly 8 billion people needs a new kind of green thinking

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Humans

The science skills most in demand

As the UK prepares for a massive increase in R&D spending, which skills are the hardest to recruit for?

Environment

A four-day work week could improve our health and cut carbon emissions

Technology

How surveillance capitalism is changing human nature forever

Sponsored

UK science salaries top 拢40k for the first time

Health

Married people have stronger hands than those who are single