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How the US almost introduced a universal basic income – 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?

Insight

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

Comment

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

Culture

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Mind

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

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

Life

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

Leader

School climate strikers

Environment

We’re living through a climate emergency. Time to start acting like it

Comment

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Space

Don’t miss: Renaissance investigations, social insights and space cops

Culture

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Environment

Loss of the UK’s ash trees due to fungal disease may cost £15 billion

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Environment

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

Culture

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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?

Features

Health

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

Insight

Technology

How surveillance capitalism is changing human nature forever

Culture

Sponsored

UK science salaries top £40k for the first time

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Health

Married people have stronger hands than those who are single

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