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Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

Narratives around addiction often reduce it to a series of poor choices, lack of values and weakness. This has real-world consequences, warns Anna Wolfe

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Technology

We need transparency from the companies disseminating misinformation

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Health

Never mind the health benefits, there are green reasons to stop vaping

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Environment

How a viral video made turtles the face of the ocean plastic crisis

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Virtual People with Neuron Symbols in The Brain

Health

We will one day be able to slow, halt and even eradicate Alzheimer’s

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Society

How shrinking populations could help to save our planet

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Space

Why we need to save the Chandra space telescope

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2MJA8ED FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2015, file photo, the slogan 1.5 DEGREES is projected on the Eiffel Tower as part of the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. Next month's three-day U.N. climate summit will highlight the urgency of taking immediate actions to reduce global warming and focus on innovations that work, not wordy statements, the U.N. special envoy for the event said Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Environment

The 1.5°C target is dead, but climate action needn’t be

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Life

We now know that life began on Earth much earlier than we thought

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Technology

Don’t disrespect Alan Turing by reanimating him with AI

Plans to create an interactive AI model of the legendary code breaker Alan Turing are reckless and problematic, says Matthew Sparkes

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Life

If we could talk to whales, what might they say?

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Environment

The crisis in our oceans shows how quickly climate chaos can strike

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Life

The science is clear: repeatedly whipping a horse won’t help it learn

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Life

The best livestream so far this year? A corpse flower slowly blooming

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