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Opinion

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

Disease priorities

HIV could be the next smallpox, but should we target it at the expense of malaria and other plagues that blight the developing world?

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Cameron Neylon: Time for total scientific openness

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Health

Beware the lone wolf radicals

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Earth

Li Quan: Why Chinese tigers should return via Africa

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Stop ignoring the nuclear waste problem

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Complexity theorist: My formula predicts social unrest

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Earth

Evolutionary theory can make street life better

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Stop this terrible waste of scientific talent

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Space

RIP shuttle – let’s get back to real space exploration

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Health

Alternative medicine investigator: Placebos and platitudes

Why are unproven therapies so popular, asks physician Edzard Ernst, who has spent 18 years researching alternative medicines – and thinks homeopathy works

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Physics

Game developer: Beware algorithms running your life

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Medicine should embrace diagnostic technology

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No need to fear rewinding evolution

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Ecology could teach economists a thing or two

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