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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

We should accept that accidents will happen

It’s getting ever easier to pin the blame for every accident on somebody, somewhere. We should resist that urge

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Technology

Alphabet is the worst name the new Google could have chosen

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Earth

Russia has claimed the North Pole – but it’s not the only one

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Earth

Distrust of nuclear power is a post-Hiroshima hang-up we can fix

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Earth

Cocaine is bad for Colombia’s forests but big farming is worse

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Health

Doing CPR is hard for older people so I teach them to use a foot

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Life

When it comes to science, do sweat the small stuff

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Earth

Obama wants you to think his climate plan will be bold. It’s not

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Earth

Calais migrant chaos is a taste of what a warmer world may bring

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Environment

Killing of lion Cecil should spark ban on US trophy hunt imports

Fury at the slaying of a well-known African lion by a trophy hunter can be the catalyst to curb the destruction of iconic wildlife, says William Travers

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Health

Bionics man offers a taste of our cyborg future

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Humans

How our capacity to lie peaks in young adulthood

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A new hunt for ET could well find AI on non-Earthlike worlds

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Space

Is Pluto a planet or a dwarf? Such labels matter less and less

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