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Unclaimed bodies are anatomy’s shameful inheritance

Medical science must stop using the bodies of some of society’s most vulnerable people for dissection, says anatomist Gareth Jones

Let me show you how to make your own glowing plant

Cuts and red tape are gagging US and Canadian science

Earth

We’re offering $2m for the best ocean acidity mapping

Humans

Parental guidance advised over virtual embryos

Earth

Synthetic biology can supplement traditional farmers

Physics

Einstein’s waves would make a cosmic overture

Humans

The fourth state of matter: Consciousness

Health

Should we pay drug users to get vital vaccines?

Earth

London mayor Boris talks brain scans and robot cars

Boris Johnson says biotech is the new banking – and talks about a love for nuclear physics and why robots will pay the congestion charge

Space

NASA’s Russia boycott may revitalise US space leadership

Earth

Muddled impartiality is still harming climate coverage

Humans

Hive minds: Time to drop the fiction of individuality

Sexism will dog science until it gives women their due