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Close-up of the tip of a syringe in a petri dish

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US review of fetal research signals the return of the abortion wars

Backed by the “most pro-life president in modern history”, conservatives are gearing up for a new assault on reproductive rights, says Lara Williams

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Is the rise of populism over or only just beginning?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits a school in Istanbul

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It’s an outrage that Turkey is ditching Darwin from science textbooks

Planet of the Apes

Humans

Don’t miss: Apes get ideas, hole becomes art, games lose boundaries

Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong in First Man

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People calling Ryan Gosling’s First Man unpatriotic are stuck in 1969

United Sates Congress

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Hey America, you can finally choose to elect people who rely on facts

Trump

Technology

The real danger of deepfake videos is that we may question everything

Technology

Facebook bans hundreds of accounts linked to Russia and Iran

Humans

Yuval Noah Harari: Why the reluctant guru is upsetting scientists

Humans

North Korea nukes the US in a Trump-bashing new thriller

This is the way the world ends in Jeffrey Lewis's satirical portrayal of future war – not with a bang but a tweet

Technology

Deepfakes won’t wreck politics this year even if politicians might

Environment

Fossil-free Dutch vehicles line up for a cool future

Mind

Lazy thinking – not bias – is the real reason we believe fake news

Physics

Trump’s meeting with Putin may have had a surprise nuclear twist