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The best science fiction books out in 2023

CERN-inspired stories, a feminist retelling of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and a new deep future from Annalee Newitz: sci-fi fans have a lot to look forward to in 2023

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Earth

2022: The year of rolling polycrisis, but with a few glimmers of hope

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An electron micrograph of an HIV virus particle (red/yellow) budding from the plasma membrane of an infected T cell (blue), which make up part of the immune system

Health

Vaccine prompts HIV antibodies in 97 per cent of people in small study

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Owl-like engravings from Copper Age may have been made by children

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Chemistry

Genetically modified tobacco plant produces cocaine in its leaves

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A baby in a neonatal intensive care unit is held by its mother

Health

Immediate skin-to-skin contact advised for premature newborns by WHO

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Technology

Filling the internet with AI-created images will harm future AIs

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Environment

Dismissing environmentalists with an 'anti-growth' label is wrong

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Don’t Miss: Great Egyptology from Tutankhamun to Cleopatra’s daughter

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Don’t Miss: Great Egyptology from Tutankhamun to Cleopatra’s daughter

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Shutterstock will sell AI-generated art and 'compensate' human artists

After removing images generated by artificial intelligence models from its archives last month, Shutterstock is now going to sell ones created exclusively by OpenAI's DALL-E 2 AI

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Health

Personal lubricant made from cow mucus may protect against HIV

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Don't Miss: In Plain Sight, an exhibition about visual perception

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Physics

Randall Munroe on answering the strangest scientific questions

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Society

US pardons people convicted for marijuana possession under federal law

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