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Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

Life

Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

Human clones, a colony on Mars, alien contact... what world-changing breakthroughs will come in the next decade? We asked the experts – with some surprising results

Features

Abstract image of two glowing orbs surrounded by spirals of light

Physics

Wiggling atom probes buddy molecule without disturbing it

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screen grab of TV report on Fukushima disaster

Health

Fukushima accident gave everyone an X-ray’s worth of radiation

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Korea missile

Humans

Talk of a 'localised nuclear conflict' is ignorant and dangerous

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Pierre and Marie Curie

Humans

Up and atom: The fights to put people into the periodic table

Features

radioactive waste drums

Physics

Waste-munching bacteria could make nuclear stores safer

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Trump plans to revive nuclear waste plans axed by Obama in 2010

Physics

Trump plans to revive nuclear waste plans axed by Obama in 2010

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A nuclear ghost town in Japan welcomes back residents this week

Health

A nuclear ghost town in Japan welcomes back residents this week

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Southern Milky Way

Space

Oddball star could be home to long-sought superheavy elements

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Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan

Health

Exposed: Soviet cover-up of nuclear fallout worse than Chernobyl

A first look at a top secret report shows that Moscow scientists studied the impacts of nuclear bomb tests on civilians, but the results were never made public

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Technology

How Trump’s erratic nuclear posture could spark a new arms race

Insight

Health

Is historic Soviet radiation health data too hot to handle?

Leader

Health

Exclusive: First visit to Russia's secret nuclear disaster site

Features

Life

Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science

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