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politics

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Life

Marchers, raise your banners for the tortoise pace of progress

The March for Science reflects the growing gap between slow, steady, vital scientific gains and quick-fire, opportunist US politics, says Dave Levitan

Comment

EPA

Earth

US bill restricts use of science in environmental policymaking

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philosophers

Mind

Philosophers of knowledge, your time has come

Leader

WhatsApp

Technology

You can't legislate against mathematics

Leader

The WhatsApp app icon on a phone

Technology

Why breaking encryption is a bad idea that could never work

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Technology

How free speech can become censorship – and how to solve it

Analysis

protest

Health

Beetroot for AIDS: Fighting denialism in Mbeki’s South Africa

Features

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3, or OCO-3

Humans

Trump's tragic budget kills vital science to boost defence

Comment

A man holds an electronic tablet in an airport waiting room

Technology

Electronic devices banned on US-bound flights from 8 countries

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Humans

Ongoing academic purge shows Turkey is heading to a dark place

51¶¯Âþs are among hundreds of academics sacked ahead of Turkey's referendum on handing more power to its authoritarian president, says Caghan Kizil

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Technology

UK government pulls ads from YouTube in extremist content row

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Technology

MPs grill Facebook, Twitter and Google over abusive content

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Earth

Scott Pruitt's climate denial may be Putin's real prize

Comment

Technology

Web creator Tim Berners-Lee speaks out on fake news

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