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Can we reduce mass shootings by changing how they are reported?

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Can we reduce mass shootings by changing how they are reported?

There are calls to curb media coverage of some aspects of mass shootings in the US to try to cut the number of gun sprees. Will it work, wonders Steven Stack

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Plan to replant millions of trees in central England slows down

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US Air Force wants to plasma bomb the sky using tiny satellites

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US Air Force wants to plasma bomb the sky using tiny satellites

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Vibrio cholerae bacteria

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Warming seas linked to rise in cholera bacteria in Europe and US

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Obamacare has already improved health of low-income Americans

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Obamacare has already improved health of low-income Americans

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GM mosquito trial in Florida given the go-ahead by regulator

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School field trips to creationist Ark? Sink that idea right now

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What Donald Trump has said about science – and why he’s wrong

What Donald Trump has said about science – and why he’s wrong

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There could already be 40,000 people carrying Zika in the US

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US police use machine learning to curb their own violence

With US policing in the spotlight, the police are turning to AI to predict which officers are at risk of cracking under stress

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First locally transmitted Zika case confirmed in continental US

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Why Hinkley Point is a nuclear folly of Titanic proportions

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Save the world’s largest living thing: build a fence around it

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Theresa May reassures UK scientists in wake of Brexit fears

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