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Smarter police interviews could help reduce racial tension

Humans

Smarter police interviews could help reduce racial tension

Institutional racism happens one decision at a time. Improving police dispatcher training might help stop police officers making bad decisions based on race

Analysis

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Humans

Are humans still evolving? Growing evidence suggests we are

Comment

What Theresa May’s new cabinet really means for climate change

Earth

What Theresa May’s new cabinet really means for climate change

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Humans

Donald Trump is bending reality to get into the American psyche

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Humans

May's force be with her

Leader

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Space

Tim Peake: Robots won’t replace me for 100 years

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Humans

Hundreds of mystery human skulls sold on eBay for up to $5500

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Health

US could be set to tackle opioid painkiller epidemic at last

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Technology

Trick or tweet, or both? How social media is messing up politics

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Life

Toxic algal bloom triggers state of emergency in Florida

The 85-square-kilometre bloom of blue-green algae is putting people and wildlife at risk, and Florida’s governor has asked for it to be declared a federal emergency

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Earth

Climate change may not be all bad for UK’s economy, report says

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Next PM Theresa May often demands the scientifically impossible

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Humans

What explains Brexit, Trump and the rise of the far right?

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Space

Up close with the awesome power of NASA's biggest ever rocket

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