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People using cellphones in Zambia

Technology

AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS

UNICEF is testing a machine learning system to boost the quantity and quality of health advice provided via a popular text-based service in Zambia and Uganda

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Big Ben poppers

Space

Feedback: Poppers burn a hole in the UK's blanket drugs ban

Regulars

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Health

NHS England backtracks from rolling out HIV-prevention drug

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Human embryo at the 4 cell stage

Health

Embryo cells decide their future only two days after conception

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A worker looks at giant wind turbine parts

Earth

Investment in renewables was double that of coal and gas in 2015

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A new power plant is planned for Hinkley in Somerset

Earth

Should the UK pull plug on Hinkley Point nuclear power station?

Comment

eugenics

Humans

Eugenic America: How to exclude almost everyone

CultureLab

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Humans

Racism, photography and DNA: can we right past wrongs?

CultureLab

Red-shanked doucs in a tree

Life

On the trail of some of the world's rarest monkeys

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People making solar panels

Earth

Energy-related CO2 emissions held steady despite economic growth

The decoupling of energy related carbon dioxide emissions from economic growth for the second year running hints that peak emissions might not be too far away

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Life

The enigmatic whale we can hear – but have never seen

Features

Physics

Bananas and jazz help us penetrate physics – but only so far

CultureLab

Life

Just how are we related to our chimp cousins?

Features

Humans

How two dead power stations fuel the art of catastrophe

CultureLab

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