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Close-up of a person's face wearing the Google Glass

Technology

Will a new wave of smart glasses make us 'glassholes' again?

A second round of mass-market facial computers looks less likely to inspire public anger than Google's Glass but it will be a fragile truce, says Jamais Cascio

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Tiangong-1 space station

Space

China's reckless attitude to space debris needs to change

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Anti-ageing skincare testing

Humans

Skincare science is frivolous and warrants attack, right? Wrong

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Quantum computing research

Physics

Is the quantum computer revolution really just five years away?

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The EMA building

Health

Fears of Brexit chaos for medicines agency should worry us all

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Scott Pruitt, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency

Earth

The US agency that guards the environment is going to be hobbled

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Shark's open mouth

Life

Shark-free world? That's a wish that would come back to bite us

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A butcher's selling halal meat

Humans

It's time to label all meat as stunned or unstunned at slaughter

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loaves of bread

Health

Time for the UK to stop dithering and add folic acid to bread

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a cloned monkey

Life

First monkeys, and then us? Human cloning must stay off limits

The ability to clone monkeys will rekindle speculation about doing the same with humans. There are many reasons to oppose it, says Marcy Darnovsky

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Earth

Our best way to geoengineer the climate may well trash Earth

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Humans

We've stopped trusting social media – and that's a good thing

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Earth

Commercial electric pulse fishing should be banned for now

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Humans

Trump, this 'shithole' continent pioneered heart swaps and more

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