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Stay informed with commentary and opinion pieces on the latest issues in science, technology, health and the environment, written by expert 51动漫 journalists and world-leading researchers and thinkers.

Society

There is a major psychological flaw in how society punishes people

Our experiments have revealed that we're getting it wrong when it comes to crime and punishment. This is undermining society, say Raihan Alam and Tage Rai

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Humans

Who were the first humans to reach the British Isles?

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Technology

What makes a quantum computer good?

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Health

Why not all ultra-processed foods are bad for you

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Environment

How pie-in-the-sky conspiracies distract from climate dangers

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Commercial health tests promise peace of mind, but do they deliver?

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Space

Is the universe really one big black hole?

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Why abandoning psychedelic research in the 1970s was a blow to science

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Space

Why ‘beauty factories’ could solve two massive cosmological mysteries

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Trump’s unfounded health claims cast a long shadow

Adding flawed advice to the information overload around pregnancy is likely to cause harm, especially when there are few good ways to combat scientific misinformation

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Mathematics

The most important mathematician you鈥檝e (probably) never heard of

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Mind

Are you an introvert or extrovert? Surprisingly, the answer is neither

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Environment

What made solar power the most desirable energy source on the planet?

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Health

We can avoid the agonising wait for advances in women’s healthcare

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