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Smart pills can transmit data to your doctors, but what about privacy?

Medicines that record when they have been taken are already being prescribed. Ethical issues must be addressed, say I. Glenn Cohen and Alex Pearlman

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Why wouldn’t you want to live forever? 51¶¯Âþ editors debate

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Heart-tugging tales of crowdfunded cancer 'cures' fuel quack medicine

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Is the rise of populism over or only just beginning?

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits a school in Istanbul

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It's an outrage that Turkey is ditching Darwin from science textbooks

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Genetic studies intend to help people with autism, not wipe them out

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Space

People calling Ryan Gosling's First Man unpatriotic are stuck in 1969

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Humans

Hey America, you can finally choose to elect people who rely on facts

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US Vice President making a speech in front of a NASA logo, an American flag and a picture of the moon

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Why an orbiting moon station is the worst idea of the new space age

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The vapour from vaping emerges onto a street

Health

Here's why the ban on vaping on trains and buses should stay for now

You can't use e-cigarettes on public transport or in most workplaces in the UK but there is a fresh call to lift this ban. It's a non-starter, says Lara Williams

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Humans

Call off the grizzly bear trophy hunt, it's immoral and unscientific

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Including population control in climate policy risks human tragedy

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