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Thursday, 1st February 2018 didn’t come soon enough for some who took up the challenge of not drinking alcohol throughout...
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Scientists in China have cloned healthy macaque monkeys using the technique that cloned Dolly the sheep for the first time....
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Science made headlines constantly in 2017, from the first report of a genetically modified human embryo to vast improvements in...
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Black Mirror returned to our screens this Christmas with a new season of six episodes eager to script our nightmares...
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Buzz Aldrin, formerly Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr, was born on 20 January 1930. This month the engineer, fighter pilot, and...
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I am a millennial. I have been since birth. As such, at the moment I received an email from the...
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Today the I, Science Autumn 2017 issue, Success, was launched. In this issue, we bring you Success as an antidote...
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It is an undisputed fact that vast numbers of human beings enjoy wine the planet over. But knowledge of exactly...
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More than 20 years after his death, the American geochemist Clair Patterson is known for two achievements that would each...
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This is a Comment Piece and its views are exclusively those of the author. The free world stands at a...
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Trump vs. Science: In the pursuit of remerging as a self-sustained, global superpower, scientists allege policies based on "myth over...
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We all bleed, and from a young age we are all acutely aware of the blood that runs under our skin....
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This year’s Nobel Prizes highlight a wealth of new achievements, but call attention to a well-worn question: where are all...
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