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Killer robots are here – we must finally decide whether to accept them

We can no longer ignore the growing threat of fully autonomous weapons. The world must either act to ban them or accept that they are the future of war

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Health

Why controversial ideas in science shouldn't always be dismissed

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Technology

Superintelligent machines may well need us after all

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Life

Capitalism has warped our understanding of ecology and life’s origins

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Life

PMOS shows us why many scientific terms need to be renamed

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Physics

Science doesn't have a monopoly on good ideas

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Life

David Attenborough is one of a kind, for better or worse

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Health

Long covid reveals the harm of one-size-fits-all medical treatment

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Environment

Why your opinion of used electric vehicles is probably wrong

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The biggest threat to Chernobyl is no longer radiation

Forty years after the world’s biggest nuclear disaster, the safety of Chernobyl hangs in the balance – though not because of the radiation risk

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Technology

We urgently need to prepare for quantum computers breaking encryption

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Environment

The Iran war is exposing the huge risks in our food system

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Mind

Want to live forever? There are major questions to confront, first

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Technology

The success of machine mathematicians shows us how to be OK with AI

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