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LATEST
Dreams: The PS4 game that lets you design and share your own reality
Funding crisis threatens crucial UK ocean monitoring project
Scientists have finally worked out what screaming sounds like
No, koalas are not ‘functionally extinct’, but they are in trouble
Cannabis plant evolved super high (on the Tibetan Plateau)
Digital camera sees around corners by guessing what’s lurking behind
IN DEPTH
Elon Musk’s SpaceX or a superpower: Who’ll win the new space race?
Alabama’s extreme new law could lead to an end of US abortion rights
Analysis
Axions may or may not exist – but we’re not just making things up
Comment
We need to rediscover the wonder of space exploration to save Earth
Comment
Can the UK avoid having a lethal opioid crisis like the one in the US?
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Artificial sponges could pull uranium from seawater for nuclear power
Want to build robots and invent stuff? Here’s where to start
Chernobyl disaster: how the Soviet Union’s cover story was blown
UK government told to adopt world’s most ambitious climate target
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