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Is artificial intelligence about to free us from the curse of Babel?
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Why has the death of Matthew Perry affected so many of us so much?
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A big gulf in ocean science threatens to sink the climate change fight
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Ice might be ubiquitous, but we are still discovering things about it
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We need a wake-up call when it comes to adolescent sleep
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Searching for life on Mars isn’t worth the risk to Earth
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The green transition will fail without more engineers
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Society
Legalising marijuana hasn't been the quick fix the US hoped for
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Let's use AI to rethink education, instead of panicking about cheating
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Let's stop making lab-grown meat weird
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The surprising ways cannabis can be part of drug addiction treatment
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Why we urgently need to end the stigma around body weight
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