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Take a punt: The thrilling science of risk and chance

In a world where luck, risk and probability control our everyday lives, three books help us cope better with tricky choices

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Earth

What's behind bankruptcy of world's largest private coal firm

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Scientist checking marijuana plants at a federal marijuana facility at the University of Mississippi

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DEA mellowing out on cannabis would make medical research easier

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Life

Lemur extinctions in Madagascar leave behind doomed orphan trees

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Records reveal gender-selective abortion taking place in Canada

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Humans

The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould

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Cell infected with HIV. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of HIV particles (yellow) budding from the membrane of a host cell (red).

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HIV defies attempt to edit virus out of human cells with CRISPR

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Savagely malled: Why 'smart' cities aren't so smart

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Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?

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Some stillbirths are avoidable if we know enough to act in time

Some stillbirths can be prevented if at-risk babies are induced in time. New NHS guidelines will help but scientists could do much more, says Jop de Vrieze

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Technology

AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS

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NHS England backtracks from rolling out HIV-prevention drug

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Space

Feedback: Poppers burn a hole in the UK's blanket drugs ban

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Embryo cells decide their future only two days after conception

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