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Golden Rice: Lifesaver?

The fight over genetically modified crops has gone global. Is hysteria impeding science?

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Diet of dehydrated and freeze dried cuisine of the past will give way to fresh food cooked on the Martian surface

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Today's tasting of in vitro meat could herald a future free from needless animal suffering and polluting factory farms

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There's a lot more to neuroscience than media 'neuromania'

Mark Stokes: Why do some critics refuse to accept that the solution to many mysteries of the mind will be found in the brain?

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Weekend hunger summit in London prefaced by publication in the Lancet of shocking new figures on undernutrition

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I suspected a day would come when music writers did their jobs wearing rubber helmets, with electrodes stuck to their skulls — I just didn’t know it was already here. Welcome to the world of Dr Eduardo Miranda, director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research at ­the University of Plymouth.

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Mild electric shocks to brain may help students solve maths problems

Psychologists find students do puzzles 27% faster after non-invasive procedure than those who had no treatment

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The suspect in the Aurora shooting on Monday asked a judge to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. The move is widely seen as James Holmes’ best hope of avoiding the death penalty. Holmes is charged with murder and attempted murder in an attack on a movie theater in Colorado, on 20 July 2012, that killed 12 and injured 70.