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It's parents who are anxious about smartphones, not their children

Smartphones have indeed created an "anxious generation", but it isn't young people, it is their parents, argues neuroscientist Dean Burnett

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It's parents who are anxious about smartphones, not their children

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Why we need to fight back against sexy Asian lady robots

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If we reassessed what maths is, perhaps it wouldn't make us so anxious

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If we reassessed what maths is, perhaps it wouldn't make us so anxious
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How genetically modified crops could feed us and help safeguard nature

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New Scientist Live: What we are most excited about seeing this year

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A Declaration on Future Generations could bring the changes we need

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A Declaration on Future Generations could bring the changes we need

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We physicists could learn a lot by stepping beyond our specialisms

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We need to start telling women how pregnancy changes their brain

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We need to start telling women how pregnancy changes their brain

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OpenAI’s warnings about risky AI are mostly just marketing

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Our fascination with monsters tells us a lot about ourselves

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Our fascination with monsters tells us a lot about ourselves

From serpents to zombie pathogens, there is science behind our love of monsters. It reveals a lot about who we are, says Natalie Lawrence

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How Star Trek-style replicators could lead to a food revolution

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Rejecting standard cancer treatment like Elle Macpherson is a big risk

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We need transparency from the companies disseminating misinformation

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Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

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Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

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