The Economist
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An update on AIDS: HIV’s slow retrenchment
The latest dispatch from the war on HIV, the “Global AIDS Update 2016”, just published by UNAIDS, the UN agency responsible for combating the virus, brings qualified good news.
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How earthquakes help capture carbon dioxide
Quakes can be catastrophic. But they may have a silver lining
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Robotic surgery, who wields the knife?
THEY don’t drink, they don’t get tired and they don’t go on strike. To hospital managers, the idea of robots operating on patients without human intervention is an attractive one. […]
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High-definition maps: The autonomous car’s reality check
Building highly detailed maps for robotic vehicles
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The sociology of science: In death, there is life
Big-name scientists may end up stifling progress in their fields
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Taking the online medicine
Old-fashioned ways of reporting new discoveries are holding back medical research. Some scientists are pushing for change
