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Humans alter the state of the planet

Diabetes drug is the new diet trend

Will DALL-E or ChatGPT steal our jobs?

A new book by James Poskett

If strategies from Allegra Stratton, the prime minister’s spokesperson for the COP26 climate summit, are anything to go by then November’s meeting will do nothing to arrest environmental crisis.

Richard Lewontin, who died aged 92 recently, was one of the most talented geneticists of his generation.

John Parrington spoke to Sophie Squire about his new book Mind Shift

There are fears that some black people will reject the Covid-19 vaccine. Socialist Worker looks at how abhorrent treatment at the hands of the state and doctors is to blame

How did public funds meant to help us find a vaccine for coronavirus end up in the pockets of some of the richest corporations on the planet? And, why will billions of people still be without hope even when a vaccine emerges?

Some scientists are debating whether herd immunity is the best way to control coronavirus spread. But Dr Jonathan Fluxman told Sadie Robinson that this method means sacrificing the vulnerable

The struggle for the natural world has always pitted the left against the right, now it’s become a battle for survival, argues Sarah Ensor

The coronavirus crisis is a profit-laden paradise for some pharmaceutical firms.

The latest bombshell to explode in the government’s face has hit its claim to base its policy for the Covid-19 pandemic on “the science” or “the evidence”

The Development of vaccines is conditional on what big business wants, not the needs of people

Drugmaker Novartis has launched an international lottery for its extremely costly gene therapy Zolgensma

Workers at Science Museums across England struck for a second time on Wednesday in a battle over pay.

Workers at two sets of museums were set to strike over pay on Thursday of this week.

Jeremy Corbyn says he wants to change how drugs companies work. Sadie Robinson looks at how pharmaceutical fat cats pile up profits while ordinary people are denied care they need

Society’s structures—and sexism—mean women going through the menopause face many problems, including the side effects of HRT used to treat its symptoms, writes Sarah Bates

What is the Anthropocene and can it help us resist environmental destruction?

Were moon landings a giant leap forward for humanity, or the culmination of a growing Cold War? Gabby Thorpe boldly goes in search of the legacy of the space race

John Sulston, who died on 6 March, was a pioneering biologist and a passionate life-long advocate for socialism. Sulston spent his formative years working at the famous Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, sometimes called the “Nobel Prize factory” because of the number of its scientists who achieved that award. Indeed Sulston himself was awarded...

With stunning cinematography and a powerful plot, Blade Runner 2049 is a sequel with everything that fans will want, writes Gabby Thorpe

I agree with John Parrington’s assertion that human characteristics and disorders are the product of an intricate interplay between society and biology. However, this academic generalisation should not be confused with a Marxist approach to human suffering. It is a mistake to fetishise science as a politically neutral force that can be wielded by either...