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will that protect them from harm?
A year from now, children under the age of 16 in Australia will be barred from many social-media…
The climate-crusading lawyer who sued Switzerland over global warming — and won
Eight years of legal fighting came down to this one moment. On 9 April, Cordelia Bähr and the…
Risk algorithm used widely in US courts is harsher than human judges
Judges can use algorithms to help make their decisions Frances Twitty/Getty Images A US courtroom experiment suggests a…
Will South Africa become first country to accept controversial form of human genome editing?
Researchers have voiced concerns after South Africa updated its health-research ethics guidelines to include a new section on…
How I hunt down fake degrees and zombie universities
Working scientist profiles This article is part of an occasional series in which Nature profiles scientists with unusual…
Why aren’t there talks with the Taliban about getting women and girls back into education?
From left to right: Raihana Sattari, Marwa Shinwari and Heela Barakzai, robotics researchers from Afghanistan, who had to…
how scientists are coping with the cutoff
A months-long feud between billionaire Elon Musk and Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes has led to…
New York Cracked Down on Airbnb One Year Ago. NYC Housing Is Still a Mess
It’s been one year since New York enacted a law that barred most whole-apartment rentals for short-term stays…
the world’s highest court must weigh in strongly on climate and nature
For just a few more days, a window remains open for governments around the world to make their…
Would an AI judge be able to efficiently dispense justice?
Judges are only human and can make mistakes, so could an artificial intelligence make better and more efficient…