Bitcoin futures trading opens as cryptocurrency's price soars
13 December 2017
Bitcoin took another step towards financial respectability this week, with the launch of a futures market on a Chicago-based exchange
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Drug injections into the spine sabotaged production of mutant protein that destroys brain cells
Fentanyl considered for execution cocktail by two US states
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Nevada and Nebraska are considering using the opioid drug fentanyl to carry out death penalty executions
Victoria is first state in Australia to legalise euthanasia
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Russian billionaire Yuri Milner is considering privately funding a mission to Enceladus, one of the prime places to search for life in our solar system
Austerity cuts to NHS blamed for 120,000 excess deaths
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Excess deaths between 2010 and 2017 correlated most closely with a lack of nurses in care homes and cuts to community nursing
Digital drug tells your doctor when you've taken your medicine
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FDA approves an antipsychotic pill containing an electronic sensor that activates when it hits stomach fluid and sends a message to a smartphone-linked patch
IBM has built two new quantum computers with 20 and 50 qubits
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