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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

The Trump administration seems to want less clean energy and more preventable diseases

A subset of journal editors may be partly responsible

On screen and in real life, they are getting smaller anyway

It could also be useful in finding life on other planets

That undermines the case for blanket bans or time limits, writes Sema Sgaier