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| Some planets may orbit a supermassive black hole instead of a star | |
| This is almost certainly not what Denisovans looked like | |
| UN climate summit: Scientists' messages to world leaders | |
| A hat that zaps the scalp with electricity helps reverse male balding | |
| Man sees the world in miniature after a stroke damages his brain | |
| Do dads matter? Anna Machin on the fascinating science of fatherhood | |
| People like the idea of a carbon tax - if the money is put to good use | |
| Climate change will boost risk of extreme flooding in northern Europe | |
| Fast swimming fish robot could perform underwater surveillance | |
| Ad Astra: Pirates and space monkeys can't save dull space psychodrama | |
| Meltwater from Greenland could raise sea level an extra 7 centimetres | |
| C-section babies have a different microbiome - but not for long | |
| Artificial intelligence can now predict El Niño 18 months in advance | |
| Laws are needed when technological change ends up squeezing workers | |
| The 4 ingredients to create consciousness could explain our own minds | |
| The best roguelike games are a perfect balance of order and randomness | |
| Don't miss: the art of science, vanishing cetaceans and edited humans | |
| Does alien life have to look like us? Or even be intelligent? | |
| Fierce battle looks likely as land-dwelling mudskipper fish face off | |
| How aspirin became a wonder drug against heart disease and cancer | |
| The school climate strikes this Friday need the support of adults | |
| xkcd comic creator Randall Munroe on the thrill of physics | |
| Loch Ness Monster unmasked: it's a load of eels in a giant eel costume | |
| A stargazer's guide to the equinox and how Earth moves around the sun | |
| Deliberate drowning of Brazil's rainforest is worsening climate change | |
| Richard Dawkins: How we can outgrow God and religion | |
| Saturn's moon Enceladus is having a snowball fight with other moons | |
| Mathematicians find a completely new way to write the number 3 | |
| Jeffrey Epstein scandal raises questions over who should fund science | |
| Special report: How climate change is melting France's largest glacier | |
| Frogs evolved to be more scared after mongooses came to their island | |
| The most powerful volcano on Jupiter's moon Io is about to explode | |
| 'What have insects ever done for us,' asks George McGavin | |
| Whales evolved large brains in the same way that we did | |
| True nature of consciousness: Solving the biggest mystery of your mind | |
| Most people in the UK back limits on flying to tackle climate change | |
| Radio waves from electric devices may affect the body clock of insects | |
| AI learns to defy the laws of physics to win at hide-and-seek | |
| Sim Singhrao on the secrets of a healthy mind at New Scientist Live | |
| School strikes are changing the world, says UN climate science advisor | |
| New species of giant salamander is the world's largest amphibian | |
| Black hole that 'rings' like a bell shows Einstein was right | |
| One in 16 US women were forced into having sex for the first time | |
| Megan Rossi on how to look after your gut at New Scientist Live | |
| Vikings probably hunted Iceland's walruses to extinction for ivory | |
| Fires devastating Australia's east coast have arrived unusually early | |
| A network in the brain is involved in a range of mental health issues | |
| Microplastics may stop hermit crabs from choosing the best home | |
| 50-year old maths problem about an infinite lottery finally solved | |
| Boosting circadian rhythms can help relieve perinatal depression | |
| Tall twisting tower is made from wood that shapes itself as it dries | |
| Hans Christian Gram: The biologist who helped investigate bacteria | |
| Largest ever polar expedition will soon be frozen in drifting sea ice | |
| Early whales swam doggy paddle across the ocean from India to Africa | |
| Do brains have a gender? Gina Rippon to speak at New Scientist Live | |
| We may have a basic form of sign language in common with chimpanzees | |
| Decline of migrating birds could be partly due to pesticides | |
| Generator that runs on heat escaping to the sky can charge phones | |
| Bones release a hormone that helps us deal with sudden danger | |
| Report reveals no-deal Brexit impact - here's what you need to know | |
| Why are countries failing on their promise to stop deforestation? | |
| Astronomer Royal Martin Rees to call for international tech guidelines | |
| Baffling maths riddle that looks like a pile of worms almost solved | |
| US to ban flavoured e-cigarettes after hundreds get strange illness | |
| Giant ice age kangaroos had massive cheekbones for crushing bites | |
| Robot can launch out of the water and glide like a flying fish | |
| We may have spotted an interstellar comet flying towards Earth | |
| This watery planet is the best place to hunt life we've seen so far | |
| There is a pair of weird, gigantic bubbles at the centre of our galaxy | |
| Bye bye space-time: is it time to free physics from Einstein's legacy? | |
| Can we create new land to save the fragile Mississippi delta? | |
| Brexit makes us question democracy - and so does climate change | |
| Facebook must come clean and hand over election campaign data | |
| Dean Burnett on why disruptive teens might have saved the human race | |
| Does nuking hurricanes mean Trump is declaring war on climate change? | |
| Make a remote-control pest-proof bird feeder - part 2 | |
| Am I addicted? The truth behind being hooked on gaming, sex or porn | |
| Planet Earth has 9 safety limits and we've already exceeded 4 of them | |
| Netflix's Diagnosis is a real-life House with added crowdsourcing | |
| Don't Miss: Interplanetary paranoia, green buildings and anxious art | |
| Climate change: Is capitalism the problem or the solution? | |
| Australia's anti-encryption law is hurting press and personal privacy | |
| Giles Yeo to explain the truth about diets at New Scientist Live | |
| Building the battery of the future - today | |
| What is space-time? The true origins of the fabric of reality | |
| Ghost crabs use teeth in their stomach to growl at their enemies | |
| Some physicists still doubt whether LIGO has seen gravitational waves | |
| HPV vaccinations seem to be creating herd immunity for US men | |
| Two new species of electric eel come as a shock to biologists | |
| Logging study reveals huge hidden emissions of the forestry industry | |
| Margaret Atwood's The Testaments' anti-science world is a grim warning | |
| Everything you need to know about the UN's upcoming climate summit | |
| Building climate change defences could massively boost world economy | |
| Ancient footprints show Neanderthals may have been taller than thought | |
| Titan's odd-shaped lakes may have formed from underground explosions | |
| An artificial leg with sensors helps people feel every step | |
| Transplant organs can be supercooled to below zero for longer storage | |
| Europeans have steadily accumulated mutations for thousands of years | |
| How you live affects your sperm - and perhaps your future children too | |
| Wild mountain gorillas enjoy playing in water just like we do | |
| Women have a daily hormone cycle as well as a monthly one | |
| India's Vikram moon lander appears to have crashed on the moon | |
| Mathematicians crack elusive puzzle involving the number 42 | |
| Why do fragrances cause health problems for one in three people? | |
| Three people have now died from lung disease after vaping | |
| Jurassic turtle may have been crushed underfoot by a giant dinosaur | |
| Drug cocktail seems to reverse biological signs of ageing in people | |
| How big is a proton? We may finally have the answer to this puzzle | |
| Coral reefs are now spawning out of sync and might fail to reproduce | |
| Scientists win millions in the 2020 Breakthrough Prize | |
| Shep Doeleman on the Breakthrough Prize-winning black hole photo | |
| Pesticide made from spider venom kills pests without harming bees | |
| New Scientist joins the Covering Climate Now initiative | |
| Police robot can be flung through windows and distract suspects | |
| Vegetarian diet linked with 22 per cent lower risk of heart disease | |
| All languages, however different, convey information at the same rate | |
| A single severe head injury can trigger long-term brain damage | |
| AI facial recognition software now works for wild chimpanzees too | |
| UK court backs police use of face recognition, but fight isn't over | |
| 540-million-year-old worm was first segmented animal that could move | |
| The psychobiotics revolution has implications for us all | |
| Inside the powerful fire clouds that pack a volcanic punch | |
| How a Soviet space station became a symbol of space cooperation | |
| Einstein's black holes are not the black holes we see in reality | |
| Global shipping needs to clean up its act now - here's how to do it | |
| What makes us addicts? Judith Grisel is determined to find out | |
| A road made of solar panels seemed like a good idea. Now it's broken | |
| How to make a remote-controlled pest-proof bird feeder | |
| The world is getting better, so why are we convinced otherwise? | |
| Guilt-free online shopping is possible if we reinvent home delivery | |
| Forget pristine habitats - for biodiversity save abandoned quarries | |
| Sci-fi film Aniara's best trick is to make the future feel like now | |
| Don't miss: troubled robots, winning designs and high seas | |
| How beautiful scientific instruments transformed Britain | |
| The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics | |
| Hurricane Dorian may have made a species of bird go extinct | |
| World's hungriest caterpillar is wreaking destruction around the world | |
| The surprising future of driving: cars that spy on your every move | |
| SpaceX satellite near miss shows need for rules of the road in space | |
| Goose blood runs cold to carry more oxygen on high altitude flights | |
| Healthy gut, happy mind: What to eat to boost how you feel | |
| How what you eat directly influences your mental health | |
| We can tell where a whale has travelled from the themes in its song | |
| Dorian batters Bahamas with strong hurricane winds for record time | |
| How much do you know about the world? | |
| Bananas have benefited from climate change - but they won't in future | |
| Strong support for Trump linked to willingness to persecute immigrants | |
| Climate change has created more bird winners than losers in England | |
| Hurricane Dorian is joint strongest Atlantic storm ever to hit land | |
| Great Barrier Reef now has 'very poor' outlook due to climate change | |
| Harbour seals are breeding in the river Thames and have had 138 pups | |
| CRISPR could lead to gene-editing fix for a form of male infertility | |
| Giant virus has evolved its own kind of CRISPR to destroy invaders | |
| Quantum X-ray machine takes razor sharp pictures with less radiation | |
| AIs that deblur faces could make people on CCTV easier to identify | |
| AIs that deblur faces could make people on CCTV easier to identify | |
| People who are naturally slim have smaller and more active fat cells | |
| Gel that makes teeth repair themselves could spell the end of fillings | |
| New Scientist Live 2019: The world's greatest science festival | |
| Military now controls Myanmarâs scientifically important amber mines | |
| We may have seen signs of an exomoon spewing out volcanic gas | |
| Robot pilot that can grab the flight controls gets its plane licence | |
| It's officially now the worst ever August for Amazon deforestation | |
| Mini-brains grown in a lab show neural activity like preterm babies | |
| Round-up: the key decisions to protect wildlife from the CITES summit | |
| Puzzling signals seen by LIGO may be gravitational wave split in two | |
| Worm robot could wiggle its way through arteries in the brain | |
| Nanotube microchips could make computers more energy efficient | |
| We've finally found a skull from one of our most important ancestors | |
| Arctic and Amazon climate tipping points put our future in doubt | |
| Satellite image captures a hyperconnected English Channel at work | |
| Donât go bananas: Should we be cutting down on the fruit we eat? | |
| If I have a disease-causing gene, should my doctor tell my family? | |
| Your DNA could transfer to a weapon you have never touched | |
| The 'sexy' lichen that puts lead in your pencil, but not in a good way | |
| New Scientist puzzle #19 The vicarâs age | |
| The New Scientist quick crossword #39 | |
| Make a weather station with BBC micro:bits and a sensor | |
| Are there any aliens out there? We are close to knowing for sure | |
| Refreezing the Arctic: How to bring the ice back with geoengineering | |
| This month's top sci-fi reminds us to beware technocrats bearing gifts | |
| Don't Miss: A documentary festival and the nature of life and death | |
| From driverless cars to AI bridges, are we giving up too much control? | |
| How the science of happiness became an industry worth billions | |
| DNA mutation lets some people live healthily on only 4 hours' sleep | |
| Communities in East Anglia are deciding whether to abandon their towns | |
| UK police are using AI to spot spikes in Brexit-related hate crimes | |
| Red wine drinkers have more diverse gut bacteria than other drinkers | |
| SpaceXâs Starhopper has made its highest and final test flight | |
| The pyrocene has begun: How to tackle a world of raging wildfires | |
| The back pain epidemic: Why popular treatments are making it worse | |
| Marine life is still struggling after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill | |
| Weird illusion makes you think fabric is moving faster than it is | |
| Five of Jupiterâs newly discovered moons have been given names | |
| A smartphone app can detect tiny amounts of norovirus in water | |
| Stealth glider made out of special polymer self-destructs in sunlight | |
| City crows may have high cholesterol because they eat fast food | |
| Explaining why Reddit posts are removed helps people comply with rules | |
| Tests at 3 years old could predict how well your brain will age | |
| Facebookâs ad data may put millions of gay people at risk | |
| Wild polio has been eradicated in Nigeria but infections will continue | |
| Record Amazon rainforest fires spark row between Brazil and France | |
| Asteroid Ryugu has no dust on it and we donât know why | |
| Bacteria fly into the Atacama Desert every afternoon on the wind | |
| Gene editing turns cells into minicomputers that can record data | |
| Gravitational waves could settle mystery of the universe's expansion | |
| We could use bees' honey to track environmental lead pollution | |
| Chinaâs two-child policy linked to 5 million extra babies in 18 months | |
| Sitting for nine and a half hours a day linked to early death | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| YouTube has become such a garbage fire it is time to dump it for good | |
| How to defeat the disease that killed half the people who ever lived | |
| Bubbles show their iridescent beauty as light journeys through | |
| Can we halt multiple sclerosis? Catherine Lubetzki is finding out how | |
| On the hot seat: The mysterious case of the exploding Floridian toilet | |
| New Scientist Puzzle #18: Cable on the moon | |
| Cryptic crossword #13, set by Sparticle | |
| Make a rain alarm with copper tape and a BBC micro:bit | |
| Why are people still dying of malaria when we have a treatment? | |
| Inside China's attempt to boost crop yields with electric fields | |
| Mind meld: Artificial intelligence is improving the way humans think | |
| From Prey to Observation: Why games set on space stations are a thrill | |
| Don't Miss: Design for survival, lab fraud, and summer magic | |
| The Vagina Bible: Beating bad science on women's sexual health | |
| How the US almost introduced a universal basic income â 50 years ago | |
| LIGO may have seen its first black hole and neutron star collision | |
| Quantum teleportation used to send 3D information for the first time | |
| Cookies and slime in orbit: What's the point of PR stunts in space? | |
| Giving koalas faecal transplants could help them adapt to a new diet | |
| Survey says scientists mistrust a large amount of published research | |
| Volcano behind huge eruption that kick-started mini ice age identified | |
| Quantum weirdness isn't real â we've just got space and time all wrong | |
| High blood pressure in your 40s linked to smaller brain size at 70 | |
| Is air pollution causing mental health conditions like depression? | |
| An inside look at the NHS's plans to revolutionise healthcare with AI | |
| We could find alien life on exoplanets by looking for its glow | |
| Cities are using walls of moss to tackle air pollution from traffic | |
| There's no such thing as a 'gay gene' finds largest study of sexuality | |
| Extinction Rebellion founder calls for mass psychedelic disobedience | |
| Climate change will drive longer extreme heatwaves in summer | |
| A classic quantum theorem may prove there are many parallel universes | |
| We have spotted 8 more mysterious repeating radio bursts from space | |
| The UK has lost its World Health Organization âmeasles-freeâ status | |
| Having kids makes you happier, but only when they move out | |
| Genetic studies hint alcohol isnât linked to breast cancer after all | |
| 15 studies retracted due to fears they used Chinese prisoners' organs | |
| Tiny magnets could help rid the ocean of harmful microplastics | |
| Wildlife summit to consider global ban on saiga antelope trade | |
| Super-deep diamonds contain traces of a pristine chunk of early Earth | |
| Robotic shorts could help you run and walk more efficiently | |
| Sticky nets of DNA from immune cells may be to blame for gallstones | |
| Europeâs extinct cave bears went into decline just as humans arrived | |
| Louisa Aldrich-Blake: a trailblazer for female surgeons and a war hero | |
| Lyme disease in England and Wales is most common in older, white women | |
| Ketogenic diet may stop migraines by changing the brainâs fuel | |
| Plant growth has declined drastically around the world due to dry air | |
| Microplastics in the Arctic and the Alps may have blown in on the wind | |
| Neanderthals spent a surprising amount of time underwater | |
| A massive collision may have made Jupiter's core so weird | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| White nationalists are perverting environmentalism to smear migrants | |
| Biologists have a problem with homosexuality â they should get over it | |
| Our obsession with perfection is damaging individuals and society | |
| What if there was no big bang and we live in an ever-cycling universe? | |
| How killer bees evolved into chiller bees in just one decade | |
| Chemist Lee Cronin is building an alien to work out why life exists | |
| Mars 2020 rover cameras get eye exams to hunt life on the Red Planet | |
| In a chess game played to the death, what piece should you be? | |
| New Scientist puzzle #17: Which flipping year? | |
| New Scientist quick crossword #38 | |
| How to make a BBQ thermometer with a BBC micro:bit | |
| Netflixâs bizarre riff on Mary Shelleyâs Frankenstein oddly successful | |
| Don't miss: Curative comedy, cultural copies and an unlikely fish diet | |
| Fossils of the earliest animals seen outside China for the first time | |
| How walking helped humans take over the planet | |
| Radioactive dust in Antarctic ice could help map interstellar clouds | |
| Fracking boom could explain the puzzling rise in global methane levels | |
| A variety of CBD health products are in the shops - do they work? | |
| The US Army is developing AI missiles that find their own targets | |
| Military-grade jet fuel made cheaply from plant waste instead of coal | |
| The misunderstood personality trait that is causing anxiety and stress | |
| Lack of sleep is more of a problem for teen girls than social media | |
| Sperm sorting method could prevent girls being born, scientists warn | |
| Graphene inventor Andre Geim: No-deal Brexit would destroy UK science | |
| We could put enough wind turbines on European land to power the world | |
| Ebola breakthrough: two drugs could treat up to 90 per cent of cases | |
| Chlamydia vaccine shown to be safe in first ever human trial | |
| No sign radiation from a missile explosion has spread beyond Russia | |
| Google's hate speech-detecting AI appears to be racially biased | |
| Hackers could use Wi-Fi to install ransomware on DSLR cameras | |
| A company has used trees to find gold deep underground in Australia | |
| Ibuprofen and other common drugs may help antibiotic resistance spread | |
| I tried to eat myself smarter at a brain-boosting supper club | |
| Milky Way's black hole has got 75 times brighter and we don't know why | |
| Deep-sea microbe could answer one of evolution's biggest mysteries | |
| Worldâs largest frog builds its own ponds using heavy rocks | |
| Mysterious signals from space could teach us how dark energy works | |
| Sharks use a special kind of protein to glow green in deep water | |
| AI learns to predict the outcomes of human rights court cases | |
| The NHS is setting up a lab for medical artificial intelligence | |
| UN warns most plans for limiting climate change would wreck the planet | |
| Earth's magnetic poles probably won't flip within our lifetime | |
| Personalised breast cancer test could tell when to stop treatment | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| We just found dozens of missing galaxies from the early universe | |
| Plate tectonics began nearly 2 billion years before we thought | |
| IVF add-ons are a waste of money â fertility clinics should ban them | |
| Even if bacteria do cause heart disease, diet and exercise are vital | |
| How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets | |
| The hardest thing about robots? Teaching them to cope with us | |
| How many Boris Johnsons does a Saturn V rocket weigh? | |
| Puzzle #16: Clever code | |
| Cryptic Crossword #12 | |
| How to build your own intruder alarm with basic electronics | |
| Inside the race to find the first billion-digit prime number | |
| Outshining fossil fuel: Your guide to the revolution in solar energy | |
| Don't Miss: FBI profiling, blanket-bog art and psychedelic minds | |
| Mosquitoes may have killed half the people who ever lived | |
| UK's biggest moon exhibition captures centuries of lunar love | |
| Meet Kuimba, the French-born gorilla released into Gabon's rainforest | |
| Why genetically modified 'golden rice' failed to conquer the world | |
| Why the news on dementia deaths is not as bad as it sounds | |
| Enormous âcannonballsâ of plasma spotted hurtling around the sun | |
| Your guide to the carbon sucking tech we need to save the planet | |
| Snowglow can cause the night sky to be twice as bright as a full moon | |
| Have we found the true cause of diabetes, stroke and Alzheimer's? | |
| Staring down seagulls can stop them stealing your chips | |
| Worldâs largest parrot was a metre tall and lived 19 million years ago | |
| Physicists who came up with supergravity win $3m Breakthrough Prize | |
| We could use Earth's atmosphere as a giant lens for a space telescope | |
| Artificial tongue could taste whisky to make sure it isn't counterfeit | |
| Most people would rather lose their job to a robot than another human | |
| Space agency chief fired after revealing recent Amazon deforestation | |
| Two planets orbiting a nearby star could have oceans and maybe life | |
| James Lovelock at 100: Ecclectic conference considers Gaia's future | |
| Bees' very hairy tongues help them mop up different types of nectar | |
| A super-thin slice of wood can be used to turn saltwater drinkable | |
| The world's ageing dams are not built for ever more extreme weather | |
| Hottest day records set across Europe this year will soon be broken | |
| We spotted a star moving so fast it will enter intergalactic space | |
| Best ever map of Milky Way shows our galaxy is warped in an S-shape | |
| Cell injections could train the body to accept a transplanted organ | |
| Folic acid seems to be essential for fathers-to-be as well as mothers | |
| New type of pipe for pumping blood is just liquid with no pipe | |
| Yellow glasses donât help night drivers spot dangers any faster | |
| UK navy will use AI-guided robot submarines to find explosive mines | |
| Turtle embryos may control their sex by moving inside their eggs | |
| Londonâs public spaces are rife with multidrug-resistant bacteria | |
| Wasps are shrinking in size and it may be because of climate change | |
| Macaques really can use logical reasoning to solve puzzles | |
| LightSail 2 has used sunlight alone to steer around Earth | |
| Cockroach robot won't break after being repeatedly stamped on | |
| Humans are good at smelling cheese thanks to special smell receptors | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| It's too soon to tell if DeepMind's medical AI will save any lives | |
| The human placenta may not have a microbiome after all | |
| This self-riding bicycle follows you around while you walk | |
| Water wars: How to avoid conflict over our most precious resource | |
| What if you could erase your political opponents? Sci-fi has answers | |
| Don't Miss: African origins, deadly mozzies and meeting of minds | |
| The global economy is broken, it must work for people, not vice versa | |
| Should we eat local to cut food miles, or does it make no difference? | |
| To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it | |
| Physicist Jim Al-Khalili on Leeds United, Einstein and quantum biology | |
| Should we be scared of meth gators and mutant crocodiles? | |
| New Scientist puzzle #15: Lines through the chessboard | |
| Quick crossword #37, and last weekâs answers | |
| How to build a motion-detector wildlife camera with an old smartphone | |
| Undiscovered dinosaurs: We are entering the golden era of fossil finds | |
| Neuroscientist Ed Boyden is decoding the brain with the power of light | |
| How to suck water from desert air and quench the planet's thirst | |
| Russia has declared a state of emergency over Siberian wildfires | |
| Countries are turning off the internet to stop violence. Does it work? | |
| Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world | |
| Birds can thank attractive dinosaurs for their flight feathers | |
| There may be just 19 endangered vaquita porpoises left in the world | |
| Lyme disease may be more common in the UK than we thought | |
| Exclusive: Can a supplement slow the natural processes of ageing? | |
| Before building another telescope, learn from Hawaiian culture | |
| Genetic analysis reveals Vikings had a wide and diverse family tree | |
| There have been more than 1000 cases of measles in the US this year | |
| Meet a 500-million-year old minibeast from the Cambrian explosion | |
| Met Office confirms highest temperature ever recorded in the UK | |
| Facebook's fact-checking process is too opaque to know if it's working | |
| The Amazon rainforest depends on fires in Africa for a vital nutrient | |
| Three newly discovered exoplanets orbit a star 73 light years away | |
| Huge hidden canyon under Greenland ice sheet may have flowing water | |
| Gigantic, mysterious radiation leak traced to facility in Russia | |
| Just one dose of the HPV vaccine may be enough to lower cancer rates | |
| A robotic lens can be controlled by simply looking around or blinking | |
| Some jellyfish sperm have stingers that fire inside females | |
| Complaints about AncestryDNA and 23andme sent to UK data watchdog | |
| Flexible battery works when stretched and could power wearable devices | |
| SpaceXâs shiny new spaceship prototype has flown for the first time | |
| China is on track to meet its climate change goals nine years early | |
| The real history of electricity is more gripping than The Current War | |
| New monkey species found in Amazon area threatened by deforestation | |
| Coal power in Europe has had its biggest ever decline | |
| Star hurtling around a giant black hole proves Einstein right - again | |
| The UK has its hottest ever July day with temperatures hitting 38.1C | |
| Tree stumps that should be dead can be kept alive by nearby trees | |
| Bionic eye helps people who are blind read letters again | |
| Smartwatch app that soothes the nerves helps improve exam results | |
| Awkward truths about Boris Johnson's praise for UK science and tech | |
| How to keep your house cool in the heatwave | |
| Huge Arctic fires have now emitted a record-breaking amount of CO2 | |
| The UK is now using AI to predict solar power and lower energy bills | |
| Tiny drug-filled capsules motor around the body to target cancer cells | |
| The brain's drain: How our brains flush out their waste and toxins | |
| Two incredibly fast-orbiting stars seem to be the wrong temperature | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Today's global warming is unparalleled in the past 2000 years | |
| Is our technology shifting us and the planet into a different era? | |
| Endangered whale sharks strain fish out of the water using huge mouths | |
| Internet gifs aren't just for the lols: Giphy wants to make money too | |
| Roma Agrawal: The amazing engineer who designed the Shard's spire | |
| Vladimir Putin is worried that wind turbines are disturbing worms | |
| New Scientist puzzle #14: the H coins problem, plus a science quiz | |
| New Scientist cryptic crossword #11 | |
| Electronics projects for beginners: Make an automatic plant waterer | |
| James Lovelock at 100: The creator of Gaia theory on humanity's future | |
| The age of giant particle accelerators like the LHC may be over | |
| After years of sexism in space we urgently need more female astronauts | |
| Why video games struggle to navigate mental healthâs tricky waters | |
| Donât Miss: future food, altered mental states and healing minds | |
| Science Museumâs Top Secret exhibition feeds spy-loving kid in us all | |
| Save the planet by reimagining your back garden as an exotic jungle | |
| What happened when the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter | |
| Tiny pebbles may be the reason most planets spin in the same direction | |
| Safety of many sunscreen ingredients is in doubt â should we worry? | |
| How to trick your mind to break bad habits and reach your goals | |
| Dark feathers give birds hot wings that may save energy during flight | |
| Light pollution's effects on birds may help to spread West Nile virus | |
| LightSail 2 unfurls solar sail and begins travelling through space | |
| Anonymised data isn't nearly anonymous enough â hereâs how we fix it | |
| Brain scans hint the mysterious 'sonic attack' in Cuba was real | |
| Eight things we learned in the UK government's pre-Johnson info dump | |
| The UK is spending billions on overseas fossil fuel projects | |
| Early life on Earth may have existed as miniature droplets of jelly | |
| Our ancestors may have begun barbecuing 1.5 million years ago | |
| Deforestation in Brazil has rocketed since Bolsonaro became president | |
| US groundwater shortage is forcing us to dig extremely deep wells | |
| The Milky Way devoured another galaxy and we've spotted the remains | |
| Strange stars that go supernova may be dimming because of dark matter | |
| India has launched its Chandrayaan 2 mission to the moon | |
| Strange illusion makes people forget where their teeth are | |
| Thousands of pornography sites leak data to Google and Facebook | |
| Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest | |
| Does the drop in US drug deaths mean the opioid crisis is ending? | |
| Hawaii declares state of emergency amid protests over huge telescope | |
| AI passes theory of mind test by imagining itself in another's shoes | |
| Chinese space station Tiangong-2 is about to fall from space | |
| Weird new type of magnetic liquid could be used to control soft robots | |
| Adding more bioethanol to petrol is no way to go green | |
| London gender clinic reports rising number of non-binary attendees | |
| Ebola case confirmed in major city in Democratic Republic of Congo | |
| How to be a maker series 2: The complete list of everything you need | |
| Oldest Denisovan art discovered on 100,000-year-old bone fragments | |
| We're pushing 28,000 species closer to extinction | |
| WHO declares international emergency over DRC Ebola outbreak | |
| Carbon offsetting can benefit the climate, but only if done properly | |
| Birds and insect species are heading north in the UK as climate warms | |
| Half of all harm caused by medical care is preventable | |
| A type of antibiotics can cause hearing loss - and now we know why | |
| Artificial skin can sense 1000 times faster than human nerves | |
| A drastic plan might prevent catastrophic Antarctic ice sheet collapse | |
| Lifeâs winners think success was earned even if it was down to luck | |
| Parasite brings down mosquito numbers in parts of Guangzhou | |
| Using smart watches to monitor your heart could do more harm than good | |
| Puzzle #13 Snail party: four snails on each othersâ tails | |
| Quick crossword #36 | |
| Why Iâm growing bits of human intestine in a dish in the lab | |
| Electronics projects for beginners: Get your plants talking to you | |
| Feedback: The very British ethnography of queuing | |
| Sibling rivalry: How birth order affects your personality and health | |
| The super fly that could feed us, end waste and make plastic and fuel | |
| Apollo 11 looks like yesterday in new TV show using restored footage | |
| Donât Miss: Electric rivals, immortality and a time travelling bard | |
| Summer of science: 10 great books and podcasts for the holidays | |
| All hail Londonâs urban jungle as it becomes first national park city | |
| Costa Rica is banning the use of polystyrene packaging from 2021 | |
| Internet joke plan to 'raid' Area 51 gets stern reply from US military | |
| Experimental Alzheimerâs drug targets gum disease bacteria | |
| Planning to carbon offset your flight? You should read this first | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Elon Musk's plans for mind-controlled gadgets: what we know so far | |
| Welcome to the 5th dimension: Our universe's radical new fate | |
| Drones could be used to herd rhinos away from poaching hotspots | |
| Orangutan mothers tell infants where to go by scratching themselves | |
| Chimps bond with each other and people after watching a film together | |
| Menstrual cups are as safe and leakproof as tampons and pads | |
| People who think theyâre overweight are more at risk for depression | |
| Plans to provide genetic testing on the NHS could harm well-being | |
| High levels of anxiety can slow down your reaction times | |
| Journal criticised for study claiming sun is causing global warming | |
| Ancient flood shows some dinosaurs nested in colonies like birds | |
| Mystery of universeâs expansion deepens with new cosmic calculation | |
| Personalised cancer treatments are becoming more common in the UK | |
| Sexual images are just as arousing for women as they are for men | |
| The plan to build mega wind farms and artificial islands in North Sea | |
| Elephants help forests store more carbon by destroying smaller plants | |
| Terraforming Mars with strange silica blanket could let plants thrive | |
| There arenât enough space explosions to explain strange radio bursts | |
| Anorexia is a metabolic disorder as well as a psychiatric one | |
| You're less empathetic when you've been drinking heavily | |
| Indiaâs moon mission Chandrayaan 2 delayed just before launch | |
| Targeting mitochondria in neurons may help relieve severe forms of MS | |
| Regulating e-cigarette flavours may prompt some people to smoke more | |
| Healthy living lowers chances of dementia even if genetic risk is high | |
| Trees demand equal status in a new Paris gallery show | |
| Storm Barry is heading towards New Orleans â how big is the risk? | |
| René Favaloro: Heart surgery pioneer celebrated in Google doodle | |
| Purple fairy wrasse named Wakanda discovered on reef in twilight zone | |
| Double heatwave killed two-thirds of coral in central Indian Ocean | |
| Climate change may thin high-altitude clouds and trigger more warming | |
| People in China consume twice the recommended daily limit of salt | |
| Combining two cancer drugs could help slow growth of tumours | |
| AI beats professionals at six-player Texas Hold âEm poker | |
| Molecules pictured changing shape as they gain and lose electrons | |
| Superstrong artificial muscle can lift 1000 times its own weight | |
| Hear what music would have sounded like at Stonehenge 4000 years ago | |
| Unknown species of lizard found inside a gliding dinosaur's stomach | |
| Whale mothers and calves whisper to avoid attracting predators | |
| James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life | |
| Something is seriously wrong with our understanding of the cosmos | |
| India is about to launch a lander and rover to the moonâs south pole | |
| French healthcare will stop paying for homeopathic treatment in 2021 | |
| Streaming online pornography produces as much CO2 as Belgium | |
| Hayabusa 2 lands on distant asteroid and collects another sample | |
| UK government urgently readies environment watchdog for no-deal Brexit | |
| Why most new medicines are no better than existing treatments | |
| Drinking sugary drinks linked to an increased risk for all cancers | |
| Authoritarians are less willing to make sacrifices for the environment | |
| Babies point at objects because they really want to touch them | |
| Worldâs top personality test doesnât really work â should we ditch it? | |
| Bluehead wrasse fish switch from female to male in just 20 days | |
| Our species got to Europe 165,000 years earlier than we thought | |
| Two large earthquakes have hit California in two days | |
| The moon race was about short-termism and control â we can do better | |
| The Hummingbird Project flies with wicked humour and nerdy tech talk | |
| Don't miss: Green films, rare plants and a cosmos tour | |
| Martin Parr's Laika and Soviet space dog kitsch collection - in photos | |
| From the archives: Kuru, the disease that foreshadowed BSE | |
| Make a living will if you want to decide how your life will end | |
| Sue Black on saving Bletchley Park and running for mayor of London | |
| Feedback: Is Boris Johnson a bus-building SEO genius? | |
| Puzzles #11 and #12: Lunar years and Hole of the moon | |
| Cryptic crossword #10 | |
| Electronics projects for beginners: Sensors for talking to plants | |
| This professor of future crime stops burglaries before they happen | |
| Forget Tesla - Chinaâs BYD is driving the electric car revolution | |
| AI can teach doctors to spot signs of cancer-causing viruses | |
| Cooking skills aren't enough to make you eat a healthy diet | |
| Earth's helium is running out and it has dire consequences for science | |
| Survey reveals studentsâ hopes and fears about sex | |
| The weather project artist Olafur Eliasson returns to Tate Modern | |
| Why everything you know about nutrition is wrong | |
| UK is going backwards on climate change action, advisers warn | |
| Lack of protective vaginal bacteria linked to high ovarian cancer risk | |
| Social stress linked to bone density loss in postmenopausal women | |
| Goats reveal their feelings with the sound of distinctive bleats | |
| Do you run with bent arms? Turns out it doesn't make much difference | |
| Butterfly numbers fell by one-third in the US over past two decades | |
| Quiz: How good is your knowledge of the moon? | |
| Computer attempts to replicate the dream-like maths of Ramanujan | |
| Virgin Galactic to become the first publicly traded space travel firm | |
| Instagram will ask users to rethink posting something offensive | |
| Chlamydia may spread through the gut to infect new parts of the body | |
| David Attenborough on climate change: 'We cannot be radical enough' | |
| Gene-silencing drug for rare hereditary disorder approved for NHS use | |
| HPV vaccine to be offered to UK boys as well as girls from September | |
| Watch Snowball the cockatoo show off the 14 dance moves he's invented | |
| Immunotherapy may help treat some resistant bowel cancers | |
| Cleaning up China's dirty air would give solar energy a huge boost | |
| US teens may be finding it harder to buy cannabis after legalisation | |
| Half of babies affected by Zika virus are developing normally by age 2 | |
| AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking | |
| Extracting sperm directly from testicles could help infertility issues | |
| Air pollution in Birmingham may cut months off life expectancy | |
| 7 bizarre objects from the festival's worth of trash left on the moon | |
| Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why | |
| Moon rocks can tell us where life could thrive beyond the solar system | |
| Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon | |
| Jodrell Bank Observatory honoured with UNESCO World Heritage status | |
| British Airways faces largest ever data breach fine for 2018 hack | |
| China, Russia and the US are all racing to produce hypersonic weapons | |
| Ransomware attacks are on the rise and the criminals are winning | |
| Nerve surgery helps people with paralysis control their hands and arms | |
| UK roadsides could become burial grounds as graveyards are filling up | |
| More than a thousand sharks and rays have become entangled in plastic | |
| Climate mistake reveals Earth warmed more than we thought last century | |
| Beavers engineer their ecosystems in a way that helps moose and otters | |
| Armoured liquid droplets make mini disco balls, letters and shapes | |
| Billions of extra trees may give us 20 years to tackle climate change | |
| 9000 km belt of seaweed spanning the Atlantic threatens marine life | |
| YouTube suggests extremist content more often than alt-right site Gab | |
| Exclusive: Five couples lined up for CRISPR babies to avoid deafness | |
| Astronauts don't seem to be dying from exposure to space radiation | |
| Earth could have more water than we thought while exoplanets have less | |
| Exomoons that run away from their planets could become 'ploonets' | |
| UKâs National Trust to sell off fossil fuel investments worth £45m | |
| Modern forensics solves Stone Age murder mystery after 33,000 years | |
| Data can now be stored inside the molecules that power our metabolism | |
| Ancient DNA reveals that Jews' biblical rivals were from Greece | |
| We could breed climate-friendly cows that belch less methane | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Every single neuron in an animal mapped out for the first time | |
| African lions have started climbing trees to escape buffaloes | |
| Is organic food better for you? Here's the truth about the benefits | |
| Known unknowns: How to communicate certainly in an uncertain world | |
| Galaxy simulator Ashley Spindler uses AI to understand the far cosmos | |
| Feedback: The Norwegian island that's calling time on time | |
| Puzzle #10: Betty's change | |
| Quick Crossword #35 | |
| Electronics projects for beginners: Make a robot biscuit butler | |
| Why cat people and dog people's personalities match those of their pet | |
| Ancient Earth reveals terrifying consequences of future global warming | |
| The best sci-fi books put humanity at the heart of their writing | |
| Don't miss: Armstrong, the science of music and codebreaking | |
| A classical concert at the Barbican shows how AI interprets a recital | |
| Wetland conservation is a key part of saving Earthâs ecosystems | |
| Unprecedented Arctic megafires are releasing a huge amount of CO2 | |
| Google has made a virtual soccer pitch to train AIs to play football | |
| Your boss could use your smartwatch to check your productivity levels | |
| Packaging-free shops may tackle plastic but risk increasing food waste | |
| Seals remember what they just did â but only for about 18 seconds | |
| A solar panel that unfolds in sunlight could power spacecraft | |
| The time paradox: How your brain creates the fourth dimension | |
| A total solar eclipse just passed over Chile and Argentina | |
| Japan's return to commercial whaling has no economic or cultural case | |
| A tiny jellyfish robot could swim inside the bladder to deliver drugs | |
| Have mice really been cured of HIV using CRISPR gene editing? | |
| Three Identical Strangers: Was the twin separation study ethical? | |
| Climate change made Europe's heatwave at least five times more likely | |
| The weirdest stars we've ever seen have astronomers utterly baffled | |
| Teaching AIs to make mistakes like kids would help them learn faster | |
| Antarctic sea ice is declining dramatically and we donât know why | |
| Was Mexicoâs freak summer hail storm due to global warming? | |
| We need to shut power plants early to stay under 1.5°C warming | |
| Interstellar object 'Oumuamua almost definitely not aliens, we think | |
| YouTube anti-vax videos are on the decline but are yet to be wiped out | |
| We are much less security savvy with our smartphones than we think | |
| Cockroach robot won't break after being repeatedly stamped on | |
| Humans are good at smelling cheese thanks to special smell receptors | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| It's too soon to tell if DeepMind's medical AI will save any lives | |
| We could kill cancer cells by hijacking their odd electrical current | |
| Deadly drug-resistant fungal disease has âinfested' New York City | |
| European heatwave: France hits highest recorded temperature of 45.1°C | |
| Planet in triple-star system may be our best chance to find alien life | |
| When US pulls overseas abortion funding, abortion rates go up not down | |
| Remains of Genoa bridge demolished one year after deadly disaster | |
| Gettysburg Address stored in DNA using a binary code made of holes | |
| Impossible Foods boss says we should tax meat to boost veg-based diets | |
| NASA is sending a drone to fly around Titan looking for signs of life | |
| Mystery radio waves from space tracked to a surprising home galaxy | |
| We jump to conclusions even when it pays to wait for the facts | |
| Shatterproof phone screens could be made from seashell-like glass | |
| New kind of light is a vortex beam that twists faster as it moves | |
| Our brains replay experiences when we rest to help us make decisions | |
| Miniature brains grown in the lab have human-like neural activity | |
| Ancient crocodile cousins evolved vegetarianism at least three times | |
| It turns out planes are even worse for the climate than we thought | |
| Swimming in the sea completely changes the microbes on your skin | |
| Flightless bird three times the size of an ostrich used to roam Europe | |
| HPV vaccine has significantly cut rates of cancer-causing infections | |
| Ancient DNA reveals Neanderthal migration and interbreeding | |
| Barefoot walkers have tough feet but sense the ground just as well | |
| Tiny flying insect robot has four wings and weighs under a gram | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| US suicide rate at its highest since the end of the second world war | |
| Findings that many unconscious people may be aware is a wake-up call | |
| Electronics projects for beginners: How to make a roaming robot | |
| Discover the artist who builds tiny worlds with basic chemistry | |
| Working hypothesis: from Raspberry Pi to abolishing time | |
| Claire Burke on using thermal drone tech to protect orangutans | |
| Feedback: Lack of territory is no barrier to space nation pioneers | |
| Puzzle #09: The Cake and the Candles | |
| Quick Crossword #34 | |
| The secrets of how sharks survived so many of Earth's mass extinctions | |
| Shocking evidence shows people in vegetative states may be conscious | |
| Don't miss: ethereal artworks, haunted teens and a gift of tongues | |
| The Extinction Rebellion book is short on science but big on action | |
| How palaeontology got cool: Inside the revolution in dinosaur science | |
| The sad tale of the US Navy's surplus military dolphins | |
| Several IVF attempts can signal higher risk for any eventual pregnancy | |
| Bystander effect: Famous psychology result could be completely wrong | |
| AIs that diagnose diseases are starting to assist and replace doctors | |
| The north pole is moving and if it flips, life on Earth is in trouble | |
| I travelled to a future where AI cameras track your every move | |
| Will robots take my job? No, but they will break it into tiny bits | |
| UK has halved air pollution deaths since 1970 but must still do more | |
| Non-addictive CRISPR-edited tobacco could help eliminate smoking | |
| Exposure to air pollution seems to negatively affect women's fertility | |
| An Arctic fox made an epic 4400-kilometre-long journey over sea ice | |
| Second world war bomb explodes after three-quarters of a century | |
| IVF success rates peak as only one in four attempts achieve pregnancy | |
| Solar farms could be wildlife havens that tackle biodiversity crisis | |
| Unique chance to confirm methane spikes â and perhaps life â on Mars | |
| Gut bacteria might influence how our brains develop as children | |
| Mars meteorite assault stopped 500 million years earlier than thought | |
| Can your gut bacteria really make you a better runner? | |
| Storing sperm in a freezer for a decade hardly affects birth rates | |
| Freezing embryos doesn't boost IVF success rate despite common use | |
| Vegetables as well as meat could spread superbugs into food chain | |
| Hundreds of orcas hold an annual meeting and now we may know why | |
| AI learns to gamble illogically like humans to predict our behaviour | |
| The US is making digital camouflage so that AIs canât spot spy planes | |
| NASA is going back to the moon but most people in the US don't want to | |
| Death of mother prompts adolescent chimps to look after their siblings | |
| Artificial intelligence could spot early signs of schizophrenia | |
| We are more likely to return a lost wallet if it is full of cash | |
| Seals have been trained to sing the Star Wars theme - have a listen | |
| SpaceX is about to launch a sail propelled through space by sunshine | |
| Weâre living through a climate emergency. Time to start acting like it | |
| Weird whale may be a hybrid of a narwhal mother and beluga father | |
| Japan wants to launch the first ever rover to visit a Martian moon | |
| Weather forecasts could soon pin extreme events on climate change | |
| Rare footage of a beaver gnawing through a tree in North Yorkshire | |
| US suicide rate at its highest since the end of the second world war | |
| Spy satellite images reveal Himalaya glacier ice losses have doubled | |
| Ancient Celts were partial to beer, mead and imported Greek wines | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Robotic fish powered by electronic blood can swim for 36 hours | |
| Working hypothesis: From DJ sets in space to ancient bagels | |
| Yazılıkaya: A 3000-year-old Hittite mystery may finally be solved | |
| Extreme temperatures melt sea ice in Greenland | |
| Our astonishing brain is hard to figure out â and that's fantastic | |
| Labelling people "anti-vaxxers" ignores real roots of their concerns | |
| Ruth Mace on human evolution and surviving the apocalypse with yaks | |
| Feedback: Can the US resist the might of the metric system? | |
| Puzzle #08 Prisoners locked up | |
| Cryptic Crossword #09 | |
| How to use a BBC micro:bit to make a sound-activated mirror ball | |
| How Mercury and Venus can guide our hunt for alien life on exoplanets | |
| Chernobyl and The Terror docu-dramas expose horror's many faces | |
| Don't miss: men on the moon, robots in orbit and museums in the street | |
| What will your digital footprint tell people about you when you die? | |
| The pioneering podcast that's breaking the silence on women's health | |
| This South American potoo bird can camouflage itself as a branch | |
| Religion must rise to the challenge of climate change too | |
| How Watch Dogs Legion and Cyberpunk 2077 probe our dystopian fears | |
| ESA plans triple spacecraft to lurk in wait for a speedy comet | |
| Floppy eared bunnies look cute but they suffer more health problems | |
| Explaining consciousness and the other biggest mysteries of your brain | |
| Seals consciously reduce blood flow to their blubber before diving | |
| People with narcolepsy may be more creative because of how they sleep | |
| A severe autoimmune condition may be triggered by 'good' gut bacteria | |
| Libra: What is Facebook's new cryptocurrency and can we trust it? | |
| OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captures closest ever image of asteroid Bennu | |
| Prisoners in China are still being used as organ donors, says inquiry | |
| Facebook plans to launch a new cryptocurrency called Libra | |
| Dogs evolved a special muscle that lets them make puppy dog eyes | |
| Does people power make a difference? The truth about protests | |
| Microbes from farms may protect children from asthma even in cities | |
| Everything you need to know about the hospital food listeria outbreak | |
| Our galaxy's central black hole is oddly quiet â now we may know why | |
| The musicians helping make climate change a cultural movement | |
| How to make the perfect crêpe according to fluid dynamics | |
| Superweeds are on the brink of becoming resistant to all weedkillers | |
| High-tech vertical farming is on the rise â but is it any greener? | |
| The Science of Storytelling is an essential guide to our own minds | |
| Strange fat cells in our bones grow rather than shrink when we starve | |
| We may be witnessing the birth of an exomoon around a distant world | |
| UK could use hydrogen instead of natural gas â if it can make enough | |
| More than half of all Ebola outbreaks are going undetected | |
| Gut microbes interfere with Parkinson's drug - but we could stop them | |
| Ethnic minority children are exposed to more noise pollution at school | |
| Two hours a week spent outdoors in nature linked with better health | |
| Europaâs salty surface may indicate an ocean thatâs good for life | |
| Tombs in China reveal humans were smoking cannabis 2500 years ago | |
| Another team has used 'jumping genes' to upgrade CRISPR gene editing | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Who should pay when medical drugs become too expensive to buy? | |
| Feedback: What did big tech find when it looked inside a black hole? | |
| Godzilla: King of the Monsters reveals our obsession with radiation | |
| Don't miss: Celebrity prisons, virtual thrills and a dive under Paris | |
| Dark matter can't be seen, so this gallery is making it sing | |
| Fate vs free will: A new book clarifies the determinism debate | |
| How climate change is hitting crab hunting in the mangroves of Brazil | |
| How Star Trekâs warp drives touch on one of physics' biggest mysteries | |
| End the scandalous male data bias that determines women's health | |
| Working Hypothesis: From Finlandâs climate action to a rival Chernobyl | |
| Carbon farming scientist David Reay on repaying his emissions debt | |
| Puzzle #07: Amveriricâs boat | |
| Quick crossword #33 | |
| How to make a theremin with a light sensor | |
| Koalas burned in wildfires can now be saved but the treatment is gross | |
| Mission to Mars: The complete guide to getting to the Red Planet | |
| Norway to sell off fossil fuel stocks worth more than $8 billion | |
| A robot has learned to use irony and now people like it more | |
| Bronze Age British settlement burned down a year after being built | |
| Artificial Scottish islands are thousands of years older than thought | |
| Robotic surgery is turning out to be an expensive fad | |
| How many steps a day do you really need? Spoiler: It isn't 10,000 | |
| Baby pterosaurs may have hatched ready to fly right out of the egg | |
| UK commits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 | |
| Inside the audacious mission to map every microbe in Australia | |
| A drug may prevent Alzheimerâs but there are no plans to find out | |
| Cloud gaming may be great for gamers but bad for energy consumption | |
| Crisp packets made of a new material could be much easier to recycle | |
| AIs seem to be much worse at recognising objects from poorer countries | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| People with gambling problems seem to spend more on in-game loot boxes | |
| Humans have driven nearly 600 plant species to extinction since 1750s | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Carnivorous pitcher plants are regularly eating vertebrate animals | |
| Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans | |
| How your body processes food is only partially down to your genes | |
| 3D-printed replica heads are being used to help treat cancer patients | |
| Lizards' grip became ten times stronger after hurricane Maria | |
| Fake news generating AIs could be the best weapons to fight fake news | |
| NASA will let people pay to stay on the International Space Station | |
| Some trees can change sex and are more likely to die when female | |
| A generic drug from Argentina offers cystic fibrosis families hope | |
| AI predicts USA are favourites to win the 2019 Womenâs World Cup | |
| Huge asteroid that hit the moon may be preserved below the surface | |
| Anyone can now play with sophisticated AIs thanks to a desktop app | |
| 52-million-year-old fossils suggest oak relatives evolved in the south | |
| Powerful CRISPR upgrade uses 'jumping genes' to directly insert DNA | |
| Plan to remove hen harrier eggs and raise them in captivity criticised | |
| Brainless fungi trade resources with plants like a stock market | |
| Bizarre pentaquark turns out to be a new kind of subatomic 'molecule' | |
| Creating an AI can be five times worse for the planet than a car | |
| A weird star just rapidly dimmed for a few days and we don't know why | |
| Plastic pollution found at every depth of the ocean by deep-sea survey | |
| Is it true climate change will cause the end of civilisation by 2050? | |
| Vital global climate monitoring scheme axed on remote UK island | |
| Oozing white mucus from giant salamanders makes excellent medical glue | |
| Thirsty koalas need bowls of water to survive increasingly hot climate | |
| There's a fundamental limit to the amount of energy our bodies can use | |
| Children's teeth reveal previously unknown ancient humans in Siberia | |
| Hydrogen has a dirty secret â let's not think it's always a green fuel | |
| Feedback: Are new straw laws just grasping at straws? | |
| Experimental sci-fi expertly captures colliding realities | |
| Donât miss: Renaissance investigations, social insights and space cops | |
| Want to stop climate change? Jared Diamond says nations need therapy | |
| Meet the Ghostbusters monster that could floor a tyrannosaur | |
| Why the truth about our sugar intake isn't as bad as we are told | |
| Genetic testing companies should not trade science for marketing | |
| Working hypothesis: From Pokémon Sleep to David Camerson | |
| No cancer risk from night shifts | |
| AI gamer is a great team player | |
| Fracking with CO2 unlikely to be green | |
| Expert maker Zoe Laughlin talks back-garden Olympics and Dolly Parton | |
| Puzzle #06 Darts challenge | |
| Cryptic crossword #08 | |
| How to program a device that plays with random numbers | |
| Humans should worry us more than machines, says founding father of AI | |
| How teabags became a secret weapon in the fight against climate change | |
| How people with extreme imagination are helping explain consciousness | |
| AI camera worn by gulls captures video highlights of their lives | |
| Dragonfish have 'invisible' teeth to help them sneak up on their prey | |
| World's largest sky survey calls SpaceX Starlink a 'nuisance' | |
| This Tank Man image from Tiananmen Square heralded a new digital age | |
| Australia could start exporting sunshine in the form of hydrogen | |
| We've seen signs of a mirror-image universe that is touching our own | |
| Climate change may mean heavy rain falls in the early morning | |
| New prime minister Boris Johnsonâs climate change record | |
| What Years and Years gets right about the future | |
| Science could learn a lot from Mona Chalabiâs mischievous chart art | |
| Donald Trump and Theresa May discuss climate change, Huawei and trade | |
| Will the UK use a legal loophole to hit government climate targets? | |
| Stem cell patch may help repair damage caused by heart attacks | |
| Apple reveals new privacy and security features for iPhones | |
| The planets might control the sun's activity - and it's not astrology | |
| Early farmers liked alcohol so much they invented two ways to brew it | |
| Elephants can judge the quantity of hidden food just by using smell | |
| Two brain-rejuvenating proteins have been identified in young blood | |
| Tool-use became widespread 10,000 years earlier than we thought | |
| Astronomy group calls for urgent action on SpaceX Starlink satellites | |
| Plastic producers urged to take responsibility for "nurdle" pollution | |
| CRISPR babies might live shorter lives due to their gene mutations | |
| Your gut bacteria may influence whether you get drug side effects | |
| Using a meditation app each day may improve your memory and attention | |
| Quantum leaps are real â and now we can control them | |
| Uncrewed deep-sea robots will help map the worldâs oceans | |
| NASA has selected three lunar landers to bring science to the moon | |
| Ancient Roman air pollution caused climate change in Europe | |
| New Zealand wants to make people happy, not rich - will it work? | |
| Sea creature uses stem cells to regrow entire body from a tiny piece | |
| Koala conservation goes high-tech with virtual reality and drones | |
| A type of African mole rat is immune to the pain caused by wasabi | |
| DeepMind's AI gamer is a better teammate than human players | |
| Wild bees' nest made entirely out of plastic discovered in Argentina | |
| Damaged sense of smell fixed in mice by squirting stem cells up nose | |
| Could fracking with carbon dioxide instead of water be greener? | |
| Most atheists believe in the supernatural, despite trusting science | |
| Pluto is coloured red by ammonia spewing from underneath its surface | |
| Hundreds of puffins are starving to death because of climate change | |
| Smart glove works out what youâre holding from its weight and shape | |
| Working hypothesis: from buzzwords to Amazon workers | |
| Keeping cool with wood | |
| Chimps' ingenuity earns them a treat | |
| Women less likely to receive CPR | |
| Getting a little more sunlight is a simple health win for everyone | |
| Tana Joseph: The Hubble Space Telescope hooked me on science | |
| The secret of dark matter could be a particle the size of a planet | |
| The evolution of Archaeopteryx is stranger than anyone imagined | |
| Surviving Mars lets you enjoy the highs and lows of building a colony | |
| Don't miss: X-Men antics, hunting dark matter and taking on Glorkon | |
| The mysterious diseases killing starfish, sea fans and shellfish | |
| Beavers, natureâs master engineers, may run wild in Wales again | |
| From the archives: Floating charge curtains to heal the ozone layer | |
| Forget rampant killer robots: AIâs real danger is far more insidious | |
| Singapore's ban on fake news sets a dangerous precedent | |
| Feedback: And the gong goes to the zombie climate apocalypse | |
| Puzzle #05 Murphyâs law of socks | |
| Quick Crossword #32 | |
| How to make a propeller buggy with a motor, a bottle and some straws | |
| What makes a good smell? Inside a multibillion dollar aromatic mystery | |
| Stalled jet stream has caused two weeks of tornadoes in the US | |
| Brain scans reveal magic mushroom drug enhances mindfulness meditation | |
| NASA is running a competition to figure out how to settle the galaxy | |
| Should you give your data to a period tracker or smart breast pump? | |
| Working night shifts may not raise your breast cancer risk after all | |
| Family to be deported from Australia because son has cystic fibrosis | |
| Superfog can cause fatal car accidents and now we know how it forms | |
| DNA coated with silica could store masses of data in a single gram | |
| How getting more daylight can improve your mental and physical health | |
| No one can be truly anonymous ever again thanks to genetic sequencing | |
| What do the European Parliament results mean for climate change? | |
| SpaceXâs bright Starlink satellites are upsetting astronomers | |
| Breast cancer spreads through the body in just two or three waves | |
| African elephant poaching is falling at last - but it's still too high | |
| Conservative Party leader contenders: Ex-health minister Jeremy Hunt | |
| Even dim candlelight before bed is bright enough to disrupt sleep | |
| Monkeys use their 'eagle' call to warn each other about drones | |
| Minecraft competition will challenge AIs to become expert engineers | |
| Rage, tech and Miley Cyrus: What the new Black Mirror will bring | |
| Earth's methane emissions are rising and we don't know why | |
| The oceans are very slowly draining into the rock below Earth's crust | |
| Organic matter from space preserved in 3.3-billion-year-old rocks | |
| Drones flown straight at aircraft to test collision avoidance tech | |
| NASA picks Maxar to build the first piece of its lunar space station | |
| High-tech wood could keep homes cool by reflecting the sunâs rays | |
| The tiniest fish are the most important for healthy coral reefs | |
| Now The War of the Worlds has spread to inner space | |
| The backlash against face recognition has begun â but who will win? | |
| SpaceX is launching 60 satellites to start its global internet scheme | |
| Chimpanzees eat tortoises after smashing them open on tree trunks | |
| Robots conduct daily health inspections of schoolchildren in China | |
| Polarisation on social media could be reduced with a few simple tweaks | |
| The average animal will be 10 per cent smaller in the next century | |
| Populist gains in Euro elections donât need to derail climate action | |
| Deaths from strokes in England have halved in just a decade | |
| Gut microbes may determine whether infants develop food allergies | |
| Specially created animal 'cancer avatars' could personalise treatments | |
| China confirmed as source of illegal ozone-destroying chemicals | |
| Working hypothesis: From Japanese phone numbers to Woody Harrelson | |
| If Australia and Europe fail to act on climate they risk their future | |
| Netflixâs Osmosis creates a world of terror amid the high-tech love | |
| Rise in colon cancer seen in under-50s | |
| Neuroscientist Sophie Scott on why we laugh and a love of thermostats | |
| Feedback: Life, liberty and the pursuit of manly beverages | |
| Puzzle #04 Which door? | |
| Cryptic crossword #07 | |
| How to make a desktop traffic light with a breadboard | |
| How antibiotic resistance is driven by pharmaceutical pollution | |
| By Jupiter! How the solar systemâs giant made Earth ripe for life | |
| Donât miss: Godzillaâs return, universal numbers and escaping ships | |
| Celebrate the moon with the best films, books and festivals | |
| The moon revealed as an object of endless fascination and desire | |
| We need to talk about how population growth is harming the planet | |
| Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science | |
| New Scientist Debate: emerging threats from disruptive technologies | |
| Drone can transform into a tiny car to slide under small gaps | |
| High Lifeâs sex and black holes sci-fi intrigues without satisfying | |
| Lyme disease is spreading across the US but your dog can help track it | |
| The truth about lie detectors: They don't work and never have | |
| The parenting myth: How kids are raised matters less than you think | |
| 2019 European elections: How to vote if you care about climate change | |
| The young sun spun slowly, which could explain why we are here | |
| Women who have cardiac arrests are more likely to die than men | |
| Plastic straws will be banned in England from April 2020 | |
| Chimps that mash potatoes challenge our understanding of tool use | |
| DNA from mummy's tomb reveals ancient Egyptian origins of watermelon | |
| Contaminated blood scandal: Could some deaths have been prevented? | |
| Turning CO2 into animal feed could make it greener for us to eat meat | |
| Putting a bird feeder in your garden really does help wildlife | |
| How to be a maker: The complete list of all you need | |
| UK's controversial use of face recognition to be challenged in court | |
| Older people use more energy - and it's not just because of wealth | |
| Sea level rise could hit 2 metres by 2100 - much worse than feared | |
| How Willem Einthoven gave doctors a window on the heart | |
| Who should I vote for in the 2019 European elections? | |
| Bonobo mothers stand guard and chase off rivals while their sons mate | |
| Pluto has an underground ocean kept warm by a layer of gassy ice | |
| DNA database opts a million people out from police searches | |
| Weird physical illusion makes you think objects are impossibly light | |
| How did pollsters get the Australian election result so wrong? | |
| Sabre-toothed cats bit rivals in the head and punctured their skulls | |
| Blacklisting Huawei from Android upgrades will end up hurting Google | |
| The kilogram has been transformed as new definition takes hold | |
| Some baby dinosaurs crawled before learning to walk on two legs | |
| Mini universes could be constantly exploding at every point in space | |
| I went hunting for willow seeds in the home of Winnie-the-Pooh | |
| Funding crisis threatens crucial UK ocean monitoring project | |
| Aaaaaargh! The true nature of screaming has finally been revealed | |
| No, koalas are not 'functionally extinct', but they are in trouble | |
| Cannabis plant evolved super high (on the Tibetan Plateau) | |
| Digital camera sees around corners by guessing what's lurking behind | |
| Sea otters are bouncing back - and into the jaws of great white sharks | |
| Compulsory vaccines are needed to keep measles under control in the UK | |
| Squished faces arenât the only cause of bulldog breathing difficulties | |
| Peasants in medieval England ate a diet of meat stew and cheese | |
| Our pick of Venice Biennale 2019's most scientific artworks | |
| Alabamaâs extreme new law could lead to an end of US abortion rights | |
| Could geoengineering really help us solve the climate crisis? | |
| China wants to make the fastest planes ever with a new material | |
| Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery to focus on anti-evolution treatments | |
| The quest for better snakebite treatments gets a funding boost | |
| Hearing device picks out right voice from a crowd by reading your mind | |
| Smartphone app that chirps in your ear could diagnose ear infections | |
| Did we split from Neanderthals 400,000 years earlier than we thought? | |
| China's rover peeks under the crust of the far side of the moon | |
| The story behind immunotherapyâs innovative cellular voyage | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Selfish motives must not imperil the new space age | |
| Working hypothesis: From deepfake Dali to black toothpaste | |
| From the archives: How a cosmic illusion proved Einsteinâs relativity | |
| Axions may or may not exist - but we're not just making things up | |
| We need to rediscover the wonder of space exploration to save Earth | |
| Becoming a maker: How switches can bring you piping hot toast | |
| Physicist Kate Shaw on Higgs bosons and how reality is an illusion | |
| Feedback: Are we dog-walking into a surveillance state? | |
| Puzzle #03 Cube shadow | |
| Crossword #31 | |
| The world's supply of rubber is in jeopardy. Can we find new sources? | |
| Does population genetics have a racism problem, even today? | |
| Why films like Avengers: Endgame can get away with time travel tricks | |
| Don't miss: Apollo 11 recalled, mapping galaxies and a space thriller | |
| Dreams: The PS4 game that lets you design and share your own reality | |
| Deadly air pollution illuminated in beautiful long-exposure photograph | |
| Can the UK avoid having a lethal opioid crisis like the one in the US? | |
| Elon Musk's SpaceX or a superpower: Who'll win the new space race? | |
| Climate change may make trees live fast and die young | |
| NHS hospital to trial genetic analysis for blood pressure patients | |
| Free-floating DNA to reveal the health of river and lake ecosystems | |
| Shining a UV light on a special glue can repair heart wounds | |
| NASA to get an extra $1.6 billion to put the first woman on the moon | |
| You should update WhatsApp to avoid a surveillance vulnerability | |
| Greening the chemical industry requires massive amount of renewables | |
| AI doesn't see the world like us which is why it is so easily confused | |
| Apollo-era moonquakes suggest lunar colonies must be shake-proof | |
| Bacteria could identify month-old suspicious stains at crime scenes | |
| Make a shape-shifting tablet with touchscreens that click together | |
| Georgios Papanikolaou: inventor of the Pap smear cervical cancer test | |
| Titanâs seas may be coated in organic goop that stops waves forming | |
| A simple experiment could help find alien life on Europa | |
| Artificial sponges could pull uranium from seawater for nuclear power | |
| AI recommends 'fashionable' outfits to millions of people in China | |
| The universe is 2.5 billion times less magnetic than a fridge magnet | |
| Directors are using virtual reality on set to find the perfect shot | |
| How Lucy Wills discovered a medical marvel in Marmite | |
| Instagram is attempting to crack down on misinformation about vaccines | |
| Every country worldwide is now using the most effective polio vaccine | |
| Jeff Bezos announces plans for delivery service to the moon by 2024 | |
| A quarter of people who meditate experience negative mental states | |
| Some deep-sea fish have evolved souped-up colour night vision | |
| My liver, your kidney: The world's first non-identical organ swap | |
| It may become impossible to tell if Iran starts making a nuclear bomb | |
| Penguin and seal dung nourishes organisms that are kilometres away | |
| Chimpanzees observed ganging up on a leopard and stealing its food | |
| Voice assistants seem to be worse at understanding commands from women | |
| Some UK coastal communities may have to move because of climate change | |
| Hormone treatment may help prevent miscarriages in some pregnancies | |
| Underwater tests reveal sharks may be smarter than you think | |
| Uber and Lyft increased traffic delays in San Francisco by 40 percent | |
| Humans have interfered with most of the world's greatest rivers | |
| How sci-fi like Frankissstein helps us face our fears of the future | |
| Working hypothesis: From space deliveries to dirty money | |
| Lightning strike may have led to Aeroflot plane crash in Moscow | |
| Climate change is an emergency we can solve | |
| Puzzle #02: Getting past the freight train | |
| How to make a reading light and learn about circuits | |
| Cryptic crossword #06 | |
| Why 'Martian' Tanya Harrison loves everything about the Red Planet | |
| Feedback: Why Spiderman could be the best cure for arachnophobia | |
| True AI creativity is coming and will reveal the minds of machines | |
| Zombieland: The vast world of hidden microbes miles beneath your feet | |
| Don't miss: untamed tech, a changing China and food for thought | |
| Underland is a profound journey into the mirror world of the dead | |
| How squirrels use their tails to square up to deadly cobras | |
| The idea that there are only 100 harvests left is just a fantasy | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Are heat-not-burn tobacco products a safer alternative to cigarettes? | |
| Thousands of people in Finland to receive genetic health predictions | |
| UK goes a week without coal but the renewables revolution is stalling | |
| 4D knitting makes rabbits that cuddle and lampshades that move | |
| Birds introduced to Hawaii have evolved rapidly in just decades | |
| Scientists dunked test tubes in hot springs to recreate lifeâs origins | |
| Fast radio bursts: We're finally decoding messages from deep space | |
| Wasps are the first invertebrates seen to use a type of logic | |
| Ancient Greek method for finding prime numbers just got an upgrade | |
| A small YouTube design change could drastically cut its CO2 emissions | |
| Astronauts may have vision problems because of liquid in their brains | |
| Traces of five drugs found on 1000-year-old South American ritual kit | |
| Kids can make sceptical parents change their minds on climate change | |
| We've found the medium-sized tyrannosaurs that came before T. rex | |
| Loss of the UKâs ash trees due to fungal disease may cost £15 billion | |
| Destruction of nature is as big a threat to humanity as climate change | |
| Monkeys seem to prefer each other's company after a scary experience | |
| Weâve spotted a strange asteroid thatâs spinning itself to pieces | |
| HBO's Chernobyl drama highlights the human cost of nuclear catastrophe | |
| Cobalt for 500,000 electric cars could be harvested from the oceans | |
| Genetic variants may put some athletes at higher risk of sudden death | |
| Climate change may turn octopuses partially blind from lack of oxygen | |
| Pollution-proof fish borrow genes from relatives to survive toxins | |
| Did Netflixâs 13 Reasons Why really increase suicide rates? | |
| Ebola outbreak in the DRC hits record number of cases in a single day | |
| Pandas gobble as much protein as polar bears despite being vegetarian | |
| Two molecules could give us finer control over CRISPR gene editing | |
| Older bees pass on immunity-boosting molecules to other bees in jelly | |
| Why the UKâs grand plan to stop gadgets turning against us is flawed | |
| US Navy tests underwater robots that recharge by eating fish faeces | |
| Huge mega-rafts carried dinosaur-era animals on round-the-world trips | |
| Seven charts that explain what net zero emissions means for the UK | |
| UK government told to adopt world's most ambitious climate target | |
| UK climate report: What your life could be like in a low-carbon future | |
| Eczema-associated bacteria may be kept in check by a different microbe | |
| Surprisingly wet asteroid dust could spark a rethink of Earth's water | |
| Hormone therapy may improve some symptoms of autism | |
| Hippos poop a huge amount of silicon every day â and itâs a good thing | |
| How cell therapy innovation is changing cancer treatment | |
| Introducing this weekâs new-look New Scientist magazine | |
| Signs of human climate change influence on drought traced back to 1900 | |
| It is time to bring global attention to the trade in Burmese amber | |
| Meet the white-tailed eagles making a comeback in the UK | |
| From the archives: How do you get astronauts back from space? | |
| How hacked rental e-scooters could be the future of street crime | |
| Is there anything we can do to stop Greenland from turning green? | |
| Working hypothesis: From slow ramblers to asteroid Ryugu | |
| Marcus du Sautoy: How maths blows my mind â and how it will save us | |
| Feedback: Advertisers set their sights on the night sky | |
| Puzzle #01: The Book of Numbers | |
| Quick Crossword #30 | |
| Want to build robots and invent stuff? Here's where to start | |
| The race to build a space internet available to anyone, anywhere | |
| Blood amber: The exquisite trove of fossils fuelling war in Myanmar | |
| How games like Assassin's Creed give us a feel for history | |
| Don't miss: cutting edge AI, Kubrick in 4K and our marvellous moon | |
| We still don't know how some animals find their way on huge migrations | |
| The psychology of magic and how it plays with our minds | |
| Major discovery suggests Denisovans lived in Tibet 160,000 years ago | |
| Liana Finck cartoon | |
| Narwhals are thriving despite extremely low genetic diversity | |
| Taking on tech giants: Can anyone stop Facebook, Amazon and Google? | |
| The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry | |
| Exclusive: AI to monitor UK roads for accidents or unusual behaviour | |
| Huge whales may have evolved millions of years earlier than we thought | |
| Prehistoric predator fossils found in an underwater cave in Mexico | |
| Newly recognised form of dementia could now be easier to diagnose | |
| Extreme flooding leads to deaths in Indonesia and Mozambique | |
| LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star | |
| Two species of colourful stick insects discovered in Madagascar | |
| Sales of opioid painkiller codeine have halved in Australia | |
| Battle of the exomoon: Astronomers can't agree on controversial find | |
| Weird chromosome may have spurred evolution of thousands of songbirds | |
| A bad sense of smell predicts early death but we donât know why | |
| Wonky black hole spotted rapidly eating a doughnut made from a star | |
| Titan has a belt of ice 6300 kilometres long that shouldn't be there | |
| Newly recognised form of dementia could now be easier to diagnose | |
| Extreme flooding leads to deaths in Indonesia and Mozambique | |
| LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star | |
| Newly recognised form of dementia could now be easier to diagnose | |
| Extreme flooding leads to deaths in Indonesia and Mozambique | |
| LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star | |
| Two species of colourful stick insects discovered in Madagascar | |
| Sales of opioid painkiller codeine have halved in Australia | |
| Battle of the exomoon: Astronomers can't agree on controversial find | |
| Weird chromosome may have spurred evolution of thousands of songbirds | |
| A bad sense of smell predicts early death but we donât know why | |
| Wonky black hole spotted rapidly eating a doughnut made from a star | |
| Titan has a belt of ice 6300 kilometres long that shouldn't be there | |
| The moon may be made of magma that once covered Earthâs entire surface | |
| An Indian village has many more twins than can be explained | |
| Does fracking for gas have a future in the UK after key resignation? | |
| Beluga whale with harness was trained by Russia, claim scientists | |
| Cyclone Kenneth is one of the strongest storms to hit mainland Africa | |
| Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word | |
| Sensors made from gummy bears could monitor how children chew | |
| How did the ancient Egyptians catch and mummify millions of ibises? | |
| Facebook announces plans to combat misinformation during EU elections | |
| Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future | |
| Peanut allergy immunotherapy may actually do more harm than good | |
| Extremely fast winds and high waves are now happening more often | |
| The truth about the QWERTY keyboard | |
| Have people in the UK really been banned from shooting wood pigeons? | |
| AI learns to paint in the styles of Van Gogh, Turner and Vermeer | |
| Google has created a maths AI that has already proved 1200 theorems | |
| The science behind Extinction Rebellionâs three climate change demands | |
| Neanderthals may have prized golden eagle claws for symbolic value | |
| Japan's Hayabusa 2 bombed an asteroid and took pictures of the crater | |
| Thereâs little evidence that a Huawei 5G ban is the right approach | |
| Glaciers contain radioactive isotopes from nuclear tests and accidents | |
| 21 million children miss first dose of measles vaccine every year | |
| Robotic tube for surgery autonomously navigates inside a beating heart | |
| Chinaâs efforts to cut pollution in Beijing may make it worse overall | |
| Foragers may have settled in the Amazon 10,000 years ago | |
| âRule-breakingâ crab fossils have weird shrimp and lobster features | |
| Over 400 languages spoken today may have originated in northern China | |
| Mind-reading device uses AI to turn brainwaves into audible speech | |
| Samsung folding phone delayed after reviewers break them too easily | |
| Anti-ageing has often been seen as quack science. Not any more | |
| Climate is an emergency: Let's not leave action to activists | |
| Cryptic Crossword #5 | |
| Vineyards sit in moon-like craters on a volcano in Lanzarote | |
| Feedback: In case of emergency, make mine a latte | |
| The great wonder and strangeness of the human brain | |
| Don't miss: celestial bodies, mathematical beauty and sci-fi fun | |
| The psychological dark side of sharing your daily life on YouTube | |
| Machine mind hack: The new threat that could scupper the AI revolution | |
| Clever chemistry could make fertiliser with a smaller carbon footprint | |
| Oldest woman ever or impostor? The controversial case of Calment | |
| Anti-ageing drugs are coming that could keep you healthier for longer | |
| Reef halo riddle: What's behind the mysterious rings around coral? | |
| NASAâs InSight lander on Mars has felt its first marsquakes | |
| Genetically modified virus may shrink incurable brain cancers | |
| The UK has already had more wildfires in 2019 than any year on record | |
| Battery-free pacemaker harvests energy from pig hearts in first tests | |
| SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule lost after 'anomaly' during ground test | |
| Coal-free spells are good, but the UK is falling short of carbon goals | |
| Satellites are checking if boats in remote places are fishing legally | |
| Australiaâs dingoes may keep feral cats in check and protect wildlife | |
| UK government directs £4.6 million to tackling illegal wildlife trade | |
| Huge dinosaur may have stood on its toes with fleshy pads for balance | |
| Baby boom for the kakapo, New Zealandâs critically endangered parrot | |
| If Mars has life, its total mass is 10,000 times smaller than Earthâs | |
| Zero-gravity robot cleaner could automatically sterilise the ISS | |
| How maths could fix the problems with Indiaâs voting machines | |
| An interstellar rock may have hit Earth in 2014 but nobody noticed | |
| AI that spots inequality could monitor living conditions in cities | |
| Dog owners are more likely to get the recommended amount of exercise | |
| BBC Earth from Space: satellite images give new view on conservation | |
| Climate protesters want net zero carbon emissions - is it possible? | |
| Macronâs pledge to rebuild Notre Dame in five years may be possible | |
| We must all work to avoid disputes over the care of very ill children | |
| A virus we thought was harmless to humans may worsen cystic fibrosis | |
| Viewing media coverage of traumatic events may fuel long-term distress | |
| Ancient urine reveals early prehistory of domestic sheep and goats | |
| Weâve found the first type of molecule to form after the big bang | |
| Pig brains have been partly revived after death - what does this mean? | |
| Gun that launches cord to wrap around assailant used for first time | |
| What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole? | |
| Black hole breakthrough: a lot done, much more to do | |
| From the archives 20 years ago: the great phone cancer scare | |
| Magnificent pumas photographed in snowstorms and whilst catching prey | |
| Feedback: Why replicate an experiment when you can flip a coin? | |
| Must we topple Einstein to let physics leap forward again? | |
| Don't miss: Kubrick's genius, Haida mythology and the power of emotion | |
| Protein mania: The problem with the Westâs latest diet obsession | |
| Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society | |
| Why Ian McEwan doesnât see his latest novel as being science fiction | |
| Notre Dameâs stonework isnât flammable but may be structurally damaged | |
| Statins may not lower cholesterol enough in half those who take them | |
| Sex-selective abortions may have stopped the birth of 23 million girls | |
| Measles has made a shocking return to the US. Can it be stopped? | |
| Why electric cars are a hot topic in Australia's forthcoming election | |
| Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa? | |
| Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity | |
| Our nearest neighbour Proxima Centauri may host a second exoplanet | |
| Saturnâs moon Titan has an alien lake district that looks like Earth | |
| There is water just under the surface of the moon that we could use | |
| Pristine mountains are being littered with microplastics from the air | |
| The 2018 heatwave may not have been possible without climate change | |
| A touchy-feely part of the brain helps you enjoy a gentle caress | |
| Prescriptions for UTIs may be making antibiotic resistance even worse | |
| Facebook and Instagram may have to remove like buttons for UK children | |
| BBC climate doc adviser: Earth is sending us really powerful messages | |
| David Attenborough finally talks climate change in prime time BBC slot | |
| Scientists must worry in public about the dangers of their creations | |
| How do you name a black hole? It is actually pretty complicated | |
| How hackers use tricks to make money from your clicks | |
| NASA traced a meteorite back to its original home in deep space | |
| SpaceXâs Falcon Heavy rocket has flown its first commercial flight | |
| Even remote mountain glaciers are contaminated with microplastics | |
| Israel's Beresheet lunar lander has crashed on the moon | |
| What happened when one twin went to space and the other stayed home? | |
| Pollinators may have evolved 40 million years before flowers existed | |
| First black hole picture: The big mysteries we still need to solve | |
| First 3-parent baby born in clinical trial to treat infertility | |
| A gene linked to alcohol habits may influence who you choose to marry | |
| Millions of child asthma cases linked to traffic pollution every year | |
| Everything you need to know about the first black hole image | |
| Largest dust storm on Mars ever recorded may reveal why it's so dry | |
| Earth's past and future ice | |
| We have zero tolerance for unclean water. Air should be no different | |
| A mission to Alpha Centauri affirms humanity's faith in the future | |
| Feedback: The pope does his best to minimise the spread of disease | |
| Quick crossword #29 | |
| The science skills most in demand | |
| Donât miss: Earth from space, asteroid workouts and natureâs giants | |
| Weâre being overwhelmed by a deluge of insignificant decisions | |
| A planet of nearly 8 billion people needs a new kind of green thinking | |
| The forgotten riches of the most densely biodiverse country on Earth | |
| Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar | |
| Wood under the microscope shows mistletoe invasions and tangled cells | |
| New species of human discovered in a cave in the Philippines | |
| First ever real image of a black hole revealed | |
| We could solve the biggest problem in maths in the next decade | |
| The world's largest stone circle started out as a humble ancient home | |
| A four-day work week could improve our health and cut carbon emissions | |
| We contain microbes so deeply weird they alter the very tree of life | |
| Salmonella can hijack immune cells to spread around the body | |
| You can help name the largest unnamed world in the solar system | |
| Promising treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome fails large trial | |
| Flying cars could be greener than electric ones in some circumstances | |
| Climate change means nearly all glaciers in the Alps may disappear | |
| Antarctica team to search world's oldest ice for climate change clues | |
| LIGO has spotted another gravitational wave just after turning back on | |
| Hot rubble from volcanoes races over land on a carpet of air bubbles | |
| AI could monitor farms from space to look for illegal pollution | |
| 3D facial analysis could help identify children with rare conditions | |
| First ever picture of a black hole may be revealed this week | |
| UK wants to curb fake news and cyberbullying with new internet laws | |
| NASA says the International Space Station is covered in bacteria | |
| ULEZ: London is cleaning up its dirty air but what about other cities? | |
| Doctors in China are using 5G internet to do surgery from far away | |
| Stunningly realistic video game visuals made by simulating light rays | |
| Telling us to stop washing our hands is dangerous and unacceptable | |
| Japanâs Hayabusa 2 spacecraft just bombed an asteroid | |
| Snowflakes are making the Arctic warm faster by acting like a blanket | |
| A dead planet is orbiting a dead sun in a distant dead solar system | |
| Scotland's HPV vaccine linked to 'near elimination' of cervical cancer | |
| Amazing four-legged fossil shows how walking whales learned to swim | |
| Had a genetic test? You should be told if its implications change | |
| David Attenborough's Our Planet on Netflix is beautiful but empty | |
| DeepMind created a maths AI that can add up to 6 but gets 7 wrong | |
| Pet cats know their names they just sometimes prefer to ignore you | |
| People with autism are less likely to fall for an out-of-body illusion | |
| The Great Barrier Reef is losing its ability to recover from bleaching | |
| NASA's method of paying for its giant rocket belongs in the Apollo era | |
| Itâs time to change our approach to 'psychosomatic' illness | |
| Eurasian hoopoes protect their eggs with a dark foul-smelling goo | |
| Feedback: China plans to clone Sherlock to help sniff out super crooks | |
| From the archives: When oil turned Alaska's coastline black | |
| Speaking at least one other language may make us more humane | |
| Don't miss: Visualising inequality, space comms and a rare pregnancy | |
| Most animals canât keep a beat despite what Darwin believed | |
| A chimp's hug shows it's time to accept that animals have feelings too | |
| The Northern Lights make a mysterious noise and now we might know why | |
| It's not an illusion, you have free will. It's just not what you think | |
| Your heartbeat may help you sync up with other people to cooperate | |
| Two-million-year-old toothache may have killed an early human | |
| Albino lizards are the worldâs first genetically modified reptiles | |
| Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024 | |
| The illnesses caused by a disconnect between brain and mind | |
| Windows made of transparent wood could help keep buildings warm | |
| The weird and wonderful inner moons of Saturn revealed by Cassini | |
| Health regulator takes step towards lifting vaginal mesh implant ban | |
| Landslides have increased by 6000 per cent on an Arctic island | |
| Consider your childâs future before you share that âhilariousâ image | |
| UK plan to stop under-18s seeing pornography online is delayed again | |
| Pre-eclampsia blood test could help diagnose the condition earlier | |
| AI achieves its best ever mark on a set of English exam questions | |
| We may have bred with Denisovans much more recently than we thought | |
| Incredible fossil find may be first victims of dino-killer asteroid | |
| Teslaâs autopilot tricked into driving on the wrong side of the road | |
| Curiosity is entering what may be the best area to find life on Mars | |
| Smart pyjamas could detect why you're not sleeping well | |
| Newly recognised form of dementia could now be easier to diagnose | |
| Extreme flooding leads to deaths in Indonesia and Mozambique | |
| LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star | |
| Two species of colourful stick insects discovered in Madagascar | |
| Sales of opioid painkiller codeine have halved in Australia | |
| Battle of the exomoon: Astronomers can't agree on controversial find | |
| Weird chromosome may have spurred evolution of thousands of songbirds | |
| Newly recognised form of dementia could now be easier to diagnose | |
| Extreme flooding leads to deaths in Indonesia and Mozambique | |
| LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star | |
| Two species of colourful stick insects discovered in Madagascar | |
| Sales of opioid painkiller codeine have halved in Australia | |
| Battle of the exomoon: Astronomers can't agree on controversial find | |
| Weird chromosome may have spurred evolution of thousands of songbirds | |
| A bad sense of smell predicts early death but we donât know why | |
| Wonky black hole spotted rapidly eating a doughnut made from a star | |
| Titan has a belt of ice 6300 kilometres long that shouldn't be there | |
| The moon may be made of magma that once covered Earthâs entire surface | |
| An Indian village has many more twins than can be explained | |
| Does fracking for gas have a future in the UK after key resignation? | |
| Beluga whale with harness was trained by Russia, claim scientists | |
| Cyclone Kenneth is one of the strongest storms to hit mainland Africa | |
| Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word | |
| Sensors made from gummy bears could monitor how children chew | |
| How did the ancient Egyptians catch and mummify millions of ibises? | |
| Facebook announces plans to combat misinformation during EU elections | |
| Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future | |
| Peanut allergy immunotherapy may actually do more harm than good | |
| Extremely fast winds and high waves are now happening more often | |
| The truth about the QWERTY keyboard | |
| Have people in the UK really been banned from shooting wood pigeons? | |
| AI learns to paint in the styles of Van Gogh, Turner and Vermeer | |
| Google has created a maths AI that has already proved 1200 theorems | |
| The science behind Extinction Rebellionâs three climate change demands | |
| Neanderthals may have prized golden eagle claws for symbolic value | |
| Japan's Hayabusa 2 bombed an asteroid and took pictures of the crater | |
| Thereâs little evidence that a Huawei 5G ban is the right approach | |
| Glaciers contain radioactive isotopes from nuclear tests and accidents | |
| 21 million children miss first dose of measles vaccine every year | |
| Robotic tube for surgery autonomously navigates inside a beating heart | |
| Chinaâs efforts to cut pollution in Beijing may make it worse overall | |
| Foragers may have settled in the Amazon 10,000 years ago | |
| âRule-breakingâ crab fossils have weird shrimp and lobster features | |
| Over 400 languages spoken today may have originated in northern China | |
| Mind-reading device uses AI to turn brainwaves into audible speech | |
| Samsung folding phone delayed after reviewers break them too easily | |
| Anti-ageing has often been seen as quack science. Not any more | |
| Climate is an emergency: Let's not leave action to activists | |
| Cryptic Crossword #5 | |
| Vineyards sit in moon-like craters on a volcano in Lanzarote | |
| Feedback: In case of emergency, make mine a latte | |
| The great wonder and strangeness of the human brain | |
| Don't miss: celestial bodies, mathematical beauty and sci-fi fun | |
| The psychological dark side of sharing your daily life on YouTube | |
| Machine mind hack: The new threat that could scupper the AI revolution | |
| Clever chemistry could make fertiliser with a smaller carbon footprint | |
| Oldest woman ever or impostor? The controversial case of Calment | |
| Anti-ageing drugs are coming that could keep you healthier for longer | |
| Reef halo riddle: What's behind the mysterious rings around coral? | |
| NASAâs InSight lander on Mars has felt its first marsquakes | |
| Genetically modified virus may shrink incurable brain cancers | |
| The UK has already had more wildfires in 2019 than any year on record | |
| Battery-free pacemaker harvests energy from pig hearts in first tests | |
| SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule lost after 'anomaly' during ground test | |
| Coal-free spells are good, but the UK is falling short of carbon goals | |
| Satellites are checking if boats in remote places are fishing legally | |
| Australiaâs dingoes may keep feral cats in check and protect wildlife | |
| UK government directs £4.6 million to tackling illegal wildlife trade | |
| Huge dinosaur may have stood on its toes with fleshy pads for balance | |
| Baby boom for the kakapo, New Zealandâs critically endangered parrot | |
| If Mars has life, its total mass is 10,000 times smaller than Earthâs | |
| Zero-gravity robot cleaner could automatically sterilise the ISS | |
| How maths could fix the problems with Indiaâs voting machines | |
| An interstellar rock may have hit Earth in 2014 but nobody noticed | |
| AI that spots inequality could monitor living conditions in cities | |
| Dog owners are more likely to get the recommended amount of exercise | |
| BBC Earth from Space: satellite images give new view on conservation | |
| Climate protesters want net zero carbon emissions - is it possible? | |
| Macronâs pledge to rebuild Notre Dame in five years may be possible | |
| We must all work to avoid disputes over the care of very ill children | |
| A virus we thought was harmless to humans may worsen cystic fibrosis | |
| Viewing media coverage of traumatic events may fuel long-term distress | |
| Ancient urine reveals early prehistory of domestic sheep and goats | |
| Weâve found the first type of molecule to form after the big bang | |
| Pig brains have been partly revived after death - what does this mean? | |
| Gun that launches cord to wrap around assailant used for first time | |
| What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole? | |
| Black hole breakthrough: a lot done, much more to do | |
| From the archives 20 years ago: the great phone cancer scare | |
| Magnificent pumas photographed in snowstorms and whilst catching prey | |
| Feedback: Why replicate an experiment when you can flip a coin? | |
| Must we topple Einstein to let physics leap forward again? | |
| Don't miss: Kubrick's genius, Haida mythology and the power of emotion | |
| Protein mania: The problem with the Westâs latest diet obsession | |
| Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society | |
| Why Ian McEwan doesnât see his latest novel as being science fiction | |
| Notre Dameâs stonework isnât flammable but may be structurally damaged | |
| Statins may not lower cholesterol enough in half those who take them | |
| Sex-selective abortions may have stopped the birth of 23 million girls | |
| Measles has made a shocking return to the US. Can it be stopped? | |
| Why electric cars are a hot topic in Australia's forthcoming election | |
| Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa? | |
| Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity | |
| Our nearest neighbour Proxima Centauri may host a second exoplanet | |
| Saturnâs moon Titan has an alien lake district that looks like Earth | |
| There is water just under the surface of the moon that we could use | |
| Pristine mountains are being littered with microplastics from the air | |
| The 2018 heatwave may not have been possible without climate change | |
| A touchy-feely part of the brain helps you enjoy a gentle caress | |
| Prescriptions for UTIs may be making antibiotic resistance even worse | |
| Facebook and Instagram may have to remove like buttons for UK children | |
| BBC climate doc adviser: Earth is sending us really powerful messages | |
| David Attenborough finally talks climate change in prime time BBC slot | |
| Scientists must worry in public about the dangers of their creations | |
| How do you name a black hole? It is actually pretty complicated | |
| How hackers use tricks to make money from your clicks | |
| NASA traced a meteorite back to its original home in deep space | |
| SpaceXâs Falcon Heavy rocket has flown its first commercial flight | |
| Even remote mountain glaciers are contaminated with microplastics | |
| Israel's Beresheet lunar lander has crashed on the moon | |
| What happened when one twin went to space and the other stayed home? | |
| Pollinators may have evolved 40 million years before flowers existed | |
| First black hole picture: The big mysteries we still need to solve | |
| First 3-parent baby born in clinical trial to treat infertility | |
| A gene linked to alcohol habits may influence who you choose to marry | |
| Millions of child asthma cases linked to traffic pollution every year | |
| Everything you need to know about the first black hole image | |
| Largest dust storm on Mars ever recorded may reveal why it's so dry | |
| Earth's past and future ice | |
| We have zero tolerance for unclean water. Air should be no different | |
| A mission to Alpha Centauri affirms humanity's faith in the future | |
| Feedback: The pope does his best to minimise the spread of disease | |
| Quick crossword #29 | |
| The science skills most in demand | |
| Donât miss: Earth from space, asteroid workouts and natureâs giants | |
| Weâre being overwhelmed by a deluge of insignificant decisions | |
| A planet of nearly 8 billion people needs a new kind of green thinking | |
| The forgotten riches of the most densely biodiverse country on Earth | |
| Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar | |
| Wood under the microscope shows mistletoe invasions and tangled cells | |
| New species of human discovered in a cave in the Philippines | |
| First ever real image of a black hole revealed | |
| We could solve the biggest problem in maths in the next decade | |
| The world's largest stone circle started out as a humble ancient home | |
| A four-day work week could improve our health and cut carbon emissions | |
| We contain microbes so deeply weird they alter the very tree of life | |
| Salmonella can hijack immune cells to spread around the body | |
| You can help name the largest unnamed world in the solar system | |
| Promising treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome fails large trial | |
| Flying cars could be greener than electric ones in some circumstances | |
| Climate change means nearly all glaciers in the Alps may disappear | |
| Antarctica team to search world's oldest ice for climate change clues | |
| LIGO has spotted another gravitational wave just after turning back on | |
| Hot rubble from volcanoes races over land on a carpet of air bubbles | |
| AI could monitor farms from space to look for illegal pollution | |
| 3D facial analysis could help identify children with rare conditions | |
| First ever picture of a black hole may be revealed this week | |
| UK wants to curb fake news and cyberbullying with new internet laws | |
| NASA says the International Space Station is covered in bacteria | |
| ULEZ: London is cleaning up its dirty air but what about other cities? | |
| Doctors in China are using 5G internet to do surgery from far away | |
| Stunningly realistic video game visuals made by simulating light rays | |
| Telling us to stop washing our hands is dangerous and unacceptable | |
| Japanâs Hayabusa 2 spacecraft just bombed an asteroid | |
| Snowflakes are making the Arctic warm faster by acting like a blanket | |
| A dead planet is orbiting a dead sun in a distant dead solar system | |
| Scotland's HPV vaccine linked to 'near elimination' of cervical cancer | |
| Amazing four-legged fossil shows how walking whales learned to swim | |
| Had a genetic test? You should be told if its implications change | |
| David Attenborough's Our Planet on Netflix is beautiful but empty | |
| DeepMind created a maths AI that can add up to 6 but gets 7 wrong | |
| Pet cats know their names they just sometimes prefer to ignore you | |
| People with autism are less likely to fall for an out-of-body illusion | |
| The Great Barrier Reef is losing its ability to recover from bleaching | |
| NASA's method of paying for its giant rocket belongs in the Apollo era | |
| Itâs time to change our approach to 'psychosomatic' illness | |
| Eurasian hoopoes protect their eggs with a dark foul-smelling goo | |
| Feedback: China plans to clone Sherlock to help sniff out super crooks | |
| From the archives: When oil turned Alaska's coastline black | |
| Speaking at least one other language may make us more humane | |
| Don't miss: Visualising inequality, space comms and a rare pregnancy | |
| Most animals canât keep a beat despite what Darwin believed | |
| A chimp's hug shows it's time to accept that animals have feelings too | |
| The Northern Lights make a mysterious noise and now we might know why | |
| It's not an illusion, you have free will. It's just not what you think | |
| Your heartbeat may help you sync up with other people to cooperate | |
| Two-million-year-old toothache may have killed an early human | |
| Albino lizards are the worldâs first genetically modified reptiles | |
| Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024 | |
| The illnesses caused by a disconnect between brain and mind | |
| Windows made of transparent wood could help keep buildings warm | |
| The weird and wonderful inner moons of Saturn revealed by Cassini | |
| Health regulator takes step towards lifting vaginal mesh implant ban | |
| Landslides have increased by 6000 per cent on an Arctic island | |
| Consider your childâs future before you share that âhilariousâ image | |
| UK plan to stop under-18s seeing pornography online is delayed again | |
| Pre-eclampsia blood test could help diagnose the condition earlier | |
| AI achieves its best ever mark on a set of English exam questions | |
| We may have bred with Denisovans much more recently than we thought | |
| Incredible fossil find may be first victims of dino-killer asteroid | |
| Teslaâs autopilot tricked into driving on the wrong side of the road | |
| Curiosity is entering what may be the best area to find life on Mars | |
| Smart pyjamas could detect why you're not sleeping well | |
| Cliffs on comet 67P wander across the landscape in summer | |
| Giant viruses have weaponised CRISPR against their bacterial hosts | |
| Venus may have had a climate suitable for life billions of years ago | |
| Water on Mars is probably too cold and salty for life as we know it | |
| Mathematicians have found a new way to multiply two numbers together | |
| Robot discovers that lying about a betrayal helps to rebuild trust | |
| We could soon make animals with cells that contain two genetic codes | |
| Nearly 100 species of frogs, toads and salamanders wiped out by fungus | |
| Climate change is making the seas rise faster than ever, UN warns | |
| A crucial population of lions has lost much of its genetic diversity | |
| Antidepressant prescriptions have reached 70 million in England | |
| Dogs can recognise the scent of someone having an epileptic seizure | |
| The waters of the Galapagos Islands are being invaded by alien species | |
| Driverless car learns to perform high-speed turns without crashing | |
| Mars used to have massive flowing rivers twice as wide as Earthâs | |
| Fridges made from plastic crystals could help cut carbon emissions | |
| Lab-grown blood vessels given to people who need dialysis | |
| Gender pay gap widens for UK scientists and engineers | |
| The UK's plan to block online pornography could be a privacy disaster | |
| The 5 biggest physics questions that LIGO's reboot could soon answer | |
| Spacecraft reveal the mysteries of the solar system's space rocks | |
| By all means back healthcare tech, but only once it is shown to work | |
| Our most pressing space mission is to clear decades of orbiting junk | |
| Images show the devastation of Cyclone Idai | |
| Feedback: Could GPS kitchenware be the solution to knife crime? | |
| Cryptic Crossword #4 | |
| Antony Gormleyâs virtual reality adventure lets you ski on the moon | |
| Don't miss: Missing women, metallic mysteries and a classic dystopia | |
| Crime-fighting botanist takes down murderers using plants | |
| Move over, DNA. Life's other code is more subtle and far more powerful | |
| Teenage psychotic experiences linked to high levels of air pollution | |
| How do you square a passion for the ocean with deep-sea mining? | |
| Maths shows that this week's Brexit votes won't solve the UK's crisis | |
| Article 13: A guide to the new EU copyright rules and the ban on memes | |
| India tests anti-satellite missile by destroying one of its satellites | |
| Politicians will have to force us to adopt climate-friendly lifestyles | |
| Thereâs so much junk in space that our satellites will soon be at risk | |
| Story of most murderous people of all time revealed in ancient DNA | |
| All the info our brain needs for language nearly fits on a floppy disc | |
| We've discovered a massive dinosaur-era river delta under the sea | |
| AIs go up against animals in an epic competition to test intelligence | |
| The US wants to send astronauts to the moonâs south pole in 2024 | |
| Smog may be getting worse in some cities thanks to Arctic warming | |
| A third of wild bee and hoverfly species are in decline in Britain | |
| Genome-editing record smashed with 13,000 edits made in one cell | |
| NASA cancels first all-women spacewalk due to spacesuit size issue | |
| The pigment in our skin could be used to make electrical body implants | |
| Global carbon emissions from energy hit a record high in 2018 | |
| Crashed Boeing 737s lacked upgrades that could have warned pilots | |
| Our brains may be able to make new neurons throughout adulthood | |
| Huge T. rex fossil suggests many dinosaurs were bigger than we thought | |
| Genetic risk scores on their own aren't that good at predicting health | |
| Exposure to dirty city air reduces sperm quality and quantity in mice | |
| NASAâs InSight lander is using magnetism to search for water on Mars | |
| Exclusive: Thousands of security flaws found on UK government websites | |
| Itâs not just reality TV - all media must help to prevent suicides | |
| Weâve found 4000 exoplanets but almost zero are right for life | |
| AI can mistakenly see cancer in medical scans after tiny image tweaks | |
| Child abuse may change brain structure and make depression worse | |
| Stunning picture shows dead star racing away from a massive explosion | |
| Jet fuel made from waste plants could be one of the most efficient yet | |
| Genetics studies are too white â thatâs failing people and science | |
| Sun bears copy each other's facial expressions to communicate | |
| Elizabeth Holmes: The hypnotic tale of the rise and fall of Theranos | |
| Robot swarm inspired by cells can keep moving even if its parts fail | |
| Anaesthesia drug may make it easier to forget upsetting memories | |
| Electric cars won't shrink emissions enough - we must cut travel too | |
| Is religion good or bad for humanity? Epic analysis delivers an answer | |
| Deforestation in the Amazon could raise local temperatures by 1.5C | |
| Facebook blocked over a million uploads of Christchurch attack video | |
| Cyclone Idai wreaks havoc in Mozambique and Zimbabwe | |
| Quantum theory might be flawed. That's a cause for celebration | |
| Evidence of early Australian arrival is best judged with an open mind | |
| From the archives: Pop a pill to change your personality | |
| The compelling tale of how climate change denial came to grip the US | |
| Don't miss: Shark crime, optical games and dairy in the cross hairs | |
| How surveillance capitalism is changing human nature forever | |
| Spiky space antenna will probe the frigid exteriors of Jupiter's moons | |
| We have to find a way to stop drones disrupting airports | |
| Feedback: Itâs been a long haul, but âtastyâ airline food is now here | |
| Strange rise of mukbang parents who feed their kids fast food for cash | |
| Gaia rebooted: New version of idea explains how Earth evolved for life | |
| I got caught in the middle of a bitter row over humans' violent past | |
| Most powerful thunderstorm ever measured produced 1.3 billion volts | |
| One in four scientists have experienced harassment or discrimination | |
| Why I believe humans were in Australia much earlier than we thought | |
| Genetic risk scores could help the NHS but they aren't ready yet | |
| Schrödingerâs kittens: New thought experiment breaks quantum theory | |
| Google announces video game streaming service to let you play anywhere | |
| Asteroid Bennu is spewing out dust and rocks to create its own moons | |
| Asteroid Ryugu is so dry we may have to rethink how Earth got water | |
| Protected hen harriers are vanishing under suspicious circumstances | |
| Cheer the first women-only spacewalk, but equality is still far away | |
| Spread of cancers halted by smart bacteria that trigger immune attack | |
| James Bond is making the switch to an electric car, so when will you? | |
| Karen Uhlenbeck is first woman to win prestigious maths Abel prize | |
| Toilet on International Space Station gets a bacteria-killing upgrade | |
| Distant space rock Ultima Thule formed in a slow and gentle collision | |
| Boys and girls may have differing attitudes to risk thanks to society | |
| Women with a twin brother are more likely to drop out of school | |
| Our brains might sense Earth's magnetic field just like birds do | |
| How to make your brain adaptive enough to cope with anything | |
| Dead whale found with 40 kilograms of plastic in its stomach | |
| A third of fish sold is mislabelled â hereâs how to avoid being duped | |
| Revealed: First image of huge meteor explosion over Earth last year | |
| Thousands of unknown underwater mountains found in Earthâs oceans | |
| The key to combating extremism is to address its social roots | |
| Huge meteor explosion over Earth last year went unnoticed until now | |
| World's most endangered marine mammal is now down to 10 animals | |
| Students join massive global strike against climate change | |
| Climate change will make it harder to predict heavy rain and floods | |
| Humans couldn't pronounce 'f' and 'v' sounds before farming developed | |
| Climate striker Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel peace prize | |
| Sea otter archaeology could tell us about their 2-million-year history | |
| Earth may be partly made of rocks from elsewhere in the galaxy | |
| Pi Day quiz: How well do you know the mathematical constant? | |
| Mathematician cracks centuries-old problem about the number 33 | |
| Einstein quiz: Can you guess which quotes are really his? | |
| Scientists chasing waterfalls discovered something they aren't used to | |
| IBM made a quantum algorithm that could make AI more powerful | |
| Drug-releasing coil in stomach could provide better treatment for TB | |
| AI-powered smartphone cameras are changing the way we see reality | |
| Venezuela has suffered power blackouts for days | |
| To avert environmental disaster, we need to return to the trees | |
| UK science salaries top £40k for the first time | |
| Flower hat jelly has colour-tipped tentacles for paralysing small fish | |
| Feedback: Flat Earthers accidentally prove themselves wrong | |
| Quick crossword #28 | |
| The mighty | |
| Don't miss: A chance for gamers to plot their own robot revolution | |
| The quantum world is infamously weird â now we might know why | |
| Our wooden future: making cars, skyscrapers and even lasers from wood | |
| Italy bans unvaccinated children from schools after measles outbreaks | |
| It will be 'snowing' nitrogen on Pluto for the next century | |
| The best image-recognition AIs are fooled by slightly rotated images | |
| World-class Go-playing AI has learned to do really hard colouring-in | |
| Russian military is building a flying vehicle with rotating paddles | |
| Handheld device could detect CRISPR bioweapons before they spread | |
| Too much sunscreen? Why avoiding the sun could damage your health | |
| Greta Thunberg: Why I began the climate protests that are going global | |
| Home DNA-testing firm will let users block FBI access to their data | |
| Brain scans reveal actors lose their sense of self when acting a role | |
| Human activity impacts a quarter of the worldâs threatened species | |
| Black holes and lasers could let us cheat at interstellar travel | |
| Secretive new frog species from ancient lineage discovered in India | |
| Does air pollution really kill nearly 9 million people each year? | |
| We should cautiously welcome use of a form of ketamine for depression | |
| Children can find inappropriate videos on YouTube in just 10 clicks | |
| Stephen Hawkingâs legacy will be honoured with a new 50p coin | |
| China's great firewall and the war to control the internet | |
| Forests are becoming less able to bounce back from wildfires | |
| Ethnic minorities produce less pollution but are exposed to more | |
| Breathing in before doing something may actually make you better at it | |
| Jupiter could be cracking its moon Europa with powerful magnetic force | |
| Brain zap prison experiment suspended by Spanish government | |
| UK and other EU countries ban Boeing 737 Max after Ethiopia crash | |
| Nobel-winner Paul Nurse on Brexit: âThe UK is turning in on itselfâ | |
| Arsenic-munching caterpillars may ingest poison to prevent being eaten | |
| Hawkward! âExpertâ birdwatchers misidentify common birds as rarities | |
| Japan inches towards building a successor to Large Hadron Collider | |
| Norway is starting the world's biggest divestment in oil and gas | |
| Mae Jemison: The astronaut plotting a journey to other stars | |
| Unique chimpanzee cultures are disappearing thanks to humans | |
| A pill that mimics natural antibodies could fight many kinds of flu | |
| Quiz: Do you know these great women of science? | |
| Rain may be causing a worrying amount of ice to melt in Greenland | |
| Rabbit bones suggest Neanderthals were better hunters than we thought | |
| Your 5G guide: Will we all benefit from super-quick mobile internet? | |
| Amazing Arctic images show how ice melt is creating the new north | |
| Feedback: Shy daters get robot chaperones to woo for them | |
| From the archives: 30 years ago, a nascent 'Internet' was under attack | |
| The new Afghanistan war: Saving snow leopards and other wild treasures | |
| Donât miss: A life in death, aquatic mysteries and the brain unveiled | |
| How celebrities have fuelled the amazing rise in pseudoscience | |
| Meet the super-smeller who can diagnose Parkinson's at a sniff | |
| What Londonâs police can learn from Glasgowâs approach to knife crime | |
| Wind and solar will still work in a climate-change ravaged Europe | |
| How belief in punitive gods may have helped large societies cooperate | |
| At last, US dream of resuming human space launches are within reach | |
| MMR vaccine does not cause autism, study once again confirms | |
| Audi, Volvo and Aston Martin are all expected to reveal electric cars | |
| Brexit, 10,000 BC: The untold story of how Britain first left Europe | |
| Exclusive: Brain zap therapy for aggression to be tested on prisoners | |
| China plans world's first deep sea base, complete with robot subs | |
| Ant larvae defend their homes by eating eggs laid by intruders | |
| 'Digital sobriety' can halt tech-fuelled global warming, says report | |
| A third person may have become HIV-free after a bone marrow transplant | |
| A temporary low-calorie diet may reduce inflammatory bowel disease | |
| Animal with an anus that comes and goes could reveal how ours evolved | |
| Landmark HIV case may be the second person ever to be âcuredâ | |
| Hacking just 1 in 10 cars could gridlock all of the roads in Manhattan | |
| Bill Gatesâs pancake problem â and three more pancakes in science | |
| A gel made from urea has molecules that resemble friendship bracelets | |
| Wikipediaâs civil wars show how we can heal ideological divides online | |
| EU sued for making global warming worse by subsidising wood burning | |
| World's fastest shark gets a burst of speed from shape-shifting skin | |
| Compensating for climate misdeeds can make you a worse carbon emitter | |
| Breast milk contains fungi which may help seed a baby's microbiome | |
| SpaceX ready to take humans to the ISS after a successful dummy run | |
| Climate change is the new normal but we donât seem to notice | |
| Asteroids hitting Mars could have made hot rain fall for decades | |
| The US has started burning recycling but it should only be temporary | |
| SpaceX is about to launch a dummy astronaut called Ripley to the ISS | |
| Broken bones in mice healed faster by heat-releasing implant | |
| Human genome editing is here â now we have to decide who is in charge | |
| Mice given ânight visionâ by injecting nanoparticles into their eyes | |
| Weekend lie-in can't undo the health damage caused by lack of sleep | |
| Purple or brown? This 3D-printed cup changes colour in different light | |
| Self-charging socks could track your exercise and power wearable tech | |
| Watching lots of TV may worsen memory in older people | |
| Earthquake-resistant paint could help brick buildings survive tremors | |
| How neuroscience is exploding the myth of male and female brains | |
| Second-ever pair of semi-identical twins identified in Australia | |
| Malaria drugs for mosquitoes could help prevent the disease in humans | |
| Engineered yeast can brew up the active ingredients in cannabis plants | |
| Your genetic data can be exploited without you ever knowing about it | |
| Space exploration needs minnows as much as superpowers | |
| The story of the most beautiful table in science is worth celebrating | |
| Croc dad goes for a swim with 150 floating babies | |
| Feedback: French fencers feel the force and embrace lightsabers | |
| Periodic table special: The elements crossword | |
| Russian Doll: To escape the multiverse, think like Einstein | |
| Don't miss: Making science happen, a mega-collider and a hypnotic game | |
| Physicist Jim Al-Khalili: Why my debut sci-fi novel is true to science | |
| An AI has created music based on Bach â but will an audience notice? | |
| I'm travelling the world to collect poo for the good of humankind | |
| Here's my favourite element â what's yours? | |
| Opt-out organ donation law: Your questions answered | |
| Inside the Russian factory making the heaviest atoms in the universe | |
| Light pollution has reached fragile habitats and may threaten wildlife | |
| Firefighters tackle moorland blazes fuelled by UK's warm weather | |
| Parkinsonâs drug pumped directly into brain fails to pass key tests | |
| Police drones with lasers could help find a murder victim in Australia | |
| Why is the UK so hot and can we enjoy the winter sunshine guilt-free? | |
| Dark matter secrets could lie buried in ancient rocks on Earth | |
| Elements quiz: How well do you know the periodic table? | |
| Three reasons why the periodic table needs a redesign | |
| The true story of the birth of the periodic table, 150 years ago | |
| Millions of fish have been dying in Australiaâs major rivers | |
| Don't panic about The Uninhabitable Earth, a new book predicting chaos | |
| Earth could warm by 14°C as growing emissions destroy crucial clouds | |
| The village where more elements were discovered than anywhere else | |
| Picture-editing AI lets you easily alter a celebrityâs face | |
| Underwater push-ups help hibernating turtles stay alive | |
| Wolves are spreading in Germany by moving into military land | |
| Virgin Galactic reaches space again - this time with a passenger | |
| Quantum experiment suggests there really are âalternative factsâ | |
| Four stars full of burnt nuclear ash are speeding through the galaxy | |
| How the zebra got its stripes: The problem with 'just-so' stories | |
| Liberals who want a Green New Deal must include nuclear power | |
| Japanâs Hayabusa 2 bags its first sample from the asteroid Ryugu | |
| AIs could debate whether a smart assistant should snitch on you | |
| Dinosaur extinction lines up closely with timing of volcanic eruptions | |
| Why Samsungâs folding smartphone might prove more than just a fad | |
| Worldâs biggest bee rediscovered after decades on âmost wantedâ list | |
| Google says it can't fix a security flaw affecting all computer chips | |
| First private mission to the moon is launched on SpaceX rocket | |
| Ban gas boilers for new UK homes by 2025, says climate report | |
| Squid teeth could help make bioplastics and self-repairing clothes | |
| 18 up-and-running projects that could save us from climate change | |
| Neptuneâs smallest moon keeps getting smashed up and resurrected again | |
| Meat in a dish could be bad for the planet | |
| Gene therapy for common cause of sight loss tested for first time | |
| We don't know the real impact of fake news and other disinformation | |
| Hey Prime Minister, leave them climate protest kids alone | |
| Feedback: Giant glowing squirrels haunt North Carolina backwoods | |
| Cryptic Crossword #3 | |
| The Wandering Earth review: Epic Chinese sci-fi film heralds a new era | |
| Don't miss: Corporate sabotage, Alien restored and our bionic future | |
| YouTube science videos: The channels you should subscribe to | |
| The race to see the start of time in the first light of the universe | |
| Footballers really are working harder and getting injured more often | |
| We don't know what a fifth of our genes do â and wonât find out soon | |
| Japan's Hayabusa 2 may finally kick-start the asteroid mining era | |
| A 30-minute walk may reduce blood pressure by as much as medication | |
| How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid | |
| Smart and fluffy storytelling robot to be trialled in US classrooms | |
| Bees prefer to turn right and it helps them decide where to live | |
| UK is failing to meet almost all of its climate action targets | |
| Nazi sub is being destroyed by bacteria due to Deepwater Horizon spill | |
| Ancient humans thrived in rainforests by hunting monkeys and squirrels | |
| Signal of first known exomoon may actually be from Jupiter-like planet | |
| Grapes in a microwave generate a fiery plasma and now we know why | |
| This optical illusion breaks your brain for 15 milliseconds | |
| PTSD may one day be treated with a common blood pressure drug | |
| Stone Age Europe may have been home to no more than 1500 people | |
| Your phone and shoes are home to completely unknown life forms | |
| AI autotune makes your terrible karaoke singing more tolerable | |
| Fears of OpenAIâs super-trolling artificial intelligence are overblown | |
| A dialect quiz shows we still cling to our regional identities | |
| The children striking over climate change speak to New Scientist | |
| Meet the man who made CRISPR monkey clones to study depression | |
| Russiaâs plan to unplug from the internet shows cyberwar is escalating | |
| Interstellar âOumuamua might be a fractal snowflake not an alien probe | |
| Smugglers are profiting from our failure to define endangered species | |
| A gut bacteria toxin that damages DNA may be involved in bowel cancer | |
| CRISPR could help us protect ourselves from viruses like flu and HIV | |
| Mice given ânight visionâ by injecting nanoparticles into their eyes | |
| Weekend lie-in can't undo the health damage caused by lack of sleep | |
| Purple or brown? This 3D-printed cup changes colour in different light | |
| Self-charging socks could track your exercise and power wearable tech | |
| Watching lots of TV may worsen memory in older people | |
| Earthquake-resistant paint could help brick buildings survive tremors | |
| How neuroscience is exploding the myth of male and female brains | |
| Second-ever pair of semi-identical twins identified in Australia | |
| Malaria drugs for mosquitoes could help prevent the disease in humans | |
| Engineered yeast can brew up the active ingredients in cannabis plants | |
| Your genetic data can be exploited without you ever knowing about it | |
| Space exploration needs minnows as much as superpowers | |
| The story of the most beautiful table in science is worth celebrating | |
| Croc dad goes for a swim with 150 floating babies | |
| Feedback: French fencers feel the force and embrace lightsabers | |
| Periodic table special: The elements crossword | |
| Russian Doll: To escape the multiverse, think like Einstein | |
| Don't miss: Making science happen, a mega-collider and a hypnotic game | |
| Physicist Jim Al-Khalili: Why my debut sci-fi novel is true to science | |
| An AI has created music based on Bach â but will an audience notice? | |
| I'm travelling the world to collect poo for the good of humankind | |
| Here's my favourite element â what's yours? | |
| Opt-out organ donation law: Your questions answered | |
| Inside the Russian factory making the heaviest atoms in the universe | |
| Light pollution has reached fragile habitats and may threaten wildlife | |
| Firefighters tackle moorland blazes fuelled by UK's warm weather | |
| Parkinsonâs drug pumped directly into brain fails to pass key tests | |
| Police drones with lasers could help find a murder victim in Australia | |
| Why is the UK so hot and can we enjoy the winter sunshine guilt-free? | |
| Dark matter secrets could lie buried in ancient rocks on Earth | |
| Elements quiz: How well do you know the periodic table? | |
| Three reasons why the periodic table needs a redesign | |
| The true story of the birth of the periodic table, 150 years ago | |
| Millions of fish have been dying in Australiaâs major rivers | |
| Don't panic about The Uninhabitable Earth, a new book predicting chaos | |
| Earth could warm by 14°C as growing emissions destroy crucial clouds | |
| The village where more elements were discovered than anywhere else | |
| Picture-editing AI lets you easily alter a celebrityâs face | |
| Underwater push-ups help hibernating turtles stay alive | |
| Wolves are spreading in Germany by moving into military land | |
| Virgin Galactic reaches space again - this time with a passenger | |
| Quantum experiment suggests there really are âalternative factsâ | |
| Four stars full of burnt nuclear ash are speeding through the galaxy | |
| How the zebra got its stripes: The problem with 'just-so' stories | |
| Liberals who want a Green New Deal must include nuclear power | |
| Japanâs Hayabusa 2 bags its first sample from the asteroid Ryugu | |
| AIs could debate whether a smart assistant should snitch on you | |
| Dinosaur extinction lines up closely with timing of volcanic eruptions | |
| Why Samsungâs folding smartphone might prove more than just a fad | |
| Worldâs biggest bee rediscovered after decades on âmost wantedâ list | |
| Google says it can't fix a security flaw affecting all computer chips | |
| First private mission to the moon is launched on SpaceX rocket | |
| Ban gas boilers for new UK homes by 2025, says climate report | |
| Squid teeth could help make bioplastics and self-repairing clothes | |
| 18 up-and-running projects that could save us from climate change | |
| Neptuneâs smallest moon keeps getting smashed up and resurrected again | |
| Meat in a dish could be bad for the planet | |
| Gene therapy for common cause of sight loss tested for first time | |
| We don't know the real impact of fake news and other disinformation | |
| Hey Prime Minister, leave them climate protest kids alone | |
| Feedback: Giant glowing squirrels haunt North Carolina backwoods | |
| Cryptic Crossword #3 | |
| The Wandering Earth review: Epic Chinese sci-fi film heralds a new era | |
| Don't miss: Corporate sabotage, Alien restored and our bionic future | |
| YouTube science videos: The channels you should subscribe to | |
| The race to see the start of time in the first light of the universe | |
| Footballers really are working harder and getting injured more often | |
| We don't know what a fifth of our genes do â and wonât find out soon | |
| Japan's Hayabusa 2 may finally kick-start the asteroid mining era | |
| A 30-minute walk may reduce blood pressure by as much as medication | |
| How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid | |
| Smart and fluffy storytelling robot to be trialled in US classrooms | |
| Bees prefer to turn right and it helps them decide where to live | |
| UK is failing to meet almost all of its climate action targets | |
| Nazi sub is being destroyed by bacteria due to Deepwater Horizon spill | |
| Ancient humans thrived in rainforests by hunting monkeys and squirrels | |
| Signal of first known exomoon may actually be from Jupiter-like planet | |
| Grapes in a microwave generate a fiery plasma and now we know why | |
| This optical illusion breaks your brain for 15 milliseconds | |
| PTSD may one day be treated with a common blood pressure drug | |
| Stone Age Europe may have been home to no more than 1500 people | |
| Your phone and shoes are home to completely unknown life forms | |
| AI autotune makes your terrible karaoke singing more tolerable | |
| Fears of OpenAIâs super-trolling artificial intelligence are overblown | |
| A dialect quiz shows we still cling to our regional identities | |
| The children striking over climate change speak to New Scientist | |
| Meet the man who made CRISPR monkey clones to study depression | |
| Russiaâs plan to unplug from the internet shows cyberwar is escalating | |
| Interstellar âOumuamua might be a fractal snowflake not an alien probe | |
| Smugglers are profiting from our failure to define endangered species | |
| A gut bacteria toxin that damages DNA may be involved in bowel cancer | |
| CRISPR could help us protect ourselves from viruses like flu and HIV | |
| NASA's photo archives reveal 60 years of space travel | |
| Can teenagers get vaccinated without their parentsâ permission? | |
| Find tonic water bitter? Part of your brain may be on the small side | |
| Offspring from older sperm are fitter and age more slowly | |
| Robot mimics desert ants to find its way home without GPS | |
| Annual screening for high-risk women in their 30s finds breast cancers | |
| European Mars rover named after DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin | |
| The decline of insects is natureâs alarm bell ringing very loudly | |
| Cheese needs more scrutiny for its welfare and environmental impacts | |
| Feedback: Get the love bug with zoo's cockroach-naming scheme | |
| No plugs needed: How wireless charging could set electric cars free | |
| From the archives: 1989, the warmest year on record | |
| A Place That Exists Only in Moonlight review: Sublime raid on infinity | |
| Don't miss: A chance to grapple with time travel, the joy of maths | |
| The Wall review â A dystopian adventure for the climate change era | |
| There is No Planet B review: How to save Earth by changing humans | |
| How humans evolved to be both shockingly violent and super-cooperative | |
| Evidence of new physics could have been under our noses all along | |
| Breast pumps may introduce harmful bacteria to babiesâ gut microbiome | |
| Unhappy Valentineâs: Why bad memories of your ex are so hard to shake | |
| Smart skin sticker could detect asthma attacks before they happen | |
| The truth about cheese: The terrible costs of our favourite food | |
| Slime-fighting slug can superglue enemy frogs to trees for days | |
| Wild black leopard photographed in Africa for first time in 100 years | |
| Opportunity Mars rover is officially dead after 15-year mission | |
| Cassowariesâ strange headgear helps them stay cool in the heat | |
| Chimp sign language and human communication follow the same rules | |
| The US plans to launch swarms of attack drones from robo-submarines | |
| AI has helped rescue children trafficked for sexual exploitation | |
| DNA test could boost IVF success rates without putting embryo at risk | |
| Green New Deal proposal includes free higher education and fair pay | |
| Sailors spread the ancient fashion for monuments like Stonehenge | |
| Controversial fossils suggest life began to move 2.1 billion years ago | |
| AI can diagnose childhood illnesses better than some doctors | |
| Distant Ultima Thule is a weirdly flat snowman that defies explanation | |
| Huge global extinction risk for insects could be worse than we thought | |
| Tyrannosaurus rex might have accidentally helped fruit grow | |
| Game theory says Brexit negotiations are now all about avoiding blame | |
| Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, the godfather of caffeine | |
| Universal income study finds money for nothing won't make us work less | |
| Beer before wine or wine before beer: the hangover is the same | |
| Don't believe women in science face huge inequality? Here's the proof | |
| Heat-sensitive fabric cools you on hot days and warms you in the cold | |
| A painless pill containing tiny needles may one day replace injections | |
| Crows can solve a tricky puzzle box by planning ahead and using tools | |
| European Mars rover named after DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin | |
| 5 of the worldâs toughest unsolved maths problems | |
| Voting systems that let losing side win may increase overall happiness | |
| WhatsAppâs message limit isnât enough to halt the spread of fake news | |
| Thereâs a weird new type of magnet that shouldn't be able to exist | |
| Recommended gap between smear tests could increase thanks to HPV test | |
| Bees can pass a simple maths test but they might just be cheating | |
| Coastal catastrophe looms larger as sea level forecasts creep upwards | |
| It now costs more to make bitcoin than the cryptocurrency is worth | |
| The instability of past ecosystems shows we must cut emissions now | |
| The truth about generations: Why millennials aren't special snowflakes | |
| Feedback: Paying through the nose for someone's used tissues | |
| Quick crossword #27 | |
| Orchids at Kew Gardens review â celebrating the colour of Colombia | |
| Donât miss: Exploring your own delusions, playing with evolution | |
| The baffling quantum maths solution it took 10 years to understand | |
| Mother sloth bear carrying babies takes on a big male tiger and wins | |
| How Earth's changing ecosystems may have driven human evolution | |
| Cosy up with the Neanderthals, the first humans to make a house a home | |
| Trump wants to end HIV infections by 2030 - here's how to do it | |
| DNA-eating bacteria lurk beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor | |
| Australia has been home to hopping kangaroos for 20 million years | |
| Material made from citrus fruit peel could help clean up oil spills | |
| The ancestor of all creatures on Earth lived a lukewarm lifestyle | |
| Scientists studied a âhaunted houseâ to understand why we love horror | |
| Mouse toes partially regrown after amputation thanks to two proteins | |
| US and Russia face nuclear arms race as both threaten key treaty | |
| Women seem to have younger brains than men the same age | |
| Climate change is making it harder to grow fruit and vegetables | |
| Teenagers who copy each otherâs risk-taking have more friends | |
| People with depression are less likely to have certain gut bacteria | |
| Seismic boom may explain why 2018 Palu earthquake was so devastating | |
| Here's how we could turn an asteroid into a space station | |
| Confused about cancer? Here's what we really do know about its causes | |
| Your gut bacteria may match your blood group â but we donât know why | |
| Mind-controlled robot lets you weld metal without using your hands | |
| Rhinoceros beetles have weird mouth gears that help them chew | |
| The Milky Way may be slowly devouring a hidden neighbouring galaxy | |
| Weâve hacked the Curiosity rover to learn how mountains form on Mars | |
| Self-growing material could make muscles that become stronger with use | |
| Deep-sea mining could wreck the last unexplored ecosystem on Earth | |
| Scuba-diving gear could help clean up carbon dioxide from power plants | |
| Virus lurking inside banana genome has been destroyed with CRISPR | |
| Self-taught robot figures out what it looks like and what it can do | |
| The rare disease challenge meeting | |
| Vaping beats nicotine gum at helping people quit smoking | |
| Black holes eat negative energy and vomit out huge powerful jets | |
| Gum disease and Alzheimer's: Your questions answered | |
| So long, veganuary: Hereâs how to consume consciously year round | |
| People are seeking sperm donors online, but are the risks worth it? | |
| Siberian cave reveals secrets of its mysterious Denisovan inhabitants | |
| Asking the biggest questions is the very essence of science | |
| Alzheimer's bacterial link reiterates the importance of our microbiome | |
| Feedback: Planting a flag in great Pacific plastic patch | |
| Monarch butterflies' beautiful wing scales enable their epic migration | |
| Some snails wear jackets made of algae to protect them from the sun | |
| From the archives: Does dowsing really help you find water? | |
| Chasing the Sun review: Light's power over life charted | |
| Don't miss: Space thrills, wooden guts and the rise of esports | |
| Time Tries All Things review â Take time out to enjoy a dreamlike show | |
| This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic | |
| The truth behind Boston Dynamics' viral robot videos | |
| So far 2019 has set 35 records for heat and 2 for cold | |
| Loot boxes in games like Fortnite are gambling and should be regulated | |
| Genome sequencing could become a routine part of health care in the UK | |
| Lifeâs secret ingredient: A radical theory of what makes things alive | |
| Epigenetic testing firms claim to help you live a healthier lifestyle | |
| Using CRISPR to stop male calves being born may lower animal suffering | |
| Neanderthals may have been sprinters not endurance runners | |
| National parks pick up the pieces after month-long US shutdown | |
| Mind-reading implant can decode what your ears are hearing | |
| We've only just found out exactly how sperm wiggle their tails to swim | |
| Will rising food costs after Brexit really cause thousands of deaths? | |
| Can scanning books really reveal if the US is becoming more tolerant? | |
| Blood test can diagnose fetal genetic disorders early in pregnancy | |
| The emptiness of space has a structure we could use to send messages | |
| Apollo astronauts might have found a piece of Earth on the moon | |
| Battling AI algorithm tested on a quantum computer for first time | |
| Women could use their own uteruses as incubators for IVF embryos | |
| Terrible drivers could teach autonomous cars how to avoid crashes | |
| Carbon dioxide levels will soar past the 410 ppm milestone in 2019 | |
| DeepMind AI thrashes human professionals at video game StarCraft II | |
| Staying slim isn't just about what you eat - it's about your DNA too | |
| People appear to sleep much better when rocked throughout the night | |
| Should we rename some cancers to make them sound less scary? | |
| Gum disease may be the cause of Alzheimer's - here's how to avoid it | |
| Some snails wear jackets made of algae to protect them from the sun | |
| The moonâs violent birth may have given Earth the ingredients of life | |
| We may finally know what causes Alzheimerâs â and how to stop it | |
| Married people have stronger hands than those who are single | |
| Tumour-killing virus could stop a childhood eye cancer and save vision | |
| Powerful whole-species gene editing tool fails first tests in mice | |
| Mathematician's record-beating formula can generate 50 prime numbers | |
| Algorithm that can see around corners could help autonomous cars | |
| A meteorite hit the moon during a total lunar eclipse | |
| Is the idea of species now more trouble than it is worth? | |
| In a world of baffling complexity, a scientific mindset offers help | |
| Feedback: Why Mona Lisa's famous gaze has wandering eyes | |
| Cryptic crossword #2 | |
| To feed 11 billion people, we must share crop seeds as a common good | |
| All you want to know about fatbergs but are too disgusted to ask | |
| Don't miss: Immersive memories, DIY starships and the secret of life | |
| Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is | |
| 8 ways to keep your brain young and stave off mental decline | |
| Prototyping in Tokyo review â Imagining a future full of lifelike tech | |
| Megawave recreated in the lab looks just like Hokusai's Great Wave | |
| What's inside nothing? This laser will rip it up to find out | |
| Exclusive: 600-million-year old blobs are earliest animals ever found | |
| Chinese army AI can track people across different CCTV cameras | |
| Africans may have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar 4000 years ago | |
| Common vaccine may protect children from developing type 1 diabetes | |
| Researcher who created gene-edited babies has been fired | |
| A meteorite hit the moon during Monday's total lunar eclipse | |
| Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory | |
| France and others plan to tackle air pollution in Mediterranean sea | |
| Our galaxyâs supermassive black hole may be spewing matter right at us | |
| Weâve discovered a new type of blood vessel in our bones | |
| The last Neanderthals may have died out much earlier than we thought | |
| Creation of gene-edited babies in China may have been illegal | |
| Probability helps zebrafish stay in schools when faced with predators | |
| Astronauts could use fish and human waste to grow food on long trips | |
| Every bottle of prosecco may erode 4.4 kilograms of Italian hillside | |
| We've dug up tiny animals from beneath a frozen Antarctic lake | |
| 10 year challenge: How science and the world have changed | |
| Australia swelters in record temperatures with warmest ever night | |
| Peacocks might use their showy tails for covert communication | |
| Behind the Sheet review: Eye-opening play follows slavesâ story | |
| Silencing brain cells in mice can make them no longer care about pain | |
| Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth | |
| Saturnâs rings formed in a smash-up less than 100 million years ago | |
| Could a diet save the planet? Only if we pay the real cost of food | |
| AI chemist figures out how to legally clone expensive patented drugs | |
| Global leaders warn of ecological collapse and technological meltdown | |
| We've seen methane rain gleaming on the icy plains of Titan | |
| Why CERN's plans for a â¬20 billion supersized collider are a bad idea | |
| Rational thinking is saving antibiotics â it could work on Brexit too | |
| Songwriter AI emulates the Beatles with a little help from its friends | |
| Mathematicianâs record-beating formula can generate 50 prime numbers | |
| Engineered bacteria could mop up toxic ammonia in the human gut | |
| Robot dog taught itself to get back up when people kick it over | |
| Manatees, whales and turtles are coming back from the brink in the US | |
| Growth of desalination plants is a serious problem for marine life | |
| Type 2 diabetes may not be a lifelong condition | |
| Robot version of our distant ancestor hints at how we learned to walk | |
| Crows can guess the weight of an object by watching it sway in wind | |
| Feedback: Havana spies bugged by shrieking Cuban crickets | |
| From the archives: this is your brain on ecstasy, 30 years ago | |
| Don't miss: Star-studded art, weird tides and smart cities | |
| The Dream review â a podcast tale of how firms manipulate our brains | |
| 'We'll die before we find the answer': Crisis at the heart of physics | |
| Earth in 2050: This is what a world warmed by 1.5°C looks like | |
| Why doing more exercise won't help you burn more calories | |
| Long-eared jerboas have some of the most outsized ears on the planet | |
| Huge spinning ice disc in river provides a carousel for ducks | |
| The war against antibiotic resistance is finally turning in our favour | |
| New Scientist launches internship scheme for aspiring BAME journalists | |
| Cuttlefish embryos can see and recognise predators before they hatch | |
| Thousands of Elite Dangerous players embark on epic space voyage | |
| Long lost cities in the Amazon were once home to millions of people | |
| China's moon garden is dead as the craft is plunged into lunar night | |
| Long penises help hermit crabs avoid being robbed during sex | |
| How hagfish can make enough slime to clog a shark's jaws in seconds | |
| We all love Marie Kondo. So why is tidying up so hard? | |
| Call for more transparency over âadd-onâ fertility treatments | |
| Astronauts travelling to the moon and Mars risk dying from superbugs | |
| First moon plants sprout in China's Chang'e 4 biosphere experiment | |
| No-deal Brexit could lead to drug shortages and delayed operations | |
| Brain-reading headsets trialled on 10,000 schoolchildren in China | |
| Rich people's gardens are better for bees and other pollinators | |
| Wellness gurus' health tips: which to adopt and which to ignore | |
| All I Know is What's on the Internet review: The shocks don't work | |
| Weird star system has double binary stars and wonky planetary nursery | |
| A child's mix of gut bacteria may determine if they get allergies | |
| Dolphins unintentionally poisoning offspring with banned chemicals | |
| A black hole the size of Jupiter is just wandering around the galaxy | |
| Bacteria live in Chinaâs thick smogs and may be making it even worse | |
| Ovarian cancer AI can tell how aggressive a womanâs tumour is | |
| What are the risks of dying from having the yellow fever vaccine? | |
| Why hip surgery wouldnât help extend Andy Murrayâs tennis career | |
| Hackers are stealing computer power to make millions in cryptocurrency | |
| Elon Musk reveals Starship test rocket that looks like 1950s sci-fi | |
| Facebook tasks fact checkers with tackling misinformation in the UK | |
| Video shows the moment China's Chang'e 4 landed on moon's far side | |
| Fine-to-flush label will tell you which wet wipes won't cause fatbergs | |
| Taking ginger pills can make disgusting ideas more palatable | |
| Wasp eggs laid on paralysed insects emit gas that keeps victims fresh | |
| A ghostly trick produces X-ray images with a lower dose of radiation | |
| AI created images of food just by reading the recipes | |
| Bumblebees lose sleep looking after the young by napping half as much | |
| Hubble Telescope camera breaks â and US shutdown might delay repair | |
| Medieval dental plaque suggests women played important role as scribes | |
| Did older Facebook users sharing fake news really help elect Trump? | |
| Millions of years ago a massive whale-eating whale roamed the seas | |
| Astronomers have seen dying stars slowly crystallise and turn solid | |
| Radio wave bursts from space keep hitting Earth and we don't know why | |
| We must give more thought to how algorithms affect us | |
| Here's how we can make work work for all of us | |
| Feedback: Chinese rocket carries powdered tiger to new heights | |
| Crossword #26 | |
| Mohammed VI Museum of Water Civilization review â lessons from Morocco | |
| Don't miss: 500 years of women in medicine and the future of design | |
| Taking an elevator into space could actually happen. Here's how | |
| In the beginning: The full story of life on Earth can finally be told | |
| Artificial sun made with movie magic could create clean hydrogen | |
| China is showing the rest of the world how to build a cashless society | |
| Drones are causing airport chaos - why can't we stop them? | |
| Crows can guess the weight of an object by watching it sway in wind | |
| Exclusive: Cuba failed to report thousands of Zika virus cases in 2017 | |
| A UK police force is dropping tricky cases on advice of an algorithm | |
| Winning at work: How to avoid getting sick in the office | |
| Winning at work: How to manage your boss⦠and get that pay rise | |
| Winning at work: Is flexible working actually a good idea? | |
| Winning at work: How to take the perfect stress-busting break | |
| Winning at work: How to stay focused and avoid distractions | |
| Winning at work: Why hot-desking and open-plan offices are bad for you | |
| Winning at work: Why chilling out is the route to job success | |
| Winning at work: How to create the perfect desk space | |
| Winning at work: How to plan your day (and avoid the afternoon slump) | |
| Flowers hear bees and make sweeter nectar when theyâre buzzing nearby | |
| IBM unveils its first commercial quantum computer | |
| Core set of genes explain why some animals stick to one mate at a time | |
| A hormone released during exercise might protect against Alzheimer's | |
| Ditching Facebook could reduce stress but also make you less happy | |
| Top geneticist calls for global rules for ethical human genome editing | |
| AI can identify rare genetic disorders by the shape of someoneâs face | |
| We could drill water wells in Martian ice to survive on the Red Planet | |
| NHS 10-year-plan aims to expand digital healthcare and genetic testing | |
| Burden of Genius review: The story of the first liver transplants | |
| Self-cleaning spacesuits could help astronauts cope with Martian dust | |
| Hackers have leaked personal details of hundreds of German politicians | |
| Why the UK using less electricity is weirdly bad news for the climate | |
| Japanâs plan to resume commercial whaling could actually help whales | |
| An AI conference warns us why we need to mind our language | |
| Rabbits that don't eat their own faeces are small and weak | |
| Donât panic about childrenâs screen time, try these tips instead | |
| Australians care if politicians tell lies, but people in the US don't | |
| A cosmic collision may be coming for our galaxy sooner than we thought | |
| Fixing a flaw in photosynthesis could massively boost food production | |
| First photo of Chinese Yutu-2 rover exploring far side of the moon | |
| Genome sequencing reveals disease risk in otherwise healthy babies | |
| Bereaved people unconsciously suppress thoughts of lost loved ones | |
| Broken Symmetries review: the art of seeing science afresh | |
| Watch: Very Large Telescope uses giant lasers in hunt for black holes | |
| Fetal sharks may look for food by swimming around inside their mothers | |
| Chinaâs Changâe 4 makes historic first landing on the moon's far side | |
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| Intelâs quest to build the worldâs first true quantum computer | |
| Biggest archaeological dig in Europe will uncover UK's buried history | |
| Baby chicks could be given faecal transplants to ward off infections | |
| Young peopleâs blood is being tested as a treatment for Parkinsonâs | |
| Ultracold atoms can make strange and beautiful quantum fireworks | |
| A skin test after a traumatic event may identify those at risk of PTSD | |
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| Lost 'Darwinia' islands could be origin of species in the Galapagos | |
| Ski exoskeleton boosts leg power and reduces tiredness on the slopes | |
| Cannibalistic African clawed frog eats tadpoles of its relatives | |
| Crayfish experience something like anxiety when they shed their armour | |
| NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object weâve ever visited | |
| Hominin v monkey deathmatch ended in a draw when they fell down a hole | |
| Gel made from birch bark reduces skin scarring from cuts and burns | |
| Women are finally getting equal access to the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| Scuba-diving lizard can stay underwater for at least 16 minutes | |
| The Transformers Summit: solving the problem of urban living | |
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| Starchy food may reduce autoimmune reactions in people with lupus | |
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| Device that works like a lung makes clean fuel from water | |
| There may be a link between erectile dysfunction and type 2 diabetes | |
| Vaguer goals may help you stick to your new exercise routine | |
| Is eating cheese as bad for animals and the planet as eating meat? | |
| The Moon exhibition in Denmark re-enchants the satellite for our times | |
| How the right Christmas lunch can help save Earth from climate change | |
| Dream on: My year pursuing the third state of being | |
| Nature's Nation: Art benefits from getting its hands dirty | |
| Ice-filled Martian crater is a permanent winter wonderland | |
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| The more pets you meet as a baby, the lower your risk of allergies | |
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| DNA from 6000-year-old chewing gum reveals how an ancient woman lived | |
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| Colour me scientific: Two free fun colour-me-in downloads | |
| Exercise may lower high blood pressure as much as medication | |
| The very first dinosaurs probably evolved in South America | |
| A swarming asexual midge is island hopping towards Antarctica | |
| How the stunning Earthrise became the worldâs most famous photograph | |
| Who do we trust when human and machine intelligence disagree | |
| Snake-oil sellers must no longer be able to hide behind charity status | |
| Despite all the grim news, the world is becoming a better place for us | |
| Feedback: Why smoke in the kitchen could leave your goose cooked | |
| Festive crossword | |
| Quiz of the year: Test your knowledge of 2018âs science stories | |
| Toys are us: How childhood objects may have shaped human history | |
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| The mysterious demise of Europe's massive cave bears | |
| Death rays: How the dream of an ultimate weapon became a dark farce | |
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| The most eye-catching science and tech news stories of 2018 | |
| 2019 Preview: Experimental vaccine could let coeliacs eat gluten | |
| 2019 Preview: Gravitational waves will be discovered every few weeks | |
| 2019 Preview: We will see the first ever picture of a black hole | |
| 2019 Preview: AI to best humans at one of world's most complex games | |
| 2019 Preview: Teeth will reveal our speciesâ deep evolutionary past | |
| 2019 Preview: Electric cars of all shapes and sizes will hit the road | |
| 2019 Preview: People will receive transfusions of artificial blood | |
| 2019 Preview: DNA testing will lead to a decline in genetic disorders | |
| 2019 Preview: 30 cold cases to be solved using DNA ancestry websites | |
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| Palaeontologists behaving badly, and other bitter feuds in science | |
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| Six spectacular ice phenomena to look out for this winter | |
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| How busting some moves on the dance floor is good for your brain | |
| Stem cells implanted into the brain stop epilepsy seizures in rats | |
| A new dwarf planet called Farout is the most distant weâve ever seen | |
| Our primate ancestors may have originated in Europe or North America | |
| Stunning fossils show pterosaurs had primitive feathers like dinosaurs | |
| The secret site in England where beavers control the landscape | |
| Coal power emissions in the US are even higher than we thought | |
| Breathing in moon dust could release toxins in astronauts' lungs | |
| Incredible shrinking 3D printer can make really tiny objects | |
| Can a Green New Deal boost the US economy and save the planet? | |
| Virgin Galactic claims its first successful flight to edge of space | |
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| Some people have slightly squashed heads thanks to Neanderthal DNA | |
| We've been using CRISPR for years - now we know how it really works | |
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| Feedback: The President of Nigeria is (almost certainly) not a clone | |
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| Vibrating crystal made of 10 billion atoms smashes quantum record | |
| Drone owners in India must get government approval before every flight | |
| First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world | |
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| The Great Barrier Reef is fighting back by losing weak species | |
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| Brain scans reveal why your brain forgets details | |
| Interstellar asteroid âOumuamua slipped by NASA space telescope unseen | |
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| Why Australiaâs new encryption laws may actually help criminals | |
| DeepMindâs Go playing software can now beat you at two more games | |
| Exclusive: Controversial skeleton may be a new species of early human | |
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| Tiny sun sensor warns you when your skin is about to burn | |
| Bacteria could protect old paintings from pigment-eating microbes | |
| Fossil blubber shows ichthyosaurs were warm blooded reptiles | |
| Global carbon emissions rose 3 per cent this year (which is bad) | |
| Genetic disorders should be the focus of CRISPR gene editing trials | |
| Let's cheer workers at Google who are holding their bosses to account | |
| Baboons live for months after getting genetically modified pig hearts | |
| There won't be many more gene-edited babies just yet - here's why | |
| Why was HIV chosen as the first target for embryo gene editing? | |
| The gene editing revelation that shocked the world | |
| Gene editing is so easy to do that we couldnât stop it if we wanted to | |
| World leaders now have a rare opportunity to actually save the world | |
| How to transform Earth's cities | |
| A sea change for shipping efficiency | |
| We donât need stars to navigate space - black holes work way better | |
| Feedback: How can we make the men in green more, er, green? | |
| Crossword #25 | |
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| 3000-year-old woman's mummy found in tomb from the time of Tutankhamun | |
| Gene-editing experiment widely criticised for safety and ethics issues | |
| Three Identical Strangers review: a good film about bad science | |
| UK DNA project hits major milestone with 100,000 genomes sequenced | |
| Tonnes of food are thrown away daily â could meal kits be the answer? | |
| First baby born thanks to womb transplant from deceased donor | |
| New medical implants need a higher approval bar than toothbrushes | |
| Phone app can diagnose anaemia from photos of fingernails | |
| Seven steps to save the planet: How to take on climate change and win | |
| Your whole office could be a computer thanks to sculpted Wi-Fi waves | |
| LIGO found four more pairs of black holes, including the biggest yet | |
| We have all we need to beat the HIV epidemic â except political will | |
| Revealed: the first ever picture of the sun's north pole | |
| Astronauts launch in Soyuz rocket for first time since botched takeoff | |
| Is visiting a robot brothel ok? Most people say yes, if you are single | |
| NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx set to start mission at asteroid Bennu | |
| Almost everything we know about social media and health could be wrong | |
| Space art could be so much more than a shiny satellite in the sky | |
| Millions of passport and credit card details exposed in Marriott hack | |
| Stone Age people may have ritually cut off their own fingers | |
| Green car tyres can generate energy while monitoring road conditions | |
| Epic history of light reveals the universe peaked 10 billion years ago | |
| Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau | |
| Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa | |
| Some spiders produce milk â and itâs more nutritious than cowâs milk | |
| Prehistoric whales used to simply suck their food out of the ocean | |
| âScientists are now very sure that the babies really were gene-editedâ | |
| Gene therapy eases Parkinsonâs symptoms by rewiring parts of the brain | |
| CRISPR babies: more details on the experiment that shocked the world | |
| Miniature placentas grown in lab give positive pregnancy test result | |
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| Particles crossing to our world could open portal to dark-matter realm | |
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| Making AI research classified will harm US science | |
| Green Christmas: How to have an ethical and guilt-free festive season | |
| Feedback: Spirit guides have spoken, and they say more juice | |
| 14 great science and tech books to give as presents this Christmas | |
| Unearthed! The missing Native American city on the Great Plains | |
| Darkfield's Flight: an immersive experience that leaves you half dead | |
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| The truth about supplements: do they work and should you take them? | |
| EU set to resist air industry attempts to limit climate change action | |
| CRISPR scientist says another woman is pregnant with an edited embryo | |
| Seagrass loss off the coast of Kenya is fuelling climate change | |
| Some honeybees have four parents or no mother â and we donât know why | |
| The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature | |
| The best pollution masks for cyclists block half of bad particles | |
| Rats can make friends with robot rats and will rescue them when stuck | |
| Spacecraft to study marsquakes lands on Mars after 7 minutes of terror | |
| Some rare fathers pass on an extra kind of DNA to their children | |
| Misuse of pregabalin painkiller has risen 900 per cent in Australia | |
| Worldâs first gene-edited babies announced by a scientist in China | |
| Exclusive: UK police wants AI to stop violent crime before it happens | |
| Breakdown of brain's autopilot mode may explain Parkinson's disease | |
| Bacterial World review â celebrating how bacteria made life on Earth | |
| Graphene generators could let you recharge a phone with your breath | |
| Smart mini-backpacks for chickens can monitor their welfare on farms | |
| MS symptoms improved by treatment that attacks glandular fever virus | |
| Sick ants stay clear of their co-workers to stop disease spreading | |
| Ancient hippo-like reptile was a giant to rival the dinosaurs | |
| Shallow Mexican seabed traps tsunamis so they strike land repeatedly | |
| Climate crisis as greenhouse gas levels reach record highs | |
| Giant grooves on Marsâs moon Phobos may be caused by rolling boulders | |
| We urgently need to switch to hybrid heating for homes, says UK report | |
| Hydrogen will never be a full solution to our green energy problems | |
| Diabetes can be diagnosed by simply shining a light on your skin | |
| Are disposable nappies really so terrible for the environment? | |
| Electric zero-emissions plane raises hopes for eco-friendly air travel | |
| California's dry summer set the stage for the Camp Fire | |
| Thousands evacuated as Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts again | |
| To truly blossom, science requires some unorthodox thinkers | |
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| Cryptic Crossword #1 | |
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| 37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body | |
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| Star smash-up is yet more evidence Einstein got it right about gravity | |
| Car assembly is heavy work â this exoskeleton can boost your strength | |
| NASA has chosen the landing site for its life-hunting 2020 Mars rover | |
| Silencing a gene may prevent deadly pre-eclampsia in pregnancy | |
| Complex stone tools in China may re-write our species' ancient history | |
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| A computer game's edible controller lets you play it with your gut | |
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| Catching up on sleep at weekends may aggravate period pain | |
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| Environmentalists must embrace nuclear power to stem climate change | |
| A new DNA sequencing service wants to reward you for sharing your data | |
| Prefer tea or coffee? It may be down to your genes for bitter tastes | |
| Life may have begun with cells made wholly from simple proteins | |
| New techniques may soon make designer babies a reality â are we ready? | |
| Antibiotic resistance genes are showing up in Antarctic penguins | |
| Exclusive: A new test can predict IVF embryos' risk of having a low IQ | |
| Huge 30-kilometre wide meteorite crater found under Greenland glacier | |
| Googleâs takeover of health app appears to renege on DeepMind promises | |
| Urbanisation made flooding from Hurricane Harvey 21 times as likely | |
| Super-Earth spotted hiding in plain sight around neighbouring star | |
| An AI apocalypse isn't the problem â technology-driven inequality is | |
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| Mixed results for science in the US midterm elections | |
| Inside the hunt for the universe's missing ingredient â dark matter | |
| The race to green domestic heating and prevent climate catastrophe | |
| Feedback: Is 'Oumuamua an alien solar sail or interstellar mozzarella? | |
| How to solve the great global protein shortage that never was? | |
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| China may have developed a quantum radar that can spot stealth planes | |
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| An extinct monkey evolved to live like a sloth in the Caribbean | |
| Earliest known animal might have inflated its body like a balloon | |
| Plutoâs weird ridges may be glacial landforms unlike any on Earth | |
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| Why lichen may be the perfect factories for making rocket fuel on Mars | |
| Dynasties review: Attenboroughâs latest special focuses on real drama | |
| They Shall Not Grow Old review: Restored footage brings war to life | |
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| Iran's imprisoned conservationists need scientists to speak up | |
| Two new rogue planets that do not orbit stars have been discovered | |
| Indigenous peoples in the Amazon and Australia share some ancestry | |
| The cause of half of all developmental disorders is a genetic mystery | |
| NASA is giving advice to Yuri Milner's private mission to Enceladus | |
| Double the risk of death! The problem with headline health statistics | |
| Ancient tribes of Scotland learned to write after contact with Romans | |
| Blood test can spot DNA from eight different types of cancer | |
| World's first figurative art is of an unknown animal in Borneo | |
| Brazilâs next president threatens the people and forests of the Amazon | |
| How worrying is it that more and more teens are using e-cigarettes? | |
| Fines for misuse of data in the UK ahead of EU referendum | |
| If Finland struggles to recycle, what hope the rest of the world? | |
| Come and join as a trainee subeditor | |
| Swelling the number of women in physics will require a broad alliance | |
| Feedback: Beware water that's watered down, says nutritionist | |
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| review â Darwin's Beagle days make a gripping play | |
| Unsavory Truth review â exposing the food industry's abuse of science | |
| The day a Siberian tiger nearly killed me | |
| Thousands of flamingos dine on colourful bacteria in this rainbow lake | |
| Destroying a type of cloud may help stabilise climate change | |
| Finland's long, hard road to creating a circular economy | |
| The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on | |
| Women in physics: Why there's a problem and how we can solve it | |
| The first detailed look at how Elon Musk's space internet could work | |
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| More than 60 prescription drugs are getting into river foodchains | |
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| Gene therapy injection into spinal cord halts ALS in adult mice | |
| Why Dorothy Hodgkin should be pictured on the UKâs new £50 note | |
| Your gut is full of neurons and they are replaced every 2 weeks | |
| Your old, unwanted clothes can be turned into building materials | |
| LIGO to publish new paper in wake of New Scientist investigation | |
| AI's weirdest creations include beef truffles and diving board hats | |
| Pacific island to ban some sun creams in a bid to save its coral reefs | |
| Lengthy warm spells and heavy rainfall are on the rise in the UK | |
| At London's Barbican Hall, sound and vision ushered in the End Times | |
| US army tool will automatically inject an antidote during a gas attack | |
| Iconic museum of science, art and design is turning itself inside out | |
| Why air travel makes deadly disease pandemics less likely | |
| Rock, paper, scissors with 100 people could last a quadrillion rounds | |
| Health risks increase for babies born to fathers aged 45 or over | |
| A zap from a laser could make bigger quantum computers possible | |
| Almost everything we know about social media and health could be wrong | |
| Space art could be so much more than a shiny satellite in the sky | |
| Millions of passport and credit card details exposed in Marriott hack | |
| Stone Age people may have ritually cut off their own fingers | |
| Green car tyres can generate energy while monitoring road conditions | |
| Epic history of light reveals the universe peaked 10 billion years ago | |
| Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau | |
| Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa | |
| Some spiders produce milk â and itâs more nutritious than cowâs milk | |
| Prehistoric whales used to simply suck their food out of the ocean | |
| âScientists are now very sure that the babies really were gene-editedâ | |
| Gene therapy eases Parkinsonâs symptoms by rewiring parts of the brain | |
| CRISPR babies: more details on the experiment that shocked the world | |
| Miniature placentas grown in lab give positive pregnancy test result | |
| We're hoping for a green Christmas this year | |
| Gene-editing humans has huge potential, but caution is needed | |
| New Scientist 60 years ago: Exploding bombs to fix the climate | |
| Don't miss: delusions, a prototype construction robot and a VR game | |
| review â the buzz of exploring honeybees' secrets | |
| The best fiction and sci-fi of 2018 to wrap or read this Xmas | |
| Particles crossing to our world could open portal to dark-matter realm | |
| Giant baby birds sitting on their potty-like nests make a fine sight | |
| Putting a price on CO2 is a smokescreen that hides its human cost | |
| Making AI research classified will harm US science | |
| Green Christmas: How to have an ethical and guilt-free festive season | |
| Feedback: Spirit guides have spoken, and they say more juice | |
| 14 great science and tech books to give as presents this Christmas | |
| Unearthed! The missing Native American city on the Great Plains | |
| Darkfield's Flight: an immersive experience that leaves you half dead | |
| Roadkill deaths halved on Australian road thanks to a fence of sound | |
| The truth about supplements: do they work and should you take them? | |
| EU set to resist air industry attempts to limit climate change action | |
| CRISPR scientist says another woman is pregnant with an edited embryo | |
| Seagrass loss off the coast of Kenya is fuelling climate change | |
| Some honeybees have four parents or no mother â and we donât know why | |
| The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature | |
| The best pollution masks for cyclists block half of bad particles | |
| Rats can make friends with robot rats and will rescue them when stuck | |
| Spacecraft to study marsquakes lands on Mars after 7 minutes of terror | |
| Some rare fathers pass on an extra kind of DNA to their children | |
| Misuse of pregabalin painkiller has risen 900 per cent in Australia | |
| Worldâs first gene-edited babies announced by a scientist in China | |
| Exclusive: UK police wants AI to stop violent crime before it happens | |
| Breakdown of brain's autopilot mode may explain Parkinson's disease | |
| Bacterial World review â celebrating how bacteria made life on Earth | |
| Graphene generators could let you recharge a phone with your breath | |
| Smart mini-backpacks for chickens can monitor their welfare on farms | |
| MS symptoms improved by treatment that attacks glandular fever virus | |
| Sick ants stay clear of their co-workers to stop disease spreading | |
| Ancient hippo-like reptile was a giant to rival the dinosaurs | |
| Shallow Mexican seabed traps tsunamis so they strike land repeatedly | |
| Climate crisis as greenhouse gas levels reach record highs | |
| AI wades into the debate on age of ancient Chinese cave murals | |
| Cutting aerosol pollution may lessen extreme weather even with warming | |
| Parkinsonâs disease may start in the appendix and travel to the brain | |
| Spinal implants are getting better at reversing paralysis | |
| Neanderthals may have breastfed their young for more than two years | |
| Birds have their dinosaur ancestors to thank for their colourful eggs | |
| Quakes prompt UK fracking operations to pause several times | |
| Wild populations of animals have crashed by 60 per cent | |
| AI lie detection at border control should proceed with caution | |
| The LIGO collaboration must respond to gravitational wave criticism | |
| Feedback: China space company announces plan for artificial moon | |
| Venezuelaâs cryptocurrency is about much more than its economic crisis | |
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| Half-hearted cannabis legalisation move leaves patients in limbo | |
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| Mysterious cosmic radio signal spotted unusually close to Earth | |
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| Economics Nobel prize given for putting a price tag on climate change | |
| Hubble Space Telescope taken out of action by faulty gyroscopes | |
| There's a glitch at the edge of the universe that could remake physics | |
| We've spotted the shock wave from an invisible explosion in space | |
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| Hundreds of physicists condemn sexist talk at CERN on women in physics | |
| IVF success boosted by drug that helps embryos implant in the womb | |
| How should we control the power to genetically eliminate a species? | |
| What you need to know about the big UN climate report out this week | |
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| Cassini revealed three big surprises before diving into Saturn | |
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| Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded for harnessing evolution to help humans | |
| Third lander arrives on asteroid Ryugu with only 16 hours to live | |
| Gaia spacecraft prepares to weather an incoming meteoroid storm | |
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| Distant dwarf planet called 'The Goblin' could point to Planet X | |
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| Fluke experiment hints deep brain stimulation really treats depression | |
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| Physicist sparks gender row after claiming women are worse at physics | |
| Massive Facebook data breach left 50 million accounts exposed | |
| Cancer immune therapy recognised with Nobel Prize for medicine | |
| Thought police: Spotting cyber criminals before they break the law | |
| Over 800 people have died after a massive tsunami hit Indonesia | |
| US review of fetal research signals the return of the abortion wars | |
| China's Tiangong-2 space station is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere | |
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| Pollution threatens to wipe out half of all orca communities | |
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| Japanese space hoppers capture the sun moving across an asteroid sky | |
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| Podcast: Meet Rachel Fort | |
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| The oil change revolution | |
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| The 7 non-human mammals where females rule the roost | |
| New Scientist Live: Our report from the world's greatest science show | |
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| Devastation continues more than a week after Hurricane Florence | |
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| Art: The Science Gallery opens in London | |
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| Nina Wright joins New Scientist as Chief Executive | |
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| Three people with paralysis can walk again with nerve-boosting implant | |
| Riemann hypothesis likely remains unsolved despite claimed proof | |
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| Infinity war: The ongoing battle over the world's hardest maths proof | |
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| NASAâs new exoplanet-hunter has spotted its first alien worlds | |
| A pair of tiny hopping rovers are about to land on an asteroid | |
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| Watch now: Tim Peake at New Scientist Live | |
| Field notes: Polluted polar bears await the great Arctic land grab | |
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| Dramatic pictures of the storm damage from Florence and Mangkhut | |
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| People are more clued up about science than you might think | |
| Feedback: Elf and safety officer tackles Germany's troll roads | |
| Crossword #23 | |
| Milk alternatives: Which are good for both you and the planet? | |
| Just one tiny piece of plastic may be enough to kill a baby turtle | |
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| Lunar renaissance: start celebrating Earth's first moon landing | |
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| The mystery of the dinosaur with crocodile jaws, bear claws and a sail | |
| Smart pills can transmit data to your doctors, but what about privacy? | |
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| 10 mysteries of the universe: Why does anything exist at all? | |
| 10 mysteries of the universe: Is there life out there? | |
| 10 mysteries of the universe: What makes supermassive black holes? | |
| 10 mysteries of the universe: Is our solar system normal? | |
| 10 mysteries of the universe: What is dark matter? | |
| 10 mysteries of the universe: What makes monster stars? | |
| 10 mysteries of the universe: Is Earth in a special place? | |
| 10 mysteries of the universe: How will it all end? | |
| 10 mysteries of the universe: What came before the big bang? | |
| 10 mysteries of the universe: How did it all begin? | |
| A mind-reading headset lets people fly drones using their thoughts | |
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| Mosquitoes are eating plastic and spreading it to new food chains | |
| Quantum mechanics may contradict itself when applied to big objects | |
| The whiff of sandalwood makes the human head sprout more hair | |
| SpaceXâs billionaire moon trip is all about building a luxury brand | |
| Artificial genes show life does not have to be based on DNA | |
| A third of us would go one-way to Mars â but it may shrink your brain | |
| Why wouldnât you want to live forever? New Scientist editors debate | |
| Only one in five UK adults would choose to live forever if they could | |
| Revealed: What the UK public really thinks about the future of science | |
| Honeybee swarms act like superorganisms to stay together in high winds | |
| Skin genetically engineered to destroy cocaine could prevent addiction | |
| Recreating star fusion on Earth could solve our energy crisis | |
| Hydrogen can form 'ghost bonds' with something that isn't even there | |
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| Why a rake on the moon messed up our theories of life on Earth | |
| New Scientist Live: space is full of junk and we must clean up our act | |
| Heart-tugging tales of crowdfunded cancer 'cures' fuel quack medicine | |
| Weâve found a pulsar spinning so slowly that it shouldnât exist | |
| AI tries bad improv comedy to trick people into thinking it is human | |
| Acid is dribbling out of the melting permafrost in the Arctic | |
| Half the planet should be set aside for wildlife â to save ourselves | |
| Watch this robotic fruit fly swoop, dive and perform impressive flips | |
| New Apple Watch heart monitor sounds great â here's why it may not be | |
| Bandages laser-bonded to your skin may fix wounds better than stitches | |
| BPA-free plastics seem to disrupt sperm and egg development in mice | |
| New Scientist Live: what will gravitational waves tell us next? | |
| Just one tiny piece of plastic may be enough to kill a baby turtle | |
| Birds can learn to understand the meanings of other species' calls | |
| Gluten may be making you tired and depressed according to a new study | |
| Video: Meet the low carbon pioneers -- Kathrina Mannion | |
| Podcast: Meet Kathrina Mannion | |
| An antioxidant might lead to new therapies for bone arthritis | |
| We may have reached Madagascar 6000 years earlier than once thought | |
| New breast cancer gene tests will mean hard choices for many women | |
| Is the rise of populism over or only just beginning? | |
| Governor of California orders state to go carbon neutral by 2045 | |
| Next round of Paris climate talks hits sticking points | |
| Alcohol advisers threaten to quit health body due to industry links | |
| The Higgs hunter has just turned 10. Why is nobody celebrating? | |
| A startling sexual side-effect to yawning â and other past stories | |
| Inside the stargazer's paradise where all outside lights are banned | |
| Incognito mode: the battle for privacy in a world of face recognition | |
| Feedback: Racing pigeons get ahead - by bullet train | |
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| Why our sense of disgust both makes and undermines our legal systems | |
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| Artificial intelligence is about to revolutionise warfare. Be afraid | |
| Iran's Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia | |
| Why creating a chemical brain will be how we understand consciousness | |
| Global warming is amplifying Hurricane Florenceâs destructive power | |
| It's an outrage that Turkey is ditching Darwin from science textbooks | |
| New Scientist Live: the death of the universe may not be inevitable | |
| Can a low-carb diet really help shed weight and reverse diabetes? | |
| Is your microbiome making you sick? | |
| The surprising foods that are messing with your gut | |
| Worldâs first drawing is a red crayon doodle made 73,000 years ago | |
| Towards a low carbon future | |
| Peaceful basking sharks can leap just as powerfully as great whites | |
| Ambitious plan for seven London-sized forests to meet UK climate goals | |
| You should soothe babies who wake at night â it speeds sleep training | |
| After the cat: Celebrating Schrödingerâs 75-year influence on biology | |
| Watch a blast of sound turn floating drops into bubbles | |
| The Martians have landed in London, and they're hogging the camera | |
| New Scientist Live: explore the soundscape of the deep sea | |
| Hurricane Florence: Mass evacuation of 1.5 million residents ordered | |
| Volcanic eruption may have helped drive real-life hobbits extinct | |
| Genetic studies intend to help people with autism, not wipe them out | |
| Antimatter seen in two places at once thanks to quantum experiment | |
| France going veggie would save 1m litres of water per person each year | |
| We've cracked the brain's emotion code and it may help depression | |
| New Scientist Live: why hasnât the LHC found anything new? | |
| A giant pool noodle to clean up ocean plastic launches today | |
| New Scientist Live: what itâs like to be an explorer in the modern age | |
| Google's AI hate speech detector is easily fooled by a few typos | |
| Japan wants people to virtually embody avatars orbiting in space | |
| Novichok attack: Did Russian agents have enough poison to kill 4000? | |
| Crowds of people are laughing at science (but in a good way) | |
| Glass box of atomic vapour could work as a James-Bond-style spy radio | |
| Filling Sahara with solar and wind farms would double local rainfall | |
| Moose and sheep pass down their migration routes through culture | |
| Watch this bat-inspired robot use sound to navigate and spot plants | |
| Win the chance to meet sporting legends at New Scientist Live | |
| Probiotics are mostly useless and can actually hurt you | |
| Global warming is melting glaciers and that means more tsunamis | |
| Humans, not bots, spread Twitter conspiracies after Parkland shooting | |
| Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3m Breakthrough prize for pulsars discovery | |
| Redditâs megapixel masterpiece illustrates how culture evolves | |
| A huge water-powered factory helped make food for Roman sailors | |
| Jupiter has a Great Blue Spot too, thanks to its weird magnetic field | |
| âThe pain was instantâ: The devastating impact of vaginal mesh surgery | |
| Hundreds of ancient mummified penguins found in Antarctic graveyard | |
| 'Invisible' Ebola transmission in the DRC may make it a bigger threat | |
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| Feedback: US politician claims she was abducted by aliens | |
| Crossword #22 | |
| An extreme close-up with a beautiful furry moth | |
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| CERN's mini particle accelerator could finally smash apart electrons | |
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| Exclusive: Chinese sci-fi genius Cixin Liu on humanity's deadly future | |
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| The 'me' illusion: How your brain conjures up your sense of self | |
| Did someone deliberately sabotage the International Space Station? | |
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| We've discovered a shark that eats plants as a side dish to shellfish | |
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| Can an online test really tell if you have a healthy heart? | |
| The American Dream is slipping away faster than we thought | |
| 'Invisible' Ebola transmission in the DRC may make it a bigger threat | |
| Elk gamble with their lives in spring to win a mate in autumn | |
| The US Army is making a laser-powered drone that can fly indefinitely | |
| Mystery cold spot on Jupiter's moon Europa could be 'almost anything' | |
| Fire destroys priceless artefacts at Brazil's National Museum | |
| Struggling to multitask? Your brain might have hit full capacity | |
| Watch a printer that uses sound waves and inks made from honey | |
| NASA has just 45 days to save Opportunity rover after huge Mars storm | |
| Cancer-tracking AI could save lives by predicting how tumours evolve | |
| Warming seas kill coral - but some are beginning to resist the heat | |
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| CERN's mini particle accelerator could finally smash apart electrons | |
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| Here's why the ban on vaping on trains and buses should stay for now | |
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| It's too soon to tell if robots help autistic children's social skills | |
| Fireflies donât just glow for sex â they do it to warn away bats too | |
| Prehistoric girl had parents belonging to different human species | |
| Flint water crisis: How AI is finding thousands of hazardous pipes | |
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| Record measles outbreak in Europe reaches 41,000 cases | |
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| Genoan bridge collapse shows the importance of structural redundancy | |
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| Including population control in climate policy risks human tragedy | |
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| New Scientist Live: the sophisticated home life of Neanderthals | |
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| We've identified the brain cells that let you control urination | |
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| NASAâs Parker Solar Probe is on its way to the sun, via Venus | |
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| Preserved ocean creatures make landfall in London | |
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| New Scientist Live: sneak preview of this yearâs mission to Mercury | |
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| Pulses of laser light could find murder victims in unmarked graves | |
| Why allergies arenât nuts at all | |
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| Master mimic insect is indistinguishable from a leaf on forest floor | |
| Police can now track killers using relatives' DNA â but should they? | |
| Feedback: What would happen if Earth was made of blueberries? | |
| Crossword #21 | |
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| The underwater drones that hunt for oil spills beneath the waves | |
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| Allergy explosion: What causes allergies and how to avoid them | |
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| Watch now: Exploring the Future webinar | |
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| Global warming may become unstoppable even if we stick to Paris target | |
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| The truth about the suspected link between social media and self-harm | |
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| : I saw Captain America's huge thighs under me | |
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| Dark matter might be harder to detect because itâs not from our galaxy | |
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| Newly-discovered type of lung cell has central role in cystic fibrosis | |
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| Donald Trump may finally appoint a science adviser after 18 month wait | |
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| One drink a day might be enough to stop dementia by flushing the brain | |
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| New Scientist Live: are we about to uncover the dark universe? | |
| Extreme heat: Why its origins could lie deep in the Atlantic | |
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| NASA's plans to end the ISS could put its Mars missions in danger | |
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| Pulses of laser light could find murder victims in unmarked graves | |
| Women have more miscarriages than live births over their lifetime | |
| Terraforming Mars might be impossible due to a lack of carbon dioxide | |
| Where does space begin? Here's why it's closer than you think | |
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| New Scientist Live: will we ever understand the true nature of time? | |
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| A new shape called the scutoid has been discovered in our cells | |
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| Self-healing graphene could make robots that fix themselves with water | |
| Starlight stretched by Milky Way's black hole proves Einstein right | |
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| Massive lake of water found beneath Marsâ south pole could host life | |
| Is North Korea really scrapping its nuclear weapons programme? | |
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| Intensive blood pressure treatment may lower dementia risk | |
| Face recognition screens egg donors so your child will look like you | |
| It's official: gene-edited products will be classed as GMOs in the EU | |
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| We might only see time because we canât think in quantum physics | |
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| Thousands dead or homeless after hydroelectric dam collapses in Laos | |
| Warming Arctic could be behind heatwave sweeping northern hemisphere | |
| At least 49 people killed in Greece's deadliest wildfires in a decade | |
| Japanese computers may go haywire when the emperor abdicates | |
| There are more suicides in US and Mexico when the temperature rises | |
| We could find life on Europa by just scratching its surface | |
| Ocean acidification could leave fish unable to smell their prey | |
| Deadly heatwave hits Japan and Korea as temperatures soar past 40°C | |
| The sun shrinks and grows again by 2 kilometres every 11 years | |
| Movie studio AI predicts who will like a film based on its trailer | |
| Just a few drinks during pregnancy might be enough to lower future IQ | |
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| If weâre in the Meghalayan, whatever happened to the Anthropocene? | |
| Spectacular new photos of Titan show Saturn's moon like never before | |
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| UK announces plans for two spaceports that could see launches by 2021 | |
| Why we shouldn't blame the world's woes on the stupidity of others | |
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| Feedback: Gulls just wanna have fun | |
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| Can countries divesting from fossil fuels halt climate change? | |
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| How an AI expertâs cancer diagnosis may lead to a treatment revolution | |
| Why weird star systems are where we'll find alien life | |
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| Fossil-free Dutch vehicles line up for a cool future | |
| No, mobile phones still wonât give you brain cancer | |
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| We've started to uncover the true purpose of dreams | |
| Google hit with â¬4.3 billion fine from EU for abusing market dominance | |
| Lazy thinking â not bias â is the real reason we believe fake news | |
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| The truth about intelligence: Are bigheads smarter than pea brains? | |
| The truth about intelligence: How useful is a high IQ? | |
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| The truth about intelligence: What makes someone smarter than others? | |
| The truth about intelligence: Do IQ tests really work? | |
| The truth about intelligence: Can I become cleverer? | |
| The truth about intelligence: What is it really? | |
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| Tiny planets full of diamonds have been created in the lab | |
| Why chivalry remains attractive to some women despite being sexist | |
| Blood test detects melanoma skin cancer while itâs easily treatable | |
| Weâve found 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter â and one is probably doomed | |
| Drones are checking up on insurance claims to look for fraudsters | |
| Trump's meeting with Putin may have had a surprise nuclear twist | |
| Weird 'wind drought' means Britain's turbines are at a standstill | |
| Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming | |
| UK announces plans for two spaceports that could see launches by 2021 | |
| CRISPR gene editing is not quite as precise and as safe as thought | |
| Wireless implant lights up inside the body to kill cancer | |
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| Honeybees gang up to roast invading hornets alive â at a terrible cost | |
| DeepMind AI takes IQ tests to probe its ability for abstract thought | |
| Tiny sensors in your phone could be made from recycled wood | |
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| Artificial skin grown from spider silk could help heal wounds | |
| Can countries divesting from fossil fuels halt climate change? | |
| Dopamine levels in our brains affect the risks weâre happy to take | |
| Think your surfing is secret in private browsing mode? Think again | |
| How worried should you be about a new 'superbug' STI? | |
| Violent black holes spit neutrinos at Earth and we finally caught one | |
| England's marshes may start to retreat and disappear in just 20 years | |
| High blood pressure in older people linked to Alzheimerâs disease | |
| We now know why horses snort - because they're happy | |
| Ear implant lets deaf gerbils sense sound from light signals | |
| US said to have resisted breastfeeding resolution at WHO | |
| Record temperatures mean ancient forts become visible in fields | |
| Rescue efforts underway after more than 130 die in Japan floods | |
| A no-deal Brexit could lead to a catastrophe for science in the UK | |
| Crossword #20 | |
| The amazing assortment of stuff at the bottom of one Amsterdam canal | |
| Is it too late to stop fake-news bots from taking over the world? | |
| Feedback: Stork racks up air time with a stolen SIM card | |
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| What happens when you seal eight people in a giant bubble? | |
| Thought plastic was bad enough? Here's another reason to worry | |
| Autism can bring extra abilities and now we're finding out why | |
| Elon Muskâs submarine plan to rescue Thai cave boys deserves respect | |
| Facebook's AI tourist learns to navigate New York by asking directions | |
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| How our bodies are rapidly colonised by bacteria when we're born | |
| Is this our first clue to a world beyond quantum theory? | |
| Facebook faces £500,000 fine from Cambridge Analytica scandal | |
| Tornadoes on the sun could blast hot plasma towards Earth | |
| Ancient Romans may have killed off whale species in the Mediterranean | |
| My weekend in the desert trying to experience dream telepathy | |
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| Delivery drones can learn to see and dodge obstacles in-flight | |
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| Apple peel drug makes mice live longer by targeting a cause of ageing | |
| Quantum dots in brain could treat Parkinsonâs and Alzheimerâs diseases | |
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| Six pollution policies gutted by Scott Pruitt - and what happens next | |
| How your personality predicts your attitudes towards Brexit | |
| More than 100 dead as floods and landslides devastate south-west Japan | |
| Landmine muncher automatically sifts soil and explodes them | |
| A swarm of 3D printed cyclists reveals the best position in the pack | |
| Chris Packham: 'Let's stop sleepwalking towards mass extinction' | |
| Wearing a tie may be restricting blood flow to your brain | |
| Solar-powered nanotech could automatically defrost your car | |
| Record heatwaves are here to stay - welcome to our warming world | |
| Tiny mitochondria may be controlling genes in heart of our cells | |
| Spiders can use electricity in the air to balloon for kilometres | |
| Young kids are surprisingly bad at using memory to plan ahead | |
| Can trapped Thai boys be rescued by learning to scuba dive? | |
| Eight cups of coffee a day make you live longer? Don't bet on it | |
| Strange spaghetti crystals shrink when hot and wet | |
| Novichok poisoning: How could it happen again in Salisbury? | |
| Our sun grew fat when a sausage collided with the Milky Way | |
| Prehistoric two-year-old could grip tree branches with her feet | |
| Yoga and meditation work better if you have a brain zap too | |
| Hybrid embryos made to save the doomed northern white rhino | |
| Trio of stars shows Einstein is still right about relativity | |
| Boys and football coach in Thai cave are medically stable | |
| NHS England considers plans to cut some surgeries | |
| Heatwaves show global warming is not just a future threat | |
| Feedback: Airflow test shows the force is not with X Wing pilots | |
| It's ok that the public rejected GM food â after all, we did ask | |
| The second great battle for the future of our food is underway | |
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| The forgotten navigation system that could show GPS the door | |
| The tiny oasis spared wrath of Hawaii's volcano | |
| How to stop artificial intelligence being so racist and sexist | |
| Will the UKâs plans to ban âgay conversion therapyâ succeed? | |
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| How to use the £20bn NHS birthday gift: an alternative wish list | |
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| First commercial DNA data storage service set to launch in 2019 | |
| Asiaâs mysterious role in the early origins of humanity | |
| Cash and competition make doctors prescribe fewer antibiotics | |
| Missing 1.5°C warming target will cost $14 trillion in floods | |
| Poor will suffer more as rising CO2 makes food less nutritious | |
| DNA reveals Romans helped spread TB across three continents | |
| Smart solar windows could power your home and also keep it cool | |
| Thai rescue: How to help the boys survive months in a cave | |
| Rare-earth material lights up with a message when stretched | |
| First attempt to get CRISPR gene editing working in sperm | |
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| Watch magnets organise themselves and then leap into the air | |
| Facebook promises to better explain who is paying for ads | |
| The koala genome has been fully sequenced for the first time | |
| Injecting new heart cells improves recovery from heart attacks | |
| Artificial ovary could help women conceive after chemotherapy | |
| Some monkeys in Panama may have just stumbled into the Stone Age | |
| Cimon the robot blasts off to the International Space Station | |
| Freak accident created a massive army of super-fertile clones | |
| Biggest study of vaginas shows there's no such thing as 'normal' | |
| New form of gold is much golder than normal gold | |
| Polycystic ovary syndrome linked to mother's health in pregnancy | |
| People who keep seeing the same doctor have lower death rates | |
| How old could humans get? We probably haven't hit the limit yet | |
| Is an AI chatbot really better than a human doctor? | |
| The US has an anti-drone gun that shoots drones at other drones | |
| You can tell how tall or strong a person is by hearing them roar | |
| Crows make the right tool by remembering the last one they saw | |
| Cuba has a hidden internet system based on trading USB sticks | |
| How the weird scoring system in tennis gives underdogs a boost | |
| Four ways dolphins are amazing â and one way theyâre not | |
| Bacteria have even evolved to live in the venom glands of snakes | |
| UK is not on track to meet its own climate targets, says report | |
| Heroin usersâ brains hint at a new treatment for narcolepsy | |
| Launch of NASAâs James Webb Space Telescope delayed another year | |
| Female velvet ants are so scary no other animal dares eat them | |
| Interstellar visitor âOumuamua may be a comet, not an asteroid | |
| Enceladus is spewing out organic molecules necessary for life | |
| Mars could have been habitable 100 million years before Earth | |
| Japanâs Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has arrived at asteroid Ryugu | |
| Science may be hard, but thatâs its beauty | |
| We must try harder to avoid biological bias in clinical trials | |
| Feedback: It's raining gems, Honolulu, it's raining gems | |
| Australia is launching a space agency, but what will it do? | |
| The fading American dream may be behind rise in US suicides | |
| Donât miss: IVF history, a Jurassic world game and number talk | |
| Old Scientist: When product naming goes spectacularly wrong | |
| The Inflamed Mind: Big claims over depression need big evidence | |
| The clock-maker who helped fashion art from science | |
| Inside the secret military programme that uses dolphins as weapons | |
| How to think about... Scientific truth | |
| How to think about... Black holes | |
| How to think about... The blockchain | |
| How to think about... Entropy | |
| How to think about... Gender | |
| How to think about... Life | |
| How to think about... Logic | |
| How to think about... Schrödinger's cat | |
| How to think about... Genes | |
| How to think about... Particles | |
| How to think about... Time | |
| How to think about... Consciousness | |
| How to think about... The multiverse | |
| Fire crews prepare 'heavy attack' on massive moorland wildfire | |
| Will we ever go on holiday in an electric-powered plane? | |
| A new arms race threatens to unleash laser warfare in the skies | |
| Bumblebees in cities are healthier than those in the countryside | |
| Uber has won a short-term licence to operate in London | |
| Are we alone in the universe? Science says itâs a definite maybe | |
| London's Horniman Museum has squeezed a world into a room | |
| First cannabis-based drug approved in the US to treat epilepsy | |
| Hereâs what alien astronomers would see if they looked at Earth | |
| Illegal Chinese refrigerator factories are selling banned CFCs | |
| Calling men by their surname gives them an unfair career boost | |
| There are two types of worrier - which you are depends on genes | |
| AI trained on 3500 years of games finally beats humans at Dota 2 | |
| An entire Arctic ecosystem could vanish within the next decade | |
| Physics of knitting shows why your sweater is so nice and comfy | |
| Cannabis oil: what is it and does it really work as medicine? | |
| Why is the UK running out of CO2 and what will it mean? | |
| Japanâs Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is gearing up to bomb an asteroid | |
| Swarm of robot wildlife will check for life in an Italian lagoon | |
| First evidence that gut bacteria help wire young brains | |
| US Army has made a plastic bandage that swells to patch wounds | |
| Why memes are the latest casualty in EUâs war on Silicon Valley | |
| These eerie rock towers may have been built by microorganisms | |
| Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty | |
| Many psychiatric conditions have the same genes in common | |
| We've just seen a huge space explosion and don't know what it is | |
| More penalty shoot-outs needed to make future World Cups fairer | |
| Cambridgeâs Museum of Zoology: Bobby the whale and Attenborough | |
| Herpes viruses in the brain linked to Alzheimerâs disease | |
| Moths fly 1000 kilometres with Earthâs magnetic field as a guide | |
| Worldâs first sanctuary for beluga whales to open in Iceland | |
| Colonists could use genetically modified bacteria to settle Mars | |
| Why the moral panic over Fortnite is nothing to worry about | |
| Just four tweets can reveal the identity of an anonymous troll | |
| NASA outlines its plans to deal with a large asteroid impact | |
| Ãtzi the Iceman ran out of rock to make his tools before he died | |
| UK government to review medicinal cannabis laws | |
| The case of Billy Caldwell shows UK drug laws are out of date | |
| Crewed missions to the moon and Mars need dreamers and doers | |
| Spiders can 'fly' because they make near-invisible paragliders | |
| Feedback: How a rare axolotl found salvation among Mexican nuns | |
| Tired of tea rounds? Dial a drink with this desktop barista | |
| Rainforest romanticism is derailing our hunt for new drugs | |
| The Habitat: Podcast power turns us into terraformers | |
| Why the Sicilian Mafia owes its existence to scurvy | |
| Capitalism broke the planet. Hereâs how itâs going to fix things | |
| The space-time echoes that point to a new theory of reality | |
| Giant rocket simulator helps engineers tweak before first launch | |
| Team moon vs team Mars: the battle over the future of NASA | |
| Eating less red meat protects against endometriosis | |
| Children seized at US border will face lasting health effects | |
| Cocaine in the water makes eels hyperactive and damages muscles | |
| Consciousness: How weâre solving a mystery bigger than our minds | |
| The Milky Way has devoured 15 other galaxies since it formed | |
| Robo bomb squads compete to gather evidence after a drone attack | |
| The New York bird with a song that may be a thousand years old | |
| Stealth sheets can make you appear invisible to infrared cameras | |
| Black men are left out of cancer trials because of their biology | |
| A huge number of mystery microbes are living on your skin | |
| Special cells could let you control your diabetes with coffee | |
| IBM's debating robot argues it out with human for first time | |
| Alien preppers could hoard stars to survive in a doomed universe | |
| Time to end the cruel ban on using cannabis therapy for epilepsy | |
| Trump has directed the US military to establish a Space Force | |
| HIV prevention drugs could delay diagnosis if you get infected | |
| A robot has performed eye surgery on humans for the first time | |
| Male peacocks can make females' heads vibrate at a distance | |
| Colony ship to nearest star only needs crew of 100 to survive | |
| The first Americans had pet dogs 1000 years earlier than thought | |
| Stars gravitate to Stephen Hawkingâs memorial service | |
| Knowing your DNA can help you stick to a healthier lifestyle | |
| Nano-infused black goo is incredibly stretchy and self-repairs | |
| Mediterranean diet is still good for you but only if youâre rich | |
| Bacteria may survive temperatures hot enough to melt lead | |
| Being a feminist may subconsciously protect you from stereotypes | |
| Underwater robot finds second world war bomber plane on seabed | |
| AI can detect early signs of Parkinson's from brain scans alone | |
| Spiders can âflyâ because they make near-invisible paragliders | |
| We've seen a gigantic black hole tear a star in half and eat it | |
| Wild animals are turning nocturnal to keep away from humans | |
| DeepMindâs AI can âimagineâ a world based on a single picture | |
| Your brain absolutely cannot resist doughnuts - here's why | |
| EU will limit the use of palm oil as car fuel but wonât stop it | |
| Is research in jails the way to end wars over dietary guidance? | |
| How authors are gaming Amazonâs algorithms with 3000-page books | |
| When a daddy longlegs is attacked by a flatworm things get messy | |
| The brain has a special clock that tracks sleepiness | |
| Watch a 3D-printed magnetic critter fold and move all by itself | |
| Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years | |
| Trump and Kim face off in Singapore summit | |
| Football's a mess: don't let technology spoil that | |
| Following trends and easy answers isn't the way to a good life | |
| Feedback: Humming this Spanish pop song might save a life | |
| Get food on the go with this roaming robot table | |
| Changing our minds about psychedelics takes a great guide | |
| How Charles Dickens became a man of science | |
| : a complex tale of robot awakening has us riveted | |
| The truth about spices: Is it time to ditch the turmeric latte? | |
| We have hints of a theory beyond quantum physics | |
| These hyper-real androids are climbing out of the uncanny valley | |
| Vegan-friendly fashion is actually bad for the environment | |
| Why tidal power won't solve the world's renewable energy needs | |
| Stop the reckless video-assisted refereeing experiment now | |
| Why video-assisted referees won't stop World Cup errors | |
| Net neutrality officially ended this week â now what? | |
| How can you tell if a video is a deepfake? Just look at the eyes | |
| The US wants to build an X-ray bomb to destroy chemical weapons | |
| Magnets can make wine taste better by sucking out bad flavours | |
| The epic hunt for the place on Earth where life started | |
| Britainâs hedgehog population has fallen 66 per cent in 20 years | |
| Game on: Picks from the latest video games at E3 | |
| Antimatter neutrinos caught shape-shifting between flavours | |
| Psychedelics may help your brain cells form new connections | |
| NASAâs Opportunity rover is stuck in a huge dust storm on Mars | |
| CERN-inspired artwork HALO will make the invisible, visible | |
| Clouds of spinning diamonds around stars solve an old mystery | |
| Africa's 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off | |
| Gene editing embryonic stem cells might increase risk of cancer | |
| Parkinsonâs disease may be caused by virus that kills gut bugs | |
| A self-balancing exoskeleton lets wheelchair users walk again | |
| We can tweak immune cells to be much better at wiping out HIV | |
| Trump v Kim: The mind games that led to the Korea summit | |
| Your personal cloud of microbes can be used to identify you | |
| Sperm whales are tracking fishing boats and stealing their fish | |
| Watch real football matches in miniature played on your desk | |
| Mars has complex organic material that may be from ancient life | |
| The LHC has found the Higgs works perfectly - which is a problem | |
| Nipah: the unknown virus that could be the next pandemic threat | |
| Seals only sleep with half their brain when they're out at sea | |
| Why Richard Branson's promises about space tourism are empty | |
| Sour tastes may make you more adventurous and take bigger risks | |
| Surveillance drones can now spot violent attacks as they happen | |
| Kidney cancer spreads by pretending to be white blood cells | |
| Lightning reveals where Jupiter stores its âmissingâ water | |
| Party drugs are here to stay, but they don't have to be killers | |
| Deadly Nipah outbreak seems to have been contained in India | |
| To combat white nationalist extremism, first understand it | |
| A renewables revolution is afoot â but who will benefit? | |
| Feedback: The 40-cm-long hammerhead flatworm has landed | |
| What makes a white nationalist? | |
| Crossword #19 | |
| Enjoy a season of science with our 2018 UK festival picks | |
| Bees aren't just smart, they're sensitive too | |
| Why are there so many devastating volcanic eruptions right now? | |
| Video: Ending the HIV epidemic | |
| Apple's new app is designed to help you use their tech less | |
| Anti-acne cream clears up skin without any nasty side effects | |
| Finally we can power the planet on renewables alone â here's how | |
| 4-year-olds care more about plants and animals than sick people | |
| AI construction worker plans the fastest way to put up buildings | |
| Europeans now burn more palm oil in their cars than they eat | |
| The New Horizons probe is awake and ready for its next flyby | |
| Bizarre state of matter to treat wounds instead of antibiotics | |
| The most elusive whales reveal their secrets in their wakes | |
| What can game theory tell us about Trump's threats of trade war? | |
| Two meteors in two days lit up the sky in China and Botswana | |
| A day used to be less than 19 hours long 1.4 billion years ago | |
| Mystery of why Stone Age villagers spent so much time underwater | |
| Quantum computers are weirder and more powerful than we thought | |
| Woman survives metastatic breast cancer thanks to new treatment | |
| Zambia to kill 2000 hippos because they might spread anthrax | |
| A whole new type of cancer therapy helps treat liver cancer | |
| Guatemala volcano kills 75 as ash buries entire villages | |
| Anti-swearing AI takes the edge off abuse on Reddit and Twitter | |
| Ultrahot planets bust up molecules then rebuild them into clouds | |
| Weâre beginning to understand how some people can control HIV | |
| Ripples in Saturnâs rings unravel mystery of how fast it spins | |
| Enjoy a season of science with our 2018 UK festival picks | |
| Vultures that feed on rubbish dumps are making themselves sick | |
| So-called âholy grailâ cancer test would miss thousands of cases | |
| Can an app tell if you have dementia years before your doctor? | |
| The gene that led to the human intelligence boom has been found | |
| The dreams you forget are the most important for learning | |
| Methane ice and winds on Pluto make strange 'sand' dunes | |
| People with big brains have a different brain structure too | |
| Bent bird feathers repair themselves when soaked in water | |
| US 'right to try' drugs law could hurt terminally ill people | |
| Some scorpions can hiss by rubbing themselves with âsandpaperâ | |
| Art that brings meaning to medicine | |
| Scientists turned a car into a giant flytrap to count insects | |
| Ambien can cause bizarre behaviour - but not racist tweets | |
| There's no such thing as a 'detox' â so let's ban the word | |
| There is only one anti-shark tool for surfers that seems to work | |
| Drugs that help our cells tidy up might extend lifespan | |
| Itâs time we stopped dismissing womenâs health problems | |
| : How a sceptic was won over by life in the lab | |
| Women aren't being told real risks of cervical cancer screening | |
| Ireland votes to reform abortion laws in referendum landslide | |
| Cosmic cooperation is just what space exploration needs | |
| Feedback: Are fruitloopy healing stones costing the earth? | |
| Old Scientist: Communication on Earth â and beyond | |
| Have humans been sailors for a million years? | |
| Fighting with a fifth of your body weight on your head | |
| We need to grab some rocks from Mars â let's just get on with it | |
| World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran | |
| : Why Chinaâs online oversight is anything but crude | |
| How a frogâs eye robbed us of a geniusâs AI masterwork | |
| Who was the Somerton Man? Solving Australia's coldest case | |
| I'm working on a universal language to let us speak to aliens | |
| The cancer-fighting multi-organ: 9 ways the placenta is amazing | |
| Papua New Guinea bans Facebook for a month in fake news blitz | |
| GM golden rice gets approval from food regulators in the US | |
| AI inspired by the film | |
| Mystery ghost ape species found hidden in bonoboâs genome | |
| See a cosmic spider caught spinning up brand new stars | |
| H2Oh! 10 mysteries of water | |
| H2Oh! Water is actually two liquids disguised as one | |
| Pigeons can understand probabilities - just like primates can | |
| Wish you had perfect pitch? You may be able to learn it | |
| Facebook AI turns your idle humming into a Bach orchestra piece | |
| Brains grow brand new neurons after experimental drug injection | |
| Books chart social mediaâs fall from global village to villain | |
| Faulty placenta may explain why some people get schizophrenia | |
| Bacteria teach us how to make green fuel from carbon dioxide | |
| The Great Barrier Reef has died 5 times in the last 30,000 years | |
| Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem | |
| The unfashionable genius of William de Morgan | |
| Pluto is not a planet â it's a billion comets squished together | |
| Escher's Journey: there's more to this artist than his maths | |
| Dentists can smell your fear â and it may put your teeth at risk | |
| More lava flows reach the coast as volcano threatens Hawaii | |
| In big cities even the fish are always rushing around the place | |
| Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming | |
| Uber self-driving car 'saw woman but didn't brake before crash' | |
| Bulletproof batteries could make body armour for combat | |
| Chimp evolution was shaped by sex with their bonobo relatives | |
| Mystery ozone-destroying gases linked to badly recycled fridges | |
| How a change in tactics could help autism research | |
| Brain implant for OCD surprisingly helps alleviate diabetes too | |
| We may have got the evolution of our big brains entirely wrong | |
| 11 unmissable wonders of the natural world | |
| Clouds of plasma let us zoom in on weird flashes from space | |
| Seafood-lovers have more sex and take less time to get pregnant | |
| Europe's new data laws are a way to push back on Silicon Valley | |
| We canât trick people into accepting genetically modified foods | |
| Feedback: Mean words wilt plants, IKEA tells schoolchildren | |
| Predictive texts: a bot that dreams up children's stories | |
| : Fire's intriguing role throughout Earth history | |
| Frozen placentas could be the ticket to a long and healthy life | |
| The curious fate of the eighth wonder of the world | |
| Nine curious colours that shaped the history of art | |
| Night fishing with light-up lures that can be seen from space | |
| Inside the scientific data revolution | |
| Men more likely to get diabetes if they have overweight wives | |
| Watch a badminton robot practice its game-winning trick shots | |
| World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran | |
| Those GDPR emails should stop soon, but our data nightmare won't | |
| Minimally conscious people woken with brain zap by their family | |
| Pink pineapples and healthy fries: The new GM foods made for you | |
| Thereâs a new kind of superfood â and itâs not what you think | |
| Changes in your sperm reveal if youâve had a difficult life | |
| Quantum stopwatch could be the best in the universe | |
| âImpossibleâ EM drive doesnât seem to work after all | |
| Why the UKâs plan to tackle air pollution is mostly hot air | |
| How your name shapes what other people think of your personality | |
| China launched a satellite to help explore the moonâs far side | |
| Think you're fully alert? You can't always tell if you're tired | |
| Half of life on Earth has vanished since we arrived on the scene | |
| Babies should mix with other children to lower leukaemia risk | |
| Chinese giant salamanders may already be virtually extinct | |
| How Theresa Mayâs plan for an AI-powered NHS could go very wrong | |
| Why Saturn's inner moons look like ravioli, cigars and potatoes | |
| The volcanic eruption on Hawaii is now making an acidic fog | |
| Weird backwards asteroid may be an interstellar interloper | |
| Blood from umbilical cord may help fix your brain after a stroke | |
| Grape skins and stems can be turned into a greener plastic | |
| Stunning first image sent back by NASAâs planet-hunter satellite | |
| Halo Jones: return of the 50th-century galactic adventurer | |
| An AI can now tell how malnourished a child is just from a photo | |
| Can a repeat of disastrous Ebola epidemic be averted this time? | |
| New algorithm can help spot faked photos before they go viral | |
| Ape âmidwivesâ spotted helping female bonobos give birth | |
| The way toddlers waddle can teach robot footballers how to play | |
| A third of âprotectedâ nature zones are quietly being ruined | |
| Someone is wrecking the ozone layer again. They must be stopped | |
| Frankenstein planets may form from the wreckage of dead worlds | |
| Harsh: Europe's cannabis died just as the first farmers arrived | |
| Drones plus AI help to spot sick trees and plants in time | |
| Aha! What happens in your brain when you have a lightbulb moment | |
| The US isn't fertile enough to sustain itself without immigrants | |
| Lizards keep evolving toxic green blood and we don't know why | |
| We've measured the pressure inside a proton and it's extreme | |
| Some of the universe's first stars have actually been seen | |
| Salvaged plastics imitate bizarre and beautiful sea life | |
| Letâs all heed the health benefits of a month without alcohol | |
| Plastic waste is a problem â but some solutions are even worse | |
| Feedback: Did dinosaurs fart? Science says yes | |
| How tech bugs could be killing thousands in our hospitals | |
| Keep the facts front and centre in Ireland's abortion debate | |
| Trumpâs Iran U-turn could restart the global nuclear arms race | |
| Old Scientist: Nominative determinism through the ages | |
| A tale of how big egos hijacked quantum physics | |
| Evading death and mind-uploading: The ambition of transhumanism | |
| Superhuman: What human extremes mean for today and tomorrow | |
| Upend atom! We've found a whole new way of doing chemistry | |
| Biodegradable plastic: Waste that eats itself | |
| Your social media data is out there, just waiting to be leaked | |
| Push to rid poorer nations of harmful trans fat is long overdue | |
| Fixing planet plastic: How we'll really solve our waste problem | |
| Laser can detect your heartbeat and breathing from a metre away | |
| The woman who laughs uncontrollably when others get tickled | |
| A new synthetic molecule may solve a paradox about life's origin | |
| We've only just realised the huge power and value of our data | |
| Fertiliser feeds us but trashes the climate â now there's a fix | |
| Falling mini-moons may have created Earthâs first continents | |
| Hawaiiâs erupting volcano may blast out â10-tonne cannonballsâ | |
| The tides are getting stronger thanks to the shifting continents | |
| We may finally be able to beat the common cold with a new drug | |
| Worst-case climate change scenario is even worse than we thought | |
| Weâve lost track of more than 900 near-Earth asteroids | |
| Rich nations restore their own forests but trash those elsewhere | |
| Can CGI finally convince us that Neanderthals were smart? | |
| Probe saw plumes on Europa 20 years ago - we just didn't notice | |
| We messed up our figures on how much carbon dioxide is too much | |
| Cause of polycystic ovary syndrome discovered at last | |
| Huge new Facebook data leak exposed intimate details of 3m users | |
| NASA is sending an autonomous helicopter to Mars in 2020 | |
| Utterly bizarre theoretical 'fractons' could be made for real | |
| Measles cases in England are up 65 per cent on last year | |
| Trolley problem tested in real life for first time with mice | |
| Stem cells may reveal how Neanderthal DNA works in modern humans | |
| Satellite images reveal how powerful North Koreaâs nukes are | |
| Interstellar cloud mapped by listening to its magnetic waves | |
| A plague from South Korea is killing frogs and toads worldwide | |
| Captain Cook: The farmerâs son who re-drew the map of the world | |
| Eating all your meals before 3pm could be good for your health | |
| Eye scanner can tell if you've mastered a foreign language | |
| Napoleon Complex: Are smaller men really more aggressive? | |
| Self-repairing organs could save your life in a heartbeat | |
| DeepMind AI developed navigation neurons to solve a maze like us | |
| The world's tallest tree costs more than a private island | |
| Ancient humans in Philippines may have given rise to âhobbitsâ | |
| Letâs hear it for psychology, a better than average science | |
| It is worth valuing trees, but all deserve our respect | |
| Animals & Us: An art show about how we interact with creatures | |
| Gallery of terrifying gynaecological tools from past 200 years | |
| China is building a huge weather-control machine â will it work? | |
| Feedback: Uranus smells like farts, say astronomers | |
| Crossword #18 | |
| Deluded drivers: The startling discovery that changed psychology | |
| Treeconomics: How to put a fair price tag on urban forests | |
| The flexible therapy that helps beat workplace stress | |
| Doing Dry January lowers cancer-promoting proteins in your blood | |
| Ferocious pack-hunting pseudoscorpions believe in sharing fairly | |
| Googleâs human-like phone calls are a clever but nasty trick | |
| Trump says the Iran nuclear deal is bad. Here's why he's wrong | |
| There is no secret burial chamber in Tutankhamunâs tomb | |
| Mystery of the cosmic dawn: Whatâs eating the first starlight? | |
| AI is now better than humans at spotting signs of cardiac arrest | |
| Hope for herpes vaccine after it wipes out virus in monkeys | |
| ESA eyes Venus mission or space telescope to launch by 2030 | |
| Evading death and mind-uploading: The ambition of transhumanism | |
| Towing icebergs to Cape Town is a poor way to halt water crisis | |
| Colombiaâs peace deal unwittingly unleashed hell on the Amazon | |
| The birds of South Georgia are finally safe from marauding rats | |
| Hawaii volcano is causing havoc and will spew lava for days | |
| Superhuman: What human extremes mean for today and tomorrow | |
| Exoplanet with a cloudless sky may let us see inside a gas giant | |
| The sun will die in a blaze of swirling gas in 5 billion years | |
| Tourism is four times worse for the climate than we thought | |
| Creative people are 90 per cent more likely to get schizophrenia | |
| NASA sent a robot to the Red Planet to listen for marsquakes | |
| Ketamine ingredient improves severe depression in large trial | |
| Monkey face recognition app can help spot endangered primates | |
| Bonobos barely use their opposable thumbs when climbing trees | |
| Your bones contain crystals shaped like fingers and hands | |
| People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result | |
| Alan Turing inspired a faster way to make seawater drinkable | |
| Stars from outside the Milky Way seen zooming through the galaxy | |
| Mistletoe's cells are broken at a fundamental level | |
| Flying beetle cyborgs guided with tiny battery-powered backpacks | |
| The UK's plan to build a rival GPS is a bonkers Brexit scheme | |
| Magical regrowth: Kew Gardens opens revamped Temperate House | |
| Why breast screening error stories are getting death stats wrong | |
| First US death due to romaine lettuce as E. coli outbreak widens | |
| Are we deluding ourselves when we shop for eco-friendly stuff? | |
| Cambridge Analytica has shut down amid ongoing data scandal | |
| Ancient humans in Philippines may have given rise to âhobbitsâ | |
| Colossal exoplanet has an enormous comet-like tail of helium | |
| Quantum internet is one step closer thanks to new theory | |
| Swirling wall of moving patterns represents our thoughts | |
| The real palm oil problem: it's not just in your food | |
| Superlight aerogel made by mimicking a baby dragonfly's wings | |
| The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides | |
| Meat substitutes aren't perfect but they are worth a try | |
| Feedback: Crafty baboons channel MacGyver to escape research lab | |
| Old Scientist: Animal experiments in the bad old days | |
| Bombhead and | |
| Elements of surprise: What fiction plots tell us about our minds | |
| High times: The Victorian doctor who promoted medical marijuana | |
| Identity crisis: When is a dinosaur not a dinosaur? | |
| Moonâs weird pull could help predict deadly volcanic eruptions | |
| The company investing its way to zero emission transport | |
| Brexit and Trump votes screwed with our heart rates for months | |
| Inquiry launched into 450,000 missed breast cancer screenings | |
| AI can predict your personality just by how your eyes move | |
| Mediterranean diet delays Alzheimer's for three extra years | |
| This mind-reading hearing aid knows who you're listening to | |
| The fake burger test: Could meat made of plants ever fool you? | |
| Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out | |
| Weâve mapped 90 per cent of the stars in our bit of the galaxy | |
| A male pill will be a breakthrough for science but not for women | |
| Laser-sticker contacts could let you shoot beams from your eyes | |
| Smart people literally have bigger brain cells than the rest | |
| AI that deletes people from photos makes rewriting history easy | |
| Lightning hit a woman's home and switched off her brain implant | |
| Women who eat more pasta tend to get menopause earlier | |
| A mix-up means US air pollution is way worse than thought | |
| The world's first snail orchestra makes its crunchy debut | |
| 3000 missing children identified with face recognition in India | |
| To save the insect world we must go way beyond neonicotinoid ban | |
| How some resistant bacteria can even eat antibiotics as food | |
| A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land | |
| North Korea's nuclear-free pledge comes with a massive catch | |
| Paint a touchpad on your wall to control lights with a swipe | |
| Our understanding of the universe's expansion is really wrong | |
| Toughest ever heat shields made of springy sponge-like stuff | |
| Golfer Jack Nicklaus says stem cell therapy cured his back pain | |
| Serial killer suspect identified using DNA family tree website | |
| The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides | |
| UK smart missile will decide where to look for its next target | |
| Huge haul of âdepression genesâ shows itâs a complex condition | |
| Cute but dim quolls have been taught to stop eating toxic toads | |
| Could a tax on chocolate make us healthy? Letâs not be too hasty | |
| Humans may be to blame for a big earthquake in South Korea | |
| Entangled clouds of atoms are quantum record-breakers | |
| Get to grips with the big ideas in physics at New Scientist Live | |
| Horses remember if you smiled or frowned when they last saw you | |
| Gross alert: You can get a urinary tract infection from your dog | |
| Robot port in China to unload shipping containers without humans | |
| Don't rely on draconian controls to keep your kids safer online | |
| The world's biggest hacking market has just been busted | |
| Superlight aerogel made by mimicking a baby dragonflyâs wings | |
| Blood cell and bacteria stuck together to deliver cancer drugs | |
| Why growing human brain tissue in a dish is an ethical minefield | |
| Austerity has put UK forensic labs in crisis and justice at risk | |
| Acid lakes may be a false alarm but we canât afford complacency | |
| Vibrating wristband warns you when to button it at parties | |
| Join NASA's Operation IceBridge on its icy polar mission | |
| To help heal the Korean peninsula try scientific cooperation too | |
| Feedback: World's largest bird feeder to save peckish flocks | |
| : The complex secrets of springâs simple beauty | |
| How can India clean up when all of its waste has an afterlife? | |
| The original social justice warrior who smashed stereotypes | |
| Acid bath: The new threat to lakes and rivers | |
| Origin of our species: Why humans were once so much more diverse | |
| Why better data laws will change the nature of business | |
| Why the US is wrong to say burning wood is carbon neutral | |
| What to expect from the controversial new choice as NASA boss | |
| Russia cuts off Google and Amazon by trying to ban Telegram app | |
| 7 mathematicians you should have heard of â but probably haven't | |
| G-spot surgery given to three women to boost sexual pleasure | |
| Biggest ever 3D map of the galaxy pinpoints 1.7 billion stars | |
| Ancient Swedish massacre hints at chaos after the fall of Rome | |
| Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes | |
| How an Amazonian people convey their entire language by drumbeat | |
| Stoner app lets cannabis users keep track of how high they are | |
| Gamma rays from the sun are acting weird and nobody knows why | |
| Amazing GIF shows dust and cosmic rays raining down on comet 67P | |
| War veteran gets world's first penis and scrotum transplant | |
| Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we're to blame | |
| Ants build a medieval âtorture rackâ to catch grasshoppers | |
| Why the hockey stick graph will always be climate science's icon | |
| Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early | |
| Finger-prick test reveals fetus's sex in the first trimester | |
| Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains | |
| The US army has made a virtual North Korea to train its soldiers | |
| Distant Jupiter-like world may be the darkest planet ever found | |
| Grandchildren of migrants more likely to get anxiety problems | |
| Trees may have a âheartbeatâ that is so slow we never noticed it | |
| Driverless cars are dodging pedestrians and pheasants in Oxford | |
| Antibiotic-resistant bacteria cross oceans hidden in cargo ships | |
| Global cancer scheme lets people share data across the world | |
| Poking tiny dents into solar panels makes them work better | |
| Super-tough diamonds have been made bendy and springy | |
| Plants love carbon dioxide, but too much could be bad for them | |
| Now Play This! A festival that's game for anything | |
| Augmented reality glasses help kids with autism relate to others | |
| Male fruit flies feel pleasure when they ejaculate | |
| Why climate engineers are targeting Earth's last pristine spots | |
| Flies cool themselves down by constantly blowing bubbles of spit | |
| Doctors who prescribe homeopathy ignore other medical guidelines | |
| Watch robots assemble a flat-pack IKEA chair in just 9 minutes | |
| Bioengineered freckle turns darker when it detects cancer | |
| Russia trying to hijack hardware, claim US and UK | |
| March for Science 2018 hosts rallies worldwide | |
| Our grandchildren may never see the Great Barrier Reef recover | |
| We need hope, not eulogies, for the Great Barrier Reef | |
| The fight for gender equality can be informed by science | |
| This big cat's seafood snack is an endangered turtle | |
| Mavericks are belittling statins â hereâs why theyâre wrong | |
| UK failing child refugees because we canât reliably verify age | |
| Punk turtle can breathe through its genitals | |
| Your boss is probably to blame for meetings starting late | |
| Feedback: The unusual health risks of competitive chilli eating | |
| Become a time lord with this remote control clock | |
| Yorkshire's Jurassic World: David Attenborough opens new show | |
| Carlo Rovelli: physics' literary superstar makes us rethink time | |
| The yogurt cure: can 'good' bacteria save bats? | |
| How we saw the first signs of intelligent life in space | |
| Why the patriarchy isn't good for men and how to fix it | |
| I experienced the patriarchy from both sides of the gender gap | |
| How protective parents exacerbate gender differences | |
| The hidden reasons why societies are violent towards women | |
| The origins of sexism: How men came to rule 12,000 years ago | |
| The flexible future of green energy | |
| Shredded galaxy is disintegrating before our eyes after smash-up | |
| More education is what makes people live longer, not more money | |
| Getting just 6 hours of sleep is linked to mental health issues | |
| New blood pressure guidelines could do more harm than good | |
| Millions of censored web pages discovered in massive study | |
| Why now doesnât exist, and other strange facts about time | |
| Quantum time: Is this where the flow of existence comes from? | |
| Big tech can digitally erase us â do we need new protections? | |
| Most UK plants will flower at once in short âcondensed springâ | |
| World's biggest bird feeder will use 500 tonnes of shellfish | |
| A melting ice shelf can cause rapid ice loss 900 kilometres away | |
| Diamond meteorites may come from a lost ancient planet | |
| Catching malaria makes you smell more attractive to mosquitoes | |
| Watch a swarm of underwater drones hunt and surround a boat | |
| Dear IRS, why can't we have a simpler way to do our taxes? | |
| How Facebook let a friend pass my data to Cambridge Analytica | |
| Tune in your head? Mind-reading tech can guess how it sounds | |
| On the ground at the 2018 March for Science rallies | |
| A high IQ may protect men from a cause of psychological stress | |
| Lost shark seen for first time in a decade - in a fish market | |
| Rise of the ATM hackers - how scammers are getting free money | |
| Carbon-free shipping is possible, so why aren't we doing it? | |
| NASA has launched a new space telescope to hunt for exoplanets | |
| Donât blame academics like me for Facebookâs privacy crisis | |
| Young Saturn gave Jupiter the building blocks for its big moons | |
| The Antarctic is melting even in the middle of subzero winter | |
| These fish hide fluorescent switchblades in their faces | |
| No more bad, blocky video calls thanks to smart AI compression | |
| What to expect from this Saturdayâs March for Science | |
| The weekly alcohol limit still carries a risk of early death | |
| Making custom qubits by pushing together two individual atoms | |
| Discriminating algorithms: 5 times AI showed prejudice | |
| Life on toxic Venus? Acid-loving microbes could thrive in clouds | |
| Hawaii tops the list of beach destinations at risk of tsunami | |
| A virtual reality hand feels real after a zap to your brain | |
| Zuckerberg survived Washington â hereâs whatâs next for Facebook | |
| 2017 was the year of the biggest fire storms ever seen | |
| Struggle to get up in the morning? Youâre at risk of early death | |
| Ovarian cancer vaccine improves womenâs survival rates | |
| Encrypt your data with random quantum weirdness | |
| Species with big sex differences are more likely to die out | |
| US may respond after chemical weapons attack in Syria | |
| Internet Health Report shows equality and privacy in trouble | |
| This yearâs March for Science needs to be even bigger | |
| The neon swirls that show how a map of our galaxy is made | |
| Spending on renewables in rich countries has halved in six years | |
| Science fans have many reasons to take to the streets again | |
| Feedback: The important science of whether snakes fart | |
| Crossword #17 | |
| Your mind is not an iceberg â there's nothing under the surface | |
| After the Facebook scandal: The grand plan to hold AI to account | |
| Why emotional support animals may be a waste of time | |
| The big fudge: Welcome to the theory of not-quite-everything | |
| War in space may happen soon, but it won't be what you expect | |
| The hidden powerhouses that drive the UK economy | |
| Your boss is probably to blame for meetings starting late | |
| Need a new look? Facebook's AI fashion designer has some ideas | |
| The Nile river is at least 30 million years old | |
| Making babies: How to create human embryos with no egg or sperm | |
| Facebook to examine tens of thousands of apps for data misuse | |
| The Heart of the Matter: An artful show helps heal broken hearts | |
| Life on nearest exoplanet may have been wiped out by superflare | |
| We can read memories by analysing brain gene activity | |
| Our eyesight is sharpest at twilight â and now we may know why | |
| 5 healthcare myths that can drive you to unneeded treatments | |
| Robots donât take peopleâs jobs - they make new ones | |
| Theresa May pledges £75 million for prostate cancer research | |
| One bad nightâs sleep may increase levels of Alzheimerâs protein | |
| Antarctica still losing ice despite big rise in snowfall | |
| Ancient finger bone may reveal humanity's path out of Africa | |
| Infections during pregnancy affect a child's brain function | |
| Zuckerberg vs US Congress â here's how he can address data fears | |
| Worldâs first over-the-phone abortion service hailed a success | |
| A simple mathematical rule shapes the behaviour of Arctic ponds | |
| Wasps drum with their stomachs to tell each other about food | |
| Waggle-dancing robot tells bees where to look for food | |
| Lunar X Prize to put a rover on the moon has been resurrected | |
| Old people can produce as many new brain cells as teenagers | |
| Video: How can a single pill treat HIV? | |
| Astronauts could 3D print tools from their own processed faeces | |
| Spending on renewables in rich countries has halved in six years | |
| Killer AI boycott row shows there is research we canât accept | |
| How you and your friends can fight back against online trolls | |
| Palm trees have been spotted changing sex for the first time | |
| Facebook admits data scandal may have hit 87 million users | |
| NASA is trying to build a supersonic aircraft without the boom | |
| How better behaviour is helping to build better businesses | |
| We see neutrinos from the big bang in the way galaxies cluster | |
| Eye implant improves vision in people with age-related blindness | |
| The centre of our galaxy may be swarming with 10,000 black holes | |
| Weâve spotted a weird galaxy thatâs missing all its dark matter | |
| Robots won't take as many of our jobs as we feared, says report | |
| Mind-reading headset lets you Google just with your thoughts | |
| Touching personal medical stories are no substitute for science | |
| Feedback: How $38bn worth of nuclear material vanished overnight | |
| Old Scientist: Safety first, from fly killer to plutonium | |
| : It's all about the money | |
| Brexit batters science job market | |
| How medicine got too good for its own good | |
| Biology's moonshot: The mission to decode the DNA of all life | |
| Culture clash: Why are some societies strict and others lax? | |
| The spiky but stunning burrs that litter the South African coast | |
| Our obsession with a 'free' internet led to Facebook data row | |
| Congestion charge can cut childhood asthma attacks by half | |
| Miniature human brains with their own blood vessels grown in lab | |
| Suit that gives you electric shocks makes VR more realistic | |
| I'm building a machine that breaks the rules of reality | |
| Virtuoso bowhead whales constantly make up new songs | |
| Ten âone-stop shopâ cancer diagnosis centres planned for England | |
| Ultrasonic micro-explosions can harvest gold from old SIM cards | |
| Just half a degree less global warming would avert food shortage | |
| Refusing to accept GM food is safe is like climate change denial | |
| Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef | |
| DNA from another mystery human ancestor lingers in some people | |
| Estonia to give genetic testing and advice to 100,000 residents | |
| Chinese space station Tiangong-1 has finally fallen from the sky | |
| Virtual reality surgery lets trainee doctors practise operations | |
| Sticky yet slick material pulls water from foggy or humid air | |
| The real power of fake goes on show at Dublinâs Science Gallery | |
| GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature | |
| The frogs bouncing back after almost being wiped out by disease | |
| David Attenborough: Itâs time we humans came to our senses | |
| Far-off black hole appears to be shredding and devouring a star | |
| Dog brain scans show if they are looking at a happy or sad face | |
| The cast goes ape in a stage adaptation of a Will Self novel | |
| Syncing our brain activity may help us interact with each other | |
| 13 absurdly comic AI April Fool's pranks you'll want to try | |
| Yorkshireâs Jurassic World: David Attenborough opens new show | |
| DNA sequencing of babies is here: Should it be available to all? | |
| Bursting your Twitter bubble actually makes you more extreme | |
| One year until Brexit: 7 big issues that must be solved | |
| Autoimmune disorder lupus may be triggered by bodyâs bacteria | |
| Earth had water even before the collision that made the moon | |
| Jupiter's hefty twin found just 12 light years away | |
| Weâve spotted a weird galaxy thatâs missing all its dark matter | |
| The future of HIV | |
| Why the UK's plastic bottle deposit plan doesn't go far enough | |
| How birds focus even with eyes on opposite sides of their heads | |
| Gooey nitrogen ice may make Plutoâs crater-free heart look young | |
| Mercury's long-lost cousin found in distant planetary system | |
| Wearable scanner can image your brain while you're on the move | |
| Chemical weapons treaty put to test over Novichok spy attack | |
| Facebook backlash continues as users find call data logged too | |
| US Congress spending bill includes more money for research | |
| Human genome sequencing is starting to live up to the hype | |
| Tackling inequality means first understanding the problem | |
| One year until Brexit: 7 big issues that must be solved | |
| How a dedicated cyber-court could halt the rise of online crime | |
| A star has been seen exploding faster than any other on record | |
| Feedback: Where nominative determinism grows like a weed | |
| Bob Walker tribute | |
| : The emerging story of seabirds on the ocean | |
| Real colour of money: business wants profit and green cred | |
| Maverick or monster? The controversial pioneer of brain zapping | |
| Mission Icarus: Inside the daring plan to touch the sun | |
| Beetlemania: Five amazing beetles from around the world | |
| Beetlemania: How a supergroup scuttled to world domination | |
| The hypnotic face and emerald eyes of the yellow pygmy goby | |
| Horror VR game can ramp up the fear factor if youâre not scared | |
| NASAâs James Webb Space Telescope has been delayed â again | |
| Novichok attack tests the world's chemical weapons treaty | |
| Lost villages from centuries ago found in the Amazon rainforest | |
| Millions of YouTube product reviews may flout advertising rules | |
| The inequality delusion: Why we've got the wealth gap all wrong | |
| Our cancer strategies aren't working - it's time to change that | |
| Newly-discovered human organ may help explain how cancer spreads | |
| Three critically ill children helped by speedy genome sequencing | |
| Mercury's long-lost cousin found in distant planetary system | |
| A star has been seen exploding faster than any other on record | |
| Neanderthals ambushed cave bears as they awoke from hibernation | |
| Astronaut pee could keep plants alive in space for decades | |
| Computers made from human cells could tell you when youâre sick | |
| Skin spray heals US woman's flesh-eating bacteria wounds | |
| Much of nature is near collapse and that means society is too | |
| This is why it's so hard to bring yourself to delete Facebook | |
| US wants first drones that can kill people truly independently | |
| Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR | |
| Does your kidsâ DNA matter more than which school they go to? | |
| A very pregnant female ray had to fend off four courting males | |
| Fresh water can pull stains out of fabric with an electric field | |
| Calorie restriction may extend lifespan by changing your sleep | |
| Heavy metal poisoning may be changing birdsâ personalities | |
| Male balding may be cured by injecting epilepsy drug into scalp | |
| Fallout from Facebook data scandal may hit health research | |
| Dreams decoded: 6 answers to the mysteries of the sleeping mind | |
| The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is gobbling up ever more plastic | |
| The plan to suck huge amounts of drinkable water out of thin air | |
| Space âdisco ballâ satellite just fell back down to Earth | |
| Watch this robotic fish flap its fins in Fijiâs Rainbow Reef | |
| Wearable scanner can image your brain while youâre on the move | |
| Immune-boosting gel prevents cancer relapse after surgery | |
| Ten connected miniature organs are best human-on-a-chip yet | |
| Stephen Hawking was a brilliant ambassador for science | |
| âUpgraded Pap test detects two extra cancers before âthey spread | |
| Mould gets artistic to take particle decay photo to a new level | |
| Feedback: Time drags in Europe as underpowered clocks slow down | |
| An emotional support sock is the perfect travel companion | |
| Pushing the boundaries: A round-up of new popular science books | |
| Return to Titan: Why this icy world is our best bet to find life | |
| Dad power: The surprising new science of fatherhood | |
| Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth | |
| Medicine for sick koalas turns out to actually kill them | |
| We must all wake up to the need for a good lie-in at the weekend | |
| 5 ways to boost your dreams and improve your health | |
| Why dreaming is vital: Unlocking the power of REM sleep | |
| Fed up with Facebook? Here's how to fix your online privacy | |
| Down's syndrome has become the newest front in the abortion wars | |
| Dark radiation may fix our broken understanding of the universe | |
| Huge Australian bushfire was caused by unseasonal freak weather | |
| Craft beer may get cheaper thanks to GM yeast with hoppy flavour | |
| Self-driving Uber death should halt tech's race to the bottom | |
| Thereâs no point reviving the northern white rhino â yet | |
| Exclusive: Other countries could have made 'Russian' nerve agent | |
| Five billion people face water shortages by 2050, warns UN | |
| Green tea extract may prevent Downâs syndrome face traits | |
| The universe may end in a collision with a bubble of nothingness | |
| An Uber self-driving car has killed a pedestrian in Arizona | |
| : The rise and fall of progress | |
| US and Russia will soon face mega-heatwaves from climate change | |
| Stem cell therapy reverses sight loss and lets people read again | |
| A fifth of people hear sounds when watching silent GIFs. Do you? | |
| Cambridge Analytica, Trump and Facebook â hereâs what we know | |
| Why ancient deer returned to the sea and became whales | |
| Computers that calculate with light could make superfast AI | |
| First anatomical evidence of several types of schizophrenia | |
| Essential oils in hygiene products may make boys grow breasts | |
| The FDA wants to cut the nicotine in cigarettes by a third | |
| Bacteria-killing nanofibres could make clothes that stop disease | |
| Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell explores Bach's cosmic music | |
| Mystery of neutrino masses may be explained by dark matter force | |
| Bottled water is bad â but microplastics arenât the reason | |
| Electrodes fitted behind your ear can make you walk faster | |
| Killer kettles show security an afterthought for connected homes | |
| Earthquake AI makes it easier to predict devastation of strikes | |
| The Novichok spy attack was brazen â it needs a tough response | |
| Exercising during pregnancy can make your labour shorter | |
| Our ancestors mated with the mystery 'Denisovan' people â twice | |
| Band-aid made of youthful protein stops wounds from scarring | |
| Jupiterâs Great Red Spot keeps getting less great and less red | |
| 8 hilarious ways AI has outsmarted us to get the job done | |
| AI has spotted nearly 7000 undiscovered craters on the moon | |
| Lab-grown pet food promises a wholesome vegan lifestyle for dogs | |
| These searing hot chilli peppers are in danger thanks to snakes | |
| Dwarf planet Ceres has a water cycle but itâs not like Earthâs | |
| Being in a relationship really does seem to make you fatter | |
| $10m prize to let you feel what a distant robot is feeling | |
| Polar melt may shut down the Atlantic current that warms Europe | |
| The Arctic is sending us signals of impending climate chaos | |
| Two herbivores gang up and silence a plant's cries for help | |
| Feedback: Goob, the lifestyle brand written by predictive text | |
| Charity scheme seeks to widen access to science careers | |
| : How to be smart in the 21st century | |
| The shocking truth of Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments | |
| New shades: The controversial quest to 'fix' colour blindness | |
| How concrete and condoms could turn a greenhouse gas green | |
| The pint-sized pygmy sloth found only on one island in the world | |
| Face-faking AI isn't just for porn â it will change the world | |
| Salary survey: Hereâs how much you could earn | |
| Hawking's global warnings divided opinion but the world listened | |
| AI drones are controlling self-driving diggers on building sites | |
| A quarter of people have bad reactions to fragranced products | |
| Why the big bang was not the beginning | |
| Ten connected miniature organs are best human-on-a-chip yet | |
| Stephen Hawking: Tributes pour in as physicist dies aged 76 | |
| A brief history of Stephen Hawking: A legacy of paradox | |
| We could lose 40,000 species by 2100 due to climate change | |
| Malfunctioning fertility clinic tanks may put eggs at risk | |
| Weird crystals could grow on Titan and help alien life thrive | |
| Dinobird Archaeopteryx only flew in short bursts like a pheasant | |
| The sunâs mysteriously hot corona may be due to invisible plasma | |
| Chemistry bots collude on Twitter to speed up their experiments | |
| US climate report warns nation will lose out if it doesn't act | |
| What are Novichok nerve agents and did Russia do it? | |
| Weâve just spotted the brightest mystery radio burst from space | |
| Psychopaths pay less attention to what other people are thinking | |
| Daft male spiders prefer females who are more likely to eat them | |
| $10m prize to let you feel what a distant robot is feeling | |
| Found: more than 500 genes that are linked to intelligence | |
| Start-up accused of launching mini satellites without permission | |
| Election polling accuracy has not improved since the 1940s | |
| Polar melt may shut down the Atlantic current that warms Europe | |
| Being in a relationship really does seem to make you fatter | |
| Eco-friendly nanowood is a super strong and recyclable styrofoam | |
| How to keep foreign pests away from the UKâs natural treasures | |
| Young babies disapprove when they see adults acting immorally | |
| Ancient black holes may have made the first stars look cool | |
| Ancient birds couldnât sit on their eggs without smashing them | |
| Brain zap can make people re-experience old dreams while awake | |
| A high fibre diet helps treat diabetes by changing gut bacteria | |
| Fake news travels six times faster than the truth on Twitter | |
| Swarms of cheap drones are attacking missile defences in Yemen | |
| Stretchy âelectric skinâ generates power from your movements | |
| Deep sea discovery suggests world's oldest fossils misunderstood | |
| Record low Arctic ice linked to freak weather in US, Europe | |
| Could a bedtime pill protect you from morning heart attacks? | |
| What was the nerve agent used to poison Sergei Skripal? | |
| Leopards that live in cities are protecting people from rabies | |
| Parts of San Francisco are sinking faster than the sea is rising | |
| Fish called âsarcastic fringeheadâ has a wider mouth than body | |
| AI reconstructs whatever you see just by reading a brain scan | |
| We need to be mindful as we develop thought-reading tech | |
| Feedback: To save the world, eat jellyfish pickled in alcohol | |
| Mussel pain: The crisis engulfing our freshwater molluscs | |
| Elon Musk wants to turn our homes into one big power plant | |
| Crossword #16 | |
| Inside the cryptic world of UK computer art pioneer Paul Brown | |
| : How we feel our way to being human | |
| The global treatment plan helping to control the HIV epidemic | |
| I exposed how online profiling leaves us open to mass persuasion | |
| The real reason people talk over you, and what to do about it | |
| A cracking idea: The radical way to open up frozen seas | |
| Stunning shot of Jupiter's swirling storms taken by Juno camera | |
| Allow lesbians to use 'three-parent' baby IVF to have children | |
| 23andMe's breast cancer test may create false sense of security | |
| People with Tourette's may be better at learning without trying | |
| Puppy smart toy reveals who'll be a good guide dog | |
| Dark DNA: The missing matter at the heart of nature | |
| Cancer algorithm uses game theory to double survival time | |
| Slime mould researchers may be poised to rule the world | |
| A deadly predator could save the UKâs threatened red squirrels | |
| Drones reveal huge colonies of 1.5 million penguins on islands | |
| We could find advanced aliens by looking for their space junk | |
| England needs to go on a diet, but new calorie plan wonât work | |
| Nice prize for Alzheimer's work, shame about the lack of a cure | |
| Doctors race to identify poison affecting former Russian spy | |
| Australiaâs cervical cancer vaccine might eradicate the disease | |
| Google's 72-qubit chip is the largest yet | |
| How New Scientist readers predicted the Oscar winners | |
| AI reconstructs whatever you see just by reading a brain scan | |
| A twist in graphene lets you switch superconductivity on and off | |
| Fossil shows a parent caring for its young 520 million years ago | |
| Virtual reality lets doctors guide you through your own guts | |
| A mountain range on Saturnâs moon Iapetus may be a former ring | |
| Weâve evolved to sleep less and that may be causing Alzheimerâs | |
| Fish called âsarcastic fringeheadâ has a wider mouth than body | |
| Automated dance teacher tells you when your moves are wrong | |
| A weird underground plant has been rediscovered after 151 years | |
| There may be five kinds of diabetes, not just types 1 and 2 | |
| Biggest ever family tree shows when cousins stopped having sex | |
| Mind-reading AI uses brain scans to guess what you're looking at | |
| Very creative people have a special kind of brain activity | |
| Shock collars are a bad way to train dogs so let's ban them | |
| Don't panic â homes in the UK wonât run out of gas for heating | |
| NASAâs huge planet-hunting space telescope likely delayed again | |
| Probiotics and fish oil in pregnancy may reduce child allergies | |
| Genetically engineered cells can seek and destroy brain cancer | |
| Bacteria on our bodies may be protecting us from skin cancer | |
| The moon may have formed in a vaporised, doughnut-shaped Earth | |
| We have found traces of the universe's first ever stars | |
| Ancient 'dark-skinned' Briton Cheddar Man find may not be true | |
| Facebook Messenger used to try and deradicalise extremists | |
| DeepMind AI is learning to understand the âthoughtsâ of others | |
| Science too must tackle the gender pay gap | |
| Does Cheddar Man show there | |
| Unsafe sex and STIs are rising when they really shouldn't be | |
| Beetles hide by looking like the bite marks they make on leaves | |
| Growing skills: How to get the prettiest flowers on the block | |
| Growing skills: Top tips for producing the best veg in town | |
| Growing skills: A scientific guide to greener fingers | |
| Feedback: Stop eating fries to cure baldness, plead researchers | |
| Old Scientist: The rise of the machines from railway timetables | |
| Deconstructing Patterns: Cultural clash makes a fascinating show | |
| Science isn't everything â and it's not even after the truth | |
| Unicorns and designer babies: How CRISPR creator sees the future | |
| Unbreakable: The race to protect our secrets from quantum hacks | |
| 4 ways your eco-friendly plot is no good â and how to fix it | |
| Where eagles dare to dumpster dive | |
| Rich-poor divide in past flu pandemics must guide strategy today | |
| How the gender pay gap permeates science and engineering | |
| Surprise! Having a big brain really does mean having less muscle | |
| Don't hate all processed foods - they make modern life possible | |
| Most people re-use old passwords (but you don't, right?) | |
| Start-up aims to catapult stuff to space without using rockets | |
| Truth before beauty: Our universe is uglier than we thought | |
| Robots armed with saws make custom flat-pack furniture | |
| If you hate bad body odour, you're more likely to support Trump | |
| Our cousins chimps and bonobos use similar sign languages | |
| AI cheats at old Atari games by finding unknown bugs in the code | |
| Advertising campaign for monkeys uses sex to sell brands | |
| Why 2018 is looking like it will be the year of the black hole | |
| Beetles hide by looking like the bite marks they make on leaves | |
| Arctic hit by record high temperatures as rest of Europe shivers | |
| We may have already found signs of alien microbes on Enceladus | |
| North Atlantic right whales didn't have a single calf this year | |
| Cars that run on supercapacitors could be charged in minutes | |
| Baidu can clone your voice after hearing just a minute of audio | |
| You could survive falling into a black hole but it may get weird | |
| Quantum trick lets one particle send messages two ways at once | |
| Newly-discovered fungi turn luckless ants into kamikaze zombies | |
| Why the UK's new opt-out organ donation plan probably won't work | |
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| First speakers announced for New Scientist Live 2018 | |
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| Feedback: Some cows are pessimists, just like us | |
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| Was SpaceX launch about progress in space, or just a giant ad? | |
| We all need to take our heads out of the sand | |
| Should we revisit ethically dubious experiments from the past? | |
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| Expedition to uncover hidden life in mystery Antarctic realm | |
| NASA may lose a major space telescope and space station funding | |
| Super-accurate atomic clock used in real world for first time | |
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| Dark matter could be produced by twisted gravitational waves | |
| This record-breaking photo was taken from 6 billion km away | |
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| Primitive human eggs matured in the lab for the first time | |
| First glimpse of how genes may cause mental health problems | |
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| Crossword #15 | |
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| DeepMindâs virtual psychology lab seeks flaws in digital minds | |
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| Pregnant women have to navigate a minefield of painkiller advice | |
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| Dancing galaxies may shake up our ideas of galaxy formation | |
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| Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier | |
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| Time for the UK to stop dithering and add folic acid to bread | |
| Art history AI sees links between hundreds of years of paintings | |
| 7 things we thought were made by aliens, but weren't... probably | |
| Interstellar: The bizarre visitor from a far-off solar system | |
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| London has already reached air pollution limits for 2018 | |
| Disease mapper shows you what infections are hitting your area | |
| Mediterranean diet linked to higher chance of successful IVF | |
| Snake alarm call makes birds scan for approaching predators | |
| Dark matter near black holes sends gamma rays from galaxy's core | |
| Wave of massive volcanoes created Earth's first supercontinent | |
| Pocket-sized scanner helps fill gaps in the human genome | |
| Vaping could cause cancer â but itâs still safer than smoking | |
| Facebook is making a chatbot that can fill awkward silences | |
| Vaping could cause cancer â but itâs still safer than smoking | |
| Why Le Guin's science fiction surpasses mere thought experiments | |
| Children get new ears grown from their own cells in world first | |
| Neutrinos may have more kinds of cosmic sources than we thought | |
| Your next job interview could be playing a weird smartphone game | |
| Young 'dinosauromorphs' may have begged for food like baby birds | |
| Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier | |
| Are human clones next? Your trickiest cloning questions answered | |
| How do you stop your smart glasses filming in the toilet? | |
| Calm down â China is not racing ahead with human CRISPR trials | |
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| Chimps are now dying of the common cold and they are all at risk | |
| Just one cigarette a day can cause serious heart problems | |
| Early Earthâs air may show us how to find signs of alien life | |
| Smart contact lens monitors sweetness of diabetics' tears | |
| 3D âhologramsâ made with lasers by moving one particle at a time | |
| Spy balloons flying 40km up track drug smugglers on the ground | |
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| Ghost ships: The autonomous vehicles making waves on the water | |
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| Feedback: Getting starry-eyed over old school astrology | |
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| A new book says the pace of genomic innovation is problematic | |
| The fossil finder who can't wait to return to war-torn Yemen | |
| Shy pangolin hides its face in Mozambique forest | |
| YouTube's bots aren't protecting kids from all its nasty videos | |
| What does Chinaâs monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning? | |
| First monkeys, and then us? Human cloning must stay off limits | |
| Scientists have cloned monkeys and it could help treat cancer | |
| The origin of insect wings has been revealed by gene editing | |
| Our best way to geoengineer the climate may well trash Earth | |
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| Living on the veg: Should we all go vegan? | |
| Google-sponsored race to the moon has ended without a winner | |
| Drug that fools the womb could help stop painful periods | |
| We've stopped trusting social media â and that's a good thing | |
| Australia's A$60 million plan for Great Barrier Reef won't work | |
| Huge volcano eruption in the Philippines forces mass evacuation | |
| Tsunami warning for US west coast after magnitude-7.9 earthquake | |
| Spy balloons flying 40km up track drug smugglers on the ground | |
| AI that cracked ancient secret code could help robot translation | |
| Upstart Electron rocket has made it to orbit for the first time | |
| Ruptured Tibetan glaciers triggered massive speedy avalanches | |
| Black holes are firing a triple-threat of speedy particles at us | |
| To enjoy Robert Newmanâs gig, park your scientific scepticism | |
| Medieval gamblers turned their back on fate and made dice fair | |
| No, the worst-case climate change futures havenât been ruled out | |
| Deadly solar flares may have helped seed life on Mars and beyond | |
| Good news: animals won't shrink as the climate gets warmer | |
| Your boss not saying 'thank you' could be bad for your health | |
| New CRISPR method could take gene editing to the next level | |
| Commercial electric pulse fishing should be banned for now | |
| Hot yogaâs high temperature may not have any health benefits | |
| Some exoplanets orbiting red giant stars may just be a mirage | |
| NASA finally has a new boss after a year-long wait | |
| See inside the universe in this stunning light sculpture | |
| Some people identify smells as easily as if they were colours | |
| Stars that devour their planets get brighter and faster | |
| The higher your testosterone levels, the more you love soft rock | |
| Cute cats the size of kittens are seeing their homes destroyed | |
| Breathing in a nanoparticle spray could prevent heart damage | |
| Algorithms that change lives should be trialled like new drugs | |
| Safety panel puts brakes on SpaceXâs plan to put humans in space | |
| Apocalypse not now but the fate of civilisation is in our hands | |
| Feedback: eHarmony's love formula fails to woo ad watchdog | |
| Supporting young African scientists | |
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| The Amazonian arrow poison that made modern anaesthesia | |
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| Swollen eye is setback for blindness treatment using stem cells | |
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| Chit-chat makes humans and robots work together better | |
| Source of worldâs biggest listeria outbreak still unknown | |
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| A capsized oil tanker is releasing invisible toxins into the sea | |
| Blindness treatment will insert algae gene into people's eyes | |
| Mount Etna may not really be a âproperâ volcano at all | |
| DNA of man who died in 1827 recreated from his living relatives | |
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| Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet | |
| Copycat justice has turned US counties into execution hotspots | |
| Surfers may be swallowing bacteria and spreading it to others | |
| Voice assistants dominate CES as Google plays catchup with Alexa | |
| You may be making cryptocurrency for hackers without realising | |
| We may be able to see mountains and valleys on distant worlds | |
| The universe still seems to be expanding faster than it ought to | |
| Even a small cut in global warming will help slow sea level rise | |
| Tiny individual decisions really could help avert climate chaos | |
| Mars has ice sheets 130 metres thick hiding below its red dust | |
| Hidden exoplanets could be revealed by echoing light | |
| UK's plastic bag ban is a pitiful attempt at a greener future | |
| Mystery dark matter may be ordinary neutrons that have decayed | |
| Deadly heat: How to survive the worldâs new temperature extremes | |
| Study proves that humblebragging really is the worst | |
| The smart humanoid robot that will help in grocery warehouses | |
| A single gene can either raise or lower Crohnâs disease risk | |
| Robotic implant could help children with rare disorder eat again | |
| Mystery radio bursts may be from neutron star near a black hole | |
| Latest measurement of a proton's mass has got physicists puzzled | |
| Finland to trial nasal spray as gambling addiction treatment | |
| Birdbrain? Not moi | |
| Science helped cause the opioid crisis â now it must make amends | |
| Feedback: California's craze for untreated water goes viral | |
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| : Is hunting really the only way to save big game? | |
| Unearthed: Why we've got monuments like Stonehenge all wrong | |
| The doctor who took on big pharma to stem the US opioid epidemic | |
| Don't sweat it: The scientific guide to getting fit | |
| Spectacular light pillars rise up in frozen North America | |
| We must accept more risks if we want space travel to take off | |
| If the sea floor is sinking, are we safe from sea level rise? | |
| Hormone replacement therapy may prevent depression in menopause | |
| A swarm of home-made drones has bombed a Russian airbase | |
| Latest measurement of a proton's mass has got physicists puzzled | |
| Storm waves can move boulders heavier than the Statue of Liberty | |
| Smell of death tells undertaker bees it's time to remove corpses | |
| No sweat: Does carb loading improve performance? | |
| No sweat: Should my muscles be hurting days after a workout? | |
| No sweat: Are sports drinks worth the money? | |
| No sweat: Is yoga a proper workout? | |
| No sweat: Is exercising inside or outside better for you? | |
| No sweat: Can I tailor my exercise to burn more fat? | |
| No sweat: Does listening to music make exercise easier? | |
| No sweat: Does stretching before and after a workout help? | |
| No sweat: How can marathon runners avoid hitting âthe wallâ? | |
| No sweat: Does high-intensity interval training work? | |
| No sweat: When, how and how much should I exercise? | |
| When people sleep more they also eat less sugar and carbs | |
| People with diabetes seem to be protected against migraine | |
| Survey reveals extreme gender bias plagues STEM â it must change | |
| Extreme weather in US and Australia may be due to climate change | |
| Invasive toxic pufferfish causes havoc in European waters | |
| Ban on plastic microbeads comes into force in the UK | |
| AI listens in on emergency calls to diagnose cardiac arrest | |
| Sex tweets help track spread of sexually transmitted infections | |
| The ugly, fractured reality of the cosmos deserves our attention | |
| Freeze-dried valves used in animal heart surgery for first time | |
| We should teach kids how to use social media, not scare them off | |
| Arsonist falcons suggest birds discovered fire before humans did | |
| How to protect yourself from the Meltdown and Spectre bugs | |
| Tackle UK's killer toxic air before waging war on ocean plastic | |
| Fight continues over whether sex addiction is a real thing | |
| How besieged ants decide when itâs time to abandon their nests | |
| In 2018, science needs its own version of the #MeToo campaign | |
| The universe could be full of more huge stars than we thought | |
| 'Thrill-seeking' genes could help birds escape climate change | |
| Opioids that hit different brain target could be less addictive | |
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| SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket test is the start of a race to Mars | |
| Largest prime number ever found has over 23 million digits | |
| A new bitcoin Ponzi scheme or scam pops up almost every day | |
| Music and art stop dementia from stealing everything we cherish | |
| Aussie flu: Just what the doctor ordered? | |
| Tides and atmospheres on TRAPPIST-1 planets may help life thrive | |
| A daily blast of sound and electrical pulses may tame tinnitus | |
| Your computer may run 30 per cent slower due to Intel chip bug | |
| Baby skeleton from Alaska reveals origins of Native Americans | |
| Research on short-fall injuries quashes âshaken babyâ verdict | |
| With political will, we can solve the global vision crisis | |
| Feedback: Look to the stars for your bitcoin horoscope | |
| Otherworldly 'earth pyramids' make the Alps look alien | |
| China's plan to stop recycling the world's rubbish may backfire | |
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| Our pick of the best science shows to attend in 2018 | |
| The books and ideas that will shape the year ahead | |
| Eye phone: The doctor using tech to restore the worldâs sight | |
| Luck of the devil: How a Tasmanian icon is outwitting cancer | |
| Cosmic couture: The urgent quest to redesign the spacesuit | |
| NHS is switching to cheaper mimics of expensive cancer drugs | |
| Weird dim star isn't due to alien megastructure - it's just dust | |
| Can listening to a low hum destroy Alzheimerâs brain plaques? | |
| Blood test spots ovarian cancer years before it is usually found | |
| It's never too late to get a tattoo, an implant â or new senses | |
| Californians can now buy marijuana for recreational use | |
| Pandemics past: Seven times flu has become a mass killer | |
| Painter, painter of the wall, what's the fairest colour of all? | |
| Waiting for the big one: A new flu pandemic is a matter of time | |
| Jab in the dark: Why we donât have a universal flu vaccine | |
| Stopping the spread: What you can do to prevent flu | |
| The epidemic on the way: Why winter flu is so bad this year | |
| Japan launches super-low-orbit satellite to test ion engines | |
| Viennaâs Biennale poses hard questions for near and far futures | |
| Why a nasty surprise lurks 100 years on from the lethal 1918 flu | |
| Only great work can really justify sci-art collaborations | |
| Itâs up to us if powerful AI embodies our virtues or our vices | |
| When it comes to animals, even tiny differences are a big deal | |
| Your body fat may be protecting you against infections | |
| Cocktail umbrellas can save Earth from the Anthropocene | |
| Human or robot? Google's speech generator makes it hard to tell | |
| Plants use sand armour to break teeth of attacking caterpillars | |
| Time to fix an internet bust by surveillance capitalism's demand for data | |
| Our lust for tastier chocolate has transformed the cocoa tree | |
| Love at first sight is really just lust or even false memory | |
| We must challenge notions that Marx can explain the modern world | |
| The universe may be full of ex-moons flung from their home worlds | |
| Engines of creation - and the people who build them | |
| Festive flames: How to light a Christmas pudding | |
| China tackles climate change with world's largest carbon market | |
| Odd fossils hint first complex life hung on long after its time | |
| Earth was smashed by a rock the size of Mars to make the moon | |
| Shocking drop in life expectancy shows US still in bad health | |
| Booby-trapped obstacle course trains older people not to fall | |
| NASA plans a launch to Titan or a return to comet 67P in 2025 | |
| Mars rocks may have drunk up all the water and doomed life there | |
| One-off CRISPR treatment slows genetic hearing loss in mice | |
| Why complex life could prove remarkably common in the universe | |
| 3D-printed implant mends broken legs by turning into real bone | |
| Hardy Antarctic tardigrades may be threatened by climate change | |
| Fooling AI can now be done a thousand times faster | |
| Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes | |
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| How Trumpâs âbanâ on science words could harm public health | |
| Video gaming disorder to be officially recognised for first time | |
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| Let it glow, let it glow, let it snow | |
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| 2018 preview: Quantum computers to overtake ordinary machines | |
| 2018 preview: Epic mission to Mercury will unravel its mysteries | |
| 2018 preview: Last chance for new physics at the LHC for years | |
| 2018 preview: Gene therapy treats disease while in the womb | |
| 2018 preview: Bitcoin and ICO bubbles are set to burst | |
| 2018 preview: Thousands of mystery lifeforms to be revealed | |
| 2018 preview: Opioids will kill tens of thousands more people | |
| 2018 preview: Get ready to meet your newest long-lost ancestor | |
| 2018 preview: Bioelectricity tweak can regenerate missing limbs | |
| 2018 preview: Return to the moon as eight missions are planned | |
| People without electricity could end up living the energy dream | |
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| Test yourself against these superpuzzles from Japan: Solutions | |
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| Exploring the universe â and how we found our place in it | |
| Test yourself against these superpuzzles from Japan | |
| The Great Northern Expedition: triumph or tragedy? | |
| Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news | |
| Calendar synaesthesia: The people who can see time | |
| ’Sno substitute: The ecological cost of fake flakes on the piste | |
| Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat | |
| The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears | |
| Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis | |
| Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun | |
| Grapes of wrath: How a New World import destroyed French wine | |
| We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home | |
| The holly hunters banking berries to save a species | |
| How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke | |
| England's soggy place names could predict the climate future | |
| The epic robot fails that say AI will never rule the world | |
| New blues: The quest to make the worldâs rarest colour | |
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| Ravenous rainforest resident plucks midnight snack from thin air | |
| The bodyâs killer immune cells also feed fetuses in the womb | |
| Genital parasite crabs are struggling to find sex partners | |
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| Exclusive: NASA has begun plans for a 2069 interstellar mission | |
| Good news: Demand for coal is plummeting towards a record low | |
| Exclusive: Most premature baby ever to survive born at 22 weeks | |
| Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world | |
| Will supersonic air travel's return be another white elephant? | |
| Great tits avoid bad food after seeing grossed-out friends | |
| Six-year-olds will pay to see bad guys get their comeuppance | |
| Bad colds may have delayed this year's flu epidemic in UK | |
| Wound scanner shows bacteria glowing if your body is infected | |
| Drone-controlled movie cameras catch stunts from every angle | |
| Mathematician set to publish ABC proof almost no one understands | |
| Hoax or not? Three ancient texts with controversial origins | |
| Hijacked sperm carry chemo drugs to cervical cancer cells | |
| Does losing net neutrality really mean the end of the internet? | |
| Zombie fungus infects fruit flies and turns them into slaves | |
| Young female monkeys use deer as 'outlet for sexual frustration' | |
| NASA has discovered our solar systemâs twin with 8 planets | |
| Venice may be almost 200 years older than anyone thought | |
| A family in Italy doesnât feel pain because of a gene mutation | |
| TB, or not TB? At last, a urine test can diagnose it quickly | |
| This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era | |
| Robot that's the width of a hair masters Pac-Man and cuts cheese | |
| Effortless thinking: Thoughtlessly thoughtless | |
| Weâre homing in on the pathways that shape sexual orientation | |
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| Antisense therapy promises to slow Huntingtonâs disease | |
| Bitcoin futures trading opens as cryptocurrency's price soars | |
| The world urgently needs critical thinking, not gut feeling | |
| Feedback: McGee's dancefloor silver could turn her blue | |
| Stopping rabies in its tracks | |
| Uncannily real: volumetric video changes everything | |
| How World War Zero wrecked three Bronze Age civilisations | |
| Planet X: We are closing in on the solar system's new occupant | |
| Restarting dead people's hearts lets doctors reuse their organs | |
| Why 2018 is gearing up to be a tipping point for climate action | |
| Children are becoming problem gamblers due to a legal loophole | |
| Sad âpigsâ have been filmed apparently mourning a dead friend | |
| Giant tortoises are rare today but once roamed four continents | |
| Mars overdue a planet-wide dust storm that could harm the rovers | |
| Englandâs shift to opt-out organ donation will save many lives | |
| Fentanyl considered for execution cocktail by two US states | |
| Effortless thinking: The fake news that takes us all in | |
| Effortless thinking: It pays to resist revenge's sweet taste | |
| Effortless thinking: The god-shaped hole in your brain | |
| Effortless thinking: Adapting our need to feel part of the gang | |
| Effortless thinking: Why we're all born to be status quo fans | |
| Effortless thinking: We're all suckers for a celebrity | |
| Effortless thinking: Why stereotyping is an evolutionary trap | |
| Effortless thinking: Beware the voice of your inner child | |
| Effortless thinking: Why life is more than a zero-sum game | |
| Technology vs observation: the big question facing artâs future | |
| The tiny space rock New Horizons is headed for may have a moon | |
| Ancient black holes ruled out as source of all dark matter | |
| Mysterious streaks seen on Saturnâs moons could be ancient rings | |
| California's wildfires are driven by climate and human error | |
| Anti-vax views must not derail France's compulsory vaccine law | |
| Weaponised microwave may be behind alleged sonic attacks in Cuba | |
| Nomadic birds in danger after spate of wildfires in key wetland | |
| Joke Christmas medical journal papers make unfunny bad science | |
| Trump directs NASA to send astronauts to the moon and then Mars | |
| We may know why younger brothers are more likely to be gay | |
| Bumblebees solve the travelling salesman problem on the fly | |
| Ancient microbes caused Earthâs first ever global warming | |
| Fasting may boost brainpower by giving neurons more energy | |
| Faltering carbon capture needs more investment not doubt | |
| 'Scary' spider photos on Facebook are revealing new species | |
| Light from LIGOâs neutron star smashup just got even brighter | |
| Record-breaking two-tonne fish is the heaviest of its kind | |
| That interstellar asteroid could be a shard of a shredded planet | |
| Will wildfires finally change Rupert Murdochâs climate stance? | |
| Food delivery robots are teaching themselves how to cross roads | |
| Africaâs giraffes are being slaughtered by Joseph Kony's army | |
| Bizarre supernova may be powered by hidden disc of dust and gas | |
| How refugee scientists can change the world | |
| Daughters of older mums are more likely to never have children | |
| What do the new âgay genesâ tell us about sexual orientation? | |
| Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence | |
| Gruesome eyeball wounds patched up with squirt of smart glue | |
| Most distant quasar ever seen is way too big for our universe | |
| Earthâs climate will warm 15 per cent more than we thought | |
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| Victoria is first state in Australia to legalise euthanasia | |
| Feedback: Proposals for a new drugs class are double plus good | |
| Crossword #13 | |
| Waterworlds: How should we protect our most precious resource? | |
| The Soviet genius who tried to beat capitalism at its own game | |
| Night exercises: The intense workout we all do in our sleep | |
| Wildebeest no more: The death of Africa's great migrations | |
| The sparkling ice hummocks of the worldâs biggest lake | |
| US cyberweapons have been stolen and there's nothing we can do | |
| Podcast: How your thinking style is getting you into trouble | |
| Why brewing beer in space is more important than you think | |
| How we breathe between words can be used to identify us | |
| Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in | |
| A boy is missing the vision bit of his brain but can still see | |
| Welcome to the limb lab where organs are kept alive on shelves | |
| Dark energy is mutating, with grave consequences for the cosmos | |
| Japanâs refusal to stop ivory trade undermines bans elsewhere | |
| The hardest problem | |
| The usual way of hunting dark matter may be all wrong | |
| Lizards re-evolved eggs after thousands of years of live births | |
| Sumatran tigers fall 17 per cent and have just two strongholds | |
| Artificial ovary may fine-tune treatment for menopause symptoms | |
| Robofish floats about tracking antibiotics in the Great Lakes | |
| NASA fires Voyager 1's engines for the first time in 37 years | |
| Planets near dangerous stars could shield alien life under smog | |
| Spaceplanes may be the best hope in war on deadly orbiting junk | |
| Science Fiction: slavery stereotypes, and a new M. John Harrison | |
| Moonâs explosive birth drove iron deep into Earth's core | |
| Jupiterâs icy moon Europa has a hidden âconveyer beltâ of heat | |
| Focus on liberty and purity may change anti-vax parentsâ minds | |
| Want to be the boss? How to signal your leadership potential | |
| Destruction of war-torn Syria brought to London by AI | |
| Why do female monkeys spend so long looking at rugged males? | |
| Environmentalism: mission impossible, or just improbable? | |
| Worldâs richest science prize hands out $22 million for research | |
| Why it's good that NHS England is cutting back on prescriptions | |
| Why the internet's CiCo calorie count diet won't keep weight off | |
| A shipwreck has been found from the time of Alexander the Great | |
| Weird magnets could make computers that work 1000 times faster | |
| Hummingbirds have massive hearts to power their hovering flight | |
| Baby pterosaurs were cute, defenceless and unable to fly | |
| Win 12 of the best new popular science books for Christmas | |
| No, aliens aren't lurking on the International Space Station | |
| Podcast: Are we heading towards a male fertility disaster? | |
| Tasty tomatoes could be sacrificed in drive to cut food waste | |
| Addicted to tech? A brain chemical imbalance may be to blame | |
| Your smartphone behaviour may decide whether you get a loan | |
| Migraine drug makes people have fewer 'migraine daysâ | |
| Exercise hormone protects against bad complications in surgery | |
| Best-yet quantum simulator with 53 qubits could really be useful | |
| The fashion industry can only go green by becoming unfashionable | |
| A bacterium has been engineered to make 'unnatural' proteins | |
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| Two UK cities hit by measles outbreaks as vaccination rates drop | |
| Kids are alright whatever the family make-up, so let them be | |
| Feedback: How did cannibal rats sail a ship through the Arctic? | |
| Scorching hot springs house extreme life and a future ocean | |
| Fertility clinics are fudging IVF stats to look more successful | |
| Feather-light artificial muscles lift 1000 times own weight | |
| Old Scientist: Age, autism and animal art | |
| How Japan got a fix on brain-teasing highs | |
| Rediscover the gift of reading: Best books to buy this holiday | |
| Bustard or bust: The fractious battle to bring back a lost giant | |
| Malaria is no longer in decline and that should worry us all | |
| Weird 'underground' flower has evolved to look like a mushroom | |
| Cuts likely for one of NASA's next big space-based telescopes | |
| We struggle with monogamy â is it time to abandon it altogether? | |
| Does it matter if my child is not genetically related to me? | |
| How changing families are affecting our childrenâs well-being | |
| Weird tiny galaxies found hiding in Hubbleâs Ultra Deep Field | |
| Bitcoin in the balance: The troublesome quest to reinvent money | |
| Married people are much less likely to get dementia | |
| North Korea launches another long-range missile toward Japan | |
| 'Super-spreader' coral could restore trashed Great Barrier Reef | |
| Politics chat on Reddit reads like it was written by 6-year-olds | |
| Teenage brains canât tell whatâs important and what isnât | |
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| Hey, Flat Earther, no need to launch a rocket to test your ideas | |
| NHS turns to ethical hackers to defend it from malicious attacks | |
| A grim winter looms for UK hospitals but there's an easy cure | |
| Madagascar's lemurs close to extinction after population crash | |
| Men in the UK have the highest obesity rates in Europe | |
| Feather-light artificial muscles lift 1000 times own weight | |
| Artificial embryonic stem cells tested in people for first time | |
| What to expect if Indonesia's volcano erupts in a big way | |
| Mysterious gamma rays in Crab nebula traced to pulsar winds | |
| We've found a bunch of dwarf galaxies we thought didn't exist | |
| Good news: one form of air pollution may be falling in Europe | |
| Who will really benefit from the coming smart-city revolution? | |
| Hearing implant uses lasers to shoot sound into your ear | |
| An AI might help identify missing children when they're older | |
| Secure phone uses sonar to watch your mouth saying a passphrase | |
| Putting a face on hallucinations aids symptoms of schizophrenia | |
| Huge dose of brain chemical dopamine may have made us smart | |
| Morning sickness in pregnancy blamed on protein in the placenta | |
| Strong bones may be vital for maintaining memory in old age | |
| App can tell you if a mosquito is about to give you malaria | |
| The UK just missed a big chance to cut harmful diesel pollution | |
| Birds have childhood sweethearts that they stay with as adults | |
| Magnetic cells could fix a broken heart after a heart attack | |
| Light pollution is set to double between now and 2050 | |
| Watch this soft robot squeeze a damaged heart to keep it pumping | |
| No, the UK didn't vote that animals can't feel pain or emotion | |
| Lightning leaves clouds of radiation and antimatter in its wake | |
| How do you link the world's blockchains? With another blockchain | |
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| Private mission may get us back to Enceladus sooner than NASA | |
| Austerity cuts to NHS blamed for 120,000 excess deaths | |
| Another psychedelic revolution, but this time it's different | |
| Put your hands together to bring a dead phone back to life | |
| Feedback: Trump enlists a confederacy of dunces to run the EPA | |
| Future by design: Will the power of AI reshape our world? | |
| Can everybody on the planet all live well? | |
| The latest science picks remind us why we really do need experts | |
| Dan McKenzie: The man who made Earth move | |
| How your digital style gives you away â and how to hide it | |
| How a fiery matter-antimatter union may lead to limitless energy | |
| Giant climate camera will watch how our planet changes | |
| Signs of running water on Mars dunes are probably just dry sand | |
| Let's hope chickless penguin colony can come back from the brink | |
| Mind menders: how psychedelic drugs rebuild broken brains | |
| Making your brain cells longer could help ward off Alzheimerâs | |
| Uber had a massive data hack - here's how worried you should be | |
| Ocean-covered planets may not be the places to search for life | |
| Keystone XL oil pipeline will go ahead despite last week's spill | |
| Latest climate talks actually made progress despite US obstinacy | |
| An Argentinian submarine has vanished - here's how to find it | |
| Russia confirms 'extremely high' radiation levels in toxic cloud | |
| We got a good look at the interstellar asteroid and itâs weird | |
| How a tiny fly can âscuba diveâ in a salty and toxic lake | |
| Nothing you can do stops this code from watching you online | |
| The message we're sending to nearby aliens is no threat to Earth | |
| Whales switch from right to left-handed when diving for food | |
| Your music tastes can be changed by using magnets on your brain | |
| Spongy clay might create huge water deposits deep inside Earth | |
| The New Horizons spacecraft is heading towards a mystery rock | |
| Black holes that shred stars burp out cosmic rays and neutrinos | |
| The forces that govern matter and light could be united at last | |
| Scottâs tragic polar selfie: Rare photo goes under the hammer | |
| Venom: The show with an unsettling sting in its tale | |
| Rocket-powered Land Rovers can survive deadly roadside bombs | |
| Video: Rajkumar Buyya -- Scopus Awards winner | |
| Video: Ranjith Pathegama Gamage -- Scopus Awards winner | |
| Video: Monika Janda -- Scopus Awards winner | |
| Scopus award winners for Australia and New Zealand announced | |
| Blue tits divorce their partners if they turn up late to mate | |
| Why setting âsafeâ limits for environmental damage wonât work | |
| Common condition endometriosis reprograms brain for depression | |
| Watch humanoid Boston Dynamics robot do box jumps and back flips | |
| Tesla's electric trucks are great but they won't save the planet | |
| We may know why Jupiter's Great Red Spot is red instead of white | |
| Gene drives can beat pests, but we canât afford any mistakes | |
| Dark matter may be the source of antimatter streaming past Earth | |
| Weak links in US power grid vulnerable in event of catastrophe | |
| Why we should celebrate Scotlandâs minimum alcohol price plan | |
| Trump to let Americans import ivory and hunting trophies again | |
| Whatâs the best way to scare an elephant? Use an AI scarecrow | |
| Why a female fly will ruin your drink, but a male is fine | |
| Brain training game linked to lower dementia risk a decade later | |
| We just sent a message to try to talk to aliens on another world | |
| Amish gene can make them live 10 years longer and avoid diabetes | |
| A layer of haze keeps Plutoâs atmosphere extremely cold | |
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| IBM has built two new quantum computers with 20 and 50 qubits | |
| Digital drug tells your doctor when you've taken your medicine | |
| Why the male infertility crisis could be good news for women | |
| Feedback: Kenya's chief censor has claws out for gay pride | |
| Put your best foot forward to help animal conservation | |
| What makes you a psychopath or an extreme altruist? | |
| The ingenious priest who discovered how bats 'see' in the dark | |
| Grand delusions: Why we all believe the weirdest things | |
| Wrong division: How maths can save democracy from gerrymandering | |
| The exquisite marble that sculptor Michelangelo couldn't use | |
| Biohackers are using CRISPR on their DNA and we can't stop it | |
| Free-fall experiment could test if gravity is a quantum force | |
| We've just found a nearby exoplanet that could be right for life | |
| Spiders reset body clocks to avoid 5-hour jet-lag every day | |
| We're heading for a male fertility crisis and we're not prepared | |
| Porpoises twist laws of physics to aim their focused sonar beams | |
| Why we should build AI that sometimes disobeys our commands | |
| We found our galactic twin 180 million light years away | |
| How long should you let a pregnancy run before being induced? | |
| NHS reforms have failed to boost community-based care in England | |
| If we only ate organic it would be an environmental disaster | |
| Prairie vole partners split up if one drinks more than the other | |
| Camera spots hidden oil spills and may find missing planes | |
| Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species | |
| The 'space nation' Asgardia just launched its first satellite | |
| Coffee and plant-based diets linked to lower heart failure risk | |
| Big aftershocks could well hit Iran and Iraq in next 48 hours | |
| In a Spotify world, why does anyone want to listen to cassettes? | |
| Should we seed life through the cosmos using laser-driven ships? | |
| Climate change blamed for Arabian Seaâs unexpected hurricanes | |
| Monkeys learn to play 'chicken' in a virtual driving game | |
| How social stress makes your brain vulnerable to depression | |
| Tinfoil hat for your router stops bad guys snooping your Wi-Fi | |
| Brain implant boosts human memory by mimicking how we learn | |
| Why people ruin othersâ lives by exposing all their data online | |
| Bad news: Carbon emissions have suddenly started rising again | |
| A 'magic number' of people walking across a bridge makes it sway | |
| Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbeanâs giant ground sloths | |
| Watch a monkey floss its teeth with a bird feather | |
| Neptuneâs other moons were normal until Triton crashed the party | |
| Medical cannabis vendors must stop making bogus health claims | |
| Charge your phone using ambient light and printed solar cells | |
| Grow fake versions of rare delicacies like sea urchin at home | |
| Gluten-sensitive? It may actually be a carb making you ill | |
| Tracking the first interstellar asteroid back to its home star | |
| Power really can corrupt people. Here's what to do about it | |
| Giant star smash-up may have made the biggest neutron star ever | |
| Giant coconut crab sneaks up on a sleeping bird and kills it | |
| Meet the winners of the biggest ever face-recognition challenge | |
| Facebook can make your profile pic wink and scowl | |
| Daytime injuries heal twice as fast as wounds sustained at night | |
| Five death rituals to give you a new view on funerals | |
| A bizarre supernova keeps exploding over and over again | |
| Boy with a genetic disease has had almost all his skin replaced | |
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| FDA loosens rules on direct-to-consumer genetic tests | |
| Meet the winners of the biggest-ever face-recognition challenge | |
| Five firms aim to power moon-orbiting way station to deep space | |
| Estonia freezes popular e-residency ID cards due to security bug | |
| Get closer to death to make the most of life | |
| Your data is too valuable and sensitive to dish out for free | |
| Letting robots kill without human supervision could save lives | |
| I went on a data diet and all I got was ads and paranoia | |
| Feedback: Want to improve your Dutch? Head to the pub | |
| Crossword #12 | |
| revives old ideas about maths and beauty | |
| Language: Unlocking the past's most powerful secret | |
| This mortician wants to fix our broken relationship with death | |
| The unseen puppet masters that control life in the oceans | |
| State of unrest: Can fidgeting really help you concentrate? | |
| Gang of ants surgically dismembers large, dead spider on Borneo | |
| When it comes to climate, Donald Trump is in a club by himself | |
| AI binges on CSI crime shows and learns to guess whodunnit | |
| How YouTube Kids can solve its Peppa Pig cannibalism problem | |
| Consciously quantum: How you make everything real | |
| Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles | |
| What we're doing now will make the ocean completely unliveable | |
| UK is right to worry that tech takeovers may let hackers in | |
| Planting trees could mop up ten yearsâ worth of greenhouse gases | |
| Weâve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted | |
| Why burying loved ones in unmarked graves could save wildlife | |
| Chinaâs dreadful air pollution seems to have got a bit better | |
| Five firms aim to power moon-orbiting way station to deep space | |
| Maths can make sense of Trumpâs âmadmanâ North Korea strategy | |
| Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day | |
| Your brain signals weaken and slow down when youâre really tired | |
| Enceladusâs hot, gritty core may cook up ingredients for life | |
| I went on a data diet and all I got was ads and paranoia | |
| Virtual cocktails hijack your senses to turn water into wine | |
| Europe and the US were most responsible for deadly heatwave | |
| Phone sensors can save lives by revealing what floor you are on | |
| Anorexia films and documentaries must avoid being voyeuristic | |
| Blood cells in chronic fatigue syndrome are drained of energy | |
| Massachusetts may end daylight saving time - let's all join them | |
| Visual trick fools AI into thinking a turtle is really a rifle | |
| Breathing pure oxygen could heal footballers with concussion | |
| There is a third species of orangutan and somehow nobody noticed | |
| People with face blindness are missing a âhubâ in their brains | |
| Why Hawking's PhD thesis is now an internet-breaking inspiration | |
| Cosmic rays have revealed a new chamber in Egyptâs Great Pyramid | |
| The latest science reads remind us why we really do need experts | |
| A third of animals are vanishing as roads spread through forests | |
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| Bitcoin: what a waste of resources | |
| People who can't see fireworks can feel them with new display | |
| Feedback: A quacking idea to use ducks as research assistants | |
| Old Scientist: Why arenât there more British Nobels? | |
| Inside the strange world of the Museum of Ordinary Animals | |
| Three competing visions of our future communities | |
| The tortoise-riding banker who collected the natural world | |
| Quantum code: why building the ultimate computer is the easy bit | |
| Peek inside a gilded cage of liquid argon made to spot neutrinos | |
| Good news: A robot has been hired to care for our old folk | |
| Is modern life making today's teenagers more depressed? | |
| Malaria parasite makes mosquitoes more likely to suck your blood | |
| Rivers and forests need the same legal rights we grant to people | |
| Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food | |
| How learning to share cakes could help stop unfair US elections | |
| The very first living thing is still alive inside each one of us | |
| Australia to cut cervical cancer risk with less regular tests | |
| First results from young blood Alzheimerâs trial are criticised | |
| People who illegally kill birds of prey are getting away with it | |
| Sharks now protected no matter whose waters they swim in | |
| Disney water jets let visually impaired people 'feel' fireworks | |
| Secure your secret messages with printable invisible ink | |
| UKâs plan to tackle âcrack cocaineâ of gambling lacks evidence | |
| Alzheimerâs may be able to spread through blood transfusions | |
| Climate change will kill millions but you knew that already | |
| Donor organs created by dissolving and rebuilding pig livers | |
| We have four years fewer to slash carbon emissions than thought | |
| Hey Trump, the 1970s called and it wants its drug policies back | |
| A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one | |
| We may have found 20 habitable worlds hiding in plain sight | |
| Chill factors: The everyday things that make us see ghosts | |
| Kitchen counter bio-lab lets you make edible gloop from cells | |
| Bitcoin mining uses more energy than Ecuador â but thereâs a fix | |
| Space changes how your brain thinks and it starts right away | |
| Female birds that used to be silent are now singing like males | |
| The first ancestors of giant pandas probably lived in Europe | |
| We now know more on the origins of weird duck-shaped comet 67P | |
| How a tiny shrimp fires a savage shock wave using just its claw | |
| Lincolnâs Frequency digital festival gets into the cityâs fabric | |
| Opioid crisis: Trump suggests telling young people drugs are bad | |
| Want to think outside of the box? Try sniffing a placebo | |
| Boiling water on Mars could make the planet's sand levitate | |
| Mussel-inspired plastic could make self-repairing body armour | |
| Ban on weedkiller glyphosate won't save anyone from cancer | |
| Brain-zap therapy may throw people with depression into a rage | |
| Cracking it: Enigmaâs Alan Turing and Linear Bâs Michael Ventris | |
| Robot carers are a reality: I only wish my mum got one | |
| Gaming addiction probably isnât a real condition, study suggests | |
| What drove the WHO to make Robert Mugabe a goodwill ambassador? | |
| Early menopause is more likely if youâve ever been underweight | |
| We may have just seen the first comet from another solar system | |
| Lightâs quantum weirdness survives after going to space and back | |
| Oysters can âhearâ the ocean even though they donât have ears | |
| Weâve evolved an even more powerful form of CRISPR gene editing | |
| How we could make oxygen on Mars, plus fuel to get home | |
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| Twitter is tightening its rules around online sexual harassment | |
| Dawn spacecraft approved to spend another year studying Ceres | |
| Antivirus company counters spying claims by opening up its code | |
| WHO reverses decision to elect Robert Mugabe as ambassador | |
| Trust nobody? No thanks | |
| Head transplant mavericks must be scrutinised, not ignored | |
| We all get poorer every time a climate disaster strikes | |
| Feedback: Trump's pick for top EPA post fails impromptu eye test | |
| Automate Halloween with a candy-dispensing jack-o'-lantern | |
| Cataclysms: A life spent chasing planetary catastrophe | |
| Inside the mind of the man who wants to transplant human heads | |
| AI physicists: The machines cracking the quantum code | |
| Luther's legacy: Did a religious revolt create science? | |
| Pied tamarin doesn't look too happy about its extreme close-up | |
| La Niña forecast may mean even worse Atlantic hurricanes in 2018 | |
| A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995 | |
| You can trust me: Five shortcuts to show that youâre for real | |
| Leap of faith: How Airbnb gets us to trust complete strangers | |
| UN climate events are a wasted opportunity for public engagement | |
| Marijuana compounds made in GM yeast could help epilepsy | |
| Who can you trust? How tech is reshaping what we believe | |
| A smart city in China tracks every citizen and yours could too | |
| An AI has learned how to pick a single voice out of a crowd | |
| What the controversial âhumanâ teeth fossils really tell us | |
| Artificial intelligence tells nightmare-inducing tales of terror | |
| New York should prepare for 15-metre storm surges by 2300 | |
| Your autopilot mode is real - now we know how the brain does it | |
| Robotic underwater miners can go where humans can't | |
| Possible exomoon may be an ocean-covered world as big as Saturn | |
| Chronic back pain stem cell treatment could cut need for opioids | |
| Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction | |
| Narcissists arenât very conservative but believe in inequality | |
| Volcanoes that spew stretchy ice could make dwarf planets bright | |
| Google's quantum computing plans threatened by IBM curveball | |
| Dark energy survives neutron star crash test while rivals fail | |
| Scotland has banned smacking children - so should everyone else | |
| Dimming the sun could save corals from bleaching and hurricanes | |
| Bloody exhibition is only for the brave and the bold | |
| Songbird gets angry when its rivals are brilliant at singing | |
| A home test kit may let you diagnose endometriosis years earlier | |
| Steep decline of wasps and other flying nasties is a bad sign | |
| Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too | |
| Why our 'freakish' galaxy has got cosmologists seriously worried | |
| The mass extinction that might never have happened | |
| Win signed books about Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein | |
| Speaking up against sexual abuse is hard â #MeToo changes that | |
| Win signed books about Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein | |
| Self-harming has risen dramatically among UK teenage girls | |
| The 5 biggest discoveries from the hunt for gravitational waves | |
| Hunger-blocking injection lets fat monkeys quickly lose weight | |
| A common herbal medicine may cause liver cancer mutations | |
| 5 'mad scientists' of post-Revolution Russia | |
| AlphaGo's AI upgrade gets round the need for human input | |
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| Huge Piccadilly Circus screen will target ads at certain cars | |
| US Affordable Care Act dealt two blows by President Trump | |
| A world where cameras are always on may make us less human | |
| Feedback: This gadget promises air from your own private tree | |
| Broken faces of the Great War | |
| Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends | |
| The Farthest: How the Voyager story keeps on giving | |
| Too much information? The data-driven future of health | |
| The bourgeois biologist who sparked Russia's genetics revolution | |
| Museum safari: The myriad unknown species lost in dusty drawers | |
| Getting on cancerâs nerves: A surprising way to thwart tumours | |
| Police body cams were meant to keep us safer. Are they working? | |
| Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals | |
| Journey to the city of tomorrow | |
| Hiding in plain sight: The mystery of the sun's missing matter | |
| Google and Apple yet to fix Wi-Fi hole in a billion devices | |
| Astronaut wee could show us how the plumes on Enceladus work | |
| Butchery of a black rhino wins Wildlife Photographer award | |
| A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturnâs rings from breaking apart | |
| Online dating may be breaking down societyâs racial divisions | |
| Roadside barrier that folds like origami blocks traffic noise | |
| Four brain genes help explain obsessive compulsive disorder | |
| How to clean up the dirty water Puerto Ricans are drinking | |
| Ophelia shows many hurricanes could reach Europe in the future | |
| Trumpâs U-turn may see Iran join North Korea as a nuclear state | |
| Gravitational waves have let us see huge neutron stars colliding | |
| How to beat the bookies by turning their odds against them | |
| A tech-destroying solar flare could hit Earth within 100 years | |
| Sex addiction isnât an illness, treating it as one is a bad idea | |
| Driverless cars could let you choose who survives in a crash | |
| Horses bred to look like cartoons are part of a worrying trend | |
| Magic mushroom extract changes brains of people with depression | |
| Sperm age calculator tells men how decrepit their sperm are | |
| Online game will spot if you have hidden cybersecurity talents | |
| Male chimpanzee seen snatching seconds-old chimp and eating it | |
| Weâve drawn iconic sail-wearing Dimetrodon wrong for 100 years | |
| We can finally map the spiral arm on the far side of the galaxy | |
| Gene study shows human skin tone has varied for 900,000 years | |
| Skin-tight exoskeleton is worn like Spanx and lets you turn left | |
| Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process | |
| Perfectly preserved fossil salamander even has last meal in gut | |
| Air pollution blamed for 500,000 early deaths in Europe in 2014 | |
| Women donât need to âswitch offâ to climax, orgasm study shows | |
| Caesarean sections cause obesity and microbiome changes in mice | |
| Top tips to get a better nightâs sleep and improve your health | |
| Distant dwarf planet near Pluto has a ring that no one expected | |
| Most versatile stem cell ever may help us understand miscarriage | |
| New Scientist Live: It's show time! | |
| A house has been bought on the blockchain for the first time | |
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| Google's new earbuds act as two-way translators in your ear | |
| Sleeping too little is no badge of honour â it harms our brains | |
| It looks like an oxymoron, but Earth optimism is worth a try | |
| Crossword #11 | |
| Feedback: The fruitloopy world of David "Avocado" Wolfe | |
| It's time artists woke up to the power at their fingertips | |
| Time to get under-involved with the kids | |
| The blushing Englishman who stole nuclear secrets from the US | |
| Is positive thinking the way to save the planet? | |
| The next supercontinent: Four ways Earth could reshape itself | |
| The strange beauty of piles of waste awaiting a brand new life | |
| The stock market is run by wild robots we don't fully control | |
| Californiaâs wildfires powered by perfect storm of fire hazards | |
| Wake-up call: How a lack of sleep can cause Alzheimerâs | |
| Female dolphins have weaponised their vaginas to fend off males | |
| Illuminating India: The genius of making a little go a long way | |
| It was always crazy to shoot for Mars before colonising the moon | |
| The dearth of women in tech is nothing to do with testosterone | |
| Will Alphabet's internet balloons really help Puerto Rico? | |
| Drone designers accidentally explain colour of albatross wings | |
| Human hearts kept 'asleep' in a box can survive outside the body | |
| Culture picks: Read your way into (almost) any science subject | |
| Giant black hole seen flickering on and off after galaxy snack | |
| Smartphone lets you see round corners by light flicker on floor | |
| Father of 'nudge' psychology wins economics Nobel | |
| Cold climate may have driven ancient humansâ move out of Africa | |
| Evolutionâs rules mean life on Earth isnât that varied after all | |
| Most science papers turn out to be wrong. Itâs time to fix that | |
| Kuwait's plans for mandatory DNA database have been cancelled | |
| Nanoflares in the sunâs plasma may cause its scalding atmosphere | |
| Anti-doping agency to ban all gene editing in sport from 2018 | |
| Exploding stars could have kick-started our ancestorsâ evolution | |
| Half the universeâs missing matter has just been finally found | |
| Light-filtering paint cools your home when exposed to hot sun | |
| Nobel prizes would be better without all the fame and fortune | |
| Seal pups get separated from their mums by icebreaker ships | |
| Lunar volcanoes and lava lakes gave the early moon an atmosphere | |
| Little-known drug keeps climbersâ minds sharp at high altitude | |
| We canât ever know whether or not our universe is a simulation | |
| Protein injection could prevent hair loss during chemotherapy | |
| Neonicotinoid pesticides found in honey from every continent | |
| The most precise atomic clock ever made is a cube of quantum gas | |
| Side effects are worse when we think medication looks expensive | |
| We just found nineteen new species of gecko in one tiny area | |
| This AI can tell true hate speech from harmless banter | |
| The sun's energy could speed up dark matter so we can detect it | |
| This snake knows how toxic it is and fights only when armed | |
| Your ârisk intelligenceâ decides how much of a daredevil you are | |
| Different meditation types train distinct parts of your brain | |
| Biased policing is made worse by errors in pre-crime algorithms | |
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| Buyer beware: Should genomic firms resell your data? | |
| We urgently need to broaden the conversation on AI | |
| The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks | |
| DNA testing firms are cashing in our genes. Should we get a cut? | |
| Feedback: Why celebrities are a species all of their own | |
| Old Scientist: Tanks on the moon and other wolves weâve cried | |
| : The reason we are so scarily hairy | |
| I want to show the courts who's to blame for climate change | |
| Riddle of the primes: why do they come in pairs? | |
| Mexico City quake: A few secondsâ warning can still save lives | |
| Hoovering up immigrants' social media data won't make US safer | |
| The US will not ban guns so must learn how to live with them | |
| Early farmers may have polluted the sea 4000 years ago | |
| Phone calls can be beamed right into your central nervous system | |
| Our braininess may have evolved thanks to less sticky neurons | |
| We've finally seen how the sleeping brain stores memories | |
| WHO launches bold plan to slash cholera deaths by 90 per cent | |
| New York City mice may be evolving to eat fast food like pizza | |
| How scaremongering stops us asking the right questions about AI | |
| Chemistry Nobel for ice microscopes that show molecules of life | |
| Build an AI god? Beware the downsides of this weird tech plan | |
| Gravitational wave discoverers win physics Nobel prize | |
| Grass-fed beef is bad for the planet and causes climate change | |
| Life may have begun millions of years earlier than we thought | |
| Kids suing nations over climate change wildfire links are right | |
| Artificial organs used in operations without approval for humans | |
| Dolphins that work with humans to catch fish have unique accent | |
| The mysterious bright spots on Ceres may have a common origin | |
| Weâre nearly ready to use CRISPR to target far more diseases | |
| Methane burps on young Mars helped it keep its liquid water | |
| The real deal? The lowdown on counterfeits you meet day to day | |
| Medicine Nobel for scientists who unpicked our body clocks | |
| Science fiction picks sound wedding bells and other alarms | |
| How a wave of your coffee cup or spoon could switch TV channels | |
| Why Puerto Rico still has no electrical power and how to fix it | |
| Elon Muskâs new plans for a moon base and a Mars mission by 2022 | |
| Extreme gusts of space gas made early black holes enormous | |
| Hundreds of Japanese species floated to the US on tsunami debris | |
| Plan to slash farm antibiotic use may stop spread of resistance | |
| Google quantum computer test shows breakthrough is within reach | |
| What is really missing from AI? | |
| Ancient âsea woodliceâ had surprisingly complicated guts | |
| Workplace robots have had little impact on jobs in Germany | |
| Would âgood glutenâ foods work for people who eat gluten-free? | |
| Flying and rolling drone will map underground mines on its own | |
| Uber's major pile-up with London's regulators is no big surprise | |
| Snap decisions: Thomas Ruff's show is, literally, off colour | |
| New Scientist Live seeks to make the world slightly less wrong | |
| Shape-shifting origami robot swaps bodies to roll, swim or walk | |
| Lab-grown cells make doping agent EPO and cure anaemia in mice | |
| Common antidepressant found to reduce belly fat in older mice | |
| Blockchain-like ID may mean end of paper birth certificates | |
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| Life extension may prove to be a double-edged sword | |
| Fighting fakery: How to make products immune to counterfeiting | |
| EU plan to erase digital borders will further isolate Brexit UK | |
| Genetically modified wheat used to make coeliac-friendly bread | |
| Feedback: What is this mysterious 8-legged metal object? | |
| Supersonic car project aims to carry kids to a scientific future | |
| Rocket man: Willy Ley's fervour helped put men on the moon | |
| Why do we have such a close relationship with animals? | |
| Exclusive: Inside the clinic offering young blood to cure ageing | |
| The brain's 7D sandcastles could be the key to consciousness | |
| Backyard critters get celeb treatment with glam photo shoots | |
| Latest gravitational wave isn't from neutron stars after all | |
| A few cold drops falling through a cloud could create a downpour | |
| Mexico City quake: A few seconds' warning can still save lives | |
| Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils | |
| Banning shark fin soup in the US is bad for shark conservation | |
| 'Invasive' snake is really a new species and should be protected | |
| See-through brains reveal how stroke damages vital blood vessels | |
| The fossil finder extraordinaire who's rewriting human evolution | |
| Packs of killer penguins herd fish into balls then pick them off | |
| Why refusing to give up passwords is illegal under UK terror law | |
| Energy from evaporating water could rival wind and solar | |
| Genetically modified wheat used to make coeliac-friendly bread | |
| A cheap pollution sensor will keep you off the dirtiest roads | |
| Thousands of Puerto Ricans evacuated as dam threatens to breach | |
| Super-Earths draw asteroids to other worlds, which may seed life | |
| Kidney donors swap organs for transplant vouchers for loved ones | |
| It takes 30 seconds for your fingerprint to grip your smartphone | |
| Electric zap âwakesâ man after 15 years in a vegetative state | |
| Meet the team who 'woke' a man from 15 years in vegetative state | |
| What a surprise â the end of the world has been delayed, again | |
| Beating the odds: the mathematics of gambling | |
| Huge space rocks could have helped start Earthâs plate tectonics | |
| Health body warns many UK areas have high Lyme disease risk | |
| The hurricane hunter who got up close and personal with Irma | |
| Alligators versus sharks: Who wins this ultimate showdown? | |
| AI could put a stop to electricity theft and meter misreadings | |
| This AI reads the news to keep tabs on US police shootings | |
| Two-colour pixels let you draw pair of images in the same space | |
| OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooms by Earth on its way to an asteroid | |
| Drone pilots deserve medals even without risking their lives | |
| Plan to save Great Barrier Reef from encroaching farm pollution | |
| New Zealandâs iconic kiwi birds may be losing their sight | |
| Uber loses its licence to operate in London | |
| Walking to work or doing the vacuuming can extend your life | |
| There is no way to spot big earthquakes ahead of time | |
| Far-off galaxies are firing rare high-energy cosmic rays at us | |
| Star nicknamed Kronos after eating its own planetary children | |
| Using new study to back high-fat, low-carb diets is flawed logic | |
| Why court ruling on ending life support is the right decision | |
| Even jellyfish get sluggish if they donât have enough sleep | |
| Dinosaurs that seemed veggie also ate the odd bit of shellfish | |
| Another lost tribe feared massacred - how can we save the rest? | |
| Hurricane Maria confirms dire warnings for 2017 hurricane season | |
| Robots can hitch-hike on sharks thanks to ultrastrong sucker | |
| 3D-printed alloys could lead to lighter planes that fly further | |
| Old fathers pass on more mutations to kids than old mothers | |
| Why has a UK team genetically edited human embryos? | |
| Handheld scanner divines how nutritious your food really is | |
| The closest star system may be home to a stolen star and planet | |
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| Cassini ends its 20-year mission by slamming into Saturn | |
| Human embryos genetically edited in the UK for the first time | |
| The nuclear stalemate is crumbling â what are our options? | |
| Feedback: The sticky truth about those so-called 'Marmite genes' | |
| Jurassic Perk: A wine-loving dinosaur for your kitchen | |
| China's struggle to overcome technological imperialism | |
| Our terrifying energy future leaves us with uncertainties | |
| The Renaissance gambler who invented probability to win at cards | |
| Brain farts: 9 ways your brain can make you feel stupid | |
| The new nuclear race: Why North Korea isnât the real story | |
| Mirrored moat protects experiment searching for dark matter | |
| The call of the sea | |
| Beating the battery barrier | |
| Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions | |
| Hundreds of UK women are seeking illegal abortions online | |
| Our closest star system may be home to a stolen star and planet | |
| Gravity may be created by strange flashes in the quantum realm | |
| Kids everywhere have damaging gender stereotyping set by age 10 | |
| Dine in or eat out: Which is better for you and the planet? | |
| The real clean food: How to eat well for yourself and the planet | |
| Mexico hit by second huge quake caused by same tectonic strain | |
| Shaken baby syndrome is not definitive proof of child abuse | |
| Tool-wielding monkeys push local shellfish to edge of extinction | |
| Lightning storms triggered by exhaust from cargo ships | |
| Secrets of butterfly wing patterns revealed by gene hacking | |
| Thousands likely to be killed by Hurricane Irmaâs deadly legacy | |
| Could we store carbon dioxide as liquid lakes under the sea? | |
| Today at New Scientist | |
| No, climate science isn't wrong, and yes, global warming is real | |
| Sex and aggression linked in male mouse brains but not in female | |
| Mysterious flashing star seems destined for an explosive end | |
| Blind people repurpose the brain's visual areas for language | |
| End-of-life chatbot can help you with difficult final decisions | |
| Sacrificial virgin spiders let their nieces eat them alive | |
| The NHS is using a chatbot to do tedious corporate team-building | |
| Watching Cassiniâs last moments from inside NASA mission control | |
| Brown dwarfs have strong magnetic fields just like real stars | |
| Cassini takes last look at the ring patterns made by mini moons | |
| Final pictures from Cassini as probe smashes into Saturn | |
| Facebook allowed adverts to be targeted at 'Jew haters' | |
| Liquid cats and arousing crocs bag Ig Nobel prizes | |
| World hunger is on the rise again due to climate change and war | |
| There are hardly any old fish left in the ocean â and thatâs bad | |
| A rushed response to Hurricane Irma could cause bigger disasters | |
| Third-hand smoke in furniture and clothes damages mouse organs | |
| Plastic cubes injected into the body could replace booster shots | |
| Tumour bacteria sabotage chemotherapy by destroying cancer drugs | |
| Robot made from a DNA strand could deliver cargo in your blood | |
| Ultrafast lasers catch electrons relaxing after brief excitement | |
| Tears for Cassini: why it's OK to well up over a lump of metal | |
| It's too easy for bioterrorists to access dangerous research | |
| New £10 note suggests that a cashless society is a long way off | |
| Christmas Islandâs only echolocating bat has gone extinct | |
| AI spots Alzheimerâs brain changes years before symptoms emerge | |
| History of zero pushed back 500 years by ancient Indian text | |
| Wolves and bears to be slaughtered in Romania once again | |
| Killing thousands more badgers won't eradicate TB in cattle | |
| Five mythical animals that turned out to be real | |
| Five ways technology can read your mind â and what itâs good for | |
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| Death toll from Mexican earthquake climbs towards 100 | |
| Science after Brexit will be weaker all round | |
| The plan to reintroduce a big cat that might never have existed | |
| Jupiter's powerful aurora is surprisingly different from Earth's | |
| Feedback: Your suggestions for improving human beings | |
| Helping people walk again with donated prostheses in West Africa | |
| Fear and trembling, from The Great Quake to Quakeland | |
| Lost in meditation: Two books argue over mindfulness | |
| I found a way to communicate with people trapped in their bodies | |
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| Why China's green ambitions will make it the next world leader | |
| Cloud-catching to bubble science | |
| Getting from A to B in tomorrow's megacities | |
| Mysterious lights in the sky seen after Mexicoâs huge earthquake | |
| Cassini to live-stream its final moments in Saturnâs atmosphere | |
| It's a disgrace there are no women on UK's key science committee | |
| The hottest place ever recorded on Earth's surface was 2370°C | |
| Graphic design can save your life â hereâs how | |
| Cassini's Grand Finale: The ups and downs of our 20-year mission | |
| Cassini's Grand Finale: The spacecraft that unveiled Saturn | |
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| Why the iPhone Xâs Face ID is a terrible way to secure your data | |
| : How the Voyager story keeps on giving | |
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| Extreme wildfires in the US could lead to long-term lung damage | |
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| The Caribbean will be recovering from Hurricane Irma for years | |
| Cassiniâs 10 best pictures from its 13-year voyage around Saturn | |
| Eating more salt might save your life? Not so much | |
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| If NYC subways obeyed quantum maths trains wouldnât be delayed | |
| Cassini's legacy: Where next in the search for alien life | |
| Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved | |
| Rat brains seen replaying scary memories as they sleep | |
| Thousands of new lifeforms discovered that redraw tree of life | |
| Slingshot around Titan is the beginning of the end for Cassini | |
| Our sun probably didnât steal Planet Nine from outer space | |
| Control a drone with your mind at New Scientist Live | |
| App creates augmented-reality tutorials from normal videos | |
| Florida suffers coast-to-coast battering by Hurricane Irma | |
| Meet the vampire ant from hell with huge jaws and a metal horn | |
| Ankle fossil suggests our ancient ancestors leapt like acrobats | |
| Low-oxygen dwarf galaxy shows us how the early universe looked | |
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| 7 crazy transport systems that didn't go the distance | |
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| Equifax data breach hits nearly half of US â and isn't over yet | |
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| Mexico on tsunami alert after biggest earthquake in 85 years | |
| Box jellyfish will destroy future oceans by gobbling up the food | |
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| Even a mask won't hide you from the latest face recognition tech | |
| Can the US really nuke North Korea without starting a world war? | |
| Win the chance to speak to an astronaut on the ISS | |
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| Baffling ABC maths proof now has impenetrable 300-page âsummaryâ | |
| No, your genes don't determine whether you love or hate Marmite | |
| Eight low-lying Pacific islands swallowed whole by rising seas | |
| A type of sleep therapy reduces depression, anxiety and paranoia | |
| Need a creativity boost? Try listening to happy background music | |
| Cancer pen could tell surgeons where they should cut in seconds | |
| Well done John Lewis, gender-free clothes are radical and valid | |
| The sun just belched out the strongest solar flare in 12 years | |
| Jupiterâs powerful aurora is surprisingly different from Earthâs | |
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| Feedback: No more climate change, as US officials ban the phrase | |
| Crossword #10 | |
| : How to make right state wrongs | |
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| How crooks stalled the rise of electric cars for 100 years | |
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| Europe's last wildernesses are under threat â can we save them? | |
| Why engineering is a mega job | |
| Hurricane Irmaâs epic size is being fuelled by global warming | |
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| This qubit redesign may make it easier to make quantum computers | |
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| What if the diminutive electron isnât as small as it gets? | |
| A third of UK adults question evolution. Does that matter? | |
| Alzheimerâs and smoking genes suggest weâre still evolving | |
| Pose your question to an astronaut on the ISS | |
| Pose your question to an astronaut on the ISS | |
| We may be able to use Zika virus to attack brain cancer cells | |
| Giant ocean fish farms to solve food security? There's a catch | |
| Facebook AI learns human reactions after watching hours of Skype | |
| Why poor countries often stay poor â and how they can get rich | |
| Asteroid Florence buzzes Earth in closest fly-by since 1890 | |
| Some of Uranus's small moons are doomed to collide | |
| 'Impossible' star explosions made by gas and solar wind pile-up | |
| Weird fish fossil changes the story of how we moved onto land | |
| Controversial footprints suggest we evolved in Europe not Africa | |
| Seismic tests hint North Koreaâs nuke is its first hydrogen bomb | |
| It took these monkeys just 13 years to learn how to crack nuts | |
| We ignore what doesnât fit with our biases â even if it costs us | |
| âHighwaymenâ beetles rob ants of the food in their stomachs | |
| Computer knows how much pain you are in by studying your face | |
| Explore what it means to be human at New Scientist Live | |
| Why the ostrich is the only living animal with four kneecaps | |
| Fallen leaves could be turned into devices that store energy | |
| Bee larvae fed beebread have no chance of becoming queen | |
| UK's bad drug law flounders, which is no real surprise at all | |
| We still donât really know what CRISPR does to human embryos | |
| Pioneering gene therapy approved for leukaemia in the US | |
| The cities in the firing line for the next Hurricane Harvey | |
| Spiralling galaxy arms spread oxygen around for future planets | |
| This is how some blind people are able to echolocate like bats | |
| Blind children should be allowed to learn to echolocate like me | |
| Immigrant protections have halved kidsâ mental health problems | |
| We may finally understand why tropical plants have huge leaves | |
| Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may have the right conditions for water | |
| Your teenager's biology demands later school starts and lie-ins | |
| India floods: Apartment building collapses in Mumbai | |
| Lizard-bot spins its coiled tail to move easily through sand | |
| Explosions heard at flooded Texas chemical plant after hurricane | |
| Will psychedelics for depression be just another false dawn? | |
| 'Mother' coral reefs are breathing life into their neighbours | |
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| Hidden pockets of turbulent gas fuel stars in far-off galaxies | |
| The dos and donâts when defending yourself from online abuse | |
| All you need to know about the menopause (but nobody tells you) | |
| Weird ancient burst of light in the sky turns out to be a nova | |
| Human blood and skin cells used to treat Parkinson's in monkeys | |
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| Steampunk rover design eliminates electronics to survive Venus | |
| Lethal injection contained a chemical never tried before | |
| We need a more grown-up conversation about the menopause | |
| Online hate victims must speak out if the law is to stop the mob | |
| Old Scientist: Goodbye Daedalus, our resident implausible genius | |
| Is donating your DNA to the NHS worth the privacy risks? | |
| Feedback: Little green men? How we might improve human beings | |
| : Misinformation is the strongest cyberweapon | |
| I survived a tsunami of online hate and now fight to help others | |
| Taking Earthâs pulse: How to predict eruptions from space | |
| How menopause and Alzheimerâs change the brain in similar ways | |
| A honeybee struggles to escape the grip of a fearsome beewolf | |
| How much is your science capital worth? | |
| Fatal AI mistakes could be prevented by having human teachers | |
| Weâve just seen 15 new mysterious cosmic radio bursts from space | |
| Brazil rejects bid to drill for oil near unique Amazon reef | |
| We've seen how our brains file away memories for the first time | |
| Nobody knows how these baby stars got so close to our black hole | |
| Snow leopards aren't as rare as we thought â but arenât safe yet | |
| Why am I rubbish at maths? And other curious questions answered | |
| Our greatest creation: Where maths comes from and what it's for | |
| One of Europaâs plumes may not exist, making hunt for life hard | |
| Photos of skinny women affect peopleâs minds in just 15 minutes | |
| , a game route into the world of psychosis | |
| Texas may be just as vulnerable when next big hurricane hits | |
| Australia plans random drug tests for people receiving welfare | |
| North Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan for first time | |
| Your broadband provider can use your smart devices to spy on you | |
| It only takes a few gene tweaks to make a human voice | |
| Stainless steel faucets may up risk of legionnaires' disease | |
| Medieval London was the most violent place in England | |
| Low-ranked female monkeys band together against their leaders | |
| Thorium could power the next generation of nuclear reactors | |
| New Scientist Live is back | |
| Mummy autopsy reveals earliest known case of liver parasite | |
| Large non-native species like donkeys can boost biodiversity | |
| Twisted carbon nanotubes harness waste energy and put it to work | |
| Eat a seasonal diet and your gut microbes may change in sync | |
| AI uses bitcoin trail to find and help sex-trafficking victims | |
| Will Googleâs targeted depression tests really help people? | |
| Male athletes with higher world rankings are better looking | |
| Monkeys can see faces in inanimate things, just like us | |
| Wonky signals from distant stars could be sign of exocomets | |
| Secret lifestyle of the dodo revealed for the first time | |
| Stressed out GCSE kids need more mental health help | |
| Doing meth raises the risk of strokes in young people | |
| Robot suit helps children with cerebral palsy to walk better | |
| Icy hard drives cram 5300 movies onto a postage stamp | |
| Chris Hadfield: We should live on the moon before a trip to Mars | |
| 7 ways that your dog is all too human | |
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| Plan to drill for oil near mouth of Amazon sparks controversy | |
| UK seeks face recognition tech upgrade for 'walking ID cards' | |
| Google-sponsored private moon race delayed for the fourth time | |
| IBM to investigate role of microbiome in autoimmune disorders | |
| US witnesses best solar eclipse in decades | |
| Tesla boss leads 116 experts calling for UN ban on killer robots | |
| Make the military-industrial complex great again | |
| Feedback: North American eclipse heralds arrival of doomsayers | |
| Fraudulent figures: The numbers that say when things are fishy | |
| Figures of fun: The quirkiest numbers we know | |
| NASA insists it is going to Mars, but it really can't afford to | |
| Ingredient-swapping web browser is a recipe for disaster | |
| A tale of how imagination came to be loses sight of the evidence | |
| The man who reads dog minds and personalities in a brain scanner | |
| Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten | |
| The brothers who went missing on a glacier for almost 90 years | |
| Can a crowdsourced mega-forest offset Trump's climate chaos? | |
| A play called | |
| We really can run the world on renewable energy â hereâs how | |
| Lithium in tap water seems to both raise and lower dementia risk | |
| Calming figures: The numbers that maintain harmony around us | |
| Enter the Scopus Awards for Australia and New Zealand | |
| Elon Musk shows off first photo of SpaceX space suit | |
| Authority figures: The numbers that rule them all | |
| Exclusive: We may have detected a new kind of gravitational wave | |
| Magic mushroom chemical may be a hallucinogenic insect repellent | |
| First underwater entanglement could lead to unhackable comms | |
| âAlien megastructureâ star may host Saturn-like exoplanet | |
| Why aren't we testing whether planes can survive a drone crash? | |
| Wiping out a population of animals might help the species | |
| Bacterial optical fibre helps shine lasers through murky waters | |
| Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work | |
| I watched the eclipse with scientists hunting the sunâs secrets | |
| China's quantum submarine detector could seal South China Sea | |
| The push for UK fracking may be 55 million years too late | |
| Scanning your brain can predict what will happen in the future | |
| 'Radicalâ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate | |
| Low-calorie pizza and burgers wonât fix our child obesity crisis | |
| Antarctic mystery microbe could tell us where viruses came from | |
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| Solving how fish swim so well may help design underwater robots | |
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| Jellyfish galaxies may feed black holes with their long tendrils | |
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| Atomic assembly lines are a small victory for chemists | |
| To tackle extremism, we need to know the enemy | |
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| Feedback: NASA seeks a planet-protecting superhero | |
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| Google-sponsored private moon race delayed for the fourth time | |
| A surveillance state is no fix for Brexit's Irish border issue | |
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| The air we breathe | |
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| England will need over 71,000 extra care home places by 2025 | |
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| How US diplomats may have been attacked by sonic weapons in Cuba | |
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| Trump says heâll declare US opioid epidemic a national emergency | |
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| There is a good case to unleash job-killing AI on the high seas | |
| Fighting to breathe in the face of Canadaâs wildfire emergency | |
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| CRISPR makes piglets that may be better organ donors for humans | |
| Sea snakes are turning black in response to industrial pollution | |
| Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon | |
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| This is why the first CRISPR baby won't be born in the US | |
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| Google employee fired after controversial gender-diversity memo | |
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| Crossword #9 | |
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| Americans already feeling effects of climate change, says report | |
| Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars | |
| Marsâs surface hosts millions of towering dust devils every day | |
| Largest ever wildfire in Greenland seen burning from space | |
| Genetically engineered salmon goes on sale for the first time | |
| People in north England are 20 per cent more likely to die young | |
| Tackling resistant malaria may fuel antimicrobial resistance | |
| Viking hordes dined on frozen Norwegian cod shipped to Germany | |
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| New sky survey shows that dark energy may one day tear us apart | |
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| Watching others wash their hands may relieve OCD symptoms | |
| First implants derived from stem cells to âcureâ type 1 diabetes | |
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| Parasitic worm eggs may soon be legally sold as food in Germany | |
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| Lazy ants lay eggs for their industrious sisters to eat | |
| Augmented reality graffiti will lead to advertising ambush wars | |
| We may finally be able to slow Parkinson's, with a diabetes drug | |
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| Hot yoga classes reduce emotional eating and negative thoughts | |
| It took 2000 years to make seed for America's famous 'corn belt' | |
| Giant loner asteroids suggest baby planets formed quickly | |
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| CRISPR skin grafts could replace insulin injections for diabetes | |
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| Hidden cancers detected by combining genetic tests with MRI | |
| The slime mould instruments that make sweet music | |
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| Al Gore's | |
| Eight great accidents in scientific discovery | |
| Nano aluminium offers fuel cells on demand â just add water | |
| Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron | |
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| First results from US CRISPR gene editing on human embryos | |
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| Oldest mass animal stranding revealed in Death Valley fossils | |
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| Feedback: God's phone number revealed by Zimbabwean pastor | |
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| Is our environmental future better than we thought? | |
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| Brain box: Multitasking chips that can match the human mind | |
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| IVF babies tend to be lighter than others but end up heavier | |
| Voyage to study Earthâs mostly submerged hidden continent begins | |
| Fast radio bursts may be dark matter âstarsâ hitting black holes | |
| What the first flower on Earth might have looked like | |
| Quantum gravity detector will use atom clouds to survey for oil | |
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| A US firm is microchipping staff â here's what they should fear | |
| Hacking a US electronic voting booth takes less than 90 minutes | |
| Signs of Alzheimerâs found in chimpanzees for the first time | |
| Blood biomarkers may help diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome | |
| US plan to cut smoking with non-addictive cigarettes has flaws | |
| Jellyfish blooms linked to offshore gas platforms and wind farms | |
| : Staring into the heat death of the universe | |
| HIV testing at some GP surgeries would save lives and NHS money | |
| North Korea launches ICBM with potential to reach New York | |
| Building blocks of alien cells found on Saturnâs largest moon | |
| Smart glasses let you turn off the lights in the blink of an eye | |
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| Time to bust the myth that Ada Lovelace was an overhyped aristo | |
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| US healthcare repeal law struck down at the eleventh hour | |
| How to turn Facebook into a weaponised AI propaganda machine | |
| Tardigrade genomes help explain how they survive without water | |
| Sneaky attacks trick AIs into seeing or hearing whatâs not there | |
| Bronze Age DNA helps unravel true fate of biblical Canaanites | |
| DNA of long-dead cows read from pages of Medieval books | |
| Menâs sweet tooth may increase risk of anxiety and depression | |
| Lectin-free is the new food fad that deserves to be skewered | |
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| First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away | |
| Human embryo gene editing has taken place in US, claims report | |
| Why the latest advice on stopping antibiotics is long overdue | |
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| Smallest satellite ever paves way for planned interstellar fleet | |
| Injectable PrEP could protect people at risk of contracting HIV | |
| Stem cells in the brain's hypothalamus help mice stay young | |
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| Toy drones can pose more danger to planes than commercial ones | |
| UK relaxes blood donation rules for gay men and sex workers | |
| Taking back control must not mean a return to overfishing | |
| Feedback: How many nuts does it take to fill a printer's pie? | |
| Children run Everest Marathon after quake destroys their home | |
| Bringing our soil back to life with the latest in earth science | |
| Learning to be fair: Lessons from the deep past | |
| The fragility of you and what it says about consciousness | |
| Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives | |
| Awesome awe: The emotion that gives us superpowers | |
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| Donald Trump tweets plan to ban transgender people from military | |
| UK ban on polluting cars by 2040 is just a cynical smokescreen | |
| The games that build playgrounds out of impossible physics | |
| Oldest mass animal stranding revealed in Death Valley fossils | |
| The geometry that could reveal the true nature of space-time | |
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| Sperm count has fallen by nearly 60 per cent in richer countries | |
| Yellowstone National Park hit by 1400 earthquakes in six weeks | |
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| Aliens slumbering for billions of years are out there â really? | |
| Lasers reactivate âlostâ memories in mice with Alzheimerâs | |
| Our brains always plan one step ahead of our bodies when we walk | |
| Robot spots signs of melted fuel at submerged Fukushima reactor | |
| Tiny robots swim the front crawl through your veins | |
| Fake duck test shows drones and AI beat humans at bird census | |
| Screaming gel balls reveal a way to power soft but noisy robots | |
| Australia to expand commercial fishing in marine sanctuaries | |
| Tides on exoplanets could drive alien biological clocks | |
| Restoring Estonian alvar grasslands to save unique species | |
| Monthly injections could replace daily pills for people with HIV | |
| The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth | |
| Spider's web uses optical illusion to lure nocturnal moths | |
| Baby salmon with âoldâ DNA more likely to survive epic migration | |
| Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we donât know why | |
| Elon Musk seems to have ditched Red Dragon lander plan for Mars | |
| Now North Sea cod is sustainable, is it really ok to eat? | |
| Dark web crackdown as two biggest markets are taken offline | |
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| Giant deep-sea worms may live to be 1000 years old or more | |
| Trumpâs plan to cut global health research may cost US billions | |
| Mud eel's wonky body may help it ambush prey | |
| AI suggests recipe for a dish just by studying a photo of it | |
| Adderall might improve your test scores â but so could a placebo | |
| Refusing boys HPV vaccine saves the NHS cash but is bad science | |
| California climate case turns up the heat on fossil fuel giants | |
| How the dark web's gunrunners covertly ship US weapons to Europe | |
| Bioinspired tube robot can sneak round corners and turn on taps | |
| Robot physical therapist helps people walk again after a stroke | |
| First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves | |
| Plastics made fireproof thanks to mother-of-pearl mimic | |
| How the opioid crisis may have saved US healthcare | |
| Hot ice could have seeded life on Earth | |
| First Australians may have arrived much earlier than we thought | |
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| Everyone gets lonely. We must admit it or bear the consequences | |
| Digital drinking buddy replaces ill-advised tweets with cat pics | |
| How music can shine a light on past worlds without words | |
| Throwaway culture: The truth about recycling | |
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| Feedback: Florida turns to crowdsourcing science classes | |
| What will happen when machines can tell how you feel? | |
| The eyes have it: How spotting naive prey made fish walk on land | |
| Earth's underwater dunes help explain Venus's weird surface | |
| We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years | |
| An app a day keeps the doctor away | |
| Blood test detects Alzheimerâs plaques building up in brain | |
| Feeling lonely? You're not on your own | |
| Tanzanian volcano blast could destroy ancient hominin footprints | |
| Quantum simulator with 51 qubits is largest ever | |
| The death of smoking: how tobacco will be eradicated for good | |
| UK government wants only 12 per cent of adults to smoke by 2022 | |
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| Why fast birds, fish and animals are never too small or big | |
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| Asteroids may have been giant mudballs in the early solar system | |
| Galaxy supercluster is one of the biggest things in the universe | |
| The best way to detect aliens may be by finding their footprints | |
| Never-before-seen photos of leopard cub being raised by a lion | |
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| The day Hope the whale stole the show | |
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| Hailing e-Volvos as imminent saviours of the planet is nonsense | |
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| Laws of mathematics donât apply here, says Australian PM | |
| Hundreds charged in huge opioid and healthcare fraud crackdown | |
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| Polar bear attacks on people set to rise as climate changes | |
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| Use waste rather than crops for biofuels, says UK report | |
| A type of bacteria might speed up the growth of colon cancer | |
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| Robotic landers could start mining the moon as early as 2020 | |
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| Video stored in live bacterial genome using CRISPR gene editing | |
| 60 Seconds | |
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| First close-ups of Jupiterâs Great Red Spot from Juno flyby | |
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| Hairs use chemical signals to tell each other when to grow | |
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| A massive iceberg just broke off Antarcticaâs Larsen C ice shelf | |
| Nations of the world agree to ban nuclear weapons â now what? | |
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| Whales sneak into shallow water to eat salmon from hatcheries | |
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| Melting ice may be making mountains collapse in Greenland | |
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| Brain-training game fails test against regular computer games | |
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| Tesla to build worldâs largest lithium ion battery in Australia | |
| UK and Irish seabirds search area size of Spain for food | |
| France plans to ban all new petrol and diesel cars by 2040 | |
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| San Francisco is first US city to ban flavoured tobacco products | |
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| Rocket failure may delay Chinaâs space station and moon missions | |
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| Why Morocco loves its meteorites | |
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| Fighting climate change could trigger a massive financial crash | |
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| Modified maize that kills with RNA is given go-ahead in the US | |
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| The Dos and Donâts of disappearing in the digital age | |
| Best evidence yet that Parkinson's could be autoimmune disease | |
| Weird orbits hint 'Planet Ten' might lurk at solar system edge | |
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| Smoking is finally dying out among young people in the UK and US | |
| Why bird flu risk is like the Grenfell Tower tragedy | |
| The death of King Coal hints we are at a climate turning point | |
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| LAâs endangered pumas to be saved by a $60m bridge over highway | |
| This handy robot will iron your clothes so you don't have to | |
| Win the do-it-yourself computer kit that anyone can build | |
| Living with climate change: Convincing the sceptics | |
| Living with climate change: You can make a difference | |
| Living with climate change: How to cope in a warmer world | |
| Living with climate change: Turning the corner | |
| Living with climate change: Can we limit global warming to 2°C? | |
| Living with climate change: What's the worst that can happen? | |
| Living with climate change: Welcome to the new normal | |
| ESA approves gravitational-wave hunting spacecraft for 2034 | |
| Babies are dying during childbirth in the UK due to poor care | |
| Walk really fast to stop a wobbly suitcase ruining your holiday | |
| Talk radio puts pumas off their meals so they may kill more deer | |
| UK foxes thankfully spared the baying pack, unlike Theresa May | |
| Sweden commits to becoming carbon neutral by 2045 with new law | |
| Antibacterials in soap should be regulated globally, say experts | |
| DNA variants that are bad for health may also make you stupid | |
| A bird flu pandemic looms but the US is holding back the fight | |
| Private data of 198 million US voters accidentally leaked online | |
| Smart doll fitted with AI chip can read your child's emotions | |
| Kepler finds 219 new exoplanets and 10 are rocky and Earth-like | |
| Worldâs largest annual wildlife drowning boosts river ecosystem | |
| Anxiety drug may prevent common virus that causes birth defects | |
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| Buckyballs mysteriously show up in cold space and warp starlight | |
| Bizarre new deep-sea creatures discovered off Australian coast | |
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| Strange ice lolly icicles seen floating in clouds above the UK | |
| My patrol with armed guards to protect Burmese star tortoises | |
| Video: from waste to worth | |
| NASA eyes Neptune and Uranus for missions in the 2030s | |
| Mindfulness and meditation dampen down inflammation genes | |
| The bandwidth black hole that will kill Elon Muskâs Mars dream | |
| Time to embrace our odd place in the cosmos, inside a huge void? | |
| UKâs hunger for prawns is killing thousands of turtles a year  | |
| Chinese satellite beats distance record for quantum entanglement | |
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| How did London tower block fire spread so fast and kill so many? | |
| Billion-dollar dams are making water shortages, not solving them | |
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| Watch how spiders use sticky silk to win deadly wrestling match | |
| DeepMind now learns from human preferences â just like a toddler | |
| 5 kilograms of broccoli in a pill slashes diabetics' blood sugar | |
| Wireless charger uses quantum trick to power gadgets on the move | |
| What itâs like to take psychedelics in small doses at breakfast | |
| DeepMind's neural network teaches AI to reason about the world | |
| Chatbots learn how to negotiate and drive a hard bargain | |
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| Police warned of drug so powerful it can kill in one breath | |
| 'Devil weeds' threaten wildebeest migrations in Serengeti | |
| WHO classes HIV drug as an essential medicine | |
| Tripping up: The real danger of microdosing with LSD | |
| Science might emerge a winner from UK election chaos | |
| Feedback: Tap water is turning Brits gay, says candidate | |
| Augmented reality glasses seek to keep speech in sight | |
| Microdosers say tiny hits of LSD make your work and life better | |
| 8 Minutes: How to dance the speed of light | |
| A series of fortunate events: How our culture made us | |
| Blinded by seance: The man who offered scientists an afterlife | |
| Don't feel sorry for apologising â it could be good for you | |
| Spectrum wars: The battle for the airwaves | |
| Satellite's eye view reveals retreating glaciers in the Andes | |
| Mistaken brown dwarf is actually two planets orbiting each other | |
| Phone metadata reveals where city migrants go and who they call | |
| To steal an advantage in the Brexit talks try a Superman pose | |
| Fish recognise friends and foes through their unique faces | |
| How to extinguish the inflammation epidemic | |
| Cool retreats are needed to save giant panda from warmer weather | |
| Two-headed porpoise caught in fishing net is first ever found | |
| Defibrillator drones could save lives before ambulance arrives | |
| NASA revives 50-year-old idea to recycle space stations in orbit | |
| Science and climate face uncertain future in post-election UK | |
| âDevil weedsâ threaten wildebeest migrations in Serengeti | |
| Cub photo raises hope for Europe's rarest and largest wild cat | |
| Orbiting âspace nationâ data centre could avoid all Earthly laws | |
| How Jupiter split the asteroid belt in two shows its great age | |
| Eating a low carb breakfast may make you a more tolerant person | |
| Ocean plastics from Haitiâs beaches turned into laptop packaging | |
| Smart jacket and VR headset let you pilot a drone with your body | |
| DeepMindâs neural network teaches AI to reason about the world | |
| Messages from fake aliens decoded quickly in online SETI contest | |
| Time, mass and custard provide the physics in | |
| Rubber algae help create first artificial reef in Mediterranean | |
| Pig brain cells implanted into brains of people with Parkinsonâs | |
| Extreme plants thrive at 72°C in New Zealand's hot volcanic soil | |
| This science fiction trip is delightful, confusing â and risky | |
| Police warned of drug so powerful it can kill in one breath | |
| Feeling uncertain? It's the new normal in Theresa May's Britain | |
| Five things you need to know about DUP politicians and science | |
| How YouGovâs experimental poll correctly called the UK election | |
| Fungus creates zombie beetles that crave flowers before death | |
| Cystic fibrosis drug halts lung damage in young children | |
| The mystery xenon in Earthâs atmosphere came from icy comets | |
| Fetuses turn to follow face-like shapes while in the womb | |
| Artificial whisky taster has the palate of a connoisseur | |
| Bacteria release aphrodisiacs that put others in mood for sex | |
| Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles | |
| Theatre takes a technological leap to probe the nature of memory | |
| Crumb-free bread will mean ISS astronauts can now bake in space | |
| Baby brain scans can predict who is likely to develop autism | |
| Thereâs as much water in Earthâs mantle as in all the oceans | |
| Our species may be 150,000 years older than we thought | |
| Bird caught in amber 100 million years ago is best ever found | |
| Robot dog has an artificial woof that sounds like the real thing | |
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| Google blocker to eliminate bad ads and let users go ad-free | |
| Promising results from new drugs for prostate and ovarian cancer | |
| The quiet battle over science in the UK general election | |
| Don't forget the lessons of deadly lead | |
| Feedback: UKIP candidate wants interstellar space mission | |
| Crossword #7 | |
| The stories we tell have the power to shape our future | |
| Inventor hero was a one-man environmental disaster | |
| Life aloft: The unexplored ecosystem above your head | |
| Causing a stink: The truth about fragrances and your health | |
| Brain images display the beauty and complexity of consciousness | |
| NASA is right to pay homage to the living for the first time | |
| Mass of a white dwarf star directly measured for the first time | |
| Artisan sourdough? You may as well eat mass-produced white bread | |
| The Higgs bang: The particle that blew up the universe | |
| General relativity passes test at Milky Way's central black hole | |
| Energy security is possible without nuclear power or fracked gas | |
| The dreams our stuff is made of | |
| Late nights and lie-ins at the weekend are bad for your health | |
| Robots will be more useful if they are made to lack confidence | |
| SpaceX launches first reused Dragon capsule full of research | |
| The hottest planet yet is twice Jupiterâs size and hot as a star | |
| Drinking small amounts while pregnant may affect the babyâs face | |
| Accelerating Antarctic crack will hasten calving of huge iceberg | |
| Theresa Mayâs repeated calls to ban encryption still wonât work | |
| Giant bumphead parrotfish begin mating in their hundreds | |
| Drug that boosts confidence in your own actions may help OCD | |
| The strange Cook pine trees that always lean towards the equator | |
| Automatic sign language translators turn signing into text | |
| Trump ditching Paris climate deal isn't the end of the world | |
| Festivals 2017: Feel at one with the universe | |
| Huge ice age methane blowout is ill omen for glacier retreat | |
| Mars rover sees signs of microbe-friendly layers in ancient lake | |
| Unhealthy vagina microbiome can make HIV drugs less effective | |
| How to combat the dark Facebook ads aiming to swing UK voters | |
| Extinct species of Galapagos giant tortoise may be resurrected | |
| Photos of human faces reassembled from monkeysâ brain signals | |
| Geoengineering fears make scrutiny of ocean seeding test vital | |
| LIGOâs third detection hints at how black hole binaries are born | |
| Ticks use sticky pads on their feet to cling on to our skin | |
| Human tests suggest young blood cuts cancer and Alzheimer's risk | |
| Human vs Machine: Five epic fights against AI | |
| Brain switch in voles makes them fall in love at first sight | |
| Your Brain Is a Time Machine: Why we need to talk about time | |
| Could cannabis help crack cocaine addicts kick the habit? | |
| Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape | |
| Underwater drones use sound to send snaps of the ocean floor | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Tumour-tracking drug that kills cancer approved in the US | |
| New Zealand joins the space race with Electron rocket launch | |
| Collective rather than individual action can beat obesity | |
| Feedback: Scentless perfumes and houses that last forever | |
| Old Scientist: Space travel? Waste of money | |
| Inside the SPIDER facility, preparing for nuclear fusion tests | |
| Diseases are global, so it's time for global emergency response | |
| How to get scientists and politicians talking the same language | |
| The drug rebellion fighting big pharma to save the NHS millions | |
| Hello, Robot: The show that braves the future | |
| We don't need to lose out to machines, says the man who did | |
| First words: The surprisingly simple foundation of language | |
| Send an ear: Listening for sounds of life in the solar system | |
| NASA mission into sunâs atmosphere named after astrophysicist | |
| Take a 360-degree virtual tour of a scientific research vessel | |
| Watch cuttlefish apparently pretending to walk just like crabs | |
| UK government to be taken back to court again over air pollution | |
| Trump looks set to take US out of Paris climate agreement | |
| AI will be able to beat us at everything by 2060, say experts | |
| The appetite genes: Why some of us are born to eat too much | |
| Is ADHD a sleep disorder? Stimulant drug improves symptoms | |
| Floating in microgravity gives bacteria permanent genetic boost | |
| Rings and asteroids may explain âalien megastructureâ star | |
| Boom in human gene editing as 20 CRISPR trials gear up | |
| Nanoparticles that chat back and forth could dispense medication | |
| Gene tweak in gut bacteria could turn faeces blue if youâre ill | |
| Say it with feeling: The complex world of emojis | |
| CRISPR causes many unwanted mutations, small study suggests | |
| Sea stars filmed hunting squid and squabbling over eating it | |
| If I were a Martian, I'd start running now | |
| Hot, sleepless nights will get more common with climate change | |
| Governments sued over climate change, with banks and firms next | |
| Game theory says you should charge your friends to borrow things | |
| Curious AI learns by exploring game worlds and making mistakes | |
| Saturnâs moons could reassemble after a cosmic smash-up | |
| Nowcasting may help forecast big earthquakes in 53 major cities | |
| Amazing pictures show cyclones swirling above Jupiterâs poles | |
| Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape | |
| Tree-climbing goats spit out and disperse valuable argan seeds | |
| Strange cosmic radio burst pinned down to giant stellar nursery | |
| Monkey mafia steal your stuff, then sell it back for a cracker | |
| Quit nature to save wolves and bears? There are better ways | |
| See-through frog has heart you can see beating through its chest | |
| Trumpâs budget jettisons âirreplaceableâ marine mammals agency | |
| Newly-evolved microbes may be breaking down ocean plastics | |
| Giant octopus suffocates foolhardy dolphin that tried to eat it | |
| Brechtâs | |
| Waltzing robot teaches beginners how to dance like a pro | |
| A new history of cultural big ideas looks to the East for solace | |
| First mission to the moon: The real lesson | |
| Learning to read and write rewires adult brain in six months | |
| East Africa's drought threatens iconic wildebeest migration | |
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| Water enters the Doomsday vault which is now under repair | |
| Google's AlphaGo beats world's best player in latest Go match | |
| Your mind as well as your senses deserves a place at mealtimes | |
| Politicians must get a grip on tech if they want a great Britain | |
| Click your heels to get home with these Uber ruby slippers | |
| Nearly abandoned lab in Tanzanian mountains is 70s time capsule | |
| Why doesn't the UK government understand technology? | |
| Three major UK parties respond to our technology manifesto | |
| 6 technology pledges that should be in every political manifesto | |
| Dust reveals giant black holes merging in galactic collisions | |
| Feedback: How to travel 700km across Europe in 3 minutes | |
| Skin care gets smart with AI | |
| The US inventors who helped the RAF win the Battle of Britain | |
| Wake-up call: How turbulence could reveal secret nuclear subs | |
| The quantum leak that could give rise to dark energy | |
| Robotic turtles can be used to detect landmines in the desert | |
| Think the UK has a social care crisis now? Just wait until 2025 | |
| East Africaâs drought threatens iconic wildebeest migration | |
| Win a stack of science books for foodies | |
| Win a stack of science books for foodies | |
| Proof in the pudding: Myth-busting 15 common cooking tips | |
| App lets stadium crowds display giant messages with their phones | |
| Traumatic beetle sex causes rapid evolutionary arms race | |
| The brain starts to eat itself after chronic sleep deprivation | |
| Three amazing nature areas shortlisted for World Heritage status | |
| Trumpâs 2018 budget slashes funding from healthcare and science | |
| Bioelectric tweak makes flatworms grow a head instead of a tail | |
| Tangoing pairs of hungry supermassive black holes grow in number | |
| Artificial Venus flytrap grabs things over 100 times its weight | |
| Unimpeachable logic says Trump shouldn't quit Paris climate pact | |
| DeepMindâs AI beats world's best Go player in latest face-off | |
| Unprecedented cholera outbreak tears through war-torn Yemen | |
| EU nations set to wipe out forests and not account for emissions | |
| Mouse sperm sent into space produces healthy IVF babies | |
| Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa | |
| Diabetes drug may work by changing gut bacteria makeup | |
| Bacteria engineered to produce living, full-colour photographs | |
| Citizens give up data in blockchain project to improve cities | |
| Weird energy beam seems to travel five times the speed of light | |
| Astronomers scramble as âalien megastructureâ star dims again | |
| A classic quantum test could reveal the limits of the human mind | |
| Our brains prefer invented visual information to the real thing | |
| LIGO could detect gravitational wavesâ permanent space-time warp | |
| AI can doctor videos to put words in the mouths of speakers | |
| Flushing fallopian tubes with poppy seed oil boosts fertility | |
| Titanâs riverbeds show a terrain built more like Mars than Earth | |
| UK government watchdog examining political use of data analytics | |
| Rising seas could double the number of severe coastal floods | |
| Narwhals could help us measure melting glaciers underwater | |
| Mass landfills are saving endangered vultures from extinction | |
| Unshackled, big auto will keep choking the world on diesel fumes | |
| Call obesity a disease and food a pathological agent? No thanks | |
| Hundreds of newly-discovered plants may yield new crops or drugs | |
| Frog skeleton allows them to jump horizontally or vertically | |
| Fish boost photosynthesis by wafting water around corals | |
| Beaver dams keeps streams cool and protect sensitive fish | |
| Hopping miniature parrots suggest how birds first got airborne | |
| Human blood stem cells grown in the lab for the first time | |
| Plasma jet engines that could take you from the ground to space | |
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| No crew planned for NASA's first Space Launch System mission | |
| Number of hepatitis C infections in US at 15-year high | |
| Weak defences leave us wide open to ransom attacks | |
| Fighting for our forgotten sense | |
| What the end of the atomic renaissance means for nuclear power | |
| Brain stent to let five paralysed people control exoskeleton | |
| Feedback: Get steamy with a machine that makes "sexy water" | |
| Synthetic biology's ties to our humanity let it elude definition | |
| The day Mount St Helens erupted and I should have died | |
| Resurrected organisms reveal lifeâs bare essentials | |
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| 7 ways to tame your wandering mind and achieve better focus | |
| How to daydream your way to better learning and concentration | |
| Corals that grow faster in warm water could beat climate change | |
| Driest ten months in 100 years recorded in southern England | |
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| Google DeepMind NHS data deal was âlegally inappropriateâ | |
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| Memo to whoever lands the world's top health job â do this first | |
| Ebola once again on the prowl as emergency teams stand ready | |
| Microbes might thrive after crash-landing on board a meteorite | |
| Future forensics: Harnessing the spirit of Sherlock Holmes | |
| The Truth Value | |
| Remote Pacific island found buried under tonnes of plastic waste | |
| Ladybirdâs transparent shell reveals how it folds its wings | |
| Stars can start shining at a smaller mass than we thought | |
| Diesel fumes lead to thousands more deaths than thought | |
| Automation will have a bigger impact on jobs in smaller cities | |
| Ransomware attack hits 200,000 computers across the globe | |
| Odds on: Five scientific theories decided by wager | |
| Tiny invasive sea creatures hitch a ride in rabbitfish guts | |
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| Final demands: We explore sci-fi's unworldly money troubles | |
| Test combo could distinguish Alzheimerâs earlier than ever | |
| Massive cyberattack hits several hospitals across England | |
| Ultrasonic speaker lets you whisper to people 30 metres away | |
| Polar bears shift from seals to bird eggs as Arctic ice melts | |
| Hear the roar of the lionfish recorded for the first time | |
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| Brain zaps let minimally conscious people communicate for a week | |
| Neptune-like exoplanet spotted that has a watery atmosphere | |
| Hanging on: In search of the bat that returned from the dead | |
| What politicians can learn from the French election hack | |
| We are on track to pass 1.5°C warming in less than 10 years | |
| First timeline of a cancer tracks tumours from origin to spread | |
| Augmented reality goggles give surgeons X-ray vision | |
| Waves surge in opposite directions around Io's largest lava lake | |
| Wiggling atom probes buddy molecule without disturbing it | |
| AI detective analyses police data to learn how to crack cases | |
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| Citymapper launches an experimental London bus route | |
| NASA rocket mission takes 1500 sun images in just 5 minutes | |
| Minnesota measles outbreak follows anti-vaccination campaign | |
| When it comes to work, we should value quality over quantity | |
| You bet â an intellectual wager can focus our attention | |
| Feedback: What links Jeeps, emcees and the tiger in your tank? | |
| Crossword #6 | |
| A small class-action lawsuit could stop the US opioid epidemic | |
| will polarise opinion on Trump's wall | |
| Will technology help or hinder access to famous art? | |
| Fear is a killer: Nuclear expert reveals radiation's real danger | |
| Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on | |
| Ready for anything: The best strategies to survive a disaster | |
| Wary blenny fish pokes its head out from a Caribbean reef | |
| What vision of doom made Hawking seek a faster Earth exit plan? | |
| Successful publishing consortium buys | |
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| Snowball Earth melting led to freshwater ocean 2 kilometres deep | |
| Why be conscious: The improbable origins of our unique mind | |
| Industry experts may replace dismissed EPA advisory scientists | |
| 3.5-billion-year-old fossils hint life evolved in pond, not sea | |
| Eggs four times bigger than ostrichesâ reveal a giant dinosaur | |
| Lazarus species: Five cool animals we wrongly believed extinct | |
| Captive breeding is a final roll of the dice for the vaquita | |
| Meet âNeoâ, the most complete skeleton of | |
| Synthetic bone implant can make blood cells in its marrow | |
| Parasitic robot controls turtle itâs riding by giving it snacks | |
| Fake football website reveals what makes us become nasty trolls | |
| A little cannabis every day might keep brain ageing at bay | |
| Early Earth was covered in a global ocean and had no mountains | |
| UK government subsidises coal sector with £356 million a year | |
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| Inquisitive bot asks questions to test your understanding | |
| Nanofridge could keep quantum computers cool enough to calculate | |
| Earth may have been born in a huge flare-up of the young sun | |
| Increased cancer rate in US linked to bad environment | |
| Lasers print ultra high-res images narrower than a human hair | |
| Augmented reality brings Beatie Wolfeâs new songs to life | |
| UK's plan to clean up its air is still inadequate, critics say | |
| Menopause-causing bait is curbing rat populations in New York | |
| Fukushima accident gave everyone an X-rayâs worth of radiation | |
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| Let's seek traces of ancient indigenous ETs in our own backyard | |
| Man dreams in colour for first time during cancer radiotherapy | |
| Joseph Hooker: The travelling man who became Emperor of Botany | |
| Republican-led US House votes to repeal Affordable Care Act | |
| Watch Cassini's first two dives between Saturn and its rings | |
| Resurrected gene allows time travel to an Earth before oxygen | |
| Parasite living inside fish eyeball controls its behaviour | |
| Statin muscle aches are all in my head? I beg to differ | |
| Martian life must be rare as free energy source remains untapped | |
| The energy generators inside our cells reach a sizzling 50°C | |
| Deadly infection spread by contaminated heart surgery machines | |
| African | |
| Electrode can tell you if a baby is really experiencing pain | |
| A Museum of Modern Nature: Your chance to be a science curator | |
| Cutting through the smog: Is pollution getting worse? | |
| Cutting through the smog: How air pollution shortens your life | |
| Cutting through the smog: 5 ways to slash your pollution intake | |
| Cutting through the smog: What to do to fight air pollution | |
| Chatbot challenges will make AIs discuss the latest news | |
| Immune war with donor cells after transplant may wipe out HIV | |
| Gravitational waves could show hints of extra dimensions | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| US science budget gets some breathing room ahead of Trump cuts | |
| Climate march brings more than 200,000 activists together | |
| Cassini takes first plunge between Saturn's rings | |
| The UK government's attitude to air pollution stinks | |
| Feedback: Sacred geometry carafes serve up restructured water | |
| We may have the evolution of beauty completely wrong | |
| Neutron stars that slow down could be eating 'backwards' gas | |
| Old Scientist: Useless stuff we old folks know | |
| How number words may have changed us from zeroes to heroes | |
| Risking it all in a last-ditch search for Australiaâs lost tiger | |
| Cutting through the smog: How air pollution shortens your life | |
| Sweet salvation: Stopping orchids from being eaten to extinction | |
| Pink mountains light up in otherworldly view of fjord | |
| Arctic oil and gas must remain off limits for good, Trump | |
| First results from Jupiter probe show huge magnetism and storms | |
| Ancient humans: What we know and still donât know about them | |
| Bionic hand that can see for itself makes things easy to grasp | |
| Synthetic genes can make weird new proteins that actually work | |
| 5 impossible things the laws of physics might actually allow | |
| Time crystals: A new state of matter that outlasts the universe | |
| Map of the underworld may let us play plate tectonics in reverse | |
| Would a North Korean space nuke really lay waste to the US? | |
| NASA might run out of space suits before it quits the ISS | |
| Neutron stars that slow down could be eating 'backwards' gas | |
| Listening to your heartbeat helps you read other peopleâs minds | |
| The Easter egg puzzles that are hiding inside video games | |
| Seabed seismic sensors would have cut 2011 Japan tsunami toll | |
| Plan to regrow receding Swiss glacier by blowing artificial snow | |
| Strange mantle plume under Iceland helps keep Scotland afloat | |
| Ticks use sticky pads on their feet to cling on to our skin | |
| Human tests suggest young blood cuts cancer and Alzheimer's risk | |
| Human vs Machine: Five epic fights against AI | |
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| Your Brain Is a Time Machine: Why we need to talk about time | |
| Could cannabis help crack cocaine addicts kick the habit? | |
| Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape | |
| Underwater drones use sound to send snaps of the ocean floor | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Tumour-tracking drug that kills cancer approved in the US | |
| New Zealand joins the space race with Electron rocket launch | |
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| How to get scientists and politicians talking the same language | |
| The drug rebellion fighting big pharma to save the NHS millions | |
| Hello, Robot: The show that braves the future | |
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| First words: The surprisingly simple foundation of language | |
| Send an ear: Listening for sounds of life in the solar system | |
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| Take a 360-degree virtual tour of a scientific research vessel | |
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| Trump looks set to take US out of Paris climate agreement | |
| AI will be able to beat us at everything by 2060, say experts | |
| The appetite genes: Why some of us are born to eat too much | |
| Is ADHD a sleep disorder? Stimulant drug improves symptoms | |
| Floating in microgravity gives bacteria permanent genetic boost | |
| Marvel at the images from Cassini's first Grand Finale orbit | |
| Will Google's groundbreaking health study really do any good? | |
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| Liberals are no strangers to confirmation bias after all | |
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| We could detect alien life by finding complex molecules | |
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| UK loses another court case over failure to tackle air pollution | |
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| How to usher in an AI future with gain rather than pain | |
| First look at images from Cassini's dive between Saturn's rings | |
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| New Super-Earth looks habitable and could reveal signs of life | |
| Infrared telescope spots mystery flare-ups in distant galaxies | |
| We still havenât heard from aliens - hereâs why we might never | |
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| Thousands attend March for Science protests around the world | |
| Prognosis for dementia research uncertain in the Brexit election | |
| Feedback: Betting on a round Earth could leave you out of pocket | |
| Eyes on the skies: ensuring drones enhance city life | |
| Want to reinvent the future? | |
| The continuing mystery behind the cuteness of tame animals | |
| attempts to alter the way we perceive the world | |
| My vertical underwater farming can restore the seas | |
| New era of alchemy: Copying natureâs chemistry in a jiffy | |
| Your inner hoarder: Why letting go is so hard to do | |
| Pink weevil spreads its wings to prepare for rainforest take-off | |
| Crunch time for bitcoin as it faces last chance to go mainstream | |
| Wild bears do the twist to communicate through smelly footprints | |
| Most mammals big or small take about 12 seconds to defecate | |
| Melting moons could support liveable atmospheres for aeons | |
| Seabed images show the scars icebergs carve into polar sea floor | |
| Amazon rainforest under threat as Brazil tears up protections | |
| Mothâs disguise is so good, spiders love it instead of eating it | |
| Typhoon Haiyanâs electric spectacular in the eye of the storm | |
| Pollution nanoparticles may enter your blood and cause disease | |
| Defying dementia: Live better for longer after a diagnosis | |
| Defying dementia: How to keep your brain fighting fit | |
| Defying dementia: It is not inevitable | |
| Artificial womb helps premature lamb fetuses grow for 4 weeks | |
| is only 250,000 years old â hereâs why that matters | |
| Mars Trojans may be part of a planet that was destroyed long ago | |
| Medical marijuana may be a salve for the US opioid epidemic | |
| Hungry stomach hormone promotes growth of new brain cells | |
| UK does more to protect marine areas overseas than at home | |
| Joint mission to Europa could seek life under the ice | |
| Why expert evidence can help deliver a good deal for voters | |
| A guide to why your world is a hallucination | |
| Three-atom molecule cooled to near absolute zero for first time | |
| Plastic-munching caterpillars may show us how to dissolve waste | |
| Googleâs new project will gather health data from 10,000 people | |
| Weird, hairy microbes discovered on volcano soon after eruption | |
| Zika outbreak may have led to fewer births in Rio de Janeiro | |
| Mystery human species | |
| AI learns to play video game from instructions in plain English | |
| Icy Enceladusâs tiger stripes are a window on its watery depths | |
| On the ground in Washington at the March for Science | |
| Should you worry about heavy phone use causing cancer? | |
| Drones listen in on bats to reveal their in-flight secrets | |
| Ancient carvings show comet hit Earth and triggered mini ice age | |
| Arkansas should halt execution spree and let its drugs expire | |
| Chlamydia vaccine for koalas slows spread of deadly disease | |
| Why better technology wonât stop violent videos going viral | |
| Mystery human hobbit ancestor may have been first out of Africa | |
| Eel patrol: Tracking down poachers with the wildlife police | |
| Hereâs what to expect from Saturdayâs March for Science | |
| Quickest we could visit another star is 69 years â hereâs how | |
| The incredible naked mole rat can survive with hardly any oxygen | |
| How pregnancy could affect an elite athlete like Serena Williams | |
| Has the social media political bubble theory just been popped? | |
| Machine learning shows exactly when to zap brain to boost memory | |
| Environment chief says US should exit Paris climate agreement | |
| Facebook banks on virtual reality as the future of socialising | |
| Drunken crayfish show that loneliness raises alcohol tolerance | |
| Male robins can guess and satisfy their partnerâs food cravings | |
| The five best exoplanets in the galaxy to check for alien life | |
| Earthâs greatest hits: Six of the biggest meteorites in history | |
| Love your anthropological collection? Then hand it back | |
| Blood from human babies makes brains of elderly mice young again | |
| A population paradox could help us outrun our doom | |
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| Environment agency chief says US should exit Paris climate deal | |
| Drone footage of coal dust leak on beaches may be overblown | |
| Distant DeeDee could be a new dwarf planet | |
| We should stand together on science, all over the world | |
| Talk of a 'localised nuclear conflict' is ignorant and dangerous | |
| Rocks of ages: How meteorites reveal the solar system's history | |
| Marine life is rubbish... at least in these pictures | |
| Why a neonicotinoid ban isn't enough to protect the environment | |
| Feedback: Why the colour of #TheDress depends on your bedtime | |
| Trouble brewing your tea? Not if you build a diligent Dunkbot | |
| The heretical passion of the man who first described Parkinson's | |
| Marchers, raise your banners for the tortoise pace of progress | |
| Your true self: The future is a foreign person | |
| Your true self: Why itâs morals that make the human | |
| Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life | |
| Psychedelic drugs push the brain to a state never seen before | |
| Zika mosquito is spreading worldwide but WHO wants to stop it | |
| Fleet of CubeSats launches to study the neglected 'ignorosphere' | |
| Internal migration of millions as seas rise will rattle whole US | |
| Odds that Tasmanian tigers are still alive are 1 in 1.6 trillion | |
| Satellite swarms could increase space junk risk by 50 per cent | |
| First living example of giant ancient mollusc found in the wild | |
| Californiaâs wet year eases drought but many still lack water | |
| Many tiny galaxies could host mammoth black holes | |
| More than 8 million people in the US have mental health problems | |
| Lazy fit animals: How some beasts get the gain without the pain | |
| Psychedelic drug ayahuasca improves hard-to-treat depression | |
| Start-up uses biometrics to tailor music for good nightâs sleep | |
| Saturn's flying saucer moon Atlas has a smooth fluffy edge | |
| Our ability to think in a random way peaks at 25 then declines | |
| Fast CRISPR test easily detects Zika and antibiotic resistance | |
| Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladusâs sea | |
| The bright lights of big cities help blackbirds thrive | |
| Up and atom: The fights to put people into the periodic table | |
| Meta-analysis muddle: reviews of evidence are too often flawed | |
| Why the Trump administration is taking science out of forensics | |
| Virtual syringe lets surgeons practise piercing skin and muscle | |
| Creative people physically see and process the world differently | |
| gamers will seek real exoplanets in virtual universe | |
| 4D printing makes objects that assemble themselves when heated | |
| Soldier ants carry comrades wounded in raids back to base | |
| Sea urchin emits a cloud of venomous jaws to deter predators | |
| Physics of shoelaces shows why they come undone when you run | |
| Robot volleyball machine helps Japan team practise attacks | |
| Unprotected sex may disrupt the microbiome in vagina | |
| Mars's atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn't exist | |
| Water telescope uses gamma rays to track new kind of pulsar | |
| Gene editing opens doors to seedless fruit with no need for bees | |
| Lightning round-up: The worldâs weirdest electricity | |
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| Genetic test for Alzheimer's risk given approval for sale in US | |
| Volunteers spot four super-Earths orbiting sun-like star | |
| Unholy? Atheists should embrace the science of religion | |
| Unlocking the online potential of disadvantaged young people | |
| Faith of the faithless: Is atheism just another religion? | |
| Twisted semiconductors could help project moving holograms | |
| Radiation-eating bacteria could make nuclear waste safer | |
| Feedback: Our body heat is melting the ice caps, say US senator | |
| The 2017 Wellcome book prize shortlist is dramatic and diverse | |
| : the inside story of archaeology | |
| Mr Element 118: The only living person on the periodic table | |
| Bolt from the blue: Lightning doesn't form like we thought | |
| Drone spots humpback whales and orcas moving in on cloud of fish | |
| Mega-canals could slice through continents for giant ships | |
| Entire nervous system of an animal recorded for the first time | |
| Quantum effects cloak impossible singularities with black holes | |
| Itâs not too late to save Great Barrier Reef from politicians | |
| Waste-munching bacteria could make nuclear stores safer | |
| New approach to dark energy might explain our cooling universe | |
| Make like a leaf: How copying photosynthesis can change society | |
| Deep learning tells giraffes from gazelles in the Serengeti | |
| Why the "bisexuality hormone" study is not as simple as it seems | |
| Drone maps mines to explore unsafe caverns and seek out minerals | |
| Life could exist up to 10 kilometres beneath the sea floor | |
| 23andMe DNA test for Alzheimerâs risk approved for sale in US | |
| Twisted semiconductors could help project moving holograms | |
| We dream loads more than we thought â and forget most of it | |
| Injecting virus into brain may relieve Parkinsonâs symptoms | |
| Sabre-toothed tigers in ice-age Los Angeles had bad back trouble | |
| People on ecstasy feel loved-up because MDMA boosts trust | |
| Fingerprint challenge aims to automate how best prints get taken | |
| Mass bleaching hits Great Barrier Reef for second year in a row | |
| NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts | |
| Oldest tooth filling was made by an Ice Age dentist in Italy | |
| Trump plans to revive nuclear waste plans axed by Obama in 2010 | |
| Mars is so small because Jupiter shook up its formation | |
| Making an art out of medical record-keeping | |
| Thousands of fake companies added to Google Maps every month | |
| New computer vision challenge wants to teach robots to see in 3D | |
| Rich black people have worse health than rich white people | |
| Gluten allergy in coeliac disease may be provoked by virus | |
| Giant viruses may just be small viruses that stole hostsâ genes | |
| Sock puppet accounts unmasked by the way they write and post | |
| Atmosphere containing water detected around rocky exoplanet | |
| Squid and octopus can edit and direct their own brain genes | |
| Mutation in clock gene explains why some night owls stay up late | |
| Record amounts of renewable energy added to the mix in 2016 | |
| Flight turbulence to get three times more common because of CO2 | |
| Living with a superbug: My next infection could be my last | |
| Go at throttle up: The secret world of NASAâs mission control | |
| Earbud lets you control your phone with a wink or smile | |
| How smaller snakes strangle bigger snakes and swallow them whole | |
| Apes can see things from your perspective and help you out | |
| Cheap stroke drug boosts pancreatic cancer survival in mice | |
| Squishy robotic manta ray flaps its wings to spy in the ocean | |
| Great apes read peoples' minds and help those with false beliefs | |
| Earth-sized telescope set to snap first picture of a black hole | |
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| Japan and Norway set off on annual whale hunt despite opposition | |
| Public fatigue is the friend of those who would thwart science | |
| Crossword #5 | |
| Feel the pinch: A pioneer of science photography does crab claws | |
| Feedback: How to dispose of your old pound coins | |
| How we represent ourselves can distort our identity | |
| How the brain's ability to time travel may have led to speech | |
| Rorschach and his inkblots: The man, the test, the controversy | |
| Internal conflict: How we can make friends with harmful bacteria | |
| A year on thin ice: Four seasons in a radically changed Arctic | |
| Facebook will use photo-matching tech to take down revenge porn | |
| Syria chemical attack looks like nerve gas â and was no accident | |
| World's largest canary discovered on island of giants and dwarfs | |
| Reality check: The hidden connections behind quantum weirdness | |
| Neglect and drug trade led to Colombian landslide disaster | |
| It has got harder to access sexual health services in the UK | |
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| US bill restricts use of science in environmental policymaking | |
| Google uses neural networks to translate without transcribing | |
| Prehistoric humans made jewellery out of exotic island animals | |
| Eggs get less fertile with age because of chaotic cell division | |
| First ever cavefish discovered in Europe evolved super-fast | |
| Synthetic humans help computers understand how real people act | |
| Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy | |
| Medieval people mutilated the deceased to ward off zombies | |
| Android apps share data between them without your permission | |
| Debate rages over controversial copyright standard for the web | |
| Questions raised over 3-parent baby procedure last year | |
| Warming drives Alaskan glacier to its lowest point in 900 years | |
| How to snatch carbon emissions victory from US climate U-turn | |
| Badger filmed burying a whole cow by itself in Utah mountains | |
| Gravitational waves slow the spin of shape-shifting neutron star | |
| Trackers could unmask dark web users who think theyâre anonymous | |
| Watching SpaceXâs historic relaunch and landing of a used rocket | |
| Video projector creates augmented reality with no bulky headset | |
| UK plans to bring 20 species back from brink of extinction | |
| Destroying a type of brain cell makes mice really chilled out | |
| Flying foxes are facing extinction on islands across the world | |
| NASA orbiter shows Mars lost 90 per cent of its CO | |
| Is taking sugar out of food as difficult as industry says it is? | |
| Tiny fishâs venom makes predators zone out and release them | |
| Why you should worry that your browsing history is now for sale | |
| It just got harder to deny climate change drives extreme weather | |
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| Tadpoles learn to see with new eyes transplanted on their tails | |
| ALS linked to occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields | |
| Neanderthal artist revealed in a finely carved raven bone | |
| Giant octopus wears jellyfish cape after it devours its owner | |
| Backwards asteroid shares an orbit with Jupiter without crashing | |
| Western demand for goods from China is killing 100,000 a year | |
| Lyme disease is set to explode and we still donât have a vaccine | |
| Bias test to prevent algorithms discriminating unfairly | |
| The coldest place in the universe marks a double stellar grave | |
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| SpaceX test-fires engines ahead of rocket re-launch | |
| Fight against patent for hepatitis C drug that can cost â¬55,000 | |
| You can't legislate against mathematics | |
| Philosophers of knowledge, your time has come | |
| What hope for a deal for UK-EU science in Brexit negotiations? | |
| MRI brain scans train machines to see the world more like us | |
| Feedback: Flat Earthism bounces back on US basketball courts | |
| Old Scientist: Future technology â when to believe the hype | |
| Exploring the hidden politics of the quest to live forever | |
| India's poacher hunter on how he busts wildlife criminals | |
| NASA rockets leave blistering record of human space flight | |
| At the cutting edge | |
| At the cutting edge | |
| Robot has eyes designed to follow you around like the | |
| Sawfish's fearsome snout evolved to be undetectable to prey | |
| Peter Higgs on knowledge, immortality and the future of physics | |
| Inside knowledge: Is information the only thing that exists? | |
| Inside knowledge: Why knowing thyself is the hardest thing | |
| Inside knowledge: The maximum any one person can ever know | |
| Inside knowledge: Why we'll never know everything | |
| Inside knowledge: What's really going on in the minds of animals | |
| Inside knowledge: How to tell truth from lies | |
| Inside knowledge: What wisdom will live on once we're gone | |
| Inside knowledge: What makes scientific knowledge special | |
| Inside knowledge: Why we like to know useless stuff | |
| Inside knowledge: What separates fact from belief | |
| Implants let quadriplegic man drink from mug and feed himself | |
| Trump signs executive order to reverse Obamaâs climate policies | |
| Mini reproductive organs in a dish mimic 28-day menstrual cycle | |
| US energy systems at the mercy of cyberattack, warns report | |
| Geoengineering the sky is scary but we need to test it now | |
| Baby has surgery to remove parasitic fetus growing inside him | |
| âThey said I was peri-menopausal. Itâs a miracle I got pregnantâ | |
| Mice lived with us 15,000 years ago even before farming took off | |
| Exclusive: menopausal women become pregnant with their own eggs | |
| Putting bigger brains down to our social nature is half-baked | |
| Electrified sand could explain Titanâs odd backward-facing dunes | |
| Diabetes drug could be the first to reverse the disease | |
| Why breaking encryption is a bad idea that could never work | |
| Changing clocks twice a year is bad for health and energy use | |
| A nuclear ghost town in Japan welcomes back residents this week | |
| Stray supermassive black hole flung away by gravitational waves | |
| Virtual lemonade sends colour and taste to a glass of water | |
| Maths explains how pedestrians avoid bumping into one another | |
| Enigmatic plumes from Saturnâs moon caused by cosmic collision | |
| Cleaner fish that keep farmed salmon healthy at risk of wipe-out | |
| Is most cancer just random bad luck? No, lifestyle matters a lot | |
| Pay crash expected in online gig economy as millions seek work | |
| How free speech can become censorship â and how to solve it | |
| Edited live vaccine could stop harmful polio outbreaks | |
| Chronic pain and depression are linked by brain gene changes | |
| Phone learns to send app notifications only when you want them | |
| Shock mass coral die-off in Asia sounds alarm for worldâs reefs | |
| Robots are stronger, faster, more durable⦠and hackable | |
| Win a pair of signed books by Lawrence M. Krauss | |
| Win a pair of signed books by Lawrence M. Krauss | |
| Best evidence yet that hypnotised people aren't faking it | |
| From HIV to climate change: how to spot denialists in action | |
| Oddball star could be home to long-sought superheavy elements | |
| Moderate drinking may be 'heart healthy' but exercise is safer | |
| First dinosaurs may have been omnivores in the north hemisphere | |
| War by any means: The story of DARPA | |
| Can a new history of vaccination silence doubters? | |
| Female fish with bigger brains choose better mates | |
| Atomic clocks make best measurement yet of relativity of time | |
| Robots could help children give evidence in child abuse cases | |
| First dinosaurs may have been omnivores in the north hemisphere | |
| Old blood can be made young again and it might fight ageing | |
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| Weather and climate extremes continue to set new records | |
| Global warming worsened snowpack loss in California's drought | |
| US climate science in the firing line for Trump's first budget | |
| ExoMars dips into the Martian atmosphere to sniff for life | |
| It's time new media companies admitted that that's what they are | |
| A little less ET, a little more astrophysics, if you please | |
| Can data save rhinos? How to attack wildlife crime at source | |
| Feedback: Placenta pills promise new mums more Vitamin U | |
| Thrills and spills: We built a sentry duck for our bath | |
| Beetroot for AIDS: Fighting denialism in Mbekiâs South Africa | |
| This bird has flown: Unravelling the mysteries of bird migration | |
| The beautiful bird corpses left by illegal Maltese sharpshooters | |
| Quarter of Californiaâs snowpack loss is from human-made warming | |
| China's workers need help to fight factories' toxic practices | |
| 7 foods you should avoid to help feed the world | |
| Tomorrow's menu: Termites, grass and synthetic milk | |
| Mind the gaps: The holes in your brain that make you smart | |
| Trump's tragic budget kills vital science to boost defence | |
| Artificial lungs in a backpack may free people with lung failure | |
| Electronic devices banned on US-bound flights from 8 countries | |
| Ongoing academic purge shows Turkey is heading to a dark place | |
| Special glasses give people superhuman colour vision | |
| Weather and climate extremes continue to set new records | |
| Deadly, drug-resistant Candida yeast infection spreads in the US | |
| The many-tentacled galaxy that could drive a physics revolution | |
| Parrots find âlaughterâ contagious and high-five in mid air | |
| Mysterious water-like streaks on Mars might be sand flows instead | |
| Exposed: Soviet cover-up of nuclear fallout worse than Chernobyl | |
| On front line of climate change as Maldives fights rising seas | |
| 3D-printed bacteria could make bespoke graphene-like materials | |
| Making US workers pass genetic test data to employers is wrong | |
| South American group has the healthiest arteries ever seen | |
| Gentle breeze may help Venus's atmosphere spin like crazy | |
| E-tattoos turn knuckles and freckles into smartphone controls | |
| Stop killing lions for their bones to make bogus aphrodisiacs | |
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| Cosmological ruler could help us get the measure of dark energy | |
| UK government pulls ads from YouTube in extremist content row | |
| Robot eavesdrops on men and women to see how much they talk | |
| New autism blood test likely to join ranks of also-rans | |
| Recoded organism paves way to new genetic language of life | |
| Tardigrades turn into glass to survive complete dehydration | |
| Premature babiesâ brains respond differently to gentle touching | |
| These fish are evolving right now to become land-dwellers | |
| Chimp filmed cleaning a corpseâs teeth in a mortuary-like ritual | |
| Vision saved by first induced pluripotent stem cell treatment | |
| Dark matter took its time to wrap around early galaxies | |
| O my! Paper strip test determines blood type in just 30 seconds | |
| Rear-view helmet vision may help avert motorbike accidents | |
| Mosaic problem stands in the way of gene editing embryos | |
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| Indian Ocean version of El Niño behind drought in East Africa | |
| Australia to ban unvaccinated children from preschool | |
| A sixth of Americans to lack health insurance by 2026 | |
| Keep an open mind on dark matter and rivals that do away with it | |
| Backyard gene editing risks creating a monster | |
| Should a child's health concerns trump sperm donor privacy? | |
| Asteroid clay is a better space radiation shield than aluminium | |
| Feedback: Keep the bloom of youth by sitting in an £18,000 vase | |
| Walking to the ends of the Earth to beat bullying | |
| How we lost the world-changing power of useless knowledge | |
| How did the zebra get its stripes? | |
| How dogs are helping decode the genetic roots of personality | |
| Neuroleaks: The secret dialogue between brain and body | |
| How dark matter lost its shine for me | |
| Disappearing buildings in the desert aren't all they seem | |
| US charges Russian security officials over massive Yahoo hack | |
| Australia wants to ban unvaccinated children from preschool | |
| Rules of attraction: Why it's time to rethink how gravity works | |
| The most believable video game sidekick is a giant flying cat | |
| Fiddler crab's drumming shows off the size of its home | |
| Plants have evolved a taste for sand that deters hungry insects | |
| Oldest plant-like fossils discovered are 1.6 billion years old | |
| MPs grill Facebook, Twitter and Google over abusive content | |
| Spiders eat twice as much animal prey as humans do in a year | |
| Asteroid clay is a better space radiation shield than aluminium | |
| Swedish men on target to be first to completely stub out smoking | |
| Scott Pruitt's climate denial may be Putin's real prize | |
| Cooling to absolute zero mathematically outlawed after a century | |
| Celebrate pi day with 9 trillion more digits than ever before | |
| Becoming a parent may add a year or two to your life | |
| Luminous frog is the first known naturally fluorescent amphibian | |
| TRAPPIST-1 worlds are close enough for life to hop between them | |
| More people could benefit from BRCA breast cancer drugs | |
| When I try to imagine my girlfriend's face, I draw a blank | |
| Win a Raspberry Pi-powered Kano computer bundle | |
| Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously | |
| Forget snow, rain will become main precipitation in the Arctic | |
| People with no mind's eye may help us boost our creativity | |
| Win a Raspberry Pi-powered Kano computer bundle | |
| Video game beta test reveals how we might act if the world ends | |
| Web creator Tim Berners-Lee speaks out on fake news | |
| Maize engineered to silence deadly toxins in poisonous mould | |
| Could fast radio bursts really be powering alien space ships? | |
| Can renaissance in psychedelic drug research survive Trump era? | |
| Your brain fills gaps in your hearing without you realising | |
| The blue whale story: Meet the giant in all its glory | |
| Never-before-seen gatherings of hundreds of humpback whales | |
| What makes a good surgeon? Video analysis rates suturing skills | |
| Robot that shows pain could teach doctors to recognise it better | |
| Mystery brain particles may link head injuries to dementia | |
| Babies in prams are exposed to high levels of air pollution | |
| Dogs use deception to get what they want from humans (a sausage) | |
| NASA's new budget is big on other worlds but ignores our own | |
| Special steel inspired by bone is more resistant to cracking | |
| Five designer chromosomes bring synthetic life a step closer | |
| EPA boss says carbon dioxide not primary cause of climate change | |
| Sneaky beetles evolved disguise to look like ants, then eat them | |
| Why overzealous breastfeeding advice can be bad for babies | |
| That faddish gluten-free diet may be raising your diabetes risk | |
| Obamacare's replacement a giant step backwards for US healthcare | |
| First results of CRISPR gene editing of normal embryos released | |
| Discovery of tiny moon completes the set for worlds past Neptune | |
| Ebola vaccine promising in chimps but may never be used | |
| Translucent helmeted cockroach looks like an alien with a halo | |
| Neanderthals may have medicated with penicillin and painkillers | |
| Fuzzy pulsars orbiting black holes could unmask quantum gravity | |
| Warmer weather could bring fresh Zika misery | |
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| China's new rocket makes its debut flight into space | |
| Trump's assault on climate science will not make America great | |
| Crossword #4 | |
| Plankton can save the ocean. But who will save the plankton? | |
| Feedback: Bottled water from icebergs? Buy now while stocks last | |
| Green thinking in the era of Trump | |
| Emotions are not universal â we build them for ourselves | |
| The string-loop theory that might finally untangle the universe | |
| Fish's toothy grin is perfect for crunching up armoured prey | |
| Moon billionaires: how Elon Musk is taking us back to the future | |
| LIGO strikes again | |
| How to train your brain to be like a memory championâs | |
| UK announces extra funding for robotics and driverless cars | |
| Machine learning reveals lack of female screen time in top films | |
| Millions raised for womenâs health after Trumpâs abortion gag | |
| Good hydrations: Is there a safe level of alcohol? | |
| Good hydrations: Are health drinks healthy? | |
| Good hydrations: Is tea or coffee better for you? | |
| Good hydrations: Does milk make healthy brains and bones? | |
| Good hydrations: Is fruit juice better than soda? | |
| Good hydrations: Do I need eight glasses of water a day? | |
| Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains | |
| Most people don't know climate change is entirely human-made | |
| Oldest, biggest black holes may have come from enormous stars | |
| Subway chicken row shows faith in food is still a battleground | |
| Best anti-ageing exercise is high intensity interval training | |
| Raindrops make soil bacteria take off and fly through air | |
| Space opera is taking humanity to its limits | |
| Signal-tracking satellite would build its own antenna in space | |
| First-ever underwater video of the elusive True's beaked whale | |
| Bumblebees can tell who visited flowers by smelly footprints | |
| Older people are just as good at judging music as younger adults | |
| Deep cuts to environmental research in Trumpâs budget proposal | |
| Brainâs inability to see that something is safe causes OCD | |
| Global greening may soak up less carbon dioxide than projected | |
| Brighter sky helped boost US crop yields â but it may not last | |
| UKâs CO | |
| Moon's hidden craters detected by gravity mapper | |
| Humans control robots with their minds by watching for mistakes | |
| Brainâs reward system earns researchers â¬1 million prize | |
| Cosmic uncertainty: Your skull is an amazing physics lab | |
| You are here: A spectacular poster of our place in the Milky Way | |
| Sponge can soak up and release spilled oil hundreds of times | |
| US drinking water at risk from Trump's cuts to pollution rules | |
| Pixel-perfect play confronts the reality of immersive therapy | |
| Super-fast Parkinson's app will track symptoms more closely | |
| WW2 bomb craters are a home to rare and vulnerable animals | |
| Stubborn wasp queens pass their personality on to their colony | |
| First yearly CO | |
| Image recognition app scans paintings to act like Shazam for art | |
| Artificial embryo grown in a dish from two types of stem cells | |
| Why the dark net is more resilient to attack than the internet | |
| Empathy device lets a friendâs brain signals move your hand | |
| Climbing plants use taste to avoid clinging to other weak vines | |
| First hint of how DNA calculators could supercharge computing | |
| Assassins may have made a binary weapon of Kim Jong-namâs face | |
| Autoimmune disorders linked to an increased risk of dementia | |
| Gene therapy âcuresâ boy of blood disease that affects millions | |
| Rock solid evidence of Anthropocene seen in 208 minerals we made | |
| Elephants sleep for just 2 hours a day â the least of any mammal | |
| Musk's moon trip 'tourists' should be praised as pioneers | |
| Traces in rock may be the oldest evidence of life on Earth ever | |
| How we're already seeking life on TRAPPIST-1's rocky planets | |
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| Rebooted Nokia 3310 steals the show at exhibition of mobile tech | |
| SpaceX follows Jules Verne â with one exception | |
| To advance science we need to think about the impossible | |
| Old Scientist: Our best jokes ever (laughter not guaranteed) | |
| Next-gen microbiome drugs are now on sale â should you buy them? | |
| Snow will melt more slowly in a warmer world â here's why | |
| Putting you under: When anaesthesia goes wrong | |
| Feedback: Hackable dolls could become pint-sized spies | |
| Unmaking the myths of our gendered minds | |
| Volcanoes: Oxford exhibition gives the fiery inside story | |
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| Why do we get all nostalgic over old tech like the Nokia 3310? | |
| Facebook is testing AI tools to help prevent suicide | |
| Cosmic uncertainty: Are there antimatter worlds out there? | |
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| Cosmic uncertainty: Does time go both ways? | |
| Cosmic uncertainty: Could quantum weirdness be even weirder? | |
| Cosmic uncertainty: Is the speed of light really constant? | |
| Cosmic popcorn effect helps space dust survive our atmosphere | |
| Atmospheric rivers leave California dried out and then flooded | |
| Tiptoeing termites bang their heads to mimic ant footsteps | |
| Squid evolved in marine wars more than 100 million years ago | |
| BPA-free water bottles may contain another harmful chemical | |
| The feeling you get when nails scratch a blackboard has a name | |
| SpaceX plans to send two civilians around the moon next year | |
| Game theory says publicly shaming cyberattackers could backfire | |
| UTIs could soon be life-threatening without new antibiotics | |
| A loaf of bread emits half a kilo of CO | |
| De-extinction dilemma: reviving dead species may doom the living | |
| Snow will melt more slowly in a warmer world â hereâs why | |
| Caterpillars vibrate anuses to send food and shelter alerts | |
| Why we are so bad at spotting if our kids are overweight | |
| As Brexit looms, a soundbite strategy for UK science won't do | |
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| Try these simple mental tests to see if you're a good athlete | |
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| Having a cigarette may make your body crave coffee too | |
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| If an asteroid hit London only 3% of deaths would be from impact | |
| Augmented reality lets cars communicate to reduce road rage | |
| Was Kim Jong-nam killed by VX nerve gas? Doesnât look like it | |
| There's no such thing as 'clean coal' â itâs dirty and expensive | |
| AI beats professional players at Super Smash Bros. video game | |
| Bill Gates' robot tax alone won't save jobs: here's what will | |
| Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are | |
| Extinct Neanderthals still control expression of human genes | |
| Plain packets help smokers quit by killing brand identities | |
| Dozy drivers pose big dilemma for next step in autonomous cars | |
| Hiring tool uses behavioural science to stop recruitment bias | |
| Voyager 1 might have seen Enceladusâ icy plumes 25 years early | |
| The EUâs renewable energy policy is making global warming worse | |
| You should be eating 10 pieces of fruit or veg every day, not 5 | |
| Successful Russian launch re-paves the way to space station | |
| Skulls reveals that ancient Americans didnât mix with neighbours | |
| 9 quotes that tell the dramatic story of supersonic flight | |
| Exoplanet discovery: Seven Earth-size exoplanets may have water | |
| Female fish mate 200 times but save eggs for the perfect male | |
| AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other programs | |
| Desert people evolve to drink water poisoned with deadly arsenic | |
| HIV vaccine therapy lets five people control virus without drugs | |
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| Twitter brings out new tools to beat the trolls | |
| Does a networked world need a new approach to doing good? | |
| Feedback: Witch offers hex appeal for financial wizards | |
| Humans in panda suits try to track down bears in the woods | |
| How to be good: Can science show us how to save the world? | |
| Ant odd couple work together to build and keep a healthy nest | |
| Crossword #3 | |
| The 1830s seamstress who solved Aristotleâs octopus mystery | |
| Resurrecting nature: Extinct is not forever | |
| Small bang theory: Supersonic flight without the din | |
| Pluto is still an ex-planet, no matter what its fans think | |
| Plague! How to prepare for the next pandemic | |
| Worst-ever coral bleaching event continues into fourth year | |
| New species of bushbaby found in disappearing forests of Angola | |
| Buttercups focus light to heat their flowers and attract insects | |
| Exercise reduces death from breast cancer relapse by 40 per cent | |
| Bird flu strain hitting China may be getting more dangerous | |
| Mind-reading typing tool for paralysed people is fastest yet | |
| Kids can pick up attitude from robots they play and learn with | |
| Mystery eye disease is latest blow for Australiaâs sick turtles | |
| 'Meditating mice' reveal secrets of mindfulness training | |
| Teacher body cams are not the answer to bad classroom behaviour | |
| The upstart asteroid who showed rings are for everybody | |
| Family tree of stars helps reconstruct Milky Way's formation | |
| New advice is use fewer passwords â why the change of tack? | |
| Alarm as climate sceptic named head of US environment agency | |
| Smart meter tracks when the kettleâs on to check grandpaâs OK | |
| Putting cancer patients in hibernation could help tackle tumours | |
| US scientists voice fears over how science will fare under Trump | |
| New NASA teams will make human Mars missions light and efficient | |
| You are what you eat: Old food shortens lifespan in animals | |
| Mars might already be building rings from its moons | |
| Antarctic sea ice is very low â but donât jump to conclusions | |
| Hens that can lay eggs from other species could save rare birds | |
| Microsoft app helps people with ALS speak using just their eyes | |
| Trump may be very flawed but that doesn't make him mentally ill | |
| Big builder ants and tiny guard ants live together in one nest | |
| Screening soldiers doesnât protect them from mental illness | |
| Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material | |
| Seagrass meadows help remove dangerous bacteria from ocean water | |
| Can we grow woolly mammoths in the lab? George Church hopes so | |
| Key Alzheimerâs drug shows âvirtually no chance of workingâ | |
| Far-off asteroid caught cohabiting with Uranus around the sun | |
| Turn satellites into sparkling fireworks to burn up space junk | |
| Vitamin D supplements may prevent millions of winter infections | |
| Two new drug therapies might cure every form of tuberculosis | |
| Tiny 3D-printed camera lens could give drones vision like ours | |
| I can control a computer with my mind â from inside a dream | |
| Churchill's lost essay on alien worlds has a message for us all | |
| Universes that spawn 'cosmic brains' should go on the scrapheap | |
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| We need slow science to sow the seeds of future prosperity | |
| A new formula reveals the most rocking science star of all | |
| The Mars paradox: Why we still don't understand water on Mars | |
| Pregnant and not heard of Group B Strep? | |
| How the world made us: chance and climate in the human story | |
| A space travel guide for your first holiday off-planet | |
| Connecting us all: How satellites remade the world | |
| The father of the Gaia hypothesis shares his greatest invention | |
| Slaughter of an American icon: The Yellowstone buffalo cull | |
| How you can control what happens in your dreams | |
| Heal yourself from inside your dreams | |
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| Dormouse might be first tree-climbing mammal shown to echolocate | |
| Emergency clause lets European countries beat bee pesticide ban | |
| The maths problems that could win you a million dollars | |
| Magnets, boiling kettles and the secret code underlying reality | |
| Junk food tax and veg subsidies could add 500,000 years of life | |
| Crews race to fix California dam before more rain falls | |
| Human genome editing shouldnât be used for enhancement â yet | |
| How to build better sex robots: stop making them look human | |
| Honeybees let out a âwhoopâ when they bump into each other | |
| More people now believe human-made climate change is happening | |
| Mars landing sites for 2020 NASA mission down to the final three | |
| NHS to start prescribing health apps that help manage conditions | |
| Timing when you get pregnant could prevent a miscarriage | |
| Climate change is already battering hundreds of animal species | |
| Metabolic switch may bring on chronic fatigue syndrome | |
| Virtual reality weather add-ons let you feel the sun and wind | |
| Science Museumâs Robots: Who is really pulling the strings? | |
| Australia's extreme heatwave is a preview of things to come | |
| Deep-sea squid points a big, bulging eye up and a tiny eye down | |
| New talk of warming pause just another faux climate controversy | |
| Secrets of Earth's birth carried in lava jets from planet's core | |
| 400 pilot whales stranded on New Zealandâs âwhale trapâ beach | |
| Simple equation shows how human activity is trashing the planet | |
| Foxes seen climbing trees at night to track down and eat koalas | |
| Software helps musicians stop slouching by ruining their music | |
| Stinky armpits? Bacteria from a less smelly person can fix them | |
| Monkeys and dogs judge humans by how they treat others | |
| New beetle species bites army antâs butt and hitches a ride | |
| AI learns to solve quantum state of many particles at once | |
| Magnetic meteorites narrow down solar systemâs birthdate | |
| How a raised hand from a pedestrian could stop driverless cars | |
| Great lettuce crisis is a taste of climate crop chaos to come | |
| Robotic bee could help pollinate crops as real bees decline | |
| NASA wants to put a lander on Europaâs surface to look for life | |
| Endangered snow leopards dine on livestock like goats and horses | |
| Science stood apart from politics for a long time, not any more | |
| Synchronised swimming seems to make dolphins more optimistic | |
| Primitive plants survive almost two years in outer space | |
| Antibiotics might kill gut bacteria that protect newborn lungs | |
| Glass from nuclear test site shows the moon was born dry | |
| Rare mid-weight black hole found at heart of bright star cluster | |
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| More than 100 tech firms sign letter opposing Trump travel ban | |
| We all have our favourite way to read â what's yours? | |
| We need transparent trials to keep confidence in medicine | |
| Feedback: Astral-nauts once performed a psychic probe of Jupiter | |
| Why some people with HIV can now ditch condoms | |
| Neural net learns words like a child, by looking and listening | |
| Find romance on Valentine's Day with a digital treasure hunt | |
| The high cost of being digital | |
| Why your brain is like a conscious termite colony | |
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| Smart-reading: How to read faster and comprehend more | |
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| Massive lake drained for hydropower leaves dry bed and no fish | |
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| Cholesterol wars: We may be fighting the wrong enemy | |
| Cholesterol wars: Does a pill a day keep heart attacks away? | |
| Why grey wolves kill less prey when brown bears are around | |
| Bird lookouts make alarm calls to save themselves, not the group | |
| Starlight test shows quantum world has been weird for 600 years | |
| US conservative bill aims to axe EPA â hereâs why it wonât work | |
| Printed âlab on a chipâ costs a penny and catches disease early | |
| Tweet me, I'm about to die in space | |
| Looking at a virtual hand reduces the pain in your real hand | |
| Gravitational wave detector prepares to peer into bizarre stars | |
| Switching from smoking to vaping does reduce your carcinogens | |
| Being friendly puts monkeys at risk in times of revolution | |
| Ocean acidification may be good for thriving marine snails | |
| Space junk collector burns up after hitting snag in first test | |
| Amputees control virtual prosthetic arm using nerve signals | |
| LHC sees matter and antimatter misbehaving in alternate particle | |
| Carnivorous plants repurpose stress genes to digest their prey | |
| Flies are spreading antibiotic resistance from farms to people | |
| Blood test could catch pancreatic cancer before itâs too late | |
| Health insurer calls analysed for signs of disease in your voice | |
| Internet âplaygroundâ trials new tech to deliver smart cities | |
| Injection could permanently lower cholesterol by changing DNA | |
| Vicious microbial warfare helps bacteria evolve cooperation | |
| Mystery radiation 'clouds' may pose risk to air travellers | |
| Rare âbaby dragonsâ discovered in five new caves thanks to DNA | |
| Honeybees welcome friendly migrants to hives but repel raiders | |
| Sun's rotation is slowed down by its own photons | |
| Drug stops nasty chemotherapy side effects in mice with cancer | |
| Blind people âseeâ microscope images using touch-feedback device | |
| New HIV infections in gay men have dropped by a third in England | |
| Have we found evidence that we live in a holographic universe? | |
| Worldâs most endangered marine mammal has 30 individuals left | |
| Why the sound of noisy eating fills some people with rage | |
| Time to make sure Europe's troubled satnav system really flies | |
| Powerful Zika vaccine protects mice and monkeys from the virus | |
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| Clinic claims it has used stem cells to treat Down's syndrome | |
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| Antibiotic resistance spreads from farms to people in China | |
| Speak up for science, however you can | |
| Feedback: Oceans not more acidic, just less alkaline, says MEP | |
| Water spotted in the atmosphere of nearby hot Jupiter exoplanet | |
| Old Scientist: Into the twilight zone of dubious causation | |
| The video installation that makes us swim in our own mess | |
| London show confirms the natural world is dead. Good riddance | |
| Sibling heroes from the dawn of antibiotics | |
| Spotless mind: Manipulating the brain to rewrite memories | |
| The great extermination: How New Zealand will end alien species | |
| The pioneering snowflake photographs of a young obsessive | |
| A painful reminder for Donald Trump of why torture is pointless | |
| What Trump's US Supreme Court pick means for women's health | |
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| Tiny spacecraft could brake at exoplanet using alien starlight | |
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| Long-lost continent found submerged deep under Indian Ocean | |
| Trumpâs travel ban is already stopping scientific collaboration | |
| Call off the breakfast wars and pass another slice of toast | |
| Pom-pom crabs prune their living decorations like bonsai trees | |
| AI just won a poker tournament against professional players | |
| Worldâs first time crystals cooked up using new recipe | |
| The great VR Science Challenge | |
| Oxygen ions sent from Earth have been spotted on the moon | |
| Voice-checking device stops hackers hijacking your Siri or Alexa | |
| Ancestor of all vertebrates was a big mouth with no anus | |
| Higher unemployment linked to more shootings at schools | |
| We don't need a huge blue grab to save sharks and rays | |
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| Goat plague wipes out 10 per cent of endangered antelopes | |
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| US scientists can look to Canada for ways to fight a crackdown | |
| How almost-impossible video games can create euphoric moments | |
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| Genetic fix can make mass-produced tomatoes taste great again | |
| Metallic hydrogen finally made in lab at mind-boggling pressure | |
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| Uber hasnât taken taxi driversâ jobs but has slashed their wages | |
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| More empathy isn't the right prescription to heal our planet | |
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| AI rivals dermatologists at spotting early signs of skin cancer | |
| Dried-up slime could help microbes survive briny waters on Mars | |
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| No room for complacency over threats from space | |
| We should have no beef with bureaucracy if it keeps food safe | |
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| Feedback: RBS banks on a mind reading device for new hires | |
| Give your old phone a new career as a remote eye | |
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| How Mooreâs microchip law is still shaping our world | |
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| Encryption wars: The privacy debate raging in your smartphone | |
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| Vacuum transfer advance will help redefine kilogram next year | |
| New hermit crab has candy-stick legs and a giant spoon-like claw | |
| Does UK-EU science have a future with a hard Brexit looming? | |
| Drilling into my skull and injecting stem cells helped my stroke | |
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| Hit threatening asteroids' bright spots to deflect them | |
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| Can IBM's principles for taming AI win over public doubts? | |
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| Parasite turns wasp into zombie then drills through its head | |
| Plasma tidal wave may tell us if black holes destroy information | |
| London show confirms the natural world is dead. Good riddance | |
| Injections of sex-related hormone increase arousal in the brain | |
| Virtual out-of-body experience reduces your fear of death | |
| Trump ditched Obama's climate and water policies on first day | |
| Exotic black holes caught turning into a superfluid | |
| Whale sharks' secrets revealed by live-tracking aquatic drones | |
| Bird is evolving to be less flashy in response to global warming | |
| Dried-up slime could help microbes survive briny waters on Mars | |
| A no-strike list may shield Yemenâs ancient treasures from war | |
| Big cities warm up during the week as commuters flock in | |
| Samsung blames battery flaws for Galaxy Note 7 smartphone fires | |
| Are potatoes now a cancer risk? Here's what you need to know | |
| Light-speed camera snaps light's "sonic boom" for the first time | |
| Intergalactic collision birthed a sparkling ring of young stars | |
| Spitting archerfish shoot at prey above and beneath the water | |
| Real-life psychopaths actually have below-average intelligence | |
| Robot skin senses warm bodies like a snake locating nearby prey | |
| When computers were human: The black women behind NASAâs success | |
| Smart buildings predict when critical systems are about to fail | |
| Recycled eggshells can be used for next-gen data storage | |
| Obama has finally done the right thing by freeing Manning early | |
| Abortion rate halves if women have to go extra 100 miles | |
| Foxes may confuse predators by rubbing themselves in puma scent | |
| Brainwaves could act as your password â but not if youâre drunk | |
| Seals hunt down hidden fish by sensing their breath in the sand | |
| Many more people could still die from mad cow disease in the UK | |
| Majority of primate species may vanish in next 25 to 50 years | |
| Stretchy robotic suit reduces energy used to walk by 23 per cent | |
| Majority of primate species may vanish in next 25 to 50 years | |
| Mysterious fairy circles in Namibian desert explained at last | |
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| SpaceX launches and lands first rocket since explosion | |
| Obamacare repeal begins in earnest, as Trump outlines his plans | |
| Feedback: Food researchers greasing the wheels of progress | |
| How you can help micro:bit inspire more young inventors | |
| How art helps us work out our techno dreams and nightmares | |
| Cultural mathematics: solutions to our fiendish brain-teasers | |
| Lost in space: Two books on the forgotten women of astroscience | |
| Katherine Johnson: The brilliant woman who got the US into space | |
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| Breath of life: Did animals evolve without oxygen? | |
| Early sketches of the brain show Ramón y Cajal's artistic genius | |
| US army wants to fire swarm of weaponised drones from a missile | |
| First evidence of dwarf galaxy merger boosts two cosmic theories | |
| 2016 confirmed as the hottest year on record | |
| Flawed hunt for flight MH370 shows need for new tracking system | |
| First baby born using 3-parent technique to treat infertility | |
| Mapping the multiverse: How far away is your parallel self? | |
| We mustnât let a superpower turn its back on rationality | |
| Curiosity finds Mars rock that may be a meteorite made from iron | |
| In an era of nationalism the net needs its freethinking champion | |
| Calorie restriction diet extends life of monkeys by years | |
| Electronic gene control could let us plug bacteria into devices | |
| How Trumpâs erratic nuclear posture could spark a new arms race | |
| Women's access to birth control and abortion fading under Trump | |
| Climate scientists brace themselves for a Trump-led witch-hunt | |
| How to protest against Trump in his expanded surveillance state | |
| Antelope revived in Sahara years after going extinct in the wild | |
| Complex life may have had a false start 2.3 billion years ago | |
| Antibody can protect brains from the ageing effects of old blood | |
| Global sea ice is at lowest level ever recorded | |
| Female shark learns to reproduce without males after years alone | |
| Cold case: The unsolved mystery of what lit Kepler's supernova | |
| Woman dies from infection resistant to all available antibiotics | |
| Taxi races show black cabs beat Uber on speed but not cost | |
| Gadget boom sees e-waste in Asia spike 63 per cent in 5 years | |
| Mini fire extinguishers inside lithium batteries may stop blazes | |
| Harvester ants farm by planting seeds to eat once they germinate | |
| Binary stars shred up and shove off their newborn planets | |
| Fish lure snails to their nest to help camouflage their babies | |
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| Poker AI competes to beat top players in no-limit game | |
| Press regulators need to act when scientific facts are denied | |
| First ever video of an elusive new ruby seadragon filmed in wild | |
| No sign of seasonal dark matter after four years of searching | |
| Smartwatches know you're getting a cold days before you feel ill | |
| Molecules tied into beautiful 'octofoil' knot for first time | |
| Mice turn into killers when brain circuit is triggered by laser | |
| Army of 350,000 Star Wars bots found lurking on Twitter | |
| Largest ever shark was doomed by its taste for dwarf whales | |
| UK urged to push ahead with world-first tidal lagoon power plant | |
| Fat shaming is everywhere but gets society precisely nowhere | |
| Baboons recorded making key sounds found in human speech | |
| Squeezed light cools tiny drum to coldest temperature ever | |
| Carbon seen bonding with six other atoms for the first time | |
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| China plans telescope to hunt for primordial gravitational waves | |
| Donât judge drug funding on political grounds | |
| We should embrace our ability to harness plant genes | |
| Feedback: Put a hex on cheap wine to make it taste good | |
| Carbon cascade reveals fresh look to the element of life | |
| Preventing Big Cannabis: How to nip marijuana lobby in the bud | |
| Crossword #2 | |
| Make your own meat with open-source cells â no animals necessary | |
| We know we are â but what else is conscious too? | |
| Down with data! Sagas are more likely to save Earth | |
| Of presidents and planets: Neil deGrasse Tyson looks ahead | |
| How to target tumours by messing with their metabolism | |
| The paradox powering Earth's magnetic field | |
| Bird-loving vampire bats develop taste for human blood | |
| Cyprus reunification may harm unique wildlife thriving on border | |
| Space travel's mental health toll could endanger long missions | |
| This is why you can't help babbling to your dog like it's a baby | |
| Thousands of birds to be culled in France to stop bird flu | |
| Home robot to nudge older people to stay social and active | |
| What are antibacterial agents and should we avoid using them? | |
| Attack of the household products: Hygieneâs hidden risks | |
| Dishing the dirt: How clean does your home really need to be? | |
| Extinct giant goose used its wings to fight rather than fly | |
| Wild monkey filmed mounting deer and trying to have sex with it | |
| Norway is first country to turn off FM radio and go digital-only | |
| Mini-brains made from teeth help reveal what makes us sociable | |
| Why Uberâs human drivers arenât out of a job just yet | |
| Nissan uses NASA rover tech to remotely oversee autonomous car | |
| Gene-silencing spray lets us modify plants without changing DNA | |
| Why mums and babies prefer to keep to one side of each other | |
| âAlien megastructureâ signal may be due to star eating a planet | |
| The trunk trick that lets elephants pick up almost anything | |
| Massive drop in London HIV rates may be due to internet drugs | |
| Zapping the brain really does seem to improve depression | |
| Milky Way's core could be spewing out planet-sized star chunks | |
| Oxytocin surge before a fight helps chimps bond with their group | |
| London road has broken annual legal pollution limits already | |
| Transistor stretchier than skin for ultra-flexible wearable tech | |
| Miniature brain and skull found inside 16-year-old girlâs ovary | |
| Twitter is being used in classes to help students learn Arabic | |
| Brain's face recognition area grows much bigger as we get older | |
| US Congress just made it easier to ditch science for politics | |
| China's ivory ban is great, now for shark fins and tiger bone | |
| Living near a highway may increase dementia risk by 7 per cent | |
| Brain shrinks less in older people who eat Mediterranean diet | |
| Metal asteroid and Trojans selected for next NASA missions | |
| Cosmic radio bursts tracked to home galaxy for first time | |
| Four extreme environments where humans are tasting life on Mars | |
| Physicists can't agree on what the quantum world looks like | |
| Computer uses facial cues to spot if people have autism | |
| False memory helps us think but we can't do it when we're tired | |
| Simple blood test can detect genetic diseases early in pregnancy | |
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| China pledges to shut ivory trade down by end of 2017 | |
| Amazon resists warrants for Echo data in Arkansas murder case | |
| Moral dilemma: should we reshape society because we can? | |
| Science books we're keen to read in 2017 | |
| Feedback: Cancer can be treated with herbal medicine, claims MP | |
| Old Scientist: From '60s psychedelia to '90s dreaming | |
| The Turing Guide: Last words on an enigmatic codebreaker? | |
| Headlight beetle's glowing path caught in time-lapse photo | |
| A cure for ageing is near but you probably can't afford it | |
| Selfish black holes may be killing host galaxies by stealing gas | |
| Tiny nanoelectrodes record brain's activity without damaging it | |
| Your walk could be a password that connects devices on your body | |
| Drones inspired by insects could keep flying even when damaged | |
| Racing robot cars will help AI learn to adapt to the real world | |
| Mars should have loads more water â so where has it all gone? | |
| My year on Mars: Frontier life of a space doctor | |
| Give your car a conscience: Why driverless cars need morals | |
| Grow with the flow: How electricity kicks life into shape | |
| DeepMindâs AlphaGo is secretly beating human players online | |
| Battle to see all data behind drug trial tragedy must go on | |
| Computer vision algorithms pick out petty crime in CCTV footage | |
| The revolution is televised: YouTube gives science a big bang | |
| Antigravity: Discovering if antimatter falls upwards | |
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| Woman hit by lightning loses synaesthesia â but then it returns | |
| Largest lake in southern Europe under threat from âeco-resortâ | |
| Sustainable tuna fishing is bad for climate â here's why | |
| Australia bans non-prescription codeine to fight opioid crisis | |
| If your smartphone is keeping you up at night, give it a rest | |
| âPsychedelic sanctuaryâ will help drug users get over bad trips | |
| How to make even your toughest new year's resolutions stick | |
| NHS to use drones to help chemical, bio and nuke response teams | |
| Radioactive waste dogs Germany despite abandoning nuclear power | |
| Ants craft tiny sponges to dip into honey and carry it home | |
| Invasive parakeets muscle in on native birdâs nests in Israel | |
| Something for everyone in 12 Days of Culture | |
| Itâs time to bust the myth that a healthy diet has to be costly | |
| European court deals blow to controversial UK surveillance law | |
| Australiaâs oldest working scientist speaks about his life | |
| Giant ball of gas is a totally stinky galactic chemistry lab | |
| Cut overseas aid and you risk setting off the population bomb | |
| Baby turtles leave behind fleeting oases on beach dune deserts | |
| Here's how experts can rebuild trust in the post-truth era | |
| Antimatter atom trapped and measured with a laser for first time | |
| Becoming a mother may change the brain to read baby's mind | |
| Molten iron river discovered speeding beneath Russia and Canada | |
| Cannibalistic deep-sea crabs groom each other like chimpanzees | |
| Facebook will flag false posts in your feed to tackle fake news | |
| Letâs hope UKâs soft drink tax cuts obesity and diabetes rates | |
| First test of rival to Einstein's gravity kills off dark matter | |
| Orcas seen hunting and killing rare whales for the first time | |
| UK becomes first country to give go ahead to three-parent babies | |
| Hackers stole personal data from 1 billion Yahoo user accounts | |
| Woman gives birth thanks to ovary removed when she was 8 | |
| Nanocrystal night-vision specs will let you see in infrared | |
| Imagination not interaction: inside Londonâs new maths gallery | |
| Emergency in Mali as looters are plundering ancient treasures | |
| Cave glow-worms vomit long sticky urine threads to catch prey | |
| Large asteroid impacts may be rare, but we should be prepared | |
| The great family brain-off: Solutions | |
| Win | |
| Holiday brain-off round 3: Build the Tower of Hanoi | |
| Holiday brain-off round 2: Test your reaction time | |
| Holiday brain-off round 1: Challenge your original thinking | |
| Vapers experimenting with illegal drugs bought on the dark web | |
| How we fell in love with our voice-activated home assistants | |
| Antibacterial products may help bacteria beat antibiotics | |
| Scientists won't stop discovering stuff, no matter what | |
| New Scientist 2016 holiday quiz | |
| Gene editing starts to save lives as human trials get under way | |
| Augmented reality set to overtake VR as new apps go live | |
| End of species extinctions is in sight as we bring animals back | |
| Cassini's grand finale will see orbiter plunge into Saturn | |
| First babies from menopausal mothers' own eggs may be born soon | |
| We will soon be able to read minds and share our thoughts | |
| LIGO should more than double its gravitational wave haul in 2017 | |
| Antibiotic resistance will hit a terrible tipping point in 2017 | |
| People prepare to fight their governments on climate change | |
| DeepMind's AI wants to beat us at video game | |
| Space silhouettes: Giant monuments celebrate Soviet supremacy | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Prepare for the real political game changer: robots with votes | |
| More giant Earth-like exoplanets will be found next year | |
| Feedback: Happy rats let it glow, let it glow, let it glow | |
| Old Scientist: How to get drunk rationally | |
| Culture's Puzzle Page: It's Christmaths⦠| |
| Neuroscience vs art: Let's talk across the divide | |
| Short story: The university of the sun | |
| When data delivers | |
| When a whale gets stranded, I get the call | |
| Holiday brain-off round 4: Demonstrate the wisdom of the ages | |
| Reindeer riddle: How do you tell caribou apart? | |
| Why board games are far from a trivial pursuit | |
| Tree of life: How figs built the world and will help save it | |
| Why predictive text is making you forget how to write | |
| Medieval wax seals are giving up fresh historical secrets | |
| Hung over: What science says about why you feel so rough | |
| No more drama: The game theory guide to a happy family holiday | |
| The fragile state of scientific glassblowing | |
| Were Aboriginal Australians the first astronomers? | |
| Comb jelly videos are rewriting the history of your anus | |
| Donât believe the Skype: We never wanted to video call people | |
| The 12 biggest and best science stories of 2016 | |
| Amazon makes its first Prime Air drone delivery to a customer | |
| How could Obama best hit back if election hack by Russia proved? | |
| Animal magnetism: Why dogs do their business pointing north | |
| Request our 2016 Christmas magnet | |
| Oldest early human footprints suggest males had several âwivesâ | |
| First evidence that wild mammals benefit from bigger brains | |
| Viruses may have evolved to hit men hard but go easy on women | |
| Future air conditioning could work by beaming heat into space | |
| Wikipedia âfactsâ depend on which language you read them in | |
| Canadians are angry about their national bird, but theyâre wrong | |
| Guilty or not guilty: Does inequality really lead to murder? | |
| Fold your own universe with our cosmic origami decoration | |
| Can we really predict who will cost society the most money? | |
| First exoplanet weather report shows clouds of ruby and sapphire | |
| Mystery Antarctic circle means ice is melting from surface down | |
| Cracking | |
| Rare Arabian leopards forced out by frankincense harvesters | |
| Monkeys should be able to talk just like us â so why don't they? | |
| Exclusive: Mexico clinic plans 20 'three-parent' babies in 2017 | |
| Vaping by US high schoolers has increased by 900 per cent | |
| Machine learning lets computer create melodies to fit any lyrics | |
| The alarming drop in US life expectancy shouldnât be a surprise | |
| Fresh look at old data shows the sun is surprisingly sluggish | |
| Posture could explain why women get more VR sickness than men | |
| Fish rapidly adapt to pollution thousands of times lethal levels | |
| Antibacterial products may help bacteria beat antibiotics | |
| T. rex cousinâs 99-million-year old tail feathers found in amber | |
| Brain cell transplant helps fearful mice overcome anxiety | |
| Longer âpenisâ drives evolution of bigger brains in female fish | |
| Biodiversity betrayal as nations fail miserably on conservation | |
| Third-ever natural quasicrystal found in Siberian meteorite | |
| More potent stun guns for British police will enrage critics | |
| Biodiversity betrayed as nations fail miserably on conservation | |
| Light therapy could break down Alzheimer's brain deposits | |
| Half surface water in some countries has been lost since 1980s | |
| Galaxy's rapid growth spurt may have spawned 3000 suns per year | |
| âI feel young againâ: Why a woman injects her ovaries with blood | |
| Inside the wild west world of experimental fertility clinics | |
| Microbes carve tiny rock homes for their barnacle chefs | |
| Dark matter that talks to itself could explain galaxy mystery | |
| Quantum computers ditch all the lasers for easier engineering | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| More at-risk people will get access to HIV preventive treatment | |
| Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science | |
| Is historic Soviet radiation health data too hot to handle? | |
| The card you'll want to send | |
| Jeremy Hunt's magical plan to block sexting is no help for teens | |
| Feedback: British MPs get into a froth over internet smut | |
| How challenging the meaning of 'fuel' lets the real world in | |
| Maps and the 20th century: Where to draw the lines? | |
| The road to hell is paved with corporate wellness | |
| Super-you: Fine-tune your life by making goals into habits | |
| Super-you: Train your brain to beat the inbuilt fear factory | |
| Humans are better endurance runners than any other animal | |
| Super-you: How to harness your inner braggart | |
| Super-you: Your body is a nation of trillions | |
| Super-you: Weâre all reading each otherâs minds, all the time | |
| Super-you: The mutant powers you get from outsider genes | |
| Super-you: You have a superstitious mind â to protect you | |
| Super-you: Discover the physics genius inside your brain | |
| Super-you: Use your better instincts to crush your inner bigot | |
| See the explosive life of fern fronds under the microscope | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Baxter robot beats humans at noughts and crosses by multitasking | |
| Quantum computers ditch all the lasers for easier engineering | |
| First images from Cassini's final dives over Saturn's north pole | |
| Win a 12-month subscription to The Curiosity Box | |
| Skull casket holding human bones reveals weird burial rituals | |
| Need your roof repaired? Thereâs a space-based app for that | |
| Exclusive: First visit to Russia's secret nuclear disaster site | |
| Exclusive: First visit to Russia's secret nuclear disaster site | |
| Fake news shapes our opinions even when we know it's not true | |
| X-rays show how gas âpillowsâ make lithium-ion batteries explode | |
| Robotic hand exoskeleton lets quadriplegic people use cutlery | |
| Cosmic dust grains found on city rooftops for the first time | |
| How much do you know about alcohol? | |
| Quantum solar cells could explain why plants are green | |
| Virgin Galactic takes first solo glide flight since 2014 crash | |
| Ancient leftovers show the real Paleo diet was a veggie feast | |
| Are caesareans really making us evolve to have bigger babies? | |
| Lazy coders are training artificial intelligences to be sexist | |
| Spikes in search engine data predict when drugs will be recalled | |
| North Dakota oil pipeline may still be built despite army block | |
| Why baby flatfish grow into the wonkiest animals in the world | |
| Our brains record and remember things in exactly the same way | |
| A state splash on science could bring fortune to Brexit Britain | |
| Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science | |
| Europe's green energy policy is a disaster for the environment | |
| ESA approves 2020 ExoMars rover despite crash earlier this year | |
| Whales talk to each other by slapping out messages on water | |
| Weeping rock mystery down to microbe builders and barnacle chefs | |
| Bees of the sea: Tiny crustaceans pollinate underwater plants | |
| Concerns as face recognition tech used to 'identify' criminals | |
| Buzz Aldrin evacuated from South Pole after falling ill | |
| Moral consensus: a CEO should earn five times what workers get | |
| World's highest plants discovered growing 6km above sea level | |
| Seismic sensing app detects 200 earthquakes in first six months | |
| In Castro's Cuba, this is what life as a doctor was really like | |
| Dragon lizards fly by grabbing their fold-up wings with âhandsâ | |
| Worldâs first city to power its water needs with sewage energy | |
| Magic mushroom drug helps people with cancer face death | |
| LIGO turns back on to hunt for more gravitational waves | |
| Ants craft tiny sponges to dip into honey and carry it home | |
| Invasive parakeets muscle in on native birdâs nests in Israel | |
| Something for everyone in 12 Days of Culture | |
| Itâs time to bust the myth that a healthy diet has to be costly | |
| European court deals blow to controversial UK surveillance law | |
| Australiaâs oldest working scientist speaks about his life | |
| Giant ball of gas is a totally stinky galactic chemistry lab | |
| Cut overseas aid and you risk setting off the population bomb | |
| Baby turtles leave behind fleeting oases on beach dune deserts | |
| Here's how experts can rebuild trust in the post-truth era | |
| Antimatter atom trapped and measured with a laser for first time | |
| Becoming a mother may change the brain to read baby's mind | |
| Molten iron river discovered speeding beneath Russia and Canada | |
| Cannibalistic deep-sea crabs groom each other like chimpanzees | |
| Facebook will flag false posts in your feed to tackle fake news | |
| Letâs hope UKâs soft drink tax cuts obesity and diabetes rates | |
| First test of rival to Einstein's gravity kills off dark matter | |
| Orcas seen hunting and killing rare whales for the first time | |
| UK becomes first country to give go ahead to three-parent babies | |
| Hackers stole personal data from 1 billion Yahoo user accounts | |
| Woman gives birth thanks to ovary removed when she was 8 | |
| Nanocrystal night-vision specs will let you see in infrared | |
| Imagination not interaction: inside Londonâs new maths gallery | |
| Emergency in Mali as looters are plundering ancient treasures | |
| Cave glow-worms vomit long sticky urine threads to catch prey | |
| Large asteroid impacts may be rare, but we should be prepared | |
| The great family brain-off: Solutions | |
| Win | |
| Holiday brain-off round 3: Build the Tower of Hanoi | |
| Holiday brain-off round 2: Test your reaction time | |
| Holiday brain-off round 1: Challenge your original thinking | |
| Vapers experimenting with illegal drugs bought on the dark web | |
| How we fell in love with our voice-activated home assistants | |
| Antibacterial products may help bacteria beat antibiotics | |
| Scientists won't stop discovering stuff, no matter what | |
| New Scientist 2016 holiday quiz | |
| Gene editing starts to save lives as human trials get under way | |
| Augmented reality set to overtake VR as new apps go live | |
| End of species extinctions is in sight as we bring animals back | |
| Cassini's grand finale will see orbiter plunge into Saturn | |
| First babies from menopausal mothers' own eggs may be born soon | |
| We will soon be able to read minds and share our thoughts | |
| LIGO should more than double its gravitational wave haul in 2017 | |
| Antibiotic resistance will hit a terrible tipping point in 2017 | |
| People prepare to fight their governments on climate change | |
| DeepMind's AI wants to beat us at video game | |
| Space silhouettes: Giant monuments celebrate Soviet supremacy | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Prepare for the real political game changer: robots with votes | |
| More giant Earth-like exoplanets will be found next year | |
| Feedback: Happy rats let it glow, let it glow, let it glow | |
| Old Scientist: How to get drunk rationally | |
| Culture's Puzzle Page: It's Christmaths⦠| |
| Neuroscience vs art: Let's talk across the divide | |
| Short story: The university of the sun | |
| When data delivers | |
| When a whale gets stranded, I get the call | |
| Holiday brain-off round 4: Demonstrate the wisdom of the ages | |
| Reindeer riddle: How do you tell caribou apart? | |
| Why board games are far from a trivial pursuit | |
| Tree of life: How figs built the world and will help save it | |
| Why predictive text is making you forget how to write | |
| Medieval wax seals are giving up fresh historical secrets | |
| Hung over: What science says about why you feel so rough | |
| No more drama: The game theory guide to a happy family holiday | |
| The fragile state of scientific glassblowing | |
| Were Aboriginal Australians the first astronomers? | |
| Comb jelly videos are rewriting the history of your anus | |
| Donât believe the Skype: We never wanted to video call people | |
| The 12 biggest and best science stories of 2016 | |
| Amazon makes its first Prime Air drone delivery to a customer | |
| How could Obama best hit back if election hack by Russia proved? | |
| Animal magnetism: Why dogs do their business pointing north | |
| Request our 2016 Christmas magnet | |
| Oldest early human footprints suggest males had several âwivesâ | |
| First evidence that wild mammals benefit from bigger brains | |
| Viruses may have evolved to hit men hard but go easy on women | |
| Future air conditioning could work by beaming heat into space | |
| Wikipedia âfactsâ depend on which language you read them in | |
| Canadians are angry about their national bird, but theyâre wrong | |
| Guilty or not guilty: Does inequality really lead to murder? | |
| Fold your own universe with our cosmic origami decoration | |
| Can we really predict who will cost society the most money? | |
| First exoplanet weather report shows clouds of ruby and sapphire | |
| Mystery Antarctic circle means ice is melting from surface down | |
| Cracking | |
| Rare Arabian leopards forced out by frankincense harvesters | |
| Monkeys should be able to talk just like us â so why don't they? | |
| Exclusive: Mexico clinic plans 20 'three-parent' babies in 2017 | |
| Vaping by US high schoolers has increased by 900 per cent | |
| Machine learning lets computer create melodies to fit any lyrics | |
| The alarming drop in US life expectancy shouldnât be a surprise | |
| Fresh look at old data shows the sun is surprisingly sluggish | |
| Posture could explain why women get more VR sickness than men | |
| Fish rapidly adapt to pollution thousands of times lethal levels | |
| Antibacterial products may help bacteria beat antibiotics | |
| T. rex cousinâs 99-million-year old tail feathers found in amber | |
| Brain cell transplant helps fearful mice overcome anxiety | |
| Longer âpenisâ drives evolution of bigger brains in female fish | |
| Biodiversity betrayal as nations fail miserably on conservation | |
| Third-ever natural quasicrystal found in Siberian meteorite | |
| More potent stun guns for British police will enrage critics | |
| Biodiversity betrayed as nations fail miserably on conservation | |
| Light therapy could break down Alzheimer's brain deposits | |
| Half surface water in some countries has been lost since 1980s | |
| Galaxy's rapid growth spurt may have spawned 3000 suns per year | |
| âI feel young againâ: Why a woman injects her ovaries with blood | |
| Inside the wild west world of experimental fertility clinics | |
| Microbes carve tiny rock homes for their barnacle chefs | |
| Dark matter that talks to itself could explain galaxy mystery | |
| Quantum computers ditch all the lasers for easier engineering | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| More at-risk people will get access to HIV preventive treatment | |
| Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science | |
| Is historic Soviet radiation health data too hot to handle? | |
| The card you'll want to send | |
| Jeremy Hunt's magical plan to block sexting is no help for teens | |
| Feedback: British MPs get into a froth over internet smut | |
| How challenging the meaning of 'fuel' lets the real world in | |
| Maps and the 20th century: Where to draw the lines? | |
| The road to hell is paved with corporate wellness | |
| Super-you: Fine-tune your life by making goals into habits | |
| Super-you: Train your brain to beat the inbuilt fear factory | |
| Humans are better endurance runners than any other animal | |
| Super-you: How to harness your inner braggart | |
| Super-you: Your body is a nation of trillions | |
| Super-you: Weâre all reading each otherâs minds, all the time | |
| Super-you: The mutant powers you get from outsider genes | |
| Super-you: You have a superstitious mind â to protect you | |
| Super-you: Discover the physics genius inside your brain | |
| Super-you: Use your better instincts to crush your inner bigot | |
| See the explosive life of fern fronds under the microscope | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Baxter robot beats humans at noughts and crosses by multitasking | |
| Quantum computers ditch all the lasers for easier engineering | |
| First images from Cassini's final dives over Saturn's north pole | |
| Win a 12-month subscription to The Curiosity Box | |
| Skull casket holding human bones reveals weird burial rituals | |
| Need your roof repaired? Thereâs a space-based app for that | |
| Exclusive: First visit to Russia's secret nuclear disaster site | |
| Exclusive: First visit to Russia's secret nuclear disaster site | |
| Fake news shapes our opinions even when we know it's not true | |
| X-rays show how gas âpillowsâ make lithium-ion batteries explode | |
| Robotic hand exoskeleton lets quadriplegic people use cutlery | |
| Cosmic dust grains found on city rooftops for the first time | |
| How much do you know about alcohol? | |
| Quantum solar cells could explain why plants are green | |
| Virgin Galactic takes first solo glide flight since 2014 crash | |
| Ancient leftovers show the real Paleo diet was a veggie feast | |
| Are caesareans really making us evolve to have bigger babies? | |
| Lazy coders are training artificial intelligences to be sexist | |
| Spikes in search engine data predict when drugs will be recalled | |
| North Dakota oil pipeline may still be built despite army block | |
| Why baby flatfish grow into the wonkiest animals in the world | |
| Our brains record and remember things in exactly the same way | |
| A state splash on science could bring fortune to Brexit Britain | |
| Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science | |
| Europe's green energy policy is a disaster for the environment | |
| ESA approves 2020 ExoMars rover despite crash earlier this year | |
| Whales talk to each other by slapping out messages on water | |
| Weeping rock mystery down to microbe builders and barnacle chefs | |
| Bees of the sea: Tiny crustaceans pollinate underwater plants | |
| Concerns as face recognition tech used to 'identify' criminals | |
| Buzz Aldrin evacuated from South Pole after falling ill | |
| Moral consensus: a CEO should earn five times what workers get | |
| World's highest plants discovered growing 6km above sea level | |
| Seismic sensing app detects 200 earthquakes in first six months | |
| In Castro's Cuba, this is what life as a doctor was really like | |
| Dragon lizards fly by grabbing their fold-up wings with âhandsâ | |
| Worldâs first city to power its water needs with sewage energy | |
| Magic mushroom drug helps people with cancer face death | |
| LIGO turns back on to hunt for more gravitational waves | |
| Early hominin Lucy had powerful arms from years of tree-climbing | |
| Zap to the brain alters libido in unique sex study | |
| Quantum particles seen distorting light from a neutron star | |
| UKâs first three-parent babies likely to be conceived in 2017 | |
| Physics may be a small but crucial fraction of our reality | |
| Parkinson's disease may start in the gut and travel to the brain | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| NASA offering $30,000 for the best astronaut toilet solutions | |
| Is Uber a taxi firm or digital service? European court decides | |
| Spain reveals huge surplus of 'priceless' human embryos | |
| The campaign against alcohol abuse deserves two cheers | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Stop buying organic food if you really want to save the planet | |
| The plan to ban fishing in more than half the world's oceans | |
| Bad memories tend to stick around if you sleep on them | |
| Feedback: Biodynamic grapes feel wrath of the supermoon | |
| Have you talked to your family about organ donation? | |
| Earwigs and rotten panther: The diet of a Victorian eccentric | |
| The world's first seismometer used a toad to catch an earthquake | |
| Old toys will self-destruct thanks to vanishing plastic | |
| Generation clean: Why many young adults choose to stay sober | |
| Good hydrations: Is there a safe level of alcohol? | |
| Up close with the giant teeth of the deep-sea fangtooth | |
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| Jeremy Hunt's magical plan to block sexting is no help for teens | |
| Polar species spotted in the deep seas of the Mediterranean | |
| Brexit puts Europe's nuclear fusion future in doubt | |
| Seeing reason: How to change minds in a 'post-fact' world | |
| Quitting smoking in your 60s can still boost life expectancy | |
| Private moon mission plans to revisit Apollo 17 landing site | |
| Proxima Centauri really does orbit its two bright neighbours | |
| Unlocking mummies' secrets: What imaging technology tells us | |
| Bad memories stick around if you sleep on them | |
| New Zealand is the first country to wipe out invasive butterfly | |
| Can nation states hit back at cyberattackers with ease? No way | |
| We may be able to tap into our memories from infancy | |
| AI learns to predict the future by watching 2 million videos | |
| Build green highways for bees to help save vital pollinators | |
| Moon-dust cake mix shows moon may have had water from the start | |
| India's grand plan to create world's longest river set to go | |
| Rare river dolphins get trapped in fishing nets as waters drop | |
| Truly global internet access will be a double-edged sword | |
| Making cells ignore mutations could treat genetic diseases | |
| Language trends run in mysterious 14-year cycles | |
| Speech synthesiser translates mouth movements into robot speech | |
| Reality-bending art show reveals how easily we are manipulated | |
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| Brain stimulation guides people through an invisible maze | |
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| Competition: Win a £100 Ocado shop delivered to your door | |
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| 60 Seconds | |
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| One Per Cent | |
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| Brush like a genius | |
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| Zika is no longer an emergency â itâs worse than that, says WHO | |
| AI pilot helps US air force with tactics in simulated operations | |
| Googleâs DeepMind agrees new deal to share NHS patient data | |
| New UK surveillance law may see mass data shared with Trump's US | |
| GM mosquitoes approved for field trial release in Florida | |
| Porpoises plan their dives and can set their heart rate to match | |
| A dash of hydrogen and methane could have kept Mars warm | |
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| 60 Seconds | |
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| One Per Cent | |
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| The world in 2076: Artificial starlight has made energy free | |
| The world in 2076: The theory of everything is here â we think | |
| The world in 2076: Machines outsmart us but we're still on top | |
| How to think about 2076 | |
| Napping before an exam is as good for your memory as cramming | |
| 80,000 reindeer have starved to death as Arctic sea ice retreats | |
| Watch cockatoo genius chew out a tool from a piece of cardboard | |
| Donald Trump's climate sceptics are coming to drill, baby, drill | |
| Twisted light beams a greeting over a record distance of 143 km | |
| Electric fields can stimulate deep in your brain without surgery | |
| How our brains recall celebrities is mirrored by search engines | |
| Blood from human teens rejuvenates body and brains of old mice | |
| Superagers with amazing memories have Alzheimerâs brain plaques | |
| Quantum computers can talk to each other via a photon translator | |
| Gender equality is boosted by better infection control | |
| My biology made me do it? Why some voters may embrace the right | |
| Spacecraft could taste Europa's sea by sampling its atmosphere | |
| How high-end virtual reality headsets could lose the cables | |
| Facebookâs tech boss on how AI will transform how we interact | |
| 2016 now looks dead set to become the hottest year on record | |
| New Zealandâs latest earthquake could trigger a mega-quake | |
| Bunnies eat toxic leaves to conquer Australiaâs snowy peaks | |
| Monday's bright supermoon will be closest to Earth in 68 years | |
| âIâm more confidentâ: Paralysed womanâs life after brain implant | |
| First home brain implant lets âlocked-inâ woman communicate | |
| Primal fear can blinker our decisions, even in elections | |
| Smallest sliver of time yet measured sees electrons fleeing atom | |
| Trumpâs election stokes fears of future NSA surveillance abuses | |
| Here's how Trump's presidency could be good news for science | |
| Human rights squad detects abuse in warzone social media images | |
| Beagle Mars probe probably didnât crash, new analysis shows | |
| Giggling rats reveal the most ticklish part of our brains | |
| UK red squirrels are carrying leprosy and have been for decades | |
| Trump wants to halt healthcare for 20 million poor US citizens | |
| Google DeepMindâs AI learns to play with physical objects | |
| President Trumpâs defence deals may spark a nuclear arms race | |
| Using egg leftovers could double the number collected in IVF | |
| Food made from natural gas will soon feed farm animals â and us | |
| Abortion could be made illegal in parts of Trump's America | |
| The psychology that explains how Trump's divisive rhetoric won | |
| NHS does have the power to give HIV PrEP drug, say judges | |
| Scouts and Guides grow up to have better mental health at age 50 | |
| Hundreds more species than we thought might be endangered | |
| The sweet scent of plastic lures seabirds to a dangerous snack | |
| Dark energy could force the universe to gradually unzip itself | |
| Implants hack reflexes to let paralysed monkeys move their legs | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| We must take the poison out of the 'shaken baby syndrome' debate | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Forget Trump and Brexit, letâs all go live in the internet | |
| Feedback: Place a call for help from the defibrillating phonebox | |
| What if we are victims of an AI's singularity? | |
| Danger and drama on mountains of lava: Tales of a volcano chaser | |
| Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing | |
| Dark waves tower during violent storm on Lake Erie | |
| I watched a rover search for ancient life on Mars â I mean, Utah | |
| A new world order is defying the science of polling - what now? | |
| Tiny fingertip camera helps blind people read without braille | |
| Evidence of 'shaken baby' questioned by controversial study | |
| Inside the weirdly calming world of farming and truck simulators | |
| President Trump means we can't escape a dangerously warmer world | |
| A pause in growth rate of atmospheric CO | |
| An excess of honour could help explain the appeal of Trump | |
| Reputation is everything: Unearthing honour culture in America | |
| Trump could land fatal blow to the fight against climate change | |
| Islands in the sky used as Noah's ark for threatened plants | |
| Beyond batteries: This technology could revolutionise energy | |
| Speedy bat flies at 160km/h, smashing bird speed record | |
| Humans have purged the bad genes from our Neanderthal hook-ups | |
| ExoMars crash must not mean abandoning next Red Planet rover | |
| The maths of why pollsters might be wrong, even if theyâre right | |
| Exoplanet hunters are missing 75 per cent of two-star worlds | |
| A wind turbineâs swish may annoy, but it's not hurting anyone | |
| Hundreds choked in Iraq as toxic smoke sweeps across Mosul | |
| Controversial India-Japan nuclear deal to be signed this week | |
| Video-triggered âbrain orgasmsâ are mysteriously disappearing | |
| The perfect cybercrime: selling fake followers to fake people | |
| Pirate Party: We want our reputation to be more like Robin Hood | |
| Strict breastfeeding rules don't work and can hurt young babies | |
| Middle-aged bonobos need reading glasses to groom their friends | |
| Massive sea lizards once hunted plesiosaurs in Antarctica | |
| Laser probe lets brain surgeons identify cancer cells with sound | |
| Sex and dentistry: I made a fellatio prosthetic for my mouth | |
| Huge lake discovered 15 kilometres under a volcano | |
| Robot surgeon can slice eyes finely enough to remove cataracts | |
| Time to end the damaging battle over chronic fatigue syndrome | |
| The moment my hallucinations made me ask if I was dead | |
| Trials planned for GM superwheat that boosts harvest by 20% | |
| Mickey Mouse ears may explain universeâs biggest explosions | |
| Face electrodes let you taste and chew in virtual reality | |
| Every 50 cigarettes smoked cause one DNA mutation per lung cell | |
| Binge-watching videos teaches computers to recognise sounds | |
| China's Long March 5 heavy-lift rocket takes first flight | |
| Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier | |
| Could Facebook posts skew your life? It's already happening | |
| As US election looms, time is ripe for a new science of polling | |
| Pasta spirals link neutron stars and the machinery of your cells | |
| World is set to warm 3.4°C by 2100 even with Paris climate deal | |
| Bees collect honeydew from bugs before spring blossoms arrive | |
| Desert lizard can sip water from sand through its feet and back | |
| Drug that stops brain plaques may show if they cause Alzheimerâs | |
| First Australians ate megafauna and used nets for hunting | |
| Classic quantum experiment could conceal theory of everything | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| If you value science, thereâs only one way to vote on 8 November | |
| We must do more to stop air strikes on Aleppo's hospitals | |
| A huge problem still lurks at the heart of Paris climate deal | |
| Make America whole again: how the US can heal its political rift | |
| Feedback: 'Why don't you like cheese?' ask French scientists | |
| : Just how far can our evolution go? | |
| When politics fills the language gap, can science be neutral? | |
| I use the worldâs biggest laser to recreate the inside of stars | |
| Every human culture includes cooking â this is how it began | |
| Whale tales: The real-life Moby Dicks | |
| See inside a condom factory and what it takes to keep sex safe | |
| One Per Cent | |
| A bit of disgust can change how confident you feel | |
| What is it like to be a bot? The strange world of telerobotics | |
| Don't let sugary science skew the battle to regulate junk food | |
| You are hallucinating right now to make sense of the world | |
| Court orders UK to take urgent action to reduce air pollution | |
| Sword-slashing sailfish hint at origins of cooperative hunting | |
| Plants âseeâ underground by channelling light to their roots | |
| Glasses make face recognition tech think you're Milla Jovovich | |
| Knowing doctors' death rates can't help you avoid a bad surgeon | |
| Carbon nanotubes turn spinach plants into a living bomb detector | |
| Extreme weather is behind record lows in butterfly populations | |
| Space telescope duo will showcase the solar system in 3D | |
| How lack of oxygen makes bacteria cause acne and how to stop it | |
| Lightbulb made of modified | |
| Honeycomb-shaped streets would stop traffic from getting sticky | |
| Uber loses tribunal as court rules drivers are 'workers' | |
| Pirate party prepares for first major win in Iceland elections | |
| Climate campaigners should have the right to sue governments | |
| Last-ditch effort to save the worldâs smallest porpoise agreed | |
| Video games become political as US election looms | |
| Fruity or fermented? Algorithm predicts how molecules smell | |
| Your home's online gadgets could be hacked by ultrasound | |
| Worldâs largest marine reserve agreed for Antarcticaâs Ross Sea | |
| Fish swims to the same nest each year just like migrating birds | |
| Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes | |
| Male contraceptive injection works â but side effects halt trial | |
| Brown pebble turns out to be first ever pickled dinosaur brain | |
| Bump hiding in 20-year-old data could be undiscovered particle | |
| Swifts break record by staying aloft for 10 months at a time | |
| UK must face reality on climate impact of new Heathrow runway | |
| Taj Mahal's staining blamed partly on burning of household waste | |
| Soft robot with a mouth and gut can forage for its own food | |
| Physics tweak solves five of the biggest problems in one go | |
| Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building | |
| Wildlife numbers more than halve since 1970s in mass extinction | |
| Our Ice Age ancestors skinned cave lions to make roofs for huts | |
| Superfast therapy cracks multidrug-resistant tuberculosis | |
| HIV jumped to the US in 1970 - 10 years before it was spotted | |
| Paralysed people inhabit distant robot bodies with thought alone | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Man or mouse? Why drug research has taken the wrong turning | |
| Robot learns to play with Lego by watching human teachers | |
| Smart camera system checks patients' vital signs from afar | |
| How to save ourselves from the invisible gas choking us to death | |
| Feedback: The many scientific titles of Nobel winner Bob Dylan | |
| takes Werner Herzog on a tour round the internet | |
| Trees have an inner life like ours, claims bestseller | |
| hunts consciousness | |
| Lab mice are sending us on a wild goose chase | |
| The road to artificial intelligence: A case of data over theory | |
| Exploring the uncanny valley: Why almost-human is creepy | |
| Space view makes for an eerie sight of the Colorado river | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Playing | |
| Why rest and relaxation are such a serious business | |
| Souped-up SIM allows mobile payments where there's no network | |
| Energy-generating floorboard lights up 35 LEDs with one footstep | |
| âAutism therapy helped my child speakâ â a mum hails new method | |
| Win a 3D-printed figurine of yourself | |
| Google's neural networks invent their own encryption | |
| Super-cold winters in the UK and US are due to Arctic warming | |
| Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses | |
| One idea explains all the weird coincidences in the universe | |
| The Higgs boson makes the universe stable â just. Coincidence? | |
| Space is all the same temperature. Coincidence? | |
| The universe is flat as a pancake, and we don't understand why | |
| The universe lines up along the 'axis of evil'. Coincidence? | |
| Cosmic dark matter and energy balance â for now. Coincidence? | |
| Spider-eating bug muffles web vibrations to sneak up on prey | |
| Autism intervention is first to show benefits over the long term | |
| Mice fall for rubber hand illusion just like us | |
| Material that shrinks in heat can weather extreme temperatures | |
| What can we 3D print? Everything! Here are 8 awesome examples | |
| Massive botnet-powered web attack fuels need to step up defences | |
| Lying feels bad at first but our brains soon adapt to deceiving | |
| Snowmobile plunge claims life of Antarctica researcher | |
| How I got addicted to painkillers | |
| Addiction to prescription drugs is UK 'public health disaster' | |
| Mars orbiter spots new crater that may be ExoMars's lost lander | |
| Double star may light up the sky as rare red nova in six years | |
| Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal | |
| Is it time to allow more than two parents on birth certificates? | |
| Shawl thing: Cashmere could soon come from gene-edited goats | |
| Final US presidential clash fails on climate change once more | |
| Kuwait to change law forcing all citizens to provide DNA samples | |
| Roaming fashion robots keep busy doing odd jobs on your clothes | |
| Iceland drills hottest hole to tap into energy of molten magma | |
| Hundreds of endangered wild snow leopards are killed each year | |
| E-paper display runs on office lights and never needs charging | |
| Police mass face recognition in the US will net innocent people | |
| $100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant | |
| Miceâs love songs go wrong when âlanguage geneâ is messed up | |
| Dozens of ancient shipwrecks spotted deep beneath the Black Sea | |
| Our ancestors chose reeds over grain when quitting nomadic life | |
| Tesla shows off fully autonomous car in new video demonstration | |
| Fears grow that ExoMars lander lost in final minute of descent | |
| Hundreds of deep-sea vents found spewing methane off US coast | |
| Why San Franciscoâs next quake could be much bigger than feared | |
| Is pain catching? First clues that it might spread to others | |
| Some of our Stone Age tools may just be crafty monkey throwaways | |
| Mystery cosmic objects light up in X-ray then go dim in an hour | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Lab-made eggs will help people have children when they choose to | |
| Itâs fine to put a price on life, as long as itâs fair | |
| Is it right to kill millions of animals if it protects others? | |
| Feedback: Noel Edmonds to launch radio station for your pets | |
| An enormous shape-shifting artwork â run by yeast | |
| Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter | |
| The atrocity of 9/11 casts a long shadow | |
| Don't give up: The inventor of 3D printing tells his story | |
| How beavers could help save the western US from a dry future | |
| Life's subatomic secret: How we're cracking the Hoyle state | |
| One Per Cent | |
| California is covering mountains with sensors to fight drought | |
| Cameras monitor hospital patients' vital signs from afar | |
| Dental checks can't verify the age of child asylum seekers | |
| Pluto may sport clouds of poisonous acid and flammable gases | |
| "Not good signs": wait for ExoMars lander will run overnight | |
| The price of my life: $1.6 million and counting | |
| What are you worth? How we calculate the value of a life | |
| Dizzying view of orangutan hunting for figs wins photo prize | |
| One in 20 European patients catch an infection while in hospital | |
| Mystery beast in ice age cave art revealed as cow-bison hybrid | |
| 'I had a mail-order abortion': The women forced to go it alone | |
| Security agencies collected data unlawfully, UK court rules | |
| Get ready for ESA's white-knuckle descent to the Red Planet | |
| Space is full of gigantic holes that are bigger than we expected | |
| Toddler stars' baby fat kicks out almost all their exoplanets | |
| UK government taken to court over failure to cut air pollution | |
| Anti-inflammatory drugs can relieve symptoms of depression | |
| Dr House goes digital as IBM's Watson diagnoses rare diseases | |
| Overweight mothers give birth to biologically older babies | |
| Here's why putting tomatoes in the fridge makes them tasteless | |
| Whalesâ dung is the real reason we need to stop hunting them | |
| The science behind the twisting alien linguistics of | |
| Discover through travel: Explore Antarctica with | |
| Eggs made from skin cells in lab could herald end of infertility | |
| Ban for gases that saved the ozone layer but now warm the planet | |
| ExoMars spacecraft splits in two to explore Mars surface and air | |
| Older women have babies with fewer birth defects after IVF | |
| China launches two astronauts to stay on its new space station | |
| Islands to lose fresh water as rising seas sink them from within | |
| Home abortions are safe â we should let women do it themselves | |
| Strange signals from 234 stars could be ET - or human error | |
| Proxima b's hyperactive star is more sun-like than thought | |
| Uranus might have two dark moons we've never seen before | |
| Kratom ban rethink is a hint of sanity in failed US war on drugs | |
| Itâs not just the Nobel committee: scientists love Bob Dylan too | |
| Worms seen farming plants to be eaten later for the first time | |
| These are the foods you should eat if you want less smelly farts | |
| Does a tweet designed to trigger seizures count as assault? | |
| Drones will fly life-saving blood supplies to clinics in Rwanda | |
| Our universe contains 10 times more galaxies than we thought | |
| Quadriplegic man feels touch on robotic hand with brain implant | |
| Spiders can hear you walking and talking from across the room | |
| First UK trial of driverless pods paves way for autonomous taxis | |
| Frogfish turns itself white to blend in with bleached corals | |
| Cheese-making led to gene-swapping orgy of bacterial bestiality | |
| Quantum film sensor stops delivery drones crashing into things | |
| Che aspetto avresti dopo il Botox? L'anteprima in scansione 3D | |
| How will you look after Botox? 3D scans could give you a preview | |
| Animal heroes that save other species: Five amazing stories | |
| First birds made honking sounds more than 66 million years ago | |
| The moon has hundreds more craters than we thought | |
| DeepMind's AI has learned to navigate the Tube using memory | |
| What do our natural laws really say about the world? | |
| Brain scans show trans people feeling at odds with their body | |
| How to iron out gravity's creases in our map of the universe | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Project Blue plans to send space telescope to snap nearby worlds | |
| Science is catching up with society on transgender issues | |
| Do Uber ratings let passengers discriminate against drivers? | |
| TV shows could use ultrasound to send bonus extras to your phone | |
| Virtual reality: No one is actually buying 2016's hottest tech | |
| Feedback: Fruitloopy serum is a carrot smoothie for your face | |
| A new London musical will change the way we think about cancer | |
| I saw humpback whales save a seal from death by killer whale | |
| The database that is rewriting history to predict the future | |
| Impossible alloys: How to make never-before-seen metals | |
| The deer whose antlers spanned three-and-a-half metres | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Exploding Samsung phone shows how risky lithium batteries can be | |
| Could plan for new ânation in spaceâ on a satellite take off? | |
| The games that feel more like watching | |
| Tired all the time? Why fatigue isn't just about sleep | |
| Dementia risk linked to air pollution and lack of vitamin D | |
| Virus steals black widow poison gene to help it attack | |
| Greater equality in science will take more than Ada Lovelace Day | |
| Weird binary system spotted with three rings around two stars | |
| US presidential candidates being let off hook on climate change | |
| Young ovaries rejuvenate older mice and extend their lifespan | |
| Disco-ball sail propelled by laser could fly to a nearby star | |
| Why shows like | |
| The Electric Kool-Aid language test | |
| Haiti faces famine and disease in aftermath of hurricane | |
| Snake fools attackers by changing its eyes to look like a viper | |
| How much water should you drink a day? Your throat will tell you | |
| Exclusive: â3-parentâ baby method already used for infertility | |
| Abolishing locked psychiatric wards could put patients at risk | |
| Softening surfaces stops liquids from splashing when they hit | |
| Ancient Andes glaciers have lost half their ice in just 40 years | |
| No evidence that plant-based alternatives to HRT actually work | |
| Spider spotted chaining wild crayfish with silk before devouring | |
| Why scary clowns are threatening people all around the world | |
| Anti-GM views might just triumph in India - here's why | |
| Failed hunt for Proxima bâs star transit leaves us in the dark | |
| Algorithmic trading could be to blame for poundâs âflash crashâ | |
| Chimps, bonobos and orangutans grasp how others view the world | |
| How brain cells move through newborn babies' brains | |
| Thereâs no good reason to go ahead with fracking in the UK | |
| Entering the random world of semi-sentient art | |
| Flower hijacks the fragrance of attacked bees to imprison flies | |
| First farm to grow veg in a desert using only sun and seawater | |
| Two million urged to evacuate as hurricane Matthew approaches US | |
| Fabric care: the secret revolution | |
| Male fertility treatment seems to pass infertility on to sons | |
| Thousands of animals flock to annual party hosted by starlings | |
| Auto âfinprintingâ identifies individual sharks as they migrate | |
| Blue Origin test of escape system for space tourists a success | |
| Fossil fuel methane emissions are twice what is being reported | |
| North Korea's nukes are nearly ready for launch. Now what? | |
| 115 might be as old as we can get thanks to our bodies' limits | |
| Mars-like ice rediscovered in Hawaii volcano, but might not last | |
| Children with fatal muscle disease walk after drug breakthrough | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Blue Origins in-flight escape system set for test launch | |
| Physics and medicine Nobel prizes announced | |
| Politicians may push up violent crime by getting tough on it | |
| Some languages die â get over it | |
| Feedback: Wheeling and dealing in a post-truth era | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Print stuff on the go with just your phone and a pen | |
| Basic common sense is key to building more intelligent machines | |
| Complex cats: Let's see our feline friends as they really are | |
| Required: A moral vision for gene editing | |
| The Enlightenment scientist who feared Earth's frozen future | |
| A language is born â and now it is dying | |
| Crimson streaks of industrial waste criss-cross the Mississippi | |
| Cutting overseas students and skilled migrants will only harm UK | |
| Why men should ignore Ben Stiller's call for cancer test | |
| Don't let rift between generations spark a toxic era of ageism | |
| Test your anxiety levels | |
| Hurricane Matthew devastates Haiti and heads towards Florida | |
| Yahoo âsecretly scanned emails for a US government agencyâ | |
| Why we worry: Understanding anxiety and how to help it | |
| The reaction that would give us clean fossil fuels forever | |
| Chemistry Nobel Prize goes to invention of molecular machines | |
| Weird orange crocodiles found gorging on bats in Gabonâs caves | |
| Super-dim galaxy may be one of hundreds orbiting the Milky Way | |
| Pangolins and parrots protected â lions and elephants lose out | |
| Are smart toys spying on kids and stealing their imagination? | |
| Physics Nobel goes to discoverers of world of stranger things | |
| Endangered frog recovers thanks to resistance to deadly fungus | |
| Giant hidden Jupiters may explain lonely planet systems | |
| Artificial killer cells mimic life as they wipe out opponents | |
| Men are more violent when there are more women around | |
| China plans worldâs biggest spaceplane to carry 20 tourists | |
| Superfast spinning stars cause strangest weather in the universe | |
| Hurricane Matthew due to hit Haiti with 210kph winds today | |
| Medicine Nobel Prize goes to discovery of how our cells recycle | |
| Maths says delaying Article 50 could bring better Brexit deal | |
| First 'baby dragons' hatched in captivity reach adolescence | |
| Rosetta's biggest hits: The comet chaser's top seven discoveries | |
| Rosetta lands on 67P in grand finale to two year comet mission | |
| High-living geckos survive snowy peaks by cuddling up | |
| Endangered giraffes threatened by Ugandaâs oil drilling bid | |
| Rosetta's final landing spot on comet revealed in new image | |
| Donât worry, bee happy: Bees found to have emotions and moods | |
| Insects may have feelings, so do we need more humane fly spray? | |
| Mini dog robot can bounce, open doors and even climb fences | |
| Your boobs start to eat themselves after breastfeeding is over | |
| Milky Way's baby brother caught copying its star shredding habit | |
| Living with adult children protects parents against depression | |
| Longest-lasting deserts are more than 30 million years old | |
| Electronic tongue taste-tests wines so you don't have to | |
| Mars-like ice rediscovered in Hawaii volcano, but might not last | |
| Our home spiral arm in the Milky Way is less wimpy than thought | |
| Ancient bee fossil reveals secrets of human ancestorâs habitat | |
| Bouncy bone can be 3D-printed to become a universal repair kit | |
| Budgies reveal the rule that means birds never collide in flight | |
| Soil isn't sexy but we need to dig in and help conserve it | |
| 'I felt like such a slave': Why one man gave up porn for good | |
| The truth about porn: why masturbation won't kill your sex life | |
| Cave fires and rhino skull used in Neanderthal burial rituals | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Rosetta spacecraft to complete its mission with a crash | |
| US set to miss its emissions target under the Paris climate deal | |
| Childhood poverty can be a life sentence â we must act | |
| Feedback: Investigators on the scent of missing Sardinian blood | |
| Camera spots your hidden prejudices from your body language | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Uber and Google race against car firms to map the world's cities | |
| Living with adult children could protect against depression | |
| Neuroscientist sees kids suffer brain damage due to dire poverty | |
| Robot eyes are catching up with our exploding cosmos | |
| Let's harness synthetic biology to fix our broken planet | |
| A not-so-delicate buttercup crafted from metal | |
| Everything you wanted to know about '3-parent' babies | |
| Sound blasts could keep whales away from wind farm construction | |
| How to see the thoughts you don't know you are having | |
| Your brain's crystal ball helps you understand speech and fear | |
| Break bad habits by hacking the autopilot in your brain | |
| How we know where our limbs are without thinking | |
| We accurately weigh up a person's character in 0.1 seconds | |
| Don't think: How your brain works things out all by itself | |
| Fast asleep? Your unconscious is still listening | |
| Elon Musk's spectacular plan to colonise Mars lacks substance | |
| Climate change could destroy wild relatives of cereals by 2070 | |
| Plastic flower blooms thanks to its own internal molecular clock | |
| No, NASA hasn't changed the zodiac signs or added a new one | |
| Exclusive: Worldâs first baby born with new â3 parentâ technique | |
| Swarm of voracious comb jellies threatens fish off Italian coast | |
| Plumes spotted on Europa raise hopes that we can taste its ocean | |
| Why tonightâs debate is ânarcissistâ Trump v âliarâ Clinton | |
| Refugee fence and solar plant may wipe out one of rarest mammals | |
| Brain-eating amoebas hunt brain chemical before they kill you | |
| Biggest radio telescope on Earth ready to receive alien signals | |
| Puffed-up exoplanets inflate with heat from their stars alone | |
| US set to miss its emissions target under the Paris climate deal | |
| Mystery radio bursts may be pulsars bumping into asteroids | |
| World must resist pressure to lift ban on trade in rhino horn | |
| Out of control? | |
| Monsanto cuts deal to use CRISPR to engineer food | |
| Could sex hormones help addicted women stop taking opioids? | |
| Scientists demand halt to damming of Europeâs last wild river | |
| Five wild lionesses grow a mane and start acting like males | |
| World's largest telescope array takes its deepest view yet | |
| Body clock gene may help lethal spread of breast cancer | |
| You can see fracking's impact on Earth's surface from space | |
| World war on superbugs can only be won by a UN-led global effort | |
| Mystery text's language-like patterns may be an elaborate hoax | |
| Repairing your old fridge sounds green but buying new is better | |
| Should UK's Royal Society host those who deny climate science? | |
| Kuwait lawyers fight worldâs first mandatory DNA sampling law | |
| The oil and gas we have already tapped will take us past 1.5 °C | |
| How baby beluga whales dive deeper and longer than any others | |
| Brain has carrot and stick to teach us how to behave | |
| The most detailed look yet at how early humans left Africa | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Germany to create world's first highway code for driverless cars | |
| Send secret messages hidden in the DNA of bacterial spores | |
| Gene-reading software to cut TB diagnosis from months to minutes | |
| Farewell to Rosetta, the comet mission that captivated the world | |
| Revealed: The renewable energy scam making global warming worse | |
| Feedback: Power shower is a nutri-shake you don't have to drink | |
| The paradox of play: Real fun should be terrifying | |
| I slice up human brains for a living | |
| Evolution evolves: Beyond the selfish gene | |
| Wistful thinking: Why we are wired to dwell on the past | |
| Immortalising human brains at the world's largest brain bank | |
| The Wikipedia bots that are engaged in spats that never end | |
| Paris climate deal may come into force by the end of 2016 | |
| Russian hacker threat to hit US election must be taken seriously | |
| Reality guide: A poster of how everything fits together | |
| Reality guide: Six problems physics can't explain | |
| Reality guide: The essential laws of cosmology | |
| Reality guide: Six radical ideas to change physics | |
| Reality guide: The essential laws of quantum physics | |
| When art and technology pull each other to bits | |
| Fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds | |
| : Meet the chimney that isn't there | |
| Surfing on a turtleâs tail makes swinging crabs monogamous | |
| Arctic ice melt is killing birds and will leave caribou stranded | |
| reviews the Royal Society book prize winners | |
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| Why women are more at risk of PTSD â and how to prevent it | |
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| New Horizons discovery raises solar wind riddle around Pluto | |
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| The real utopia: This ancient civilisation thrived without war | |
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| How forensic science can stop slaughter of endangered wildlife | |
| First glimpse of a black hole being born from a starâs remains | |
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| Blue Origin unveils big new rocket that will put humans in orbit | |
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| Oceans given boost as nations agree to protect a third worldwide | |
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| Human sperm grown in a lab for the first time, claims study | |
| Knowing you're being manipulated doesn't stop it from happening | |
| Kuwait's mass DNA database is a huge attack on genetic privacy | |
| Myth busted: dumped pills aren't main source of drugs in sewage | |
| Tiny lightning bolt explosions can vaporise the moonâs thin soil | |
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| North Koreaâs largest nuclear test still lacks missile capacity | |
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| Doing exercise may counteract some of alcoholâs deadly effects | |
| Your distinctive hairprint can identify you even when DNA fails | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| NASA probe about to leave for asteroid Bennu and bring bits home | |
| AI can join the fight back against the post-truth world | |
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| One Per Cent | |
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| Feedback: Groundskeeper unwittingly triggers doomsday alert | |
| Stardate 08092016, | |
| Fast forward: How we learned to love time travel | |
| Primate labs give us an edge, says China's brain project chief | |
| Computers that can argue will be satnav for the moral maze | |
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| Time is right for a global ban to end trans fat health scandal | |
| How to profit from your data and beat Facebook at its own game | |
| A wall of trees across the Sahara is cool â but we don't need it | |
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| Animal sound symphony tells us new things about our world | |
| Five particles that don't exist â yet could change our world | |
| Lessons in reality from particles that don't exist | |
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| Bacteria lurking in blood could be culprit in countless diseases | |
| When infinity gets boring: What went wrong with No Manâs Sky | |
| Blood samples from 9-year-olds can predict bipolar symptoms | |
| Hurricane Hermine's flood damage was ramped up by climate change | |
| NASA probe about to leave for asteroid Bennu and bring bits home | |
| Ocean warming is already spreading diseases and killing corals | |
| Top tips to avoid getting metal pollution in your brain | |
| Air pollution is sending tiny magnetic particles into your brain | |
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| Stressed? We're teaching computers to help handle our feelings | |
| Warming strengthens typhoons that batter Asian coast | |
| Antidepressant makes bones weaker by slowing down new growth | |
| Found: Philae lander finally spotted by Rosetta on comet 67P | |
| NASAâs Juno probe snaps first images of Jupiterâs north pole | |
| Giant panda off endangered list as Chinaâs conservation pays off | |
| Bees die needlessly as Zika prompts US state to spray pesticide | |
| Here's what colourful clouds on alien gas giants would look like | |
| Stonefly lays eggs or has live births depending on the season | |
| The threat of robot guards is not enough to stop people stealing | |
| Nanobots could swarm like bats to hunt out brain tumours | |
| Superfast evolution could save Tasmanian devils from extinction | |
| People born underweight do less exercise throughout their lives | |
| There is now a sixth taste â and it explains why we love carbs | |
| Ebola virus has lurked in a man's semen for more than 500 days | |
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| Superagers with amazing memories have shrink-resistant brains | |
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| SpaceX rocket blows up during routine test ahead of launch | |
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| Spoiler alert: Why strange signals are never really from aliens | |
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| Zika vaccine trials begin â but fears remain over virusâs impact | |
| Ancient rock formations could be oldest fossils on the planet | |
| Putting healthcare first can save festival drug users from harm | |
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| Crew emerges from year-long simulated Mars mission | |
| Zika virus remains in semen three times longer than we thought | |
| Court rules in favour of Queensland mega-mine | |
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| How water shortages flow into collaboration not war | |
| One Per Cent | |
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| Revealed: Google's plan for quantum computer supremacy | |
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| Instagram posts can reveal depression before doctors diagnose it | |
| Gang of gas giants may have tilted distant planet system | |
| Slow-to-breed elephant hurtles towards extinction | |
| Do we need to rein in Facebook and Google's power? | |
| Metaphysics has much to offer the study of the natural world | |
| Metaphysics special: Can we ever know if God exists? | |
| Metaphysics special: Is time an illusion? | |
| Metaphysics special: What is reality made of? | |
| Metaphysics special: Do we have free will? | |
| Metaphysics special: Where do good and evil come from? | |
| Metaphysics special: What is the meaning of life? | |
| Metaphysics special: Why is there something rather than nothing? | |
| Metaphysics special: What is consciousness? | |
| Metaphysics special: How do I know I exist? | |
| Drug-induced abortion less safe in Ohio after 2011 law | |
| Mysterious signal unlikely to be aliens after SETI draws a blank | |
| Dogs process language like us and can tell when we praise them | |
| Endangered dolphin with broken blowhole learns to mouth-breathe | |
| Typhoon Lionrock crashes into Japan's tsunami-hit coastline | |
| Mysterious SETI signal sends alien-hunting telescopes scrambling | |
| Do women sync up? No, but we can't resist menstruation myths | |
| The fish that have bellies full of mice â but we donât know how | |
| Monster slugs are devouring defenceless baby birds in nests | |
| Failure of fake babies: Why it doesn't pay to go with your gut | |
| Proxima bâs star could be blasting away the planetâs atmosphere | |
| Semen reshapes immune system to boost chances of pregnancy | |
| Italy to test earthquake predictor to reduce deaths and damage | |
| 7 ways to make dark matter | |
| Wildlife hero Chris Packham: anti-conservationists will not win | |
| Tale of world of supersmart spiders takes Clarke SF award | |
| Weather bombs could help us see deep inside Earth | |
| Ghost galaxy is 99.99 per cent dark matter with almost no stars | |
| US plan to fend off Zika with sterile mosquitoes faces catch-22 | |
| Supersized molecules stretch a thousand times further than usual | |
| Rewinding memories may help us recall where the good stuff is | |
| Floating lab drills 1.5km below sea floor to study megaquakes | |
| Ultrasound brain zap wakes man from minimally conscious state | |
| Proxima b: 7 big questions about the new planet next door | |
| Mind-controlled nanobots could release drugs inside your brain | |
| If Earth-like planet Proxima b has life, what might it be like? | |
| Soft robot octopus uses chemical fuel gut to explore untethered | |
| Why quantum satellites will make it harder for states to snoop | |
| Birds sing to their unborn chicks to warn them about hot weather | |
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| Arctic passage of huge cruise ship worries environmentalists | |
| Second Snowden could be behind sale of NSA hacking tools | |
| Evidence-based policy is good medicine for society's ills | |
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| Feedback: Louisiana flooded by climate change denialism | |
| 6000 people cram into one pool in China to beat the heat | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Whisper tech turns secrets into normal speech | |
| Move over silicon: Machine learning boom means we need new chips | |
| Completely see-through mice pave way to mapping human brain | |
| Money alone won't turn us into unselfish citizens | |
| Europe at Midnight: SF, with a very British take | |
| We are gods of the future â but what will we do? | |
| Darwin and DNA: How genetics spurred the evolution of a theory | |
| Turning tech into a god is seriously bad news | |
| Proxima b: Earth-like planet spotted just 4 light years away | |
| Tiniest grazing mammal was a pig at the front, horse at the back | |
| First US offshore wind farm will power an entire island | |
| Solar eclipses: heaven-sent chance to mix art and science | |
| Interstellar probes will be eroded on the way to Alpha Centauri | |
| Dark force hunter wants to make darkness from light | |
| Shadow worlds: Have we seen our first glimpse of dark forces? | |
| Magnitude 6 earthquake in Italy destroys towns and kills dozens | |
| Babiesâ health could be affected by variation in IVF nutrients | |
| Secrets of how primates can live at extreme altitude revealed | |
| Why do women keep taking HRT despite breast cancer risks? | |
| A bad nightâs sleep messes with your brainâs memory connections | |
| Three questions to ask your doctor before any treatment | |
| Drug-free IVF could be cheaper and faster way to get pregnant | |
| The scary reality of medical U-turns, and how to stop them | |
| US pregnancy-related deaths are rising and have doubled in Texas | |
| NASA gets in touch with spacecraft two years after it vanished | |
| Deadly bagpipe infection is health warning to all wind musicians | |
| Heart disease deaths have fallen by 70 per cent in a generation | |
| Mouse's body made entirely transparent to reveal nervous system | |
| The mission to find the worldâs rarest cat in jungles of Java | |
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| Chinaâs drive to clean up its coal power, one plant at a time | |
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| Hyperactive galaxy could run out of gas in just 8 million years | |
| Synthetic supermicrobe will be resistant to all known viruses | |
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| Menopause supplements may raise dementia risk after stroke | |
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| How winning at cards can help you win at life | |
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| One Per Cent | |
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| LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase | |
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| China launches world's first quantum communications satellite | |
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| Herpes infections are worse if contracted at the end of the day | |
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| Mating stars hide their modesty behind a thick veil of dust | |
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| The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars | |
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| First wearable brain scanner to probe people with amazing gifts | |
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| How UN will check if illegal chlorine was used in Syria bombing | |
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| Canadian meteorite may be first visitor from the Kuiper belt | |
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| Now you can play | |
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| LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase | |
| Here's how to watch the great Perseid meteor shower tonight | |
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| First real-time look at genes switching off in live human brains | |
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| US ban on some types of human-animal embryos could be lifted | |
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| One Per Cent | |
| How Tesla's batteries can change the solar power game | |
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| Orangutan learns to mimic human conversation for the first time | |
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| You are junk: Why itâs not your genes that make you human | |
| Controversial pesticides may be lowering the sperm count of bees | |
| Bye bye Philae! Comet team to lose touch with lander for good | |
| Deepest-ever reef survey by divers discovers new fish species | |
| Missing craters on Ceres may have been smoothed by a mud facial | |
| Dolly the sheepâs poor health may not have been due to cloning | |
| Whooping crane recovery puts human chick 'parents' out of a job | |
| New Zealand to wipe out all rats as part of alien eradication | |
| Amazon to begin UK delivery drone trials to make them safer | |
| US and UK fall behind in largest ever global study of height | |
| Revealed: the teenage brain upgrades that occur before adulthood | |
| Visit MetaWorld â the virtual world that exists after you leave | |
| Astronauts prepare for Mars mission at the bottom of the sea | |
| Neanderthal skulls and brains may have developed just like ours | |
| Six science fiction novels you should be reading | |
| Most powerful obesity gene yet boosts risk by 40 per cent | |
| Zika epidemic could burn out in 3 years but return after 10 | |
| Mystery ancient human ancestor found in Australasian family tree | |
| Universal ancestor of all life on Earth was only half alive | |
| Californiaâs fires force evacuation of people and exotic animals | |
| Weâre discovering new ways to detect if someone is lying | |
| Dragnet to find Turkey coup plotters is harming academic freedom | |
| Sanders turns the heat up to make Clinton a real climate champ | |
| 2-minute guide to particle physics | |
| What is⦠the Higgs boson? | |
| What is⦠dark matter? | |
| What is⦠antimatter? | |
| Beauty and the half-moon detectors | |
| Meet the LHC's magnetic muscles | |
| The tube that kicked off particle physics | |
| Power, fame and the LHC: A machine at its peak | |
| Ghastly weather: What | |
| No more space race rhetoric: it's not just about the US any more | |
| Hunting for Mars-like life a kilometre below Earthâs surface | |
| Alcohol linked to at least seven cancers â not just liver cancer | |
| Double hand transplant carried out in the UK for first time | |
| Mars rover Curiosity gets licence to shoot its laser at will | |
| Forest flying takes drone swarms to places once off limits | |
| City slicker monkeys are overweight and have high cholesterol | |
| Hubble telescope looks back in time to see far-off galaxies | |
| AI needs oversight â time to set standards for autonomous tech | |
| Eating each otherâs faeces helps earwig young survive famine | |
| Huge boom in teen HIV cases could cause epidemic to spiral | |
| Dark matter no-show puts favoured particles on death row | |
| The long scientific voyage of Tudor warship the Mary Rose | |
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| Bees spew water at their hive-mates when the temperature rises | |
| Error fix for long-lived qubits brings quantum computers nearer | |
| One part of Antarctica has been cooling since 1998 â hereâs why | |
| Self-destructing bacteria are engineered to kill cancer cells | |
| We took his-and-hers fertility tests â this is what it was like | |
| Should people who are not terminally ill have the right to die? | |
| Who should we believe when it comes to fertility? | |
| Feedback: Weak-handed Millennials struggling to get a grip | |
| 1970s science follies look groovy in a new light | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Meet the robot champion being house-trained in a Korean lab | |
| Brain training game for troops tackles effects of combat trauma | |
| Cosmological conceits blossom under Finland's midnight sun | |
| A field guide to technology gone feral | |
| I was there at Ebola's bloody beginning | |
| Seismic shift: Can we cloak cities from earthquakes? | |
| Fertility facts: How late can you leave it to have a baby? | |
| Storks dine out on giant landfill sites instead of migrating | |
| Baidu uses millions of users' location data to make predictions | |
| Let's ditch the idea that only home-cooked food is good for kids | |
| Stitching a droneâs view of the world into 3D maps as it flies | |
| Menopause reversal restores periods and produces fertile eggs | |
| Internet 3.0: How we take back control from the giants | |
| First superatom molecules pave way for new breed of electronics | |
| Boozy primates seek out nectar with the highest alcohol content | |
| UKâs £1 billion cut to carbon storage could cost £30 billion | |
| Planet Nine may have tilted entire solar system except the sun | |
| Dingo cannibalism makes for a dog-eat-dog world in Australia | |
| Fossils, islands and forests added to UNESCO World Heritage List | |
| Do more now to deliver on climate promises, world leaders told | |
| Next-gen Mars orbiters to help human missions become more real | |
| Humans decimating the diversity of life should worry us all | |
| Well-travelled chimps more likely to pick up tools and innovate | |
| How to expose a fake nuke without revealing what's inside | |
| Hummingbirdsâ unique way of seeing prevents them from crashing | |
| Starving bald eagle chicks hint at ecosystem collapse in Florida | |
| László Moholy-Nagy: Transmuting technology into art | |
| Russia engaged in 'state-directed' Olympic doping, finds probe | |
| Obese grandfathers pass on their susceptibility to junk food | |
| Thousands of fMRI brain studies in doubt due to software flaws | |
| Einstein's clock: The doomed black hole to set your watch by | |
| SpaceX launches DNA sequencer and new docking port to the ISS | |
| How to become a citizen archaeologist tracking Stone-Age Britons | |
| Hololens augmented reality to foil hack attacks in factories | |
| Kiss of death marks young ant rivals for worker kill squad | |
| Smarter police interviews could help reduce racial tension | |
| Mysterious swoosh caused by pulsars hugging companions close | |
| Baby stars grow big and strong by eating their own burst bubbles | |
| Are humans still evolving? Growing evidence suggests we are | |
| First evidence that GM mosquitoes reduce disease | |
| Are your sperm up to scratch? Phone microscope lets you check | |
| What Theresa Mayâs new cabinet really means for climate change | |
| Lung bacteria's sense of touch tells them when to turn nasty | |
| Meet the philosopher ducklings that indulge in abstract thought | |
| Saving the ozone layer is warming the planet but it can be fixed | |
| Too much light weakens bones and changes immune system | |
| Largest-ever map of 1.2 million galaxies measures dark energy | |
| away: Who owns the augmented reality we play in? | |
| Five incredible things we know about Pluto since 2015âs fly-by | |
| Gorillas may have evolved a way to beat a cheating berry plant | |
| Jellyfish as youâve never seen them â meet the underwater aliens | |
| lookalike suggests that tiny arms developed for a purpose | |
| Graphene sheets open like a flowerâs petals when poked | |
| How inequality is poisoning the world â and how to end it | |
| Baby star illuminates icy wall between rocky planets and giants | |
| The musical harmonies you like depend on where you're from | |
| Computer says no? Europeans can now challenge that decision | |
| Donald Trump is bending reality to get into the American psyche | |
| Will AI's bubble pop? Deep learning's hype machine in overdrive | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| May's force be with her | |
| Optimism over cancer treatments should always be cautious | |
| Jellymageddon: Can we stop the rise of the jellyfish? | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Feedback: Things can only get better, claim UK politicians | |
| I help repurpose everyday drugs like aspirin to fight cancer | |
| Darwin's discovery: The remarkable history of evolution | |
| The exotic animals that bankrolled the forgotten evolutionist | |
| Driverless cars learn from landscape pics before going off-road | |
| Seven ways to skin Schrödingerâs cat | |
| Collapse: Has quantum theory's greatest mystery been solved? | |
| Milky Wayâs bulge may have been formed by the galaxy buckling | |
| Tim Peake: Robots wonât replace me for 100 years | |
| Cattle-herding robot Swagbot makes debut on Australian farms | |
| Hundreds of mystery human skulls sold on eBay for up to $5500 | |
| Watch the first ever footage of wild coral kissing and fighting | |
| US could be set to tackle opioid painkiller epidemic at last | |
| Trick or tweet, or both? How social media is messing up politics | |
| Never-before-seen sea creatures filmed in worldâs deepest abyss | |
| Toxic algal bloom triggers state of emergency in Florida | |
| Mystery of what sleep does to our brains may finally be solved | |
| Silencing âSpider-Man geneâ makes flies stick to walls and die | |
| Climate change may not be all bad for UKâs economy, report says | |
| Resurrected radio dish could guide GPS on the moon | |
| Soil organisms alone can determine which plants grow where | |
| Setbacks force HIV researchers to focus on remission, not cures | |
| Monkey stone tools in Brazil pre-date discovery of Americas | |
| Next PM Theresa May often demands the scientifically impossible | |
| Pomegranate by-product boosts muscles and may fight ageing | |
| Water waves travel back in time to retrace their ripples | |
| Our universe could be reborn as a bouncing baby cosmos | |
| New Scientist Live tickets are on sale now | |
| is massive data-gathering, augmented reality hit | |
| Win an amazing Sphero SPRK Edition robot | |
| Win an amazing Sphero SPRK Edition robot | |
| Mystery of 101-year-old master pianist who has dementia | |
| Missing the natural world? Just add multimedia | |
| Why granny's only robot will be a sex robot | |
| Evolutionary forces are causing a boom in bad science | |
| Secret sexual liaisons explain mystery of night-singing birds | |
| Perfect storm hits Taiwan as China sees worst floods in 20 years | |
| Antibiotic resistance discovered in the guts of ancient mummies | |
| Watch a cyborg stingray made of rat heart cells swim using light | |
| Biggest ever die-off of ocean forests triggered by warming seas | |
| Memories of favourite locations have a special place in brain | |
| Founders of Western civilisation were prehistoric dope dealers | |
| Cochlear implants boosted by gene therapy plus tiny LEDs | |
| Three-parent-babies might have health problems in later life | |
| Time for more 2016: leap second will be added to year's end | |
| Wallaby wearable tech probes how light pollution affects sleep | |
| New railway threatens Nairobi's unique urban wildlife park | |
| UK will struggle to meet climate target if fracking goes ahead | |
| Doomed Japanese satellite glimpsed galactic wind before it died | |
| Meet the worldâs cutest and most endangered animals | |
| The unknown effect of the pill on teenage bones and brains | |
| UK doctors may officially warn women of vaginal birth risks | |
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| Trying to save 'doomed' species isn't futile if we learn from it | |
| Doctors should warn women about the real risks of childbirth | |
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| DNA sequencing turns rivers into ecosystem surveillance systems | |
| How to bring out your best to beat narcissistic jobseekers | |
| Feedback: Zika fears unleash a plague of dubious deterrents | |
| The 100-Year Life: How to make longevity a blessing, not a curse | |
| Antidepressants on trial: Are they a wonder or a danger? | |
| Nomadâs land: Journey into the rugged heart of the Sahara | |
| Cosmic carve-up: Law and plunder on the final frontier | |
| Too cute to lose: Saving the rarest mammal from extinction | |
| Shocking beauty: The unexpected charms of the high-voltage lab | |
| Womenâs heavy periods could be explained by missing protein | |
| Googleâs new NHS deal is start of machine learning marketplace | |
| A rational nation ruled by science would be a terrible idea | |
| UKâs plastic rubbish ends up in fragile Arctic ecosystems | |
| Are you turning your child into a self-loving narcissist? | |
| All about me: How to be a successful narcissist | |
| Antidepressant drug use in England has doubled in a decade | |
| Rafting allowed this sea slug to conquer the worldâs oceans | |
| Bears turn into couch potatoes thanks to fast food binges | |
| Deep-sea alliance set to probe Earthâs final frontier | |
| Zambia to push ahead with controversial plan to cull 2000 hippos | |
| Put the butter knife down and step away from the 'sat fat' | |
| Trying to get pregnant? Thereâs no need to lie still afterwards | |
| Itâs safe to prescribe fewer antibiotics for coughs and colds | |
| NASAâs Juno probe enters near-perfect orbit around Jupiter | |
| Turtle herpes outbreak hints at Great Barrier Reef contamination | |
| China builds worldâs largest radio telescope to hunt for aliens | |
| NASA approves new far-flung destination for Pluto space probe | |
| What explains Brexit, Trump and the rise of the far right? | |
| Neutrinos hint at why antimatter didn't blow up the universe | |
| Up close with the awesome power of NASA's biggest ever rocket | |
| Googly-eyed robots rule: Why it's vital to make us like them | |
| Fiery exoplanet may see a trillion lightning flashes in an hour | |
| Bacteria 'gardeners' farm algae to harvest when food runs out | |
| First evidence that synaesthesia gives colour to sign language | |
| Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life | |
| NASA's Juno spacecraft gears up for a whirlwind tour of Jupiter | |
| Gut bacteria spotted eating brain chemicals for the first time | |
| Virtual reality lets you stroll around a breast cancer cell | |
| Tesla driver dies in first fatal autonomous car crash in US | |
| Roller-coasting birds soar for months and may snooze while aloft | |
| Gene editing could destroy herpes viruses living inside you | |
| Looking back at Viking, the first mission to Mars | |
| Massive stunning aurora glows over Jupiter's north pole | |
| Watch a Cygnus spacecraft burn up as it re-enters the atmosphere | |
| Wonder what your plants are âsayingâ? Device lets you listen in | |
| Football on the brain | |
| Prehistoric tombs may have doubled as star-gazing observatories | |
| Homebrew meteorites reveal origins of Mercuryâs weird crust | |
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| Juno probe set to arrive at Jupiter five years after launch | |
| Face to face in the Arctic with a terrifying new sublime | |
| How Alan Turing found machine thinking in the human mind | |
| One Per Cent | |
| When is an animal a person? Neuroscience tries to set the rules | |
| Feedback: Friendly giant gives Prince Charles advice on aliens | |
| Hot ice: The invisible threat making planes fall out of the sky | |
| Filthy Romans: Dirty secrets of the bath-obsessed ancients | |
| Blue jeans frog strikes a dramatic pose in Costa Rica | |
| Robot eyes and humans fix on different things to decode a scene | |
| Rip up the rule book and let NASA's Mars rover check 'life' zone | |
| Illusion makes people âfeelâ force field around their body | |
| Green lining? Five ways Brexit could be good for the environment | |
| A visual tour of the weird world of the cryogenically frozen | |
| 9 things you need to know about cryogenically freezing your body | |
| Why I signed up to have my head cryogenically frozen | |
| I want to put your death on ice so that you can live again | |
| Some people choose to be frozen at death. Here's how it happens | |
| Ark of the immortals: The future-proof plan to freeze out death | |
| Post Brexit, experts need to reassert their value to society | |
| Hear! Here! Headphones will now help you navigate the world | |
| Beautifully preserved feathers belonged to tiny flying dinosaurs | |
| Zika vaccine protects mice, but may increase risk of dengue | |
| Strange âdark hydrogenâ may exist deep inside giant gas planets | |
| Huge newfound deposit of helium will keep MRI scanners running | |
| Angry scientists must fight to pick up the pieces after Brexit | |
| Supreme Court strikes down abortion restrictions in Texas | |
| Sexing it app: The erotic video games that explore sexuality | |
| People who meditate are more aware of their unconscious brain | |
| China plans for space station with most powerful rocket launch | |
| How the size and shape of your glass affects how much you drink | |
| Shampoo bottles get nano-makeover to squeeze out every drop | |
| NASA approves five more years for Hubble Space Telescope | |
| I tried out being a space trucker in a Dream Chaser mini-shuttle | |
| Nano-camera lens reveals the hidden mirror world of molecules | |
| Princess Leia brainwaves may help you learn in your sleep | |
| Watch a baby sea turtle being hypnotised so we can weigh it | |
| Could a vast rubber boom clean up tonnes of ocean plastic? | |
| Tourists pick up antibiotic-resistance genes in just two days | |
| Who needs water? Dry volcanic vents more alive than wet soil | |
| Hubble spots a new long-lived storm raging on Neptune | |
| Save the driver or pedestrian? Such robot car dilemmas are folly | |
| Stop vets offering homeopathy â placebo doesnât work for pets | |
| Elderly monkeys choose to have fewer friends â just like us | |
| IKEA of energy delivers clean, green solar power-plant in a box | |
| Sound artist Chris Watson listens to a city breathe | |
| Male infertility cure will be gateway to editing our kidsâ genes | |
| New life form discovered in saliva is linked to human disease | |
| Will bad weather have an impact on todayâs EU referendum vote? | |
| Listen to secrets of a honeybee hive in Kewâs latest sculpture | |
| Zika virus prompts increase in unsafe abortions in Latin America | |
| LIGO black hole pair may be stars that lived and died together | |
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| Activists could force UK to clean its air â if it remains in EU | |
| Comet perfume captures Rosetta probe's whiff of comet 67P | |
| Like no other place on Earth | |
| Feedback: Noel Edmonds zapped over electropad cancer claims | |
| One man's little slice of nature is a historical microcosm | |
| You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits | |
| Fixed by light: Flick a switch to banish pain and blindness | |
| End of an era: Photos show decline of the US newspaper industry | |
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| NATO says the internet is now a war zone â what does that mean? | |
| 3D-printed phones herald world of instant electronic everything | |
| First human CRISPR trial given go-ahead: your questions answered | |
| Pluto must have liquid ocean or it'd look like an overripe peach | |
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| Wearable device for racehorses could help prevent fatal injuries | |
| Electric fields could help us wage war on destructive feral pigs | |
| Find your meaning at work: 6 things a salary can't buy | |
| Why you should worry about intelligent machines | |
| The world's oldest paycheck was cashed in beer | |
| What happens if we pay everyone just to live? | |
| Can machines take our jobs without ruining our lives? | |
| Don't give up the day job: Why going to work is good for you | |
| A yellow fever epidemic has hit central Africa. Is Asia next? | |
| High-fibre diet may protect against peanut allergy | |
| Asteroids keep their rings safe from gas giantsâ clutches | |
| Hundreds of genes seen sparking to life two days after death | |
| Beware the Brexit bots: The Twitter spam out to swing your vote | |
| China wants to share its new space station with the world | |
| First step to reducing hate crimes? Enshrine equality in law | |
| Find exomoons by watching how they warp their planet's light | |
| Is Larry Page right, are we poised for a flying car revolution? | |
| Budgies use grammar to find meaning in unfamiliar phrases | |
| Cont-roo-ception: Hormone implants bring kangaroos under control | |
| Microbial mass extinctions were kicked off by human evolution | |
| AI just got a big boost in its ability to understand the news | |
| The alien world that's being vaporised by a death ray | |
| Back-stabbing butterflies rob the ants that once protected them | |
| Want to control your dreams? These tips may boost your chances | |
| Freeze on gun research thaws a little as California opens center | |
| Nearly naked black hole lost its 'clothes' to a gravity rip tide | |
| Win your summer reading list: Books to get you back to nature | |
| Subsidised egg freezing isnât the answer to Japan's birth rate | |
| âDaisy-chainâ gene drive vanishes after only a few generations | |
| WADA report shows tricks Russian athletes use to skip drug tests | |
| Billion-dollar vows to save Barrier Reef are too little too late | |
| Wearable device for racehorses could help prevent fatal injuries | |
| Magnets could pull oil out of ocean before wildlife is harmed | |
| Race to save hidden treasures under threat from climate change | |
| Itâs harder than you might think to appreciate silence | |
| Microbubbles open brain's barrier to make chemo more effective | |
| Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life? | |
| LIGO discovers new gravitational wave â and new era of astronomy | |
| Perfect people: How tomorrowâs children will make babies | |
| Stolen penises and other exotic psychological tales | |
| First monkey genetically engineered to have Parkinson's created | |
| 'Monkey archaeology' reveals macaque's Stone Age culture | |
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| US gives cautious go ahead to controversial gene drives | |
| Milky Way obscured by light pollution for a third of the world | |
| Radical MS treatment is cure or kill | |
| Why we all need to fight the irrational fear of outsiders | |
| Monkey experiments are a necessary evil for better medicine | |
| National parks at 100: Images of changing US landscapes | |
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| We now have the tech to fingerprint babies â but should we? | |
| Is proton beam therapy really a game-changing cancer treatment? | |
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| Is news of the US's changing racial mix increasing racism? | |
| How an expert witness's say-so can make you a murderer | |
| How biased judges and juries can make you a murderer | |
| How an aggressive interrogation can make you a murderer | |
| How an unreliable eyewitness can make you a murderer | |
| How faulty crime-scene forensics can make you a murderer | |
| Making you a murderer: How bad science can put you behind bars | |
| Command and cure: We don't need to edit genomes to control them | |
| Ancient arts trump game-playing in virtual-reality documentaries | |
| 'Stomach tap' to let obese people empty their gut after eating | |
| Dark energy must die â these rebel physicists can take it down | |
| First mirror-image molecule found in interstellar space | |
| On the trail of a missing elephant with latest surveillance tech | |
| A slow revolution in the skies will transform life on the ground | |
| Hormone injection lets ageing muscles run harder and longer | |
| Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice | |
| US Air Force plans to pluck dangerous drones out of the skies | |
| Was Kyoto climate deal a success? Figures reveal mixed results | |
| Drowned rat first mammal wiped out by human-made climate change | |
| Doing it froggy style: Kermit Sutraâs seventh position revealed | |
| Human flesh found in stomach of bear shot after fatal attacks | |
| Quick fixes on stereotypes wonât mean more female scientists | |
| Orlando massacre prompts call to ease gay blood donor rules | |
| Black hole pairs spat out of mosh pits make gravitational waves | |
| Carbon nanotubes too weak to get a space elevator off the ground | |
| Richard Dawkins's biomorphs come back to life | |
| 'People said I was mad': Why I chose extreme treatment for my MS | |
| Massive exoplanetâs close dance is making its star spin faster | |
| Sonar to listen for moving icebergs near Arctic oil platforms | |
| âMonkey archaeologyâ reveals macaqueâs own Stone Age culture | |
| No, eating baby food is not a solution to the obesity epidemic | |
| Extreme cure for MS reboots immune system â but can be fatal | |
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| Record number of ions get entangled together in a quantum trap | |
| Supernovae 2 million years ago may have changed human behaviour | |
| Ancient enzyme resurrected from the ancestor of all bacteria | |
| Artificial dome world set for largest indoor weather experiment | |
| If antidepressants don't work well, why are they so popular? | |
| How New York fashion show owes its success to old encyclopaedia | |
| Souped-up âgene drivesâ may help eliminate pests and diseases | |
| 'Three-parent baby' success could see trials in two years | |
| Mystery human hobbits ruled tiny Asian island 700,000 years ago | |
| Mystery human hobbits ruled tiny Asian island 700,000 years ago | |
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| Breast cancer drug trial success prompts calls for UK approval | |
| Tiny satellite tests sending first quantum messages in space | |
| World's environment parliament agrees 25 steps to save the Earth | |
| First commercial carbon-capture plant set to open in Switzerland | |
| Google plans to replace smartphone passwords with trust scores | |
| Orcas are first non-humans whose evolution is driven by culture | |
| Relax - your phone probably isnât going to give you cancer | |
| âAgitatedâ gorilla had to be shot as it was acting unpredictably | |
| Vaccines might be able to stop Alzheimerâs plaques from forming | |
| Drop in Google searches reveals success of chickenpox vaccine | |
| Packing for space flattened NASA's inflatable space hotel | |
| Building blocks of life spotted around comet for the first time | |
| UK to trial HPV vaccine in gay men but no plans yet for all boys | |
| Do you get your best work done in coffee shops? Here's why | |
| Trump would deliver fatal blow to fight against climate change | |
| Controversial software claims to tell personality from your face | |
| Not all surgeons follow checklists that prevent bad mistakes | |
| Blogging cells tell their stories using CRISPR gene editing | |
| Schrödinger's cat alive and dead even after you saw it in half | |
| See-through brains reveal memory pathways for pleasure and fear | |
| Far from recovering, tigers may be in worst decline in a century | |
| Rare cosmic balancing act makes Perseid meteor showers brighter | |
| Invasive trash-eating jackals save Europe â¬2 million a year | |
| The lost women of Enlightenment science | |
| Mongol hordes gave up on conquering Europe due to wet weather | |
| Alzheimerâs may be caused by brainâs sticky defence against bugs | |
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| 5 sleep disorders you didn't know existed | |
| Arctic icebreaker expedition | |
| Neanderthals built mystery underground circles 175,000 years ago | |
| Compare the meerkat: Animals size each other up in race to top | |
| Legal right to fast internet won't heal the UK's digital divide | |
| Why you don't want your boss to help with your health | |
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| Official dietary advice on fat and sugar challenged | |
| Did Google's NHS patient data deal need ethical approval? | |
| Family or science: women shouldn't have to choose | |
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| Feedback: A quantum mystery â where do missing teaspoons go? | |
| Can video games really create new knowledge? | |
| Welcome to the festival of ideas and discovery | |
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| This deep-sea creature could be the world's oldest living animal | |
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| How mental health needs sleep â and vice versa | |
| How to nap like a pro | |
| How to sleep better | |
| 5 tips for beating insomnia | |
| Can you cheat the sleep system with a smart napping schedule? | |
| Can you catch up on missed sleep? | |
| How much sleep do you really need? | |
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| Treating cows with antibiotics doubles dung methane emissions | |
| UK's first fracking since 2011 may not be as bad as feared | |
| Zika is now on the doorstep of Africa and the US mainland | |
| World's parliament for the environment to tackle global issues | |
| Let's take a knife to the world's rising tide of type 2 diabetes | |
| India's reusable space plane takes its first test flight | |
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| Tentacled sea creatures are taking over the Earthâs oceans | |
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| Checklist of worst-case scenarios could help prepare for evil AI | |
| Cranky young sun could have kickstarted life on Earth | |
| See the best new species discovered over the past year | |
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| Say hello to Allo â and the AI assistants set to run your life | |
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| Next-gen microwave ovens are small enough to sling on your back | |
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| Can food get you high? We try a meal of psychoactive substances | |
| Gut bacteria influence the birth of new brain cells in mice | |
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| UK's harbour porpoise strandings linked to rising starvation | |
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| Tadpole galaxy spawns stars after eating invisible gas cloud | |
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| Behind the scenes at London's urban archaeology warehouse | |
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| Magic mushroom ingredient tested as depression treatment | |
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| Pinball planets: How life could start in a violent solar system | |
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| fails to break the mathematical mould | |
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| One Per Cent | |
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| NASA's Dawn probe may visit third asteroid after Ceres and Vesta | |
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| Never-before-seen galaxy spotted orbiting the Milky Way | |
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| New Scientist Live | |
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| UN climate chief: Here's why Paris climate deal will work | |
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| First evidence that sperm epigenetics affect the next generation | |
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| Second CRISPR human embryo study shows there is a long way to go | |
| How to explore Guatemala's Mayan ruins from 4500 kilometres away | |
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| Records reveal gender-selective abortion taking place in Canada | |
| The genetic superheroes who have mutations but not the disease | |
| NASA recovers prized Kepler space telescope after emergency | |
| Why the North Pole is now slowly moving towards London | |
| fails to break the mathematical mould | |
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| Migration: Do we want to go forwards or backwards? | |
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| One Per Cent | |
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| Gene therapy gets approval for âbubble kidsâ in world first | |
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| Thync piece: Do mind-altering wearables live up to the billing? | |
| Aviation and shipping firms edge towards pledging emissions cuts | |
| Anger as coal mine that could damage Great Barrier Reef approved | |
| Insomnia could be caused by loose connections in the brain | |
| Extinct animal flew underwater kites made of its own young | |
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| AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS | |
| Inflatable space hotel to be tested by space station crew | |
| SETI looks at red dwarf stars in its search for ancient aliens | |
| Has ritual human sacrifice shaped societies and class systems? | |
| Planet Nine might be an exoplanet stolen by the sun | |
| Pluto may have tipped over when Charon tugged at its heart | |
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| Same Blue Origin rocket reaches space and lands for third time | |
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| Toxic form of tau protein foils memory formation in Alzheimer's | |
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| How DNA profiling helped unravel the horror of Bosnia's genocide | |
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| One Per Cent | |
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| : Could a drug make us nicer people? | |
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| Explosive road rage-like anger linked to parasite spread by cats | |
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| Should the UK pull plug on Hinkley Point nuclear power station? | |
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| Reviving Europe's long-lost beasts through mass rewilding | |
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| Pluto may have hosted lakes and rivers of liquid nitrogen | |
| Lead ink from scrolls may unlock library destroyed by Vesuvius | |
| Invasive Soviet water flea cuts US lakeâs visibility by a metre | |
| Land of fire and ice | |
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| Weather records broken as world faces alarming levels of change | |
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| Meningitis B row shows flaws in how vaccine decisions are made | |
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| NASA is sending a 3D printer and a fire starter to the ISS | |
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| Pluto gives up its icy secrets as New Horizons data pours in | |
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| Skull of mini | |
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| Oldest ever human genome sequence may rewrite human history | |
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| Puzzle game launched to help program quantum computers | |
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| : How the forces inside cells actually behave | |
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| Blockchain-based microgrid gives power to consumers in New York | |
| Europe unveils bolder plan to combat wildlife crime | |
| US Supreme Court to hear case on restrictive Texas abortion law | |
| New UK Snooper's charter still gives state wide hacking powers | |
| Cosmic radio blast result called into question within days | |
| China set to surpass its climate targets as renewables soar | |
| How Astro Noise show interrogates the world of surveillance | |
| Google accepts blame for its self-driving car causing crash | |
| Zika virus likely to cause paralysing Guillain-Barré syndrome | |
| Exquisite fossils reveal oldest nervous system ever preserved | |
| Super-fast evolving fish splitting into two species in same lake | |
| Animal invaders on Europe's kill list are set to be wiped out | |
| Whale algorithm could unlock secrets of their many dialects | |
| People will follow a robot in an emergency â even if itâs wrong | |
| First life may have been forged in icy seas on a freezing Earth | |
| Squid filmed using their ink clouds as smokescreen to catch prey | |
| Glow-in-the-dark bacterial lights could illuminate shop windows | |
| Bromance helps stressed out warring chimps keep their cool | |
| Male sand martin birds filmed having sex with a dead male | |
| Doctors must be ready to defy harmful asylum laws | |
| Artificial tail-less sperm is the best test-tube sex cell yet | |
| Push for natural birth a dangerous flaw in UK maternity review | |
| When will the universe end? Not for at least 2.8 billion years | |
| Facebookâs AI is learning by reading loads of childrenâs books | |
| Gentler attack on cancer may mean we can live with it for longer | |
| Wild gorillas compose happy songs that they hum during meals | |
| Robot walks around, carries boxes, and takes a hit in new video | |
| Source of cosmic radio blast tracked down for the first time | |
| Facebook can map more of Earth in a week than we have in history | |
| 'Follow the salt' may be best strategy to find Martian microbes | |
| Bonobos know when others are being treated unfairly â and react | |
| Ketogenic dietâs reputed anticancer credentials put to test | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Facebookâs VR future and mass-scale mapping revealed | |
| With science if at first you donât succeed, keep trying | |
| Beyond experiment: Why the scientific method may be old hat | |
| is the most important book I've ever written | |
| Underwater drones may make hiding a nuclear missile sub harder | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Boost your mental muscle with 20 minutes of exercise | |
| A crab, shrimp and fish leave their shared home doing the conga | |
| Feedback: Where weâre going, we donât need fundamental physics | |
| The maddeningly magical maths of John Dee | |
| : The language paradox | |
| The crying game: How tears can work for you | |
| A new kind of logic: How to upgrade the way we think | |
| Why I think genitals reveal the universeâs biological diversity | |
| Crystallised tears form beautiful patterns unique as snowflakes | |
| Planet Nine hunters enlist big bang telescopes and Saturn probe | |
| Short-lived fish hints at genetic secrets of longevity | |
| 3D printing heralds faster routes to new robots | |
| Longest-ever period of coral bleaching to extend well into 2017 | |
| Barks and _ebooks: why we love robo Twitter accounts | |
| Ebola outbreak caused twice as many deaths as we thought | |
| Green worms create a superorganism that becomes a giant seaweed | |
| Astronauts may respond faster to warning voices than alarm tones | |
| Art tries to pass the Turing test | |
| Just the fear of big predators can alter an entire ecosystem | |
| Doctors claim legalising some genital mutilation may help girls | |
| Body fluids disgust us less if from someone who is 'one of us' | |
| Apple vs FBI: Who will win this struggle for power? | |
| Virgin Galactic claims new 'Unity' spaceship fixes safety issues | |
| Mystery wind drought that cut US wind power in 2015 is back | |
| Record global temperatures bring strongest ever cyclone to Fiji | |
| Carbon emission cuts could save 300,000 US lives by 2030 | |
| Multiple births, not heart disease, is biggest IVF health risk | |
| Vaccine halves cancer-causing HPV infections in US teen girls | |
| Plants have evolved forgetfulness to wipe out memory of stress | |
| Quantum weirdness may hide an orderly reality after all | |
| India set to join hunt for gravitational waves with its own LIGO | |
| Bat-drone uses shape-shifting wings to skim over water | |
| Without a sugar tax, obesity strategy has fat chance of success | |
| Binary stars burned off cosmic fog and made universe transparent | |
| New underground plant hides from the sun and parasitises fungi | |
| 'Torture' study redo shows people feel less agency under orders | |
| Old Scientist: Do you really want this computer? | |
| Why even catastrophic events canât change attitudes to climate | |
| Ransomware threat highlighted by Los Angeles hospital payout | |
| AI reads doctors' notes to find hidden links in cancer cases | |
| Cleverness isn't everything for a gaming artificial intelligence | |
| Four big cosmology secrets gravitational waves could uncover | |
| Sea butterflies fly underwater just like insects do in the air | |
| Our first sex with Neanderthals happened 100,000 years ago | |
| What will gravitational waves tell us about the universe? | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| The 'Pirate Bay' of research is back online | |
| 'No evidence' women can pass on Zika virus via sex | |
| Tenth of AI money should go on discussing its dangers and impact | |
| UK task force hits out at mental health underspending | |
| Effects of being born prematurely shouldn't have to last forever | |
| Aircraft and ships must not be exempt from emissions cuts | |
| The big carbon clean-up: 2 steps to stop global warming at 1.5 °C | |
| End of tough sanctions will mean the revival of Iranian science | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Diagnostic app can reveal cause of death without a doctor | |
| Brain scan for artificial intelligence shows how software thinks | |
| NASA spacecraft could plumb depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot | |
| Feedback: Conspiracy theories about Zika are breeding like flies | |
| : The story of how to stay alive | |
| Web of lies: Is the internet making a world without truth? | |
| Premature birth: How its effects can stay with you for life | |
| Giant mountains of green glass prepare to face the heat | |
| Competition: Your chance to have a sci-fi idea made into a film | |
| AI solves 100-hat puzzle used in Google job interviews | |
| Sound wave therapy is first alternative to Viagra in 15 years | |
| Long-lost stellar siblings probe the Milky Way's violent history | |
| How to prove controversial consciousness theory? Ask a physicist | |
| How Brexit could lead the UK to a dirtier future | |
| Test-driving the hydrogen car that makes a little go a long way | |
| Invasive species blamed as second biggest cause of extinctions | |
| LIGO's black holes may have lived and died inside a huge star | |
| Exercise slows growth of cancer in marathon mice | |
| Take exams early in the morning to get a higher score | |
| Bald ibis among wildlife driven to extinction in Syria and Libya | |
| Death of Justice Antonin Scalia may shift US climate change laws | |
| Your immune system becomes like your partner's when you cohabit | |
| Beautiful amber fossil flower reveals plant history of New World | |
| I was one of the first to know gravitational waves are real | |
| Robot weather forecasters drop sensors on storms from above | |
| First video footage of seal drowning and eating a pup | |
| In science, is honesty really always the best policy? | |
| Earth's rarest minerals could hint at life on other planets | |
| Gravitational waves open door to universe's most exotic objects | |
| Secret Sahara reveals fairytale formations and ancient lakes | |
| Mice watching movies on iPods prefer action to mouse erotica | |
| App tries to fetch medical help before cardiac arrest kills you | |
| Inside a wasp's head: Here's what it sees to find its way home | |
| White shark's diet may include biggest fish of all: whale shark | |
| Five wild animals that won't do it in cages | |
| Hey US science teachers, leave those climate myths alone | |
| Our Neanderthal genes linked to risk of depression and addiction | |
| Exclusive: Einstein reacts to discovery of gravitational waves | |
| Revolution in physics as gravitational waves seen for first time | |
| Hidden cameras snap Namibia's elusive beasts at night | |
| Playing Cupid to get reluctant corals in the mood for love | |
| Use vaccines as a weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria | |
| Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966): Backwards to the future | |
| Mammal brain frozen and thawed out perfectly for first time | |
| Is Paris deal in trouble now key US carbon cuts are on hold? | |
| High-altitude drones could eliminate phone signal black spots | |
| Whole Zika genome recovered from brain of baby with microcephaly | |
| Belief in punitive gods linked with expansion of human societies | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Zika virus found in saliva but kissing risk likely to be low | |
| Can big money make big dreams come true? | |
| The mushroom man who wants the world to take fungi seriously | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Our photo uploads give scientists billions of eyes on the world | |
| Feedback: Mars is blue, says chronicler of space oddities | |
| tells us why we should discard a mean idea | |
| : Complexity is still outsmarting us | |
| : The enthralling story of the unconscious mind | |
| Space solar: The global race to tap the sun's energy from orbit | |
| Super bats: What doesnât kill them, could make us stronger | |
| Making antimatter matter: A particle that could be both at once | |
| Why does semen make female fruit flies more aggressive? | |
| Indiaâs salt harvesters toil for crystals under the baking sun | |
| Einsteinâs last theory confirmed: A guide to gravitational waves | |
| $19 billion NASA budget for 2017 still not enough to get to Mars | |
| First fully approved 'off the shelf' stem cells launch in Japan | |
| Don't let ignorance triumph in the US debate on family planning | |
| 'Dark sunshine' could illuminate the search for dark matter | |
| Surge in obesity and diabetes could be linked to food additives | |
| Iberian lynx beats extinction as cats are released to the wild | |
| Planets with too much carbon dioxide could lose oceans to space | |
| Mind-reading tech helps beginners quickly learn to play Bach | |
| Govern by gaming: Gritty sim reveals truths about urban planning | |
| People today are still dying early from high 1970s air pollution | |
| Your brain activity for memory tasks changes with the seasons | |
| Sleep deprivation linked to false confession in milestone study | |
| Latest rumour of gravitational waves is probably true this time | |
| Visible thoughts at the fringes of consciousness | |
| 125-year mini ice age linked to the plague and fall of empires | |
| Inside the cloning factory that creates 500 new animals a day | |
| 3D-printed display lets blind people explore images by touch | |
| Homebrew biology kit brings synthetic biology to the masses | |
| Invasive raccoon dogs harbour parasites that can infect people | |
| Umbilical blood cells kill cancer quicker than adult cells | |
| Pic-scanning AI estimates city air pollution from mass of photos | |
| Google DeepMind AI navigates a | |
| Australia's plan to make a digital representation of everything | |
| First flight of hydrogen-powered drone with water vapour exhaust | |
| 'Ditch booze' advice to sexually active US women is step too far | |
| El Niño seems to have smashed 1997 record in past three months | |
| Virtual city walkthroughs help to find pedestrian death traps | |
| Tiny doses of opioid could be first fast anti-suicide drug | |
| Mystery invaders conquered Europe at the end of last ice age | |
| Nowhere to hide - invisibility cloaks fail near light speed | |
| Robot chameleon changes colour to blend into its surroundings | |
| So long, suckers: Would it be safe to wipe out mosquitoes? | |
| Zika virus outbreak: What you need to know | |
| First case of lethal female aggression seen in orangutans | |
| Three-parent babies may get US go-ahead, but only for sons | |
| Mice live 25 per cent longer when worn-out cells are cleared | |
| Shortest ever pulse of visible light spots photons fleeing atoms | |
| Quiz: Test your flavour-perception know-how | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Does Germany's nuclear waste headache warrant a global fix? | |
| As internet giants brush up against regulation, whoâs using who? | |
| Competition results: Winning words to describe the Anthropocene | |
| An insider account gives top tips | |
| : How eating meat became a global obsession | |
| Why do people believe Earth is flat in the 21st century? | |
| Realising slavery's environmental impact will hasten its end | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Next billion people online will get odd versions of the internet | |
| Feedback: a doggy guide to the depth of snowdrifts | |
| The flavour factory: Hijacking our senses to tailor tastes | |
| Galactic GPS: How dead stars will guide us in deep space | |
| I want to bring dying languages back from the brink | |
| Our future language? English rulz OK, txtspk and mind-reading | |
| Happy talk: How your language shapes your brain and personality | |
| How humans evolved language, and who said what first | |
| Baby giraffes steal milk, and adults let them do it | |
| Luxembourg's asteroid mining bid is Europeâs first | |
| NASA CubeSat missions will pave way for human space flight | |
| Person catches Zika via sex in US â here's what you need to know | |
| Speargun-toting superbugs end up shooting each other | |
| Milky Way's central bar stirs in stars like a candy floss mixer | |
| Obama's billion-dollar 'moonshot' aims to double cancer progress | |
| 7 ways the war on Zika mosquitoes could be won | |
| Asian stone tools hint humans left Africa earlier than thought | |
| Ravens' fear of unseen snoopers hints they have theory of mind | |
| Did Facebook help Cruz beat Trump in crucial Iowa vote? | |
| Virtual auditoriums help nervous speakers boost their skills | |
| Zika virus declared a global health emergency by WHO | |
| What will life be like for Brazilâs generation of Zika babies? | |
| Boost C-section babies by giving them vaginal bacteria | |
| South England's 2014 floods made more likely by climate change | |
| Nano coating lets you mould and slice liquid just like Play-Doh | |
| Hidden population of up to 200 lions found in remote Ethiopia | |
| Our body adapts to intense exercise to burn fewer calories | |
| Floods in Europe will cause five times more damage by 2050 | |
| Europe's song birds perfect their tunes when wintering in Africa | |
| Trump's primate-like posturing got him to poll position in Iowa | |
| Planned surveillance bill could damage UK tech sector, warn MPs | |
| NHS to use drones to help chemical, bio and nuke response teams | |
| Radioactive waste dogs Germany despite abandoning nuclear power | |
| Honeybees know itâs going to rain, so work more before it starts | |
| Decades-long heatwaves may hit Europe as climate change bites | |
| Number of ways to arrange 128 balls exceeds atoms in universe | |
| Ancient maps of Jupiter's path show Babylonians' advanced maths | |
| 4 million at risk of Zika infection as El Niño increases spread | |
| Octopuses resolve conflicts with many-armed body language | |
| Doomsday Clock: The retro metaphor that's still relevant today | |
| 30 years after the Challenger tragedy, is US ready to re-launch? | |
| Overactive brain pruning in teens could cause schizophrenia | |
| Wearable sweat sensor shows how hydrated you are during workouts | |
| AI landmark as Googlebot beats top human at ancient game of Go | |
| Overactive brain pruning in teens could cause schizophrenia | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| The rise of Zika | |
| AI landmark as Googlebot beats top human at ancient game of Go | |
| It may be impossible, but it's the law | |
| Yet again we have been blindsided by an emerging virus | |
| I'm capturing spider sense in nanowires to make artificial skin | |
| You're not hallucinating, MPs really did pass crazy bad drug law | |
| Staring into the heart of an artificial tree | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Artificial intelligence could make lawyers more risk averse | |
| Wearable sweat sensor shows how hydrated you are during workouts | |
| Feedback: Bluetooth pregnancy test is not immaculate conception | |
| Gaming theatre could spark a playful interest in science | |
| : Winners and losers in new world era | |
| Marathon mind: How brain training could smash world records | |
| Nuclear fusion: Can the stellarator unleash the power? | |
| Who do you think you are? 4 rules can help you know yourself | |
| Autopsies suggest surgical grafts passed on Alzheimer's disease | |
| Record-breaking double star may be cannibalising itself | |
| A black hole's edge will burn you up if you try to escape | |
| Fake meteors could probe mysterious layers of upper atmosphere | |
| Devilâs Hole pupfish might be reincarnated even if it died out | |
| All you need to know about whale strandings in the UK and Europe | |
| Screen everyone for depression? Good intention, very bad idea | |
| AI, AI on the wall. Who's the fairest of them all? | |
| How to save Flint in Michigan from lead-poisoned drinking water | |
| Old Scientist: What has space ever done for us? | |
| After Pluto: Alan Sternâs cosmic ambitions wonât be dwarfed | |
| Lonely exoplanet orbits its star at greatest distance yet seen | |
| Watch brainy zoo animals figure out a box puzzle to get at food | |
| Did Zikaâs recent mutations let it explode as a global threat? | |
| US east coast snowstorms linked to slowdown of Atlantic current | |
| Will creating monkeys with autism-like symptoms be any use? | |
| Glowing 4D-printed flowers could pave way for replacement organs | |
| Future delivery drones start learning how to fly on their own | |
| El Niño means glaciers in the Andes are melting at record rates | |
| Scenic sat-nav will take you on the prettiest route | |
| UK will need to act faster when inevitable next Ebola emerges | |
| First warm-blooded lizards switch on mystery heat source at will | |
| Spread of Zika virus a challenge to Latin America abortion bans | |
| Galaxy-mapping Gaia space telescope gets an eye test from Pluto | |
| US snowmageddon: Why a warmer world can mean more snowfall | |
| How Planet Nine may have been exiled to solar system's edge | |
| Cross-species dolphin society gets friendlier after hurricanes | |
| Smart clothes adapt so you are always the right temperature | |
| Lumiere: Londonâs brightest â and lightest â arts festival | |
| Seven creepy-crawlies caught lurking in our homes | |
| You're not hallucinating, MPs really did pass crazy bad drug law | |
| Venus flytrap can count preyâs steps to dissolve them alive | |
| Meet the aquatic monkey with a love of diving and swimming | |
| Footage of first Parkinsonâs treatments found after 50 years | |
| Mystery supernova could be fast-spinning magnetic star | |
| This is what life is like in the smoggiest place on Earth | |
| This may be the world's oldest Jurassic dinosaur fossil | |
| Crisis in antibiotic resistance could be slowed by blood test | |
| Grisly massacre site in Africa reveals one of the earliest wars | |
| Virtual idyll could aid convalescence and stave off depression | |
| Meet the animals that are defying odds by escaping extinction | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Anti-ISIS propaganda machine looks to change the message | |
| Head transplant carried out on monkey, claims maverick surgeon | |
| Science is vital to help world shape a new economic era | |
| Solar system mysteries: Could we live on the moon? | |
| Mind games: How con artists get the better of you | |
| How giant viruses could rewrite the story of life on Earth | |
| Feedback: Delhi's ban on even-numbered cars raises odd defence | |
| Verse in the universe: The scientific power of poetry | |
| : A new book puts a basic technology in its place | |
| From Africa to the stars: Why Ethiopia needs a space programme | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Humans adapted to Arctic life 10,000 years earlier than thought | |
| Quasars in distant galaxies caught switching on suddenly | |
| Grisly desert massacre site reveals one of the earliest wars | |
| Your face is mapped on the surface of other people's brains | |
| Solar system mysteries: What's inside Saturn? | |
| Solar system mysteries: What happened to Venus? | |
| Solar system mysteries: Why is the sun magnetic? | |
| Solar system mysteries: Where can life exist? | |
| Dramatic landscape shaped by Iceland's devastating eruption | |
| Hints that 'Planet Nine' may exist on edge of our solar system | |
| Solar system mysteries: Is there a planet X? | |
| 2016 will be even hotter than 2015 â the hottest year ever | |
| Ancient quasars in distant galaxies caught switching on suddenly | |
| First clue to treating mystery disease of US Pacific island | |
| Head transplant carried out on monkey, claims maverick surgeon | |
| Your face is mapped on the surface of other people's brains | |
| Prime number with 22 million digits is the biggest ever found | |
| The speedrunners who race to complete video games in record time | |
| Opioid overdose deaths in US 'resemble new infectious disease' | |
| Space age ghosts show abandoned relics of NASA's golden years | |
| Your home is a jungle inhabited by 100 different species | |
| Your home is a jungle inhabited by 100 different species | |
| Black hole sun could support bizarre life on orbiting planets | |
| Gene change could stop GM bacteria surviving outside the lab | |
| Brain monitor the size of a grain of rice dissolves after use | |
| Frozen quantum gas tied into knots for the first time | |
| Tweets and Reddit posts give snapshot of our changing language | |
| Maths helps âlocked-inâ pair show awareness for first time | |
| Watch as SpaceX doesn't quite manage to land a rocket at sea | |
| Race of world's tiniest cars set to drive nano-robot revolution | |
| Shape-shifting worm creates five different versions of itself | |
| Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all | |
| Physicists dream up crystal based on elegant satellite dance | |
| Six in hospital after French pain relief drug trial goes wrong | |
| Is that a GM bean in my soup? Campbell's is right, we must know | |
| UK rains broke river flow record and climate change is to blame | |
| Commercial spaceflight newcomer allows quick ISS return trips | |
| Humans adapted to Arctic life 10,000 years earlier than thought | |
| We've found the brightest ever supernova but can't explain it | |
| These baboons and lemurs have left the trees to live in caves | |
| Sensitive robot skin has a memory and knows what it has touched | |
| Exempt smart drugs and nutmeg from drugs law, MPs suggest | |
| State of the science: The real message in Obama's last address | |
| Your gut's trick for controlling the bacteria that live in it | |
| Killer robots: It's time to decide who pulls the trigger | |
| Advice on how much booze we should drink must remain advice | |
| MPs suggest smart drugs and nutmeg for exemption from drugs law | |
| Peterborough Pompeii rises from the ashes after 3000 years | |
| US and UK update recommendations on sugar and alcohol | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| How builder bots are taking construction work out of human hands | |
| One Per Cent | |
| âLocked-in' people show signs of awareness with maths puzzles | |
| Male spiders lure aggressive females with peek-a-boo paddle game | |
| Climate change means the flood defence rule book needs a rewrite | |
| Imagine storing all the world's archives in a box of seeds | |
| There's a savant in you â and this man wants to find it | |
| : Time for a subtler picture of evolution | |
| Feedback: Laser-etched food promises a digested read | |
| Space age ghosts show abandoned relics of NASA's golden years | |
| Tool find hints Java Man and hobbit had early human neighbour | |
| Climate change credibility tool shows what news you can trust | |
| Time might flow backwards as well as forwards from the big bang | |
| Icy find under comet 67P's skin could make sense of its origins | |
| How to find ET: 7 ways aliens might give themselves away | |
| Can this starfish-killing robot save the Great Barrier Reef? | |
| How to master your habits and take control of your life | |
| UK researchers get go ahead for gene-editing human embryos | |
| Your gut's trick for controlling the bacteria that live in it | |
| Autonomous cars only ease traffic when paired with smart lights | |
| Global watchdog needed to spot the next Ebola-like outbreak | |
| Shark virgin births seen in two generations for the first time | |
| The Lumiere festival gets set to light up the London night | |
| California's massive methane leak prompts action to capture it | |
| Male spiders lure aggressive females with peek-a-boo paddle game | |
| Self-healing cities will fix their own potholes | |
| New rumours that gravitational waves have finally been detected | |
| Sound of your own voice may help you understand your emotions | |
| The firms who will beat Google to get us into self-driving cars | |
| Philae lander fails to respond to last-ditch efforts to wake it | |
| Will boozing now become as socially unacceptable as smoking? | |
| Oil price plunge will be bad news for climate efforts | |
| Famous Wow! signal might have been from comets, not aliens | |
| Taskmaster robots watch while you work in case you miss a step | |
| Impulsive people may have less free will than the rest of us | |
| First ever pictures of single proteins thanks to graphene sheet | |
| Falcons imprison live birds to keep them fresh for a later meal | |
| Mathematicians invent new way to slice pizza into exotic shapes | |
| Bottle and a half of wine is new UK weekly alcohol limit | |
| Marks of the Anthropocene: 7 signs we have made our own epoch | |
| Iceman Ãtzi may have had stomach ache when he was murdered | |
| Mexico's sugary-drink tax was all fizz for very little pop | |
| Moonlight helps plankton escape predators during Arctic winters | |
| Meet the young women leading the way in Ethiopia's TB fight | |
| Dinosaurs took part in building competitions to attract females | |
| Migrating giant planets might eat their own life-friendly moons | |
| Star clusters could host long-lived technological civilisations | |
| We can't treat global browning as a standalone issue | |
| NASA wins funds for roomy module suited to deep space missions | |
| UK territory could host Atlantic's largest protected area | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Sleep isn't needed to create long-term memories â just time out | |
| Guinea pigs beat hot temperatures by tweaking their DNA | |
| Understanding climate change's role in the UK's recent floods | |
| Life-friendly moons might get eaten by their own drifting planet | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Night-time mouse ninjas caught in mid-air fight for food | |
| : It's where the heart is â and now we know why | |
| : What aliens would really mean for us as humans | |
| Memory recall works twice as fast as the blink of an eye | |
| Elusive narwhal babies spotted gathering at Canadian nursery | |
| Don't shove! Sheep and humans show pushing slows evacuation | |
| Falcons imprison live birds, keeping them fresh to eat later | |
| Pigment-making microbes could replace dirty synthetic dyes | |
| Plastic grass could cover buildings to produce energy from wind | |
| Feedback: Stealth or style? Now you don't have to choose | |
| Why it's time for footballers to use wearable tech on the pitch | |
| Women can âgrow' their own IVF embryos with in-body incubator | |
| Supermassive black holes might be hiding entire universes inside | |
| Global browning: Why the world's fresh water is getting murkier | |
| Bright idea: How light-based Li-Fi could unseat Wi-Fi | |
| Strangers within: Meet the other humans who live in your body | |
| Busting the baby brain myth: Why motherhood makes minds sharper | |
| Guinea pigs beat climate change by tweaking their own DNA | |
| North Korean blast could be a step towards a nuclear missile | |
| We breathe in more bugs from our tap water than from our toilets | |
| Farting plants have a built-in stink bomb that deters predators | |
| Smart guns and mental health checks needed to slash gun violence | |
| Elusive narwhal babies spotted gathering at Canadian nursery | |
| UK's carbon footprint from imported food revealed for first time | |
| Memory recall works twice as fast as the blink of an eye | |
| Women in Oregon can now get the pill over the counter | |
| : A quest for grown-ups | |
| Smartwatch app detects epileptic seizures and texts a warning | |
| Phones could be making us less human, but does it matter? | |
| Vaping really isn't as harmful for your cells as smoking | |
| Four new elements complete the seventh row of the periodic table | |
| Giant galaxy caught tearing apart its little neighbour | |
| Gardening in space: Sow the cosmological seeds and scatter | |
| Why we need to go on talking about trauma | |
| How poetry can be a shortcut to truths science tries to discover | |
| One per cent | |
| Personalised learning lets children study at their own pace | |
| White wine may not really exist | |
| Vitamin D's benefit may lie in syncing our body clocks | |
| Titan's lakes could be refilled from below | |
| Wi-Fi could let robots roam around the ISS | |
| Ice floe serves as lab for drifting Arctic explorers | |
| 'Super-powered oven' suggests Venus once had continents | |
| Flying high: Drones keep tabs on wildlife from above | |
| High and dry? Party drug could target excess drinking | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| NASA's Messenger spacecraft makes final tour of Mercury | |
| After a century of relativity, a new view of gravity | |
| Raise a toast to drugs that could replace alcohol | |
| You could be wearing your alibi right now | |
| Feedback: Handy nutritious molecules | |
| Books to look forward to in 2015 | |
| Exclusive: Jane Hawking tells her Theory of Everything | |
| Wind riders: Amazing albatross flight inspires drones | |
| Seven megaprojects that would change the world | |
| A date with disease: Get the app, risk the clap? | |
| Gravity's secret: How relativity meets quantum physics | |
| Pet theory: Why domestic animals look cute | |
| Just banking seeds won't guarantee our future food | |
| Keep science at the heart of new push to end poverty | |
| Spiny monster from the depths of world's oldest lake | |
| Masculine-sounding lawyers less likely to win in court | |
| Loneliness is a modern epidemic in need of treatment | |
| Split-colour bird is half male, half female | |
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| Enigma | |
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| Fiery black hole debate creates cosmological Wild West | |
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| 3D fossil portrait could be the mother of all spiders | |
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| Google buys AI firm DeepMind to boost image search | |
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| Graphene rival 'phosphorene' is born to be a transistor | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
| There's a vog on Vanuatu | |
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| One Per Cent | |
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| 60 Seconds | |
| Cheap DNA: What the $1000-genome means for you | |
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| Enigma | |
| Psychobiotics: How gut bacteria mess with your mind | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Zoologger: Squid snares prey using badly blurred vision | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
| Shimmering colour in a fruit fly's eye | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
| Bijou backpacks reveal habits of chilled-out bees | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Synthetic gene helps HIV vaccine hit shape-shifting foe | |
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| Japan's ageing population could actually be good news | |
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| One Per Cent | |
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| 60 Seconds | |
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| Cosmic explorer Gaia embarks on star-mapping mission | |
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| Space lander of the future takes fiery flight | |
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| One Per Cent | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| One Per Cent | |
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| 60 Seconds | |
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| Hunter, gatherer⦠architect? Civilisation's true dawn | |
| Astrophile: The climate-shaping supervolcanoes of Mars | |
| Feedback: Guns for the blind | |
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| Planet of the vines: Climbing plants are taking over | |
| Big bang, no boom: Did Planck pop inflation's bubble? | |
| Enigma Number 1769 | |
| 'A mathematical formula can change history' | |
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| Don't let fear of bioweapons kill off science | |
| Historic shots of Io revealed a world on fire | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Neural stem cells pulled from rat's brain using magnet | |
| Dark matter tops physicists' wish list, post-Higgs | |
| Real | |
| Texan creationism showdown may 'contaminate' textbook | |
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| US federal shutdown puts key science functions on hold | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Hot Jupiters push exoplanet count over 1000 milestone | |
| Mice get replacement glands, grown from scratch | |
| UK will launch its own cyberattacks, not just defend | |
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| SpaceX gets a rival â and tests novel reusable rocket | |
| IPCC digested: Just leave the fossil fuels underground | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Glowing jester plane reveals invisible wind eddies | |
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| Climate report: How the science has moved on | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
| What your email style says about your personality | |
| Zoologger: The mysterious crabs of Ascension Island | |
| Climate report: Lull in warming doesn't mean we're safe | |
| Can we be sure IPCC report hasn't missed any big issues? | |
| Does the report provide fodder for climate sceptics? | |
| What are the prospects for the polar regions? | |
| How much has climate change altered weather so far? | |
| Climate science: a beginner's guide | |
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| Pop-up island emerges from the sea after earthquake | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| How the prisoner's dilemma changes diners' etiquette | |
| 3D-printed objects outgrow their printers | |
| 'Black holes' of the ocean could curb climate change | |
| Man controls new prosthetic leg using thought alone | |
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| Should universities favor ethnic minorities? | |
| First interactive map of galaxy's habitable planets | |
| Fish fossil suggests our skeleton evolved face first | |
| Astrophile: Early Earth was a hot young smoker | |
| Hacking firm hints at cybercrime's professional elite | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Google Glass has its electronic eye on health | |
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| Reverse ageing by boosting cells' energy factories | |
| DNA-grabbing bacteria hint at early phase of evolution | |
| First nanotube computer could spark carbon revolution | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| HIV infection figures tumbling around the world | |
| Gun control: We need a new conversation | |
| Black-hole eruption nearby is a warning for us all | |
| Catch the breeze | |
| Feedback: Amazing miracle water | |
| No need for gods any more | |
| Books and apps make animal-spotting easier than ever | |
| Multiple personalities: Takedown of a diagnosis | |
| Brake away: Rethinking how we land on Mars | |
| Lifeless Earth: What if everything died out tomorrow? | |
| Why space has exactly three dimensions | |
| Enigma Number 1768 | |
| The doctor treating the US gun epidemic | |
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| Climate science: Why the world won't listen | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
| How do you look at art? Take part in an experiment | |
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| First vaccine for H7N9 may be too little, too late | |
| Real-world | |
| World won't cool without geoengineering, warns report | |
| Apollo astronauts still have a problem - 45 years on | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Date glitch delays Cygnus's rendezvous with ISS | |
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| Overcome fears by manipulating memory as you sleep | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
| Leaky microwaves can power your kitchen gadgets | |
| Spacecraft army gears up to watch rare sun-diving comet | |
| Zoologger: The fossil fish that's a serial monogamist | |
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| Hawking: all we need to know | |
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| Warning sounded over three-parent IVF safety | |
| Mystery deepens as Martian methane eludes Curiosity | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Proton sent through looking glass to gauge oddest force | |
| Mysterious bursts of activity in flatlining brain | |
| Win the best science books on thought and thinking | |
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| Colorado floods: low risk from fracking chemicals | |
| Milky Way emerges from a lighthouse in prize-winning photo | |
| Where to next for interstellar pioneer Voyager 1? | |
| Flotilla of designer insects is new weapon in pest control | |
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| Science for peace | |
| One Per Cent | |
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| Warblers begin migrating after interbreeding | |
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| Genes linked to left-handedness identified | |
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| US dolphin deaths set to rise as migration begins | |
| Universe's baby pictures suggest a bubbly birth | |
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| 60 Seconds | |
| Voyager 1: still looking forward after all these years | |
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| We think, therefore we are | |
| What has the Higgs boson done for us? | |
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| Dan Dennett's handy tools for easier thinking | |
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| Enigma Number 1767 | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| New Syria sarin deal will need speedy UN checks | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| NASA says Voyager 1 has left the solar system, honest | |
| Zoologger: Transformer insect has gears in its legs | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| One Per Cent | |
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| 60 Seconds | |
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| Feedback: Animating Shakespeare | |
| The genes that make you a true individual | |
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| Future law: Can you be slandered by a robot? | |
| Spot of bother: have we been getting solar activity wrong? | |
| Enigma Number 1766 | |
| Selling sensation: the new marketing territory | |
| Low-budget way to send your stuff into space | |
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| Coping with the lasting costs of the Syrian war | |
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| Strength of gravity shifts â and this time it's serious | |
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| A quarter of men in some parts of Asia admit to rape | |
| Fossilised dinosaur battle expected to fetch millions | |
| Cell scaffolding found in odd California meteorite | |
| Tropical storms stir up trouble for coral reefs | |
| Australia rips up climate-change policies | |
| Are there ecological merits to trawling the seabed? | |
| Men with smaller testicles make better dads | |
| NASA moon probe steadies itself, heads for lunar orbit | |
| Magic microphone lets you whisper with your fingertips | |
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| How NSA weakens encryption to access internet traffic | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| World's biggest volcano was born in the dinosaur age | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| One Per Cent | |
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| 60 Seconds | |
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| Enigma Number 1765 | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| How the US may try to destroy Syria's chemical weapons | |
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| Wanna watch your volcano danger zone? Go fly a kite | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Around the world with dark matter | |
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| Bio-inspired speaker uses clear gel to play music | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| One Per Cent | |
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| 60 Seconds | |
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| The third factor: Beyond nature and nurture | |
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| Enigma Number 1764 | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Acidifying oceans will heat the planet more | |
| X Prize for genomes cancelled before it begins | |
| NASA seeks takers for moon-mission launch pads | |
| Black hole ejects 'space slinky' in Hubble movie | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
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| Astrophile: The iron planet with a 4-hour year | |
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| One Per Cent | |
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| Mind-altering drug could offer life free of heroin | |
| Fresh interstellar travel plans inspire tech spin-offs | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Can it be ethical to implant false memories? | |
| Smashing up computers won't stop spying investigation | |
| We should all be able to name objects in space | |
| How to train a canine conservationist | |
| Feedback: Ghost in the latrine | |
| Virtual reality resurrects a defunct exhibition | |
| Exploring our love/hate relationship with Gaia | |
| Wiped out: The race to save our video heritage | |
| Brown dwarfs: From zeroes to astronomical heroes | |
| Health myths: We should live and eat like cavemen | |
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| Health myths: Antioxidant pills help you live longer | |
| Health myths: Our bodies can and should be 'detoxed' | |
| Health myths: Sugar makes children hyperactive | |
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| Enigma Number 1763 | |
| I could have sworn⦠Why you can't trust your memory | |
| Can we make a national heritage site on the moon? | |
| State of innovation: Busting the private-sector myth | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
| Capturing alien auroras in a bottle | |
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| Germany first EU country to assign third gender | |
| Early South Americans conquered the Atacama desert | |
| Time-lapse footage shows snail embryo in high gear | |
| Birds are aware of speed limits on roads | |
| Huge lava fountains seen gushing from Jupiter moon | |
| How an ocean went into hiding in Australia | |
| China calls an end to harvesting organs from prisoners | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Secret clean-up secures weapons-grade plutonium dump | |
| Suicide risk could show up in a blood test | |
| Gravity map reveals Earth's extremes | |
| Fracking operations triggered 100 quakes in a year | |
| Browser to give you a more politically balanced life | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Hyperactive volcano dusts Japanese city in ash | |
| States lead the US toward a new era in its war on drugs | |
| Galactic zoo took shape near the dawn of the universe | |
| Ancient pawns: pieces from 5000-year-old board games? | |
| Astrophile: Elderly couple kicked out of the galaxy | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Brain scans could lead to consciousness 'gold standard' | |
| Quake-proof cathedral made of cardboard unveiled | |
| NASA's superstar planet-hunter can't be saved | |
| Zoologger: The rat that defies powerful carcinogens | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Dangerous biofilm bacteria evolve to be easy to treat | |
| Official planet namer listens to voice of the people | |
| New cloud-forest mammal looks like living teddy bear | |
| Robot comedian stands up well against human rivals | |
| Oddball space neutrinos may be spawn of dark matter | |
| Ancient climate change picked the crops we eat today | |
| Giant magnet makes Milky Way black hole a slow eater | |
| Booster shots: The accidental advantages of vaccines | |
| Radar warns drivers when there's a moose on the loose | |
| Sunbots aim to slash the cost of solar arrays | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Foursquare check-ins tell stores where to set up shop | |
| Watch virtual people flee to plan escape routes | |
| Beyond 3D printing: The all-in-one factory | |
| Micropayments now ready to slash price of online news | |
| First images of DNA mix-ups linked to cancer | |
| Earth's central heating is thinning Greenland | |
| World's oldest temple built to worship the dog star | |
| Head hurts? Zap the wonder nerve in your neck | |
| Milky Way galaxy is even lighter than thought | |
| War zones in A&E: The hospitals solving the crisis | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Childhood obesity declines in US but rises in UK | |
| Breathing new life into the pneumatic dream | |
| Silence isn't golden when it comes to vaccines | |
| Feedback: The science of not knowing | |
| Nudges towards the online world beyond Facebook | |
| The future of fabrication is a tough picture to paint | |
| Parallel sparking: Many chips make light work | |
| Infinity's end: Time to ditch the never-ending story? | |
| Enigma Number 1762 | |
| Time to turn cause and effect on their heads | |
| Meet the NASA scientist devising a starship warp drive | |
| Stand up for Turkey's jailed doctors and scientists | |
| Toxic sludge from polluted rivers turned into art | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Xombie rocket lands on its feet | |
| Dark energy could be the offspring of the Higgs boson | |
| Green turtle youngsters roam far and wide | |
| Mouse heart beats again thanks to human stem cells | |
| South Korea bakes in extreme heat amid power cuts | |
| Genetic switch to guard against escaped 'superviruses' | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Autism may make brains of women but not men more male | |
| Firework view flaunts Perseid meteors' illusory origin | |
| Hyperloop: Musk unveils high-speed pneumatic transport | |
| Words prompt us to notice what our subconscious sees | |
| Newmatics: antique tubular messaging returns | |
| Play with antimatter from the comfort of your home | |
| Mars chefs ready to emerge from simulated mission | |
| First bone tools suggest Neanderthals taught us skills | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Fracking could accelerate global warming | |
| Dream Job: Skeleton hunter | |
| Ecosystems still feel the pain of ancient extinctions | |
| How Nigeria has been using its satellites | |
| First decrease in US childhood obesity | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Militant Filipino farmers destroy Golden Rice GM crop | |
| Coding for brain chips gives cognitive computing boost | |
| Zoologger: How to persuade a giant panda to have sex | |
| Accidentally cut your ear off? Just 3D print a new one | |
| Robotic plant learns to grow like the real thing | |
| Is there hope for the bees? | |
| Camels charged with passing MERS virus to people | |
| First images of DNA mix-ups linked to cancer | |
| Super-accurate atomic clock doubles up as quantum sim | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Robot face lets slime mould show its emotional side | |
| Forget doggy paddle - apes prefer breaststroke | |
| Headbanging termite drummers sound the alarm | |
| Space station poised to launch open-source satellites | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Meshnet activists rebuilding the internet from scratch | |
| Keep tags on your stuff and never lose it again | |
| Sense of smell has a genetic flavour | |
| Ability to perceive minds of others emerges in robot | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Henrietta Lacks' genome to be open to all | |
| Technical tweaks won't stop online abuse | |
| The fracking debate needs more light, less heat | |
| Whose stem cells are they anyway? | |
| Frack on or frack off: Can shale gas save the planet? | |
| Feedback: Pink quinine mystery solved | |
| An elementary history lesson | |
| The making of Niels Bohr | |
| Solar superflares: A new danger from the sun | |
| Fight for the right to stem cells | |
| Not like us: Artificial minds we can't understand | |
| Enigma Number 1761 | |
| An unearthly answer to the lightning enigma | |
| If it isn't life-threatening, don't call it cancer | |
| Ban boxing â it's demeaning and dangerous | |
| Ballooning size of world's second-largest refugee camp | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Beautiful British bat is one in just 1000 | |
| Tracking the viruses that cause the 'Hajj cough' | |
| Light makes crystals leap 1000 times their own length | |
| Poor sleep makes food more appealing | |
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| Today on New Scientist | |
| Astronaut twins could reveal genetics of space health | |
| Fukushima leaks will keep fisheries closed | |
| Colombia first country to eliminate river blindness | |
| What's the beef? Cultured meat remains a distant dream | |
| Genetic discovery links autism and schizophrenia | |
| Arctic ice grows darker and less reflective | |
| Mars anniversary: Rock star rover's five coolest finds | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Maths quiz helps paralysed people talk with their eyes | |
| Solar furnace to keep race for hydrogen running hot | |
| Curiosity's tracks on Mars | |
| Zoologger: Quail whip up a lovely sperm meringue | |
| Cells that help you find your way identified in humans | |
| Arabian flights: Early humans diverged in 150 years | |
| Uruguay vote moves the country towards legal cannabis | |
| Radar gun spots vehicles with illegal GPS jammers | |
| Dances with molecules | |
| Bradley Manning and "hacker madness" scare tactic | |
| Online gamers harnessed to help disaster response | |
| Climate change may make civil wars much more common | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Coral mappers reach Caribbean waters | |
| Food stamps could help US trim obesity epidemic | |
| Asteroid pinpointed as likely source of Russian meteor | |
| What are the options for right-to-die campaigners? | |
| Any cellphone can be traced by its digital fingerprint | |
| Giant clouds of lead glimpsed on distant dwarf stars | |
| Food stamp nation | |
| After tweeted rape threats, Twitter promises change | |
| Astrophile: How Saturn's tiger moon got its stripes | |
| Become the star of your own personalised manga comic | |
| Grab ammonia out of thin air for fuel of the future | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Use a bus stop touchscreen to kill time â and help out | |
| Hive-mind solves tasks using Google Glass ant game | |
| Steer me sideways: icebreaker attacks pack ice side-on | |
| More girls born in Japan after quake skews sex ratio | |
| Gold-diamond duo takes temperature of single cell | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Was thalidomide cause of Brazil baby birth defects? | |
| Look to the past for the fuel of the future | |
| Feedback: But can the phone phone? | |
| Bird senses: What next? | |
| Bird senses: Taste, smell and magnetism | |
| Bird senses: Touch and hearing | |
| Bird senses: Vision | |
| Pterosaurs deserve a place in the sun | |
| Hot stuff: Solving volcanic mysteries in the lava lab | |
| Food vs you: How your dinner controls you | |
| Quantum weirdness: The battle for the basis of reality | |
| Enigma Number 1760 | |
| Placebos at large: the power of society's symbols | |
| Making medicine as ubiquitous as Coke in rural Africa | |
| Apocalypse soon, if we keep on cutting science | |
| 'And how are we feeling today?' 'Squawk! Kiy-ee!' | |
| Postdoc salaries hold strong Down Under | |
| Beyond the call of duty | |
| US soldiers used in human experiments lose legal case | |
| Crude-oil spill blights idyllic Thai island | |
| Garden of Eden to become Iraqi national park | |
| Out-of-control oil leaks at Canadian tar sands site | |
| Track change at heart of Spain train crash inquiry | |
| Morphing molecule may shine in high-resolution screens | |
| NASA's upcoming astronaut capsule has hints of Apollo | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Teen jabs to prevent cervical cancer stall in US | |
| Natural chemical boosts organ regeneration | |
| Monogamy evolved to keep baby-killers away | |
| Crocodiles may need their fruity five-a-day | |
| Shiny new teeth concocted from mice and human urine | |
| NASA rushes spacesuit repair kit to space station | |
| Mummified Inca child sacrifice gives up her secrets | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Clouds save Earth from runaway greenhouse hell | |
| Astrophile: The changing face of icy dirt-ball Quaoar | |
| Leaked IPCC report doesn't let us off the hook | |
| Heart, heal thyself! No problem, says the zebrafish | |
| Would a pardon really be justice for Alan Turing? | |
| High-tech tattoo can stop athletes hitting the wall | |
| Friction signals new role for superstar planet-hunter | |
| Egg-munching parasite wasp hitch-hikes on a damselfly | |
| Alive! Mammals survived Toba's super-volcanic winter | |
| Full moon could be to blame for a poor night's sleep | |
| Sensor knows when you're lying through your teeth | |
| Google doodle salutes DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin | |
| Google searches mined to uncover our true opinions | |
| Zoologger: The pint-sized sabre-toothed opossum | |
| Light completely stopped for a record-breaking minute | |
| Feather-light sensors are as comfy as a second skin | |
| Schrödinger's 'kittens' made in the lab from photons | |
| Emmy equals Einstein squared | |
| First evidence of what peahens look at in a mate | |
| Sensor knows when you're lying through your teeth | |
| One Per Cent | |
| A phone, or an all-seeing sentry at your command? | |
| Kindergarten coders can program before they can read | |
| Men's sperm quality decreases at age 35 | |
| Flatworm given power to regrow its head | |
| Eye receptor transplant promises therapy for blindness | |
| Quantum romance: Wormhole unites star-crossed lovers | |
| Wormhole entanglement gives space-time the bends | |
| Super-organs: building body parts better than nature | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| DNA finally nails the notorious Boston Strangler | |
| We can't afford to wait on climate change | |
| Reality bites: the lessons of Biosphere 2 | |
| New thinking means new hope on depression | |
| Feedback: How to unwind your DNA | |
| DNA fails to take off | |
| Super-supernovae spell trouble for dark energy | |
| Biosphere 2: Saving the world within a world | |
| Wacky spaces: The odd orbits that boost rocket trips | |
| Fixing broken brains: a new understanding of depression | |
| Enigma Number 1759 | |
| Medicine hunter of the Brazilian Amazon | |
| 'Parasitism is the most popular lifestyle on Earth' | |
| Outbreak of global warming optimism is naive | |
| A garden of my own amid a sea of garbage | |
| Fake smile in a mirror makes you buy what you try on | |
| The tale of Mexico's largest dinosaur tail | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Blue wave of death caught on camera | |
| Deforestation in Congo basin slows, but for how long? | |
| Huge methane belch in Arctic could cost $60 trillion | |
| 17th-century gadget gives up secrets to 3D printer | |
| It's official: we're seduced by cigarette packaging | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| 2D planet lander and suspended animation get NASA cash | |
| Forget | |
| Robot air freshener blows bubbles for future homes | |
| AI scores same as a 4-year-old in verbal IQ test | |
| Five things the royal baby knows about the world | |
| Shiny, happy Earth photobombs Saturn snapshot | |
| Why UK's net porn filter will be tricky to enforce | |
| Eye receptor transplant promises therapy for blindness | |
| Gimme swelter: we explain the UK and US heatwaves | |
| DNA finally nails the notorious Boston Strangler | |
| Neutrino shape-shift points to new physics | |
| Gaming air gun gives real feel to the virtual action | |
| Rare particle decay is bad news for exotic physics | |
| Astrophile: Rhythmic dance helps star lovers mature | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| My so-called viral life: is discovery new life form? | |
| Gut bacteria vital in evolution of new animal species | |
| MERS is worrying â but not an emergency for now | |
| CIA spooks investigate geoengineering to fix climate | |
| Thirsty clean energy may add to water stressed world | |
| Pitch drop caught on camera after 69-year wait | |
| Vendettas, not war? Unpicking why our ancestors killed | |
| Magnetic fluid mimics biological pattern formation | |
| Axing health statistics is penny wise, pound foolish | |
| Rave universe shows galactic imprint of quasar light | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| End-of-life care scheme axed because of poor record | |
| Art installation brings you face to face with fracking | |
| Giant camera turns its red-seeking eye on the darkness | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Cosmic collisions spin stellar corpses into gold | |
| Dam! Beavers have been busy sequestering carbon | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Biometric touchscreen recognises prints for first time | |
| Lines on the face help pick out the twin who dunnit | |
| Digital camera add-on means the light's fantastic | |
| Chromosome that causes Down's silenced for first time | |
| Chimps have experimented with sex more than humans | |
| Go-carting babies reveal origin of fear of heights | |
| First look into workings of the Neanderthal brain | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Thirsty clean energy may add to water stressed world | |
| Gene breakthrough shows Neanderthals in new light | |
| No evidence behind British cigarette pack decision | |
| Don't think and drive or you'll crash | |
| Feedback: Sneakers made of stingrays | |
| How the 'youth bulge' can make or break a country | |
| A tall tale: How the sauropod got its neck | |
| Storm warning: The winds of climate change | |
| Particle puzzle: Honey, I shrunk the proton | |
| Enigma Number 1758 | |
| Rules of evolution go a bit random if you're small | |
| To create a robot with common sense, mimic a toddler | |
| Hands on the wheel, mind on the road â not cyberspace | |
| Skull shots: When Irving Penn peeled away the skin | |
| Holiday reading: The latest scientific must-reads | |
| Holiday reading: Gorge on the mistakes of others | |
| Holiday reading: The dark glamour of astronomy | |
| Black hole feasting may help crack four cosmic puzzles | |
| Fungus foray: Which London tube line is mouldiest? | |
| $25 gadget lets hackers seize control of a car | |
| Fragility of entanglement no bar to quantum secrets | |
| Five NASA spacewalks aborted thanks to bad suits | |
| How to talk a computer into creating a program for you | |
| 3D-printed rocket engine gets its first fiery test | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Air pollution kills over 2 million people each year | |
| China and the US agree a deal on slowing emissions | |
| Fight to preserve pristine Antarctic ecosystem stalls | |
| Inside the industry supplying millions of mutant mice | |
| Neptune's strange new moon is first found in a decade | |
| Sound waves levitate and mix floating drops of liquid | |
| Virtual avatar lets you experience being a 4-year-old | |
| Obesity gene makes you fat by keeping you hungry | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Supplements fingered in sprinters' positive dope tests | |
| What Reddit likes: Things that make a meme explode | |
| Volcano's screams may explain eruption's awesome power | |
| NASA urged to seek live Martians with 2020 rover | |
| People in their 90s are getting smarter | |
| Sun's quiet spell not the start of a mini ice age | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| New play shines light across time on women astronomers | |
| Seabed sponge forest basks in ice-free Antarctic sun | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| 1978 in pictures: Why it was the best year so far | |
| Biggest building in the world rivals Monaco in size | |
| Astrophile: Searing hot exoplanet is an unearthly blue | |
| Astrophile: Searing hot exoplanet is an unearthly blue | |
| Zoologger: Traitorous fish throw friends to the wolves | |
| Pack a Book prize draw terms and conditions | |
| What if your gluten intolerance is all in your head? | |
| Guess a person's age from their voice | |
| Solar system has a tail shaped like a four-leaf clover | |
| Musical argon is most accurate thermometer ever | |
| For ultra-precise measures, go for nature's constants | |
| Why storm winds turned wind turbine into a fireball | |
| Why cancer protects from Alzheimer's and vice versa | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| 30-kilometre ice crack makes PIG calve | |
| Sensitive piano keys let pianists create new sounds | |
| Bitcoin sells out as big business moves in | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Cars that look around to work out where they are | |
| Musicians jam long-distance on superfast networks | |
| Time-lapse map shows DNA development in growing brain | |
| UK's industrial badlands are surprise ecology hotspots | |
| The wonder year: Why 1978 was the best year ever | |
| Stutters in Earth's spin change day length | |
| First baby born after full genetic screening of embryos | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Bring back the spirit of '78 | |
| Designer babies are on the horizon but aren't here yet | |
| Feedback: The mark of the barcode | |
| Control sex for humanity's future | |
| Vagus thinking: Meditate your way to better health | |
| Race to Mars: Who will be first to the Red Planet? | |
| Voice almighty: Decoding speech's secret signals | |
| The strange ape that's rewriting our family tree | |
| Enigma Number 1757 | |
| Designing for microscopic life in the great indoors | |
| Free online MIT courses are an education revolution | |
| Why is the rich US in such poor health? | |
| Ultimate moon shot reveals the sun's flare | |
| Blood test to estimate your age and predict health | |
| Sun's cosmic ray shadow is solar storm predictor | |
| Bag your dream job with a little help from an avatar | |
| NASA's 2020 Mars rover will be a rock collector | |
| Brightening the clouds touted as a way to save corals | |
| Rice-husks could make much longer-lasting batteries | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| -style liquid metal can now be 3D printed | |
| Quantum version of Nazi Enigma machine is uncrackable | |
| Lava dome shows pressure rise at volcano Popocatepetl | |
| UK proposes piggy-backing to search for alien signals | |
| Fatal train wreck fuels debate over oil transport | |
| Singing in a choir is good for the heart | |
| Lake Vostok may boast a thriving ecosystem | |
| Why was Asiana jet flying so slowly before crash? | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| WHO to decide whether MERS is global health emergency | |
| First baby born after full genetic screening of embryos | |
| Ethnic background influences immune response to TB | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Wrap up warm to avoid heart attacks in winter | |
| Lasers watch plant roots grow in transparent soil | |
| Zoologger: Hipster toad has weaponised moustache | |
| Natural fracking feeds an eternal flame | |
| New language helps quantum coders build killer apps | |
| Starfish eyes are good enough to show them the way home | |
| Mystery radio bursts blamed on black hole 'blitzars' | |
| Time-lapse map shows DNA development in growing brain | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Giant superconducting ring takes a road trip | |
| Photo app lets you swipe to view a scene from any angle | |
| Mindscapes: First man to hear people before they speak | |
| Happy birthday boson! Six outstanding Higgs mysteries | |
| Astrophile: Clingy planet makes stellar parent flip | |
| Cockatoo cracks lock with no prior training | |
| Citizen cartographers fill the gaps in maps | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| What does the rise of green power mean for you? | |
| One Per Cent | |
| 3D-printed dummy landmines teach subtle skills | |
| Skin-deep modelling holds key to natural digital faces | |
| Software says Knox's DNA not on crime scene bra clasp | |
| Double good news from HIV front line | |
| Overprotection may be hampering hunt for Mars life | |
| Rise of renewables starts climate-change fightback | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| No more excuses over switch to clean energy | |
| Eating insects: Disgust is just the first hurdle | |
| There may already be aliens on Mars | |
| Feedback: More consumption than a city | |
| Quantum information: Are we nearly there yet? | |
| Quantum information: Killer apps | |
| Quantum information: Building a quantum computer | |
| Quantum information: The promise | |
| What do we fix first â environment or economy? | |
| Nano magic: The power of powder to save energy | |
| Bug Mac and flies: Are insects really food's future? | |
| Tick tick boom, the Earth spits out a moon | |
| Enigma Number 1756 | |
| Physics goes social: How behaviour obeys quantum logic | |
| Does banning prostitution make women safer? | |
| Martyr myth: Inside the minds of suicide bombers | |
| In this echo-free room you can hear your heartbeat | |
| Precision herbicide drones launch strikes on weeds | |
| Hummingbird performs the fastest ever shimmy | |
| Wales votes yes for opt-out organ donation | |
| High-energy cosmos is violent with hint of dark matter | |
| Tree-loving orang-utans hang out on the forest floor | |
| Bone-marrow transplants 'cure' men with HIV | |
| IVF procedures do not boost autism risk | |
| Two space telescopes close their eyes on the skies | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Flowers have been at funerals for 13,000 years | |
| Vulcan not Pluto moon despite Star Trek actor's push | |
| Fireball rocket crash adds to Russia's space woes | |
| Listen to the lasers to detect disease in blood cells | |
| Plastisphere microbes go to sea on flotsam fragments | |
| Telescopic contact lens lets you zoom in on the world | |
| Briefing: Firefighters on the front lines of wildfires | |
| Software says Knox's DNA not on crime scene bra clasp | |
| Bomb-test fallout could catch illegal ivory traders | |
| 'Gorilla' phone glass caught shrinking in just days | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Iridescent beetle shimmers for 49 million years | |
| World's only freshwater porpoise on brink of extinction | |
| Printed drones to hunt down drug-running boats | |
| Quantum mechanics enables 'impossible' space chemistry | |
| Tohoku megaquake shows big tremors make volcanoes sink | |
| Dramatic new treatment push to conquer HIV | |
| Windows aims to open up 3D printing to the masses | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Gold and sacrificed humans found in ancient Wari tomb | |
| Astrophile: Tour the scenic lava lakes of Io | |
| Ape retirement means chimp research is on the way out | |
| Reports of Voyager 1's exit still greatly exaggerated | |
| European planet hunter pronounced dead in space | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Renewable energy to eclipse gas by 2016 | |
| Global crackdown seizes fake drugs worth $41 million | |
| Flowery return for China's longest-lasting astronauts | |
| Is missing 'partial' neutrino a boson in disguise? | |
| Inflatable arm will soften up anti-bomb robot | |
| Zoologger: Invasion of the sleepy raccoon dogs | |
| Overprotection may be hampering hunt for Mars life | |
| Echoes in the brain open a window on yesterday | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Ready, aim, throw! Lobbing rocks key to meat-eating | |
| Erosion helps keep mountains standing tall | |
| Citizen scientist: Out of the lab and onto the streets | |
| Bloodhound robot navigates by its sense of smell | |
| Multi-shot video can identify civil rights abusers | |
| Wi-Fi-hopping brings phone signal to remote villages | |
| AI makes social game characters all too human | |
| Mechanical eye will help wine-makers improve vintages | |
| Genetic medicine hints at bloodletting for astronauts | |
| Oldest animal genome is sequenced from horse bone | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Indian flood deaths blamed on 'mindless' construction | |
| Don't take life sitting down | |
| Don't stop stockpiling Tamiflu | |
| Feedback: Holy breadsticks | |
| Workouts are no antidote to death by desk job | |
| Blast from the past: Solving the Tunguska mystery | |
| Civic hackers: Techies volunteer to rescue government | |
| Gaia's comeback: How life shapes the weather | |
| Enigma Number 1755 | |
| My life goal is to cure colour blindness | |
| Europe's carbon tax is down but not out | |
| Peaceful passenger pigeon waits for resurrection | |
| A sick world in gorgeous close-up | |
| Brazil uprising points to rise of leaderless networks | |
| Human-animal hybrids mean boom time for bioethicists | |
| How to grow human spare organs inside pigs | |
| Go green to profit from environmental change | |
| Expectation alone turns a rubber hand into a 'real' one | |
| Obama launches plan to fight climate change in US | |
| Nerve grafts let paralysed rats pee again | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| NASA launches new telescope to solve sun heat mystery | |
| Indian flood deaths blamed on 'mindless' construction | |
| Three habitable worlds found around the same star | |
| Submarine internet cables are a gift for spooks | |
| Robo-rockers join rich history of robot music | |
| Mathematicians think like machines for perfect proofs | |
| Tabletop accelerator shoots cheap antimatter bullets | |
| Wild Alaskan weather intensifies climate debate | |
| Video system detects pulse from tiny head movements | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Evidence that Tamiflu reduces deaths in pandemic flu | |
| Want fewer hurricanes? Pollute the air | |
| New signs of language surface in mystery Voynich text | |
| Give picked veg some light to make it better for you | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Virtual reality: Dancing with a rhino-headed army | |
| Earth's plant life glows green in hi-res space map | |
| Wood is key ingredient in cheap rechargeable battery | |
| Zoologger: Pilot whales cuddle in the abyss | |
| How to win people's hearts and minds for GM farming | |
| How to win people's hearts and minds for GM farming | |
| Mindscapes: Transported by seizures to a land of bliss | |
| 3D map of human brain is the most detailed ever | |
| Can the UK ease Europe's deadlock on GM crops? | |
| The mental illness taboo is a problem for all of us | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Snail shell stripes reveal Irish origins | |
| What a new jumbo particle reveals about extreme matter | |
| Learn to shake your new tail as a virtual animal | |
| Why I've built a search engine that doesn't follow you | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Virtual reality: Illusions help you explore on foot | |
| Virtual reality: Meet founding father Jaron Lanier | |
| Simulated spaces | |
| Virtual reality: Live your dreams in real time | |
| Virtual reality: Get your head in the game | |
| Single-atom light switch could probe quantum frontier | |
| Naked mole rats reveal why they are immune to cancer | |
| Inside Fukushima: Draining a radioactive flood | |
| Wormhole entanglement solves black hole paradox | |
| Cosmic preheating baked planets, stars and people | |
| Rapid evolution of tumours may be their Achilles' heel | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Virtual reality: It's time for garage inventors again | |
| The battle to find a cure for every cancer is evolving | |
| Nudge: The gentle science of good governance | |
| Feedback: Nano-whatsits invade their minds | |
| The diagnosis of mental illness needs its own therapy | |
| Jumbo challenge: How elephants keep their cool | |
| Ultimate chill: The epic race to reach absolute zero | |
| Electric Avenue: When the people have the power | |
| Nudge: When does persuasion become coercion? | |
| Nudge: How the subtle revolution is improving society | |
| Nudge: You're being manipulated â have you noticed? | |
| Enigma Number 1754 | |
| Forget pandas â ugly animals should be protected too | |
| Does habitat replacement let developers off the hook? | |
| Delicate nano-flowers coaxed from simple seeds | |
| Scuppered barges plug dyke to hold back German flood | |
| Google's Project Loon to float the internet on balloons | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| China aims to slash its air pollution by 2017 | |
| Farmed fish overtakes farmed beef for first time | |
| New NASA astronauts headed for destinations unknown | |
| Virtual reality display lets fire crews see in a blaze | |
| World's first baby born from 'natural' IVF | |
| New lease of life for hobbled planet-hunter Kepler | |
| Slime mould could make memristors for biocomputers | |
| Mars fans vote to immortalise Curiosity rover in Lego | |
| Echolocating app will let you map a room with sound | |
| Will new tectonic fault system kill the Atlantic? | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Court ruling on genes is a 'victory for common sense' | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Acidifying seawater sees oysters in race to grow shells | |
| Syria has crossed chemical red line, says Obama | |
| Colorado wildfire leaves landscape of destruction | |
| Zoologger: Bees create nest-quakes to warn of danger | |
| New Zealand law permits 'low risk' designer drugs | |
| Kew lays on a feast of fruit and veg for eyes and mind | |
| US court ruling on breast cancer genes a mixed blessing | |
| Prehistoric armoured fish had the world's first abs | |
| Medieval bones yield 1000-year-old leprosy genome | |
| Up to half of all birds threatened by climate change | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Heartbeat used to generate out-of-body experience | |
| Third of all UK honeybee hives wiped out in wet winter | |
| First glimpse of a single molecule dumping heat | |
| Heed the evidence: Cops need more than common sense | |
| Astrophile: The runt of the galactic litter | |
| Update your software without stress or disruption | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Obama declares war on the patent trolls | |
| Snow sensing helps predict water shortages | |
| How to stop the NSA spying on your data | |
| Mind-reading monkey brains look similar to ours | |
| Flamingo-like pterosaur used gravel for digestion | |
| New type of stem cell helps your fingers regenerate | |
| Cheetahs win races on acceleration but not speed | |
| Mongolia shows the birthing pains of a green economy | |
| Artworks highlight legal debate over 'abandoned' DNA | |
| Extreme therapy: Inside a hospital for dangerous minds | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Big Brother needs a data privacy policy | |
| Feedback: Hamsters tackle energy crisis | |
| The hunt for the world's most wanted vaccines | |
| Vaccine research gets a shot in the arm | |
| How should we write about the body? | |
| Exhibition blurs boundary between you and your objects | |
| Heed the evidence: Cops need more than common sense | |
| The fake outdoors: Nature that isn't real still heals | |
| Everest's final frontier: Life without oxygen | |
| Space vs time: One has to go â but which? | |
| Enigma Number 1753 | |
| Missing rock fuelled Cambrian explosion of life | |
| Mushrooms are the new styrofoam | |
| We should praise Hawking's boycott of Israeli meeting | |
| Beautiful freak in Ecuador's life raft of the frogs | |
| Careless farming could cost us benefits of GM crops | |
| Ãtzi the iceman's cells show battle brain damage | |
| Super-pests are fighting back against killer crops | |
| US emissions hit first low since mid-1990s | |
| Are the gods playing marbles on Mars? | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Web of autism genes pinpoints key players | |
| Cod comeback as North Sea stocks start to recover | |
| Check it's not MERS, WHO tells world's health workers | |
| Ultra elevator takes you higher with carbon-fibre tape | |
| Augmented reality brings dinosaurs and planets to life | |
| China inches closer to building its own space station | |
| Artworks highlight legal debate over 'abandoned' DNA | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Old Mars rover digs up evidence for drinkable water | |
| UK medical research must not be a victim of austerity | |
| 'Nuclear pasta' may stabilise pulsars' spins | |
| China's Alzheimer's time bomb revealed | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Spy program shows just how well US knows its people | |
| Tendrils of death reach into a star nursery | |
| Astrophile: The supernova that blew up a galaxy | |
| Do glowing house plants take gene tinkering too far? | |
| Atheists turn to science during times of stress | |
| Sublime images to inspire an off-Earth generation | |
| Nuclear bomb tests reveal brain regeneration in humans | |
| Obese black holes outshone stars in earliest galaxies | |
| Elderly suns rip their closest planets to shreds | |
| Death-defying comet wags its tail during solar embrace | |
| Dust devils around stars may help planets grow | |
| UV rays in your fridge could keep strawberries perfect | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Zoologger: The lyrebird that's a song-and-dance man | |
| Heavy Einstein spaceship will leave a glamorous legacy | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Is this the ancestor of all primates? | |
| Graffiti codes let you surf with a wave of your phone | |
| Google Maps change to suit what you like best | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Remembering objects lets computers learn like a child | |
| Photo of your face is all it takes to predict your BMI | |
| Old smartphones called in to save Indonesian forests | |
| Earliest galaxies were powered by 'obese' black holes | |
| Time cloak hides events by splicing them movie style | |
| Carbon emissions helping to make Earth greener | |
| Egypt's city of bean counters suffered flash floods | |
| Hungry algae may explain how plants became green | |
| Our earliest primate cousin discovered in Asia | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Is Earth's orbit scarily close to Venus's sultry zone? | |
| Time we all learned how to program the world we want | |
| Women in science: How can we plug the leaking pipeline? | |
| Get your move on | |
| Feedback: Weight in dollars squared | |
| What gives the human mind its edge? | |
| How the cold war spawned the environmental movement | |
| Dawn of the water eaters: How Earth got its oxygen | |
| Goodbye, Goldilocks? The untimely end of life on Earth | |
| Binary babel: Fixing computing's coding bugs | |
| Mind readers: How we get inside other people's heads | |
| Enigma Number 1752 | |
| A biological basis for free will | |
| 'We will be amazed by the diversity of exoplanets' | |
| Fear of unemployment is rational, despite low figures | |
| Sunflower mirrors power California's desert farm | |
| Research agenda set for curbing US gun violence | |
| Finding the players in the symphony of IQ genes | |
| Steered by thoughts, drone flies through hoops | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Portrait of shy seal in underwater forest wins contest | |
| Central Europe floods portend a wet future | |
| Fukushima radiation caused little damage to health | |
| Antibody wakes up T-cells to make cancer vanish | |
| Marijuana legalisation creates new hurdle for drivers | |
| Game of proofs boosts prime pair result by millions | |
| Battle Los Angeles: the fight to stop urban fracking | |
| Mon dieu! French wine is from Italy | |
| Mind-controlled exoskeleton lets paralysed people walk | |
| Turtle conservationist murdered in Costa Rica | |
| Monsanto modified wheat mystery deepens in Oregon | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Nasal spray could buy time in flu pandemic | |
| How to test Weinstein's provocative theory of everything | |
| Apple patents point to slimmer battery tech | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Raised from the depths, the face of the Mary Rose | |
| Zoologger: The sea cow with super-sensing hairs | |
| Skylab: The trailblazing outpost in space | |
| Beavers are born to bite wood, not people | |
| Fast-approaching asteroid has its own small moon | |
| 'Dawn bird' sees | |
| Silent forests are bad news for the trees | |
| Return trips to Mars pose unacceptable radiation risk | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Mindscapes: The man who needs to paralyse himself | |
| Sharing | |
| Asteroid miners unveil first crowdfunded space scope | |
| Starfish sacrifice arms to beat the heat | |
| Avatar helps schizophrenics stand up to voices in head | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Phew! Earth won't end up as a Venus-like hell | |
| Personal clouds let you take control of your own data | |
| One Per Cent | |
| Robot arm wrapped in sensitive skin has gentle touch | |
| Tingly projections make beamed gadgets come alive | |
| Smart map tracks people through camera networks | |
| Ancient Egyptian jewellery carved from a meteorite | |
| What China's Arctic ambitions mean for the environment | |
| Smile, hydrogen atom, you're on quantum camera | |
| 1 in 13 people have bendy chimp-like feet | |
| Quantum thermometer could measure coldest thing ever | |
| Evolving H7N9 bird flu could close poultry markets | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Call for protest against IVF cell division patent | |
| Developing a cartography of fear | |
| Can China really turn its emissions around by 2025? | |
| Disability and technology: No more neural divide | |
| Staying a move ahead of cancer | |
| Feedback: Tumble dryer in the groove | |
| Acid trips down memory lane | |
| The trouble with neuroscience | |
| Mid-town miners: The hunt for urban treasure | |
| Scared to death: How intimidation changes ecosystems | |
| The voices within: The power of talking to yourself | |
| Nuclear energy: The plutonium problem | |
| Nuclear energy: Frontiers | |
| Nuclear energy: Danger zone | |
| Nuclear energy: Splitting the atom | |
| Enigma Number 1751 | |
| Humans are endurance champs â why do we hate exercise? | |
| Let them eat crickets â it's more sustainable | |
| The West's toxic hypocrisy over lead paint | |
| Panicky ants help design safest exit strategy | |
| Latest Kinect sensors allow games to feed off your fear | |
| Quantum gravity takes singularity out of black holes | |
| The top new tech that took Hillary's team up Everest | |
| Missing moon dust discovered in storage after 43 years | |
| Nearest exoplanet to Earth may be a ghost world | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| China moots reaching emissions peak by 2025 | |
| Drowsiness detector wakes drivers if they start to doze | |
| Stroke patients improve in first stem cell trial | |
| Mice lacking serotonin swap sexual preferences | |
| Cheap infrared camera lets you be an environmental spy | |
| Melting ice forces Russian evacuation from Arctic base | |
| Xenon-ion engine makes space travel a rhapsody in blue | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Google 'Trekker' cameras capture the Galapagos | |
| Act now to avert a global water crisis | |
| Rise of the autistic workforce | |
| Weinstein's theory of everything is probably nothing | |
| Astrophile: Hobbyist stakeout solves dwarf star enigma | |
| Saudis say Dutch patent on MERS virus hampers research | |
| Zoologger: The tiny insect with the massive sperm | |
| Roaches have evolved to evade toxic traps | |
| Quantum dot displays make your TV brighter than ever | |
| Cloned stem-cell study under fire for sloppy errors | |
| Hydropower megaproject to dam River Congo | |
| Evolving H7N9 bird flu could close poultry markets | |
| Itch protein may hold key to cure for skin conditions | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Thriving fungi at home on a human hair | |
| Mindscapes: First interview with a dead man | |
| Atomic weights revision changes periodic table | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Long may science continue to inspire poetry | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Drake equation for alien life gets an upgrade | |
| A second chance to save the climate | |
| String theory may limit space brain threat | |
| Early weaning suggests Neanderthals matured faster | |
| Earth's tides are shoving the moon away faster | |
| Google Glass apps show off what headset can really do | |
| Swarm of drones to give early warning of flash floods | |
| Play your way to work with interactive games | |
| Pioneering wave power farm renews green energy hope | |
| Like it or not, this is the age of ubiquitous computing | |
| Feedback: Chill out with a drop of oxygen | |
| How nature writing can make us care | |
| To green the deserts, just add... seawater? | |
| Hands up! Do you speak digital body language? | |
| South Pole scopes: Witnessing the universe's birth | |
| Old schooled: You never stop learning like a child | |
| Enigma Number 1750 | |
| It's time to start mining the moon | |
| We've reached a troubling carbon dioxide milestone | |
| Sea level rise: Drowning in numbers | |
| Blue-eyed tiger cub is conservation's cry for help | |
| Bees start to buck trend of decline in UK wildlife | |
| Carefree leopard makes screen debut | |
| As MERS spreads, frustration at lack of info grows | |
| Climate change will push up New York's heatwave deaths | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Timing made Oklahoma tornado toll worse | |
| 3D printer shows surgeons secrets of strange hearts | |
| B vitamins may slow the advance of Alzheimer's | |
| Why penguins dumped flight for flippers | |
| 'Self-aiming' rifle turns novices into expert snipers | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| The festival year starts here | |
| Stem-cell treatment restores sight to blind man | |
| Mental disorders affect 1 in 5 US children each year | |
| A second chance to save the climate | |
| Suicidal behaviour is a disease, psychiatrists argue | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Threatwatch: Could a MERS vaccine make people sicker? | |
| Hunting pack of bacteria paints a tangled skein | |
| Dinosaur dads may not have looked after the kids | |
| Astrophile: Saturn's egg moon Methone is made of fluff | |
| A briny business: How to green the desert | |
| Time-lapse spots faulty embryos before IVF | |
| Ghostly pictures made in 3D â minus the camera | |
| Zap the brain with electricity to speed up mental maths | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Lifelogger reveals the day's emotional highs and lows | |
| Google and NASA team up to use quantum computer | |
| China gains observer status on the Arctic Council | |
| New memories filmed in action for first time | |
| Ice tsunamis overwhelm lakeside homes | |
| Scans could spare parents the grief of infant autopsies | |
| Kepler telescope's planet-hunting days crunch to a close | |
| Malaria bug may give mosquitoes a super sense of smell | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Neutrinos from outer space open new eye in the sky | |
| World's fish are migrating to escape global warming | |
| The tracking tag you just shake to send out a signal | |
| AI gets involved with the law | |
| Gesture that smartphones can appreciate | |
| Parcels find their way to you via the crowd | |
| Early hominins couldn't have heard modern speech | |
| Canadian mine may host 2.6-billion-year-old ecosystem | |
| Did tectonic rift push apes and monkeys apart? | |
| New Red List to focus on ecosystems rather than species | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| World's fish are migrating to escape global warming | |
| Antarctic detections open up era of neutrino astronomy | |
| Rebuilding not rewinding is the future of conservation | |
| Feedback: Odds against James Bond's survival | |
| Tracing the roots of human morality in animals | |
| A brilliant trip back to the technological future | |
| A million minutes to rebuild the Large Hadron Collider | |
| Consciousness: What we can learn from altered states | |
| Consciousness: Why we need to build sentient machines | |
| Consciousness: Why aren't we all zombies? | |
| Consciousness: Our silent partner, the unconscious | |
| Consciousness: Why it's good that I know that I know | |
| Consciousness: Watching your mind in action | |
| Enigma Number 1749 | |
| Tracing the roots of food preference to keep us healthy | |
| Why we need to stop military killer robots now | |
| We can let fission fizzle out in a renewable world | |
| Over the rainbow: Patchwork view of Kansas from space | |
| Human stem cells made using Dolly cloning technique | |
| Stem cells: Back to the future | |
| How was Angelina Jolie's breast cancer risk calculated? | |
| Climate change brings disease threat for polar bears | |
| How to build a Mars colony that lasts â forever | |
| Face-reading system watches you watching ads | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Seas will rise no more than 69 centimetres by 2100 | |
| Inside the lab racing to make vaccine for deadly flu | |
| GROVER the NASA rover takes on Greenland ice sheet | |
| Proof that an infinite number of primes are paired | |
| To save the planet, chow down on a caterpillar | |
| Why Mercury is a hard orange, not a soft peach | |
| Early hominins couldn't have heard modern speech | |
| Genes in the brain keep bad time when we are depressed | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Earth's iron core isn't all that tough under pressure | |
| Move to restrict asbestos trade blocked | |
| Passenger plane flies 800 kilometres without a pilot | |
| Hints of lightweight dark matter get even stronger | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Quantum trick offers source for mystery cosmic magnets | |
| Synthetic spider venom makes a kinder, safer antidote | |
| Mindscapes: Stroke turned ex-con into rhyming painter | |
| Vaccines to be juggled in final assault against polio | |
| Plague of locusts blankets Madagascar | |
| Commercial quantum computer leaves PC in the dust | |
| Moon water came from young wet Earth | |
| Feathery cirrus clouds have a cold metallic heart | |
| Unlocking secret lives of bubbles yields perfect foam | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| App helps blind photographers take the perfect snap | |
| Young blood reverses heart decline in old mice | |
| Supersonic cosmic winds blew up giant galactic bubbles | |
| Robot glory as Canada puts space arm on banknote | |
| Psychological path to recovery for Cleveland captives | |
| App turns smartphone sensors into weather stations | |
| Toxic Mars dust could hamper planned human missions | |
| Postdoc payday: Salaries for fellows are on the up | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Threatwatch: Is the Saudi virus a new SARS? | |
| Gliding robot mimics flying fish | |
| Hunt for car bombs using lasers | |
| One Per Cent: Robot, dress thyself | |
| Expired emails provide easy route to Facebook hacking | |
| World's largest events database could predict conflict | |
| Silver nanoparticles provide clean water for $2 a year | |
| First land animals kept their fish faces | |
| New type of supernova born in stellar smash-up | |
| How a scientific DSM will transform psychiatry | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Drug for autism makes people more sociable | |
| Mars rover wakes up, gets better laser aiming | |
| Predictive power won't take away the big decisions | |
| One manual shouldn't dictate US mental health research | |
| Feedback: Light up your brain | |
| How science takes the Bible to bits | |
| What does it mean to be posthuman? | |
| Pain ray: The US military's new agony beam weapon | |
| Out of Asia: Our surprising origins | |
| Lone wolf: The beast that shouldn't have been | |
| Dark energy is still the greatest cosmic mystery | |
| Enigma Number 1748 | |
| When disaster strikes, it's survival of the sociable | |
| Nothing to see: The man who made a Majorana particle | |
| Fanning the flames: House burns in wildfire simulation | |
| US invokes emergency act to keep H7N9 flu at bay | |
| Blue with cold, emperor penguins have a freezing exterior | |
| Zoologger: The moth with the highest-pitched hearing | |
| Iron nanocrystal shape-shifts to get out of a jam | |
| Sticky-footed robot gets high using hot plastic | |
| New satellite sail is propelled by solar protons | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| European and Asian languages have one mother tongue | |
| New York at high risk of alien invasions | |
| Keystone's pipeline cousins come under scrutiny | |
| 3D-printed gun's first shots spark calls for ban | |
| Earth's crust had a billion-year youthful rampage | |
| Bristly tongue helps bats grab nectar | |
| One manual shouldn't dictate US mental health research | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| AI card game knows how to bend the rules | |
| Orcas battle sperm whales in cetacean battle royal | |
| Psychiatry divided as mental health 'bible' denounced | |
| The swarm: stand by for the deafening cicada orgy | |
| Painted turtles set to become all-female | |
| Zoologger: The hibernating lemur that feeds on its tail | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Scarred skull reveals cannibalism at Jamestown colony | |
| Mindscapes: The woman who can't recognise her face | |
| Meditation boosts genes that promote good health | |
| Astrophile: Diamond planets get even more precious | |
| Make HIV testing routine, US health task force says | |
| Need a shot of creative juices? Call the crowd | |
| Ikea-bots build flat-pack furniture | |
| Does online 'slacktivism' reduce charitable giving? | |
| Astronauts to get helping hand from soccer ball robots | |
| Fast digital forensics sniff out accomplices | |
| Lethal DNA tags could keep innocent people out of jail | |
| Star-like cracks can reveal the speed of a bullet | |
| Micro-ratchet spins pearls with perfect symmetry | |
| Superconducting hose transmits magnetic field | |
| Quantum clones let hackers hide in background noise | |
| Black hole binge could test general relativity | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| To make your star quality real, you need a roadmap | |
| Is there more to slacktivism than gesture politics? | |
| Obama says kids need to buck up their ideas | |
| Brain implant gives early warning of epileptic seizure | |
| The risk of a flu pandemic is very real | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Where has H7N9 bird flu come from? | |
| Age-defying: Master key of lifespan found in brain | |
| Feedback: Banana slicer saves marriage | |
| Brutal battles of animal sexes | |
| You don't need good mathematics to be a scientist | |
| A new apocalypse now: Vietnam's conservation tale | |
| Turning Star Trek's medical tricorder into reality | |
| Hidden talent: What's your superpower? | |
| Where melting ice means retreating seas | |
| Enigma Number 1747 | |
| Analogy: The vital talent that fuels our minds | |
| Going high-tech to keep the world's Muslims halal | |
| Why we are sitting ducks for China's bird flu | |
| Falklands penguins return home through a sandstorm | |
| Discover your hidden superpowers | |
| Migrant monkeys munch whatever the locals are having | |
| Helium drought retires Herschel space telescope | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Rubbery robot snake is a slithering mimic | |
| Mild-mannered flies turn cannibal when short of food | |
| Bees need Europe's pesticide ban, whatever the UK says | |
| China leads in climate change's 'critical decade' | |
| Gene therapy to repair failing hearts starts trial | |
| SpaceShipTwo goes supersonic on first powered flight | |
| Humans' indelible stamp on Earth clear 5000 years ago | |
| Supervolcano eruptions may not be so deadly after all | |
| Today on New Scientist | |
| Eye-tracking gadget knows just what you're longing for | |
| Prague gas explosion highlights ageing pipeline danger | |
| Sharp-eyed bug hunter discovers tiny Tinkerbell fly | |
| Gene sequencing helps identify drug-resistant malaria | |
| Connecting the entrepreneurial workforce | |
| Plants help slow warming â but there's a trade-off | |
| Threatwatch: Did Syria use chemical weapons or not? | |
| Today on New Scientist: 26 April 2013 | |
| Inspiring vision of Boeing's futuristic supersonic jet | |
| How to stop Excel errors driving austerity economics | |
| Earliest Mayan monuments unearthed in Guatemala | |
| Stem-cell 'symphony' creates patterns in feathers | |
| Today on New Scientist: 25 April 2013 | |
| Mindscapes: The woman who was dropped into her body | |
| Zoologger: The rat with two faces | |
| A portrait of neon hedgehogs in a nanosphere garden | |
| Humans may have reached the Americas 22,000 years ago | |
| Stress has unexpected health benefits â sometimes | |
| Ice-bound hunter sees first hint of cosmic neutrinos | |
| Today on New Scientist: 24 April 2013 | |
| Smart dust computers are no bigger than a snowflake | |
| Kinect plus projector makes anything a remote control | |
| Happiness tracking software could gauge mood in photos | |
| E-tattoo monitors brainwaves and baby bump | |
| Voice-based web access helps illiterate get online | |
| Ocean pump keeps northern hemisphere hot | |
| Quantum effects get a weirdness scale | |
| Rocks re-emerge after 2.5 billion years in mantle | |
| Brazilian twist to tale of the first Americans | |
| Water worlds bring us closer to finding Earth's twin | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Want an internship at | |
| Losing your sense of smell. How bad can it be? | |
| Citizen cops: Don't write them off just yet | |
| Feedback: Read before you ride | |
| Join Germany's green revolution | |
| What outsiders can teach us about creativity | |
| Bringing major corporations to book for their crimes | |
| Heart on fire: Our galaxy's black hole is set to blow | |
| The early turd: Our history is written in poo | |
| Stealth drugs: Panacea pills make targeted kills | |
| Deep life: Strange creatures living far below our feet | |
| Enigma Number 1746 | |
| Living without smell or flavour | |
| Hunting wildlife's illegal traders online | |
| Psychiatry needs its Higgs boson moment | |
| Making art from stripped-down dead animals | |
| Jupiter got a soaking from comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 | |
| Optical tweezers clear blocked blood vessels | |
| Stone Age migration may have shaped today's Europeans | |
| Social media made Boston's bad news bad for health too | |
| Not just athletes â now horses are on steroids | |
| Russian space zoo tests to boost astronaut performance | |
| How low can life go? | |
| Cosmetic treatment no more regulated than floor cleaner | |
| Bacteria churn out first ever petrol-like biofuel | |
| Three plus green equals four for synaesthetes | |
| More antibiotics may not always be better | |
| Chemical weapons inspectors ready to enter Syria | |
| 'Carbon bubble' threatens climate negotiations | |
| Nowhere to hide: The next manhunt will be crowdsourced | |
| Today on New Scientist: 23 April 2013 | |
| 'Big Brother' applicants wanted for one-way Mars trip | |
| Sichuan quake highlights threat to China's dams | |
| Beautiful bug biscuits to tempt the squeamish | |
| 3D printer makes tiniest human liver ever | |
| Nano-sized protractor measures molecule movement | |
| Radioactive bacteria nuke pancreatic cancer in mice | |
| Investigators seek trigger for Texas blast | |
| Today on New Scientist: 22 April 2013 | |
| Antares rocket launch heats up private space race | |
| Can big quakes trigger others far away? | |
| Today on New Scientist: 19 April 2013 | |
| Zoologger: Picture-winged fly quenches thirst on sperm | |
| Dress like a bear to catch a bear | |
| Astrophile: Void galaxy trio aligns with dark filament | |
| AI could help investigation of Boston Marathon bombing | |
| Antarctic freeze paved the way for baleen whales | |
| Emerging consciousness glimpsed in babies | |
| First neighbouring planets that are both life-friendly | |
| Texas disaster: What links fertilisers and explosions? | |
| International Space Station to get 787-style batteries | |
| Underground bug eyes ready to hunt missing matter | |
| Google Glass's word on the street now easier to read | |
| Robot builders deliver architects' dreams | |
| Climate's role in US droughts is under scrutiny | |
| Historic human remains yield epigenetic tags | |
| Miracle mix looks like liquid but shatters like glass | |
| Lab-grown kidney blazes trail for bespoke donor organs | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Synthetic malaria drug could stem resistance | |
| Will digital architecture build follies or glories? | |
| What happens when hearts become spare parts? | |
| US pharma industry is fighting fit | |
| Feedback: Monarchy set for interplanetary travel? | |
| Our love affair with strange prehistoric bones | |
| Oases of cool: Taking the heat out of urban living | |
| Survival of the shyest: Timidity's surprising benefits | |
| Nana from heaven? How our favourite fruit came to be | |
| Space oddity: Putting quantum weirdness into orbit | |
| Enigma Number 1745 | |
| It's time physics recognised that time is real | |
| We can save Iraq's 'Garden of Eden' | |
| Why teenagers really do need an extra hour in bed | |
| Ozone kills by hampering gas exchange in lungs | |
| Extinction debt suggests endangered species are doomed | |
| Heading south for the new origin of our species | |
| Hints of oldest human skin found on ape-like ancestor | |
| Magnetic death leaves Earth-like exoplanets dried out | |
| Faint flashes reveal moment a black hole is born | |
| Crowd diagnosis could spot rare diseases doctors miss | |
| Briefing: Do earthquakes threaten Iran's nuclear facilities? | |
| Antarctic ice melting faster than in past 1000 years | |
| Tentative dark matter hits fit with shadow dark sector | |
| Measles stalks Europe after drop in vaccination | |
| Analysis of Boston bombs could yield vital clues | |
| Closest exoplanet sparks international naming fight | |
| Breaking down barriers and entering industries | |
| Mouse hepatitis virus may help end chimp research | |
| Kidney breakthrough: complete lab-grown organ works in rats | |
| New Japanese method for killing dolphins is inhumane | |
| Astrophile: A handy guide to planetary parking spots | |
| Drone-wrecking laser gun to sail on US warship | |
| Secret chamber under Old Faithful drives eruptions | |
| Our closest ape-like ancestor went back to the trees | |
| Memory drug trialled in people with Down's syndrome | |
| Non-amputees given an invisible phantom limb | |
| Twist in dark matter tale hints at shadow Milky Way | |
| New US education standards put climate in spotlight | |
| Saturn's rings leave ghostly imprint on atmosphere | |
| Use the internet to defuse gang culture | |
| We must wake up to the threats of new chemical weapons | |
| Wikipedia can help give news junkies their fix | |
| Map of the internet could make it stronger | |
| Linked smartphones catch the action from all angles | |
| Online juries help curb bad gamer behaviour | |
| Baby dinos pumped their muscles inside the egg | |
| Transparent brains make neuroscience clearer | |
| Stone tools helped shape human hands | |
| Going underground in search of dark matter strikes | |
| Cost of cuts: Austerity's toxic genetic legacy | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Margaret Thatcher's legacy in British science | |
| The hidden costs of austerity | |
| Feedback: Conspiranoid swapshop | |
| Time to get tough on the physiological causes of crime | |
| How flower power paved the way for our evolution | |
| Free for all? Lifting the lid on a Wikipedia crisis | |
| Mystery cancer: Inside the villages of the damned | |
| Smart heat nets fire the next energy revolution | |
| Enigma Number 1744 | |
| Satellites could be targeted to stop cyberattacks | |
| Orange-lipped teenager relaxes after clay lick | |
| Virtual traveller: Beam a live, 3D you into the world | |
| China bird flu may be two mutations from a pandemic | |
| Brain imaging spots our abstract choices before we do | |
| Republican voters want action on climate change | |
| US women can get morning-after pill over the counter | |
| Female great whites reveal long-range mating secrets | |
| Bet you're a Liam â software puts names to faces | |
| Obama will reveal $100-million plan to seize asteroid | |
| What can North Korean missiles hit? Can we stop them? | |
| NASA's next exoplanet hunter to launch in 2017 | |
| Sea urchins evolving to cope with ocean acidification | |
| Woman WLTM tall, broad man. Big penis preferred | |
| Nervy flyers be warned: warming will boost turbulence | |
| Red meat boosts gut bugs that raise heart disease risk | |
| Making energy efficiency big business | |
| Industries in figures: IT services and software | |
| London's Tube and big data: Underground movement | |
| Innovation and electioneering: The Obama start-ups | |
| Information technology in Africa: The next frontier | |
| Financial data: Artificial dissemination | |
| Data centres: Not a cloud in sight | |
| Cyber-security: War on terabytes | |
| Cyber-security: Difference Engine â swamped with data | |
| Consumer banking: Counter revolution | |
| Big data: Crunching the numbers | |
| Little ripples make syrup stringy | |
| Dino stars of | |
| Banks and big data: Shopping at the bank | |
| New flu strain's genes probed as China culls poultry | |
| Corals can survive warmer seas if humans don't meddle | |
| Astrophile: Nude crashing stars spark radiation bursts | |
| What we exhale is unique to us â our 'breathprint' | |
| North Korea nuclear threats: how worried should we be? | |
| Dark matter MRI could boost hunt for hidden particle | |
| Interspecies telepathy: human thoughts make rat move | |
| OMG â it's the textual revolution for language | |
| Software uses LinkedIn network to guide your career | |
| US starts building first nuclear reactors in 30 years | |
| Smartphone kit keeps donated breast milk fit to drink | |
| Leap Motion hacks show what 3D gesture sensing can do | |
| Heaviest flying bird makes epic journeys to keep warm | |
| Internal compass points cells towards injury | |
| Artificial ovary mimics real hormone levels | |
| DNA transistors pave way for living computers | |
| Peaceful matter-antimatter pairing looks more real | |
| Powder women's eggs for home storage | |
| Meteorites could have been source of life's batteries | |
| Hacked medical scanner becomes a nuclear forge | |
| Climate modellers vindicated as forecast comes true | |
| US will try anything to fight obesity and boost health | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Stars of | |
| Speedy astronauts make fastest trip yet to the ISS | |
| Txtspk is a stimulating force in language evolution | |
| It's time we sorted out climate 'blips' | |
| It's too early to herald a US nuclear renaissance | |
| Feedback: Suitable for extremely hot air? | |
| Our enduring love affair with 'flying jewels' | |
| Get off my back! How to reduce your stress levels | |
| The brain: Looking over the neuroscience horizon | |
| The brain: From tiny neurons to expansive minds | |
| The brain: More than one way to map a mind | |
| The brain: Milestones of neuroscience | |
| Alien megaprojects: The hunt has begun | |
| Black hole firewall: Trouble on the edge | |
| Lost in translation: Body language myths and reality | |
| Enigma Number 1743 | |
| OMG â it's the textual revolution for language | |
| I'm recording everything for the first living archive | |
| Trade years of life to make the whole world healthier | |
| Old salt lizard at home in Darwin's primal landscape | |
| Virtual reality creates infinite maze in a single room | |
| PhDs and MDs team up to tackle cancer | |
| Spaceborne dark matter hunter sees telltale antimatter | |
| Australia has no choice but to change with the climate | |
| What your dance style says about you | |
| Blow for 'dark flow' in Planck's new view of the cosmos | |
| Antarctic ice grows as climate warms | |
| DNA transistors pave way for living computers | |
| Vast cache of rare earth elements found in Japan's mud | |
| Pollution in US rivers is widespread and will persist | |
| Google doodle exalts artist and scientist Maria Merian | |
| Huge online attack exposes internet's vulnerability | |
| Italy pushes on with controversial stem cell therapy | |
| Astrophile: Mighty Trojan found marching with Uranus | |
| Termites are the 'fairies' behind weird desert rings | |
| Storm erupts over publishing of HeLa genome | |
| It is time to train atoms to do what we want | |
| Vaccine promises to cull foot and mouth slaughter | |
| Bumper haul of cancer genes promises better prevention | |
| Gut bacteria swap is key to knifeless gastric bypass | |
| Ships must kill off the beasties in the ballast water | |
| Smell-o-vision screens let you really smell the coffee | |
| Robo-surgeon da Vinci faces lawsuits | |
| Digital shrinks find depressed faces and body language | |
| Crowd-sensing apps tap every stranger's eyes and ears | |
| Europe to be battered by Sandy-style superstorms | |
| Outcast black holes surround the Milky Way | |
| How a surgeon installs seizure sensors inside a skull | |
| Quality control opens path to synthetic biology's Ikea | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Shapely algebra and string theory makes millionaires | |
| Apollo moon mission engines rise from the ocean floor | |
| Planck cosmos and LHC's Higgs: Hurray for big science | |
| Time to get smarter about stupidity | |
| Feedback: Which part of 'partial zero' don't we get? | |
| Has technology forced us into a 'present shock'? | |
| Real life with robots in 20 and 200 years | |
| Time for economics to shed its fanciful past | |
| Migration mystery: Who were the first Americans? | |
| Atmospheric rivers: When the sky falls | |
| Lost in the cloud: How safe are your online possessions? | |
| Stupidity: What makes people do dumb things | |
| Cherry-blossom volcano spews forth lava and lightning | |
| Enigma Number 1742 | |
| Nobel physicist: Give people a one-way ticket to Mars | |
| Can millionaire physicists draw the masses to science? | |
| Gravity-less toy black hole solves cosmic puzzles | |
| Anti-doping agency warns athletes of black market drug | |
| Fake caviar threatens existence of dino fish | |
| US to regulate Bitcoin currency at its all-time high | |
| Bigger isn't always better for becoming multicellular | |
| Gene therapy cures leukaemia in eight days | |
| Master gene helps weeds defy all weedkillers | |
| Books expose the rise of the emotionless zombies | |
| Planck map reveals birth, life and death of a cosmos | |
| New malaria drug packs a triple punch | |
| Information superhighway approaches light speed | |
| Astrophile: Snapshot of a two-faced Tatooine world | |
| Bees to have their day in court over insecticide use | |
| US soldiers sue over Fukushima radiation exposure | |
| Who wants to live alongside sabre-toothed tigers? | |
| Zoologger: The changing face of the lion | |
| Brain circuits uniquely disrupted in Gulf War syndrome | |
| String theorist wins $3 million physics prize | |
| Planck shows almost perfect cosmos â plus axis of evil | |
| Women abused as children likelier to bear autistic child | |
| Flow batteries could back up grid of the future | |
| Pump iron the smart way with a motion-capture coach | |
| How vast advertising displays will grab your attention | |
| Making your own phone is easier than you might think | |
| World's thinnest endoscope is width of a human hair | |
| Gravity-less toy black hole solves cosmic puzzles | |
| 60 Seconds | |
| Web pioneers share £1m for winning engineering 'Nobel' | |
| 14th-century plague bodies unearthed at London station | |
| US patent change angers inventors | |
| Electronic violin turns laser signals into music | |
| Feedback: Biology book only costs $23 million | |
| A week in the life of a storm chaser | |
| Extreme weather science: Meet the storm chasers | |
| Can there be an algorithm for every human desire? | |
| The promise and perils of a datafied world | |
| Norovirus: The perfect human pathogen | |
| Tender turtles: Their mums do care after all | |
| Volcanoes mark the spot for Africa's buried energy treasure | |
| End of darkness: The stuff that really rules the cosmos | |
| Enigma Number 1741 | |
| Should we aim to live like cavemen? | |
| Does computer code need a new, universal language? | |
| Banks gone bad: Our evolved morality has failed us | |
| Glider of the sea threatened by 'traditional' medicine | |
| Curiosity's discoveries hint at life's cradle on Mars | |
| US gets tough on Arctic oil drilling | |
| Shapely algebra breakthrough wins million-dollar prize | |
| Make three-parent babies, UK government told | |
| Don't fear babies made with genes from three parents | |
| World's giant squid are one big happy family | |
| Sugary drinks may kill 184,000 people each year | |
| Plasma-surfing could forge Higgs bosons on the cheap | |
| Deep-sea mining struggles to manage ecological impact | |
| Fracking could cut carbon emissions⦠in the short term | |
| Battlefield action increases risk of later violence | |
| Farming has deep roots in Chinese ice age | |
| Quantum computer could solve prime number mystery | |
| Birds evolve shorter wings to survive on roads | |
| Gold seams form in an earthquake-powered flash | |
| Deepest point in the ocean is teeming with life | |
| Plutonium tests offer hope for dark space missions | |
| Zoologger: The fish with a chemical invisibility cloak | |
| Astrophile: Dizzy dwarf star will spin itself to death | |
| Donor livers kept alive outside the body for 24 hours |
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