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New Scientist Headlines (Mar 13 - Sept 19)
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 Myanmar’s 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
Don’t 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 vicar’s 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
SpaceX’s 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 Jupiter’s 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
Facebook’s 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 don’t 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
China’s 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 – 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 – 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 ‘measles-free’ status
Having kids makes you happier, but only when they move out
Genetic studies hint alcohol isn’t 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
Europe’s 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 brain’s 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 – 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
Netflix’s bizarre riff on Mary Shelley’s 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
World’s 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 – 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 ‘cannonballs’ 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
World’s 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 don’t 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
London’s 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 week’s 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
SpaceX’s 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 health’s tricky waters
Don’t Miss: future food, altered mental states and healing minds
Science Museum’s 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 – 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 – here’s 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
Life’s 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 others’ tails
Quick crossword #36
Why I’m 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
Don’t Miss: Electric rivals, immortality and a time travelling bard
Summer of science: 10 great books and podcasts for the holidays
All hail London’s 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 Alzheimer’s 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 they’re 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 universe’s 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 aren’t 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
India’s 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 – 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 ’Em 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 moon’s 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
World’s top personality test doesn’t really work – 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 – 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 - China’s 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 students’ 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'
UK’s 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 Earth’s 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 – 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 don’t know why
Was Mexico’s 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 ‘infested' 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 – and perhaps life – 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 can’t 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
We’re 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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
Europa’s salty surface may indicate an ocean that’s 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 Trek’s warp drives touch on one of physics' biggest mysteries
End the scandalous male data bias that determines women's health
Working Hypothesis: From Finland’s climate action to a rival Chernobyl
Carbon farming scientist David Reay on repaying his emissions debt
Puzzle #07: Amveriric’s 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 Alzheimer’s 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 Women’s 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 – 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
Don’t 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 Johnson’s climate change record
What Years and Years gets right about the future
Science could learn a lot from Mona Chalabi’s 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 – and now we can control them
Uncrewed deep-sea robots will help map the world’s 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 you’re 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, nature’s master engineers, may run wild in Wales again
From the archives: Floating charge curtains to heal the ozone layer
Forget rampant killer robots: AI’s 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 Murphy’s 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?
SpaceX’s 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 sun’s 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 – 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 don’t 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
Netflix’s 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 system’s giant made Earth ripe for life
Don’t miss: Godzilla’s 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 Life’s 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 aren’t 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
Alabama’s 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 immunotherapy’s 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 Einstein’s 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
Titan’s 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
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Weird chromosome may have spurred evolution of thousands of songbirds
A bad sense of smell predicts early death but we don’t 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 Earth’s entire surface
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Our nearest neighbour Proxima Centauri may host a second exoplanet
Saturn’s 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
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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
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Stunningly realistic video game visuals made by simulating light rays
Telling us to stop washing our hands is dangerous and unacceptable
Japan’s 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
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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
It’s 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
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It's not an illusion, you have free will. It's just not what you think
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Two-million-year-old toothache may have killed an early human
Albino lizards are the world’s first genetically modified reptiles
Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024
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Windows made of transparent wood could help keep buildings warm
The weird and wonderful inner moons of Saturn revealed by Cassini
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Landslides have increased by 6000 per cent on an Arctic island
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UK plan to stop under-18s seeing pornography online is delayed again
Pre-eclampsia blood test could help diagnose the condition earlier
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We may have bred with Denisovans much more recently than we thought
Incredible fossil find may be first victims of dino-killer asteroid
Tesla’s 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
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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
There’s 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 moon’s 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
NASA’s InSight lander is using magnetism to search for water on Mars
Exclusive: Thousands of security flaws found on UK government websites
It’s not just reality TV - all media must help to prevent suicides
We’ve 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 – that’s 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
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Spiky space antenna will probe the frigid exteriors of Jupiter's moons
We have to find a way to stop drones disrupting airports
Feedback: It’s been a long haul, but ‘tasty’ 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
Schrödinger’s 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 — here’s how to avoid being duped
Revealed: First image of huge meteor explosion over Earth last year
Thousands of unknown underwater mountains found in Earth’s 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
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The quantum world is infamously weird – 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 world’s 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 Hawking’s 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: ‘The UK is turning in on itself’
Arsenic-munching caterpillars may ingest poison to prevent being eaten
Hawkward! ‘Expert’ 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
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How celebrities have fuelled the amazing rise in pseudoscience
Meet the super-smeller who can diagnose Parkinson's at a sniff
What London’s police can learn from Glasgow’s 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 ‘cured’
Hacking just 1 in 10 cars could gridlock all of the roads in Manhattan
Bill Gates’s pancake problem – and three more pancakes in science
A gel made from urea has molecules that resemble friendship bracelets
Wikipedia’s 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 don’t 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 – now we have to decide who is in charge
Mice given ‘night vision’ 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
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I'm travelling the world to collect poo for the good of humankind
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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
Parkinson’s drug pumped directly into brain fails to pass key tests
Police drones with lasers could help find a murder victim in Australia
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Dark matter secrets could lie buried in ancient rocks on Earth
Elements quiz: How well do you know the periodic table?
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Millions of fish have been dying in Australia’s 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 celebrity’s 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 ‘alternative facts’
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
Japan’s 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 Samsung’s folding smartphone might prove more than just a fad
World’s biggest bee rediscovered after decades on ‘most wanted’ 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
Neptune’s 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
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Footballers really are working harder and getting injured more often
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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 OpenAI’s 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
Russia’s plan to unplug from the internet shows cyberwar is escalating
Interstellar ‘Oumuamua 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 ‘night vision’ 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
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Physicist Jim Al-Khalili: Why my debut sci-fi novel is true to science
An AI has created music based on Bach – but will an audience notice?
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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
Parkinson’s 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 Australia’s major rivers
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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 celebrity’s 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 ‘alternative facts’
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
Japan’s 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 Samsung’s folding smartphone might prove more than just a fad
World’s biggest bee rediscovered after decades on ‘most wanted’ list
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First private mission to the moon is launched on SpaceX rocket
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Squid teeth could help make bioplastics and self-repairing clothes
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Neptune’s 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
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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
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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
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Smart and fluffy storytelling robot to be trialled in US classrooms
Bees prefer to turn right and it helps them decide where to live
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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 OpenAI’s super-trolling artificial intelligence are overblown
A dialect quiz shows we still cling to our regional identities
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Meet the man who made CRISPR monkey clones to study depression
Russia’s plan to unplug from the internet shows cyberwar is escalating
Interstellar ‘Oumuamua 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 parents’ 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 nature’s 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
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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 babies’ gut microbiome
Unhappy Valentine’s: 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
Cassowaries’ 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
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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 world’s toughest unsolved maths problems
Voting systems that let losing side win may increase overall happiness
WhatsApp’s message limit isn’t enough to halt the spread of fake news
There’s 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 – celebrating the colour of Colombia
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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
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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 ‘haunted house’ 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 other’s 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 – but we don’t 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
We’ve 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: Here’s 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?
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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
Life’s 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?
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Some snails wear jackets made of algae to protect them from the sun
The moon’s violent birth may have given Earth the ingredients of life
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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?
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Cryptic crossword #2
To feed 11 billion people, we must share crop seeds as a common good
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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 galaxy’s supermassive black hole may be spewing matter right at us
We’ve 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 slaves’ story
Silencing brain cells in mice can make them no longer care about pain
Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth
Saturn’s 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 €20 billion supersized collider are a bad idea
Rational thinking is saving antibiotics – it could work on Brexit too
Songwriter AI emulates the Beatles with a little help from its friends
Mathematician’s 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
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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 ‘add-on’ 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 China’s thick smogs and may be making it even worse
Ovarian cancer AI can tell how aggressive a woman’s tumour is
What are the risks of dying from having the yellow fever vaccine?
Why hip surgery wouldn’t help extend Andy Murray’s 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 – 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 – lessons from Morocco
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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 they’re 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 someone’s 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
Japan’s 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
Don’t panic about children’s 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
China’s Chang’e 4 makes historic first landing on the moon's far side
Ice from the Alps reveals Europeans ditched gold for silver in AD 660
Ultima Thule is a snowman-shaped rock covered in weird ice
Green light implant relieves urinary incontinence in rats
Surrogacy should be a relationship, not a transaction
A New Year vow for our leaders? Start taking climate change seriously
AI could make it impossible for artists and novelists to make a living
Resolutions are rarely easy so take our advice on goals worth pursuing
Our failure to kick the flying habit means aviation needs to go green
Feedback: A nifty trick to put a spring in your step
From the archives: When Soviet tanks crushed Czech science
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Exhibition previews: Visions of a better tomorrow brighten 2019
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World's most powerful telescope takes us to the edge of a black hole
Our addiction to flying is ruining the climate, but it doesn't have to
The ultimate kitchen: the Danish food lab designing our future meals
Crashing tidal waves may lurk beneath the surface of icy moons
Black-haired monkeys in Costa Rica are suddenly turning blonde
A scientific guide to the resolutions that are really worth the effort
Distant space rock Ultima Thule looks like a spinning bowling pin
Massive space rock smash-up with Uranus recreated in a riot of colour
Leafcutter ants have their own landfill sites that emit greenhouse gas
Intel’s quest to build the world’s 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 people’s blood is being tested as a treatment for Parkinson’s
Ultracold atoms can make strange and beautiful quantum fireworks
A skin test after a traumatic event may identify those at risk of PTSD
The Republican Reversal shows how the US party is like Soviet Russia
Droplets don't have to be round - here's one squished into a square
UK army tests eagle-inspired paragliding drone for delivering supplies
Rich people give more to charity when you make them feel powerful
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 we’ve 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
There’ll be a domino effect as we trigger ecosystem tipping points
Global Grad Show: How should we design for the world’s end?
Starchy food may reduce autoimmune reactions in people with lupus
It’s very bad news that common viruses are affected by climate change
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
Rogue drones have brought Gatwick airport to a standstill
2018’s weirdest stories: Friendly horses, toddler robots and moonmoons
The more pets you meet as a baby, the lower your risk of allergies
Robot hand that plays Jingle Bells could help us make better limbs
DNA from 6000-year-old chewing gum reveals how an ancient woman lived
House plants don’t clean your air that much - but this GM pothos might
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 world’s 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 2018’s science stories
Toys are us: How childhood objects may have shaped human history
Quiz: What were these six bamboozling inventions designed to do?
The mysterious demise of Europe's massive cave bears
Death rays: How the dream of an ultimate weapon became a dark farce
The mummified penguins that hold the secrets of Antarctica's past
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 species’ 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
2019 Preview: Renewable energy race to ramp up as oil use skyrockets
How best to talk to your science-denying relatives this Christmas
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Inside the dark web: why it's odder than you can imagine
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Christmas story:
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Why do wombats poo cubes and turkeys spirals? One woman is finding out
Palaeontologists behaving badly, and other bitter feuds in science
Cheers! Saying thanks is good for you and those around you
Six spectacular ice phenomena to look out for this winter
The animal economists that can wheel and deal as well as any human
The quantum trick that can help you live a better life – probably
Dolphins have best friends but also shun those outside their clique
Computer chip will sniff your armpits and tell you when you have BO
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 we’ve 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
Childhood hormone treatments may have spread Alzheimer’s proteins
Some people have slightly squashed heads thanks to Neanderthal DNA
We've been using CRISPR for years - now we know how it really works
Bizarre fossil that baffled us for years is early starfish ancestor
Australia's 'marsupial lion' was a meat-ripping, tree-climbing terror
First direct evidence that later school day really does help teenagers
Quantum network joins four people together for encrypted messaging
Katowice climate talks are making headlines for the wrong reasons
If you find the array of climate numbers bewildering, you aren't alone
Bitcoin has become an environmental, as well as financial, disaster
Feedback: The President of Nigeria is (almost certainly) not a clone
The disorientated ape: Why clever people can be terrible navigators
Dan Holdsworth captures a vanishing landscape in a point-cloud
Bitcoin's price is plummeting – will the cryptocurrency survive?
From the archives: How LaserDiscs (almost) took the world by storm
review – How global warming is changing researchers
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How clever chemistry is making plastic fantastic again
Jellyfish offer a sticky solution to the problem of plastic pollution
Climate change is happening, but how fast? This is what we really know
Acne study reveals genes for hair follicles are partly to blame
If you think black holes are strange, white holes will blow your mind
Endangered relative of the hedgehog may be thriving in Vietnam
Monkeys chill out just from seeing their friends being groomed
When humans are wiped from Earth, the chicken bones will remain
Coral likes to make its ocean home in places with noisy neighbours
Major companies are using AI to decide who you speak to on the phone
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
City living makes urban male frogs far more attractive to females
Spray-on gel slows down the regrowth of tumours after cancer surgery
The Great Barrier Reef is fighting back by losing weak species
The most comfortable running shoes may actually increase injury risk
Brain scans reveal why your brain forgets details
Interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua slipped by NASA space telescope unseen
China is about to launch a mission to explore the far side of the moon
Why Australia’s new encryption laws may actually help criminals
DeepMind’s Go playing software can now beat you at two more games
Exclusive: Controversial skeleton may be a new species of early human
Sorry France, but fuel taxes are a bitter pill we must all swallow
Geckos sprint across water on air bubbles they make with their legs
Parrots are clever because their brains evolved the same way as ours
Facebook grew so big that it destabilised the world. What now?
Earth may be made up of rocks blasted by gusts of solar wind
Climate change made the sweltering 2018 heatwave 30 times more likely
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 couldn’t 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 don’t 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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Alan Moore interview: Magic and science feed Middle England Watchman
We've added letters to the genetic code – and the results are amazing
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 – 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 – 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 – and it’s more nutritious than cow’s milk
Prehistoric whales used to simply suck their food out of the ocean
‘Scientists are now very sure that the babies really were gene-edited’
Gene therapy eases Parkinson’s 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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New Scientist 60 years ago: Exploding bombs to fix the climate
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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
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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 – and we don’t 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
World’s 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 – 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 Mars’s 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
Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research
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and Polar Worlds review – why Inuit don't worry about north
Amber time capsules: see an ancient insect in ultra-high resolution
Huge 30-kilometre wide meteorite crater found under Greenland glacier
Super-Earth spotted hiding in plain sight around neighbouring star
Feedback: Time to standardise blue whales, red buses and Wales
Cryptic Crossword #1
Smarty plants: They can learn, adapt and remember without brains
An audacious new plan will make all science free. Can it work?
How a ghostly, forgotten particle could be the saviour of physics
Morphing brain DNA hints at a whole new way to treat Alzheimer's
No, statistics don’t show that Brexit made England more depressed
37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body
Searching for Antarctica’s penguins, lost meteorites, and oldest ice
Star smash-up is yet more evidence Einstein got it right about gravity
Car assembly is heavy work – 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
Termites in Brazil have covered an area the size of Britain in mounds
Kilogram to be defined by Planck constant instead of a lump of metal
Microbots made from mushroom spores could clean polluted water
There’s an enormous ghost galaxy hiding at the edge of the Milky Way
A computer game's edible controller lets you play it with your gut
Walking backwards can boost your short-term memory
Catching up on sleep at weekends may aggravate period pain
Web tracker can follow you for months even if you delete your cookies
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 – 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
Google’s 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 – technology-driven inequality is
Smartphones with folding screens set for the mainstream
Mixed results for science in the US midterm elections
Inside the hunt for the universe's missing ingredient – 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?
Nonfacial Portrait review: art fights to save faces and paint over AI
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Anthropocene review – tough film makes case for human-created epoch
Timefulness review – our impulsive and pugnacious age needs geology
How lab-on-a-chip technology is turning smartphones into food sensors
How to 3D-print a living, beating heart
We've got thinking all wrong. This is how your mind really works
The Galapagos of the Indian Ocean: Voyage to a forgotten paradise
There is no fundamental difference between male and female brains
Modern lifestyles shaped our evolution only a few thousand years ago
Einstein was wrong: Why 'normal' physics can't explain reality
Podcast: Meet Tom Schuler
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The future with lower carbon concrete
Mystery “space cow” is a weird new type of powerful space explosion
China may have developed a quantum radar that can spot stealth planes
Stan Lee’s legacy isn’t just superheroes but the humanity he gave them
Growing demand for oil will lead to shortage and high prices in 2020s
An extinct monkey evolved to live like a sloth in the Caribbean
Earliest known animal might have inflated its body like a balloon
Pluto’s weird ridges may be glacial landforms unlike any on Earth
We’ve discovered a whole new defence system against germs in our noses
Robots are learning hand gestures by watching hours of TED talks
Why lichen may be the perfect factories for making rocket fuel on Mars
Dynasties review: Attenborough’s latest special focuses on real drama
They Shall Not Grow Old review: Restored footage brings war to life
Sabre-toothed cats shared their food with injured pride members
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
Brazil’s 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
Crossword #24
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Weather forecasts from alien worlds are in - and it's wild out there
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review – Darwin's Beagle days make a gripping play
Unsavory Truth review – 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
A meat tax may save thousands of lives and millions of dollars
More than 60 prescription drugs are getting into river foodchains
Hormone helps regrow frog legs and may one day lead to a human therapy
Gene therapy injection into spinal cord halts ALS in adult mice
Why Dorothy Hodgkin should be pictured on the UK’s 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 – and it’s more nutritious than cow’s milk
Prehistoric whales used to simply suck their food out of the ocean
‘Scientists are now very sure that the babies really were gene-edited’
Gene therapy eases Parkinson’s 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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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
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Darkfield's Flight: an immersive experience that leaves you half dead
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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 – and we don’t 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
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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
World’s 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 – 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
Parkinson’s 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
Venezuela’s cryptocurrency is about much more than its economic crisis
New Scientist 50 years ago: The first test-tube babies, sort of
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Why Earth's water could be older than Earth itself
The truth behind ASMR and the craze for videos causing 'head orgasms'
What it's like to be sucked into a black hole – without dying
There's little doubt we're to blame for hurricanes getting worse
Frustrated climate activists resort to civil disobedience in London
There’s no evidence that screen time makes surgeons bad at their job
Exclusive: Grave doubts over LIGO's discovery of gravitational waves
An AI lie detector will interrogate travellers at some EU borders
Liquid Crystal Display: a beautifully broken exhibition
We can tell whether pandas are mating successfully by their bleats
Our best planet-hunting telescope has come to the end of its mission
Scotland’s BSE case is a reminder that many more may be out there
People who gave up smoking cannabis had a memory boost within a week
Our neighbouring galaxy is dying as it leaks gas at an alarming rate
Neanderthals may have powered their bigger bodies by breathing deeper
The psychedelic science behind dreamy new Netflix hit, Maniac
A freak 1870s climate event caused drought across three continents
Orangutans are exceptionally good at keeping their infants alive
Earth may have a pair of 'ghost moons' made of dust trapped in orbit
Brazil’s new president will make it harder to limit climate change
Crickets rapidly evolve new mating call to evade their parasites
There is a weird new state of matter that can't be stirred or pushed
Creams remove skin sun spots with minimal pain and may prevent cancer
Huddling for warmth gives animals a more efficient gut microbiome
Search engine for CCTV lets you find people from their description
The Higgs boson may have stopped the early universe from collapsing
Physicists are turning to Lewis Carroll for help with their maths
Sunshine seems to protect babies from eczema - but we don't know why
Crashing waves may have spurred the evolution of backbones
Zapping liquid metal makes it move in a way that can power wheels
Skin tans the most when spending every other day out of the sun
Trump is wrong – millions of Americans breathe badly polluted air
Scientists should use their clout to get a less bad Brexit for all
AI designed these Halloween masks and they are absolutely terrifying
NATO's huge military exercise will test robots and autonomous vehicles
Facebook fined £500,000 for Cambridge Analytica leak by data watchdog
Dinosaur fossil may be a whole new species of the first birds
Huge online Trolley Problem survey reveals people's cultural bias
The BepiColombo spacecraft is on its way to Mercury
Nobel laureates sign letter expressing Brexit concerns
President Trump says the US will pull out of a nuclear treaty
Driving a car in the city should be the new smoking
Trump pulling the US out of a nuclear treaty is anything but smart
Feedback: The diesel scent of London, now available in a bottle
Make Halloween: with this device you can haunt your own home
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Dawns, Mine, Crystal review – art with a crafty message for science
Review: The Tangled Tree and Lamarck's Revenge are genetic misfits
Forget quantum laptops, our quantum computing future is in the cloud
Why alligators, wolves and mountain lions are turning up in odd places
A rare white 'spirit bear' eats a leisurely meal in the rainforest
Banning cars in major cities would rapidly improve millions of lives
Humpback whales stop singing when cargo ships make a lot of noise
AI makes new video games by watching people play Super Mario and Kirby
Inside the European Union's high-tech nerve agent attack simulation
Weird rocks in Australia are a missing piece of the Grand Canyon
Data suggests 60 per cent of babies aren't breastfed after 6 weeks
Memory FAQ: Answers to the common questions that baffle us all
Memory special: How can two people recall an event so differently?
Memory special: What happens to memories over time?
Memory special: Is your memory normal?
Memory special: Is technology making your memory worse?
Memory special: Can you choose what to forget?
Memory special: What happens to your memories while you sleep?
Memory special: Can you trust your memories?
Memory special: Can you supercharge your memory?
Memory special: Do we even know what memory is for?
Why memories are an illusion and forgetting is good for you
Presenting robots as people stops us thinking clearly about AI
Winners of the astronomy photo prize reveal the beauty of the universe
Bird-like lungs may have helped dinosaurs rule the world
WHO calls for ban on ‘virginity tests’, including those used by police
Bone hormone released during exercise may lead to new memory-loss drug
New clues to unravelling link between pregnancy and breast cancer risk
World’s longest sea bridge opens between Hong Kong and mainland China
Tiny supercomputers could be made from the skeleton inside your cells
Hot baths could improve depression as much as physical exercise
Salty Martian groundwater may have enough oxygen to support life
Art: an impressive new festival ushers in the End Times
7 explanations for why mysterious radio bursts are coming from space
AI tries to help you protect your children from cyberbullying
Old honeybees make a drumming sound to get young slackers working
Banning straws isn't enough. We must get serious about climate change
Mantis shrimps punch with the force of a bullet - and now we know how
Your brain is like 100 billion mini-computers all working together
Your genes affect which university you go to but that’s no surprise
The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to blast off to Mercury
Pregnancy changes how hundreds of genes work in a woman's body
World's oldest fossils might turn out to just be ancient rocks
Earliest ever animal fossil is a 660-million-year-old sponge
Apple hits back at Australias plans for an anti-encryption law
Shot of golden monkeys wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Data-driven medicine is welcome but patients must always come first
Why plans to achieve zero suicides might actually be counterproductive
Feedback: Mountain goats with a taste for human urine evacuated
Old Scientist: 1968 was the surprising year of space race gloom
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Red Moon review: History lessons power great new lunar future novel
AI alchemists spit out the recipe for any molecule you want to make
Supercharged geothermal energy could power the planet
Still waters: The world's most extraordinary freshwater environments
Cosmic supercluster is largest object ever seen in the early universe
2019 Breakthrough Prize winners set to receive share in $22 million
Human placenta stem cells help people recover from hip surgery
Fasting power: Can going without food really make you healthier?
Gravitational waves from black hole pairs could act like tractor beams
Special coating gives condoms self-lubricating powers
Male birds can be good singers or good looking, but not both
Wildlife photography prize goes to stunning picture of golden monkeys
Nicotine exposure in male mice may trigger ADHD in their offspring
Let’s embrace the joy of moonmoons and more playful scientific terms
Making games like Red Dead Redemption 2 shouldn’t be such hard work
Sneak peek at Hawking's last book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Brief Answers to the Big Questions review: Seeking the real Hawking
Stephen Hawking, my father: "Harry Potter has magic, we have science"
Half-hearted cannabis legalisation move leaves patients in limbo
Alien life could spread between solar systems on interstellar rocks
The Overstory review – Richard Powers eco epic provokes awe
Bill Gates leads global call to accept realities of a warming planet
Electric chewing gum zaps your tongue to create a virtual flavour hit
National bans on smacking children linked to less teenage violence
Earliest ever animal fossil is a 660-million-year-old sponge
Will there be beer shortages as the world warms? Well, maybe
Rabbit-killing virus may have mutated to kill hares too
Wheat flour to be fortified with folic acid in the UK
Mysterious cosmic radio signal spotted unusually close to Earth
New Call of Duty trials no-helmet immersion - using superblack paint
T. rex may have used its long feet for stealthy surprise attacks
Amateurs used a Chinese satellite to photograph Earth and the moon
We can harness algae with magnets to deliver drugs inside our bodies
The US wants a laser weapon that shouts at people before burning them
Mice eat too much food if their great grandmother did the same
Police can now use millions more people's DNA to find criminals
Contagion: How the world's biggest flu pandemic makes sense as dance
Soyuz crash could kill the ISS and set space flight back decades
The Sun review – a shiny blockbuster for London’s Science Museum
AIs invent weird new limbs to beat virtual obstacle courses
Nikon Small World photo competition reveals nature in minuscule detail
We are a step closer to making babies with same-sex genetic parents
Medicinal cannabis will be available in the UK from next month
Humongous fungus is older than Christianity and weighs 400 tonnes
75-million-year old ocean microbes live forever on almost zero energy
Astronauts make emergency landing after Soyuz rocket malfunctions
Old homes around the world must be retrofitted to meet climate targets
Great Ormond Street launches hospital of the future with AI and robots
Colour-changing spray tells you when food is past its best
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Art: Why Tomás Saraceno is floating on air
Huge fossil-like scars of the Anthropocene mark walls of Russian mine
AI's dirty secret: Energy-guzzling machines may fuel global warming
Ancient 'living fossil' fish has scales that act as adaptable armour
Feedback: We are embracing the study of embracing
Echolocating footwear lets you find your way to the loo at night
War With the Newts review – this is smart sci-fi theatre at its best
The quest to build better cities
Could the world's mightiest computers be too complicated to use?
Inside the prison experiment that claimed to show the roots of evil
Rewilding: Can we really restore ravaged nature to a pristine state?
We need to get better at supporting people who lose a pregnancy
Bees suddenly stopped buzzing in the US during the 2017 solar eclipse
Potentially catastrophic Hurricane Michael is about to hit Florida
Moons can have moons and they are called moonmoons
We’ve missed many chances to curb global warming. This may be our last
Are Virgin Galactic and Richard Branson really going to space soon?
Traces of mystery ancient humans found lurking in our genomes
Rabbits flee when they smell dead relatives in predators' droppings
You can recognise around 5000 faces, from family to celebrities
Falling rocks can explode so hard that only nuclear weapons beat them
Ancient 'living fossil' fish has scales that act as adaptable armour
Home of the gentle giants: How humans live with Galapagos tortoises
Google+ to shut down after 500,000 people's personal details exposed
What is ‘problem internet use’ and is it really a problem?
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have a belt of 15-metre-tall ice spikes
Naysayers rise to the top because we naturally treat them as leaders
Three people had their brains wired together so they could play Tetris
How to make jet fuel from used cooking oil
Podcast: Meet Tom Parsons
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Swallowing a vibrating capsule could help relieve constipation
Front-runner in Brazil’s election wants to pull out of climate treaty
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
Conquer your fear of public speaking by practising in virtual reality
People in Chile are currently evolving the ability to digest goat milk
Find out how outrageously weird octopuses are – take our quiz
Hundreds of tonnes of UK hospital waste piles up including human limbs
Cassini revealed three big surprises before diving into Saturn
Wind farms do affect climate - but they don’t cause global warming
Smartphone with a finger crawls across the table to stroke your wrist
Faecal swaps could help stop heart transplants from being rejected
Tree rings reveal plague hit medieval Europe’s construction industry
David Attenborough’s Life on Earth review – a revamped classic
First known exomoon could be a baffling monster the size of Neptune
From wormholes to consciousness: see part of the great wall of science
Death toll climbs after a massive tsunami hit Indonesia
Going Underground: British Rail’s 1970s plans for a channel tunnel
We challenged MI5's mass surveillance. Then they spied on us
Row with Russia and SpaceX delays could leave NASA unable to reach ISS
Feedback: Motorway haunted by Roman ghosts, says psychic
Spaces and Politics of Motherhood review – Truths about breastfeeding
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The colour blind octopus that mastered the art of disguise
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T. rex evolved into a monster predator by dumbing down its brain
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
Idly tapping your fingers can make you think time has slowed down
Distant dwarf planet called 'The Goblin' could point to Planet X
It has been a good/bad week for women in physics
Facebook's AI is writing short stories and they actually make sense
Cargo ships through the Arctic may cool the region with pollution
Nobody can agree about antidepressants. Here’s what you need to know
Baby giraffes with small and oval markings are most likely to die
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore wins 2018 Royal Society Book Prize
Donna Strickland is the third woman ever to win a physics Nobel Prize
Domesticating tomatoes took millennia - we can now redo it in 3 years
Fluke experiment hints deep brain stimulation really treats depression
It is 2018, so why are we still debating whether women can do physics?
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
Weird signals in Antarctica could be hints of a new realm of physics
This robot crawls over your body and scans your skin with a microscope
Does more than 2 hours of screen time really harm children's brains?
First Man: Ryan Gosling and Damien Chazelle on faking the moon landing
Why haven't we heard from aliens? Because we've barely started looking
Every man in Spain was wiped out 4500 years ago by hostile invaders
Pollution threatens to wipe out half of all orca communities
Laser beams have gravity and can warp the fabric of the universe
Japanese space hoppers capture the sun moving across an asteroid sky
We challenged MI5’s mass surveillance. Then they spied on us
Monkeypox has reached the UK - here's what you need to know
Cats are actually useless at catching rats - they prefer smaller prey
Podcast: Meet Rachel Fort
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The oil change revolution
A swarm of robots weaves giant cocoons using fibreglass thread
Manta rays have a special trick for filtering very tiny bits of food
Neanderthals had dexterous hands that could have held tools like a pen
The 7 non-human mammals where females rule the roost
New Scientist Live: Our report from the world's greatest science show
Loneliness among over 50s likely to increase in the next seven years
Devastation continues more than a week after Hurricane Florence
Paralysis need not mean paralysis for life
Mathematicians must be more prepared to test their truths
Feedback: Ghostly goat penned by police after spooking citizens
The rare-leopard spotter who accidentally caught gunmen in her traps
We thought the Incas couldn't write. These knots change everything
Fat and proud: Why body-positive activists say obesity can be healthy
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The Book of Humans review – a smart update on human exceptionalism
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Art: The Science Gallery opens in London
Hacking nature's coolest inventions to create the perfect metal
Nina Wright joins New Scientist as Chief Executive
Shockwaves from second world war bombs rattled the edge of space
Mind-reading devices can now access your thoughts and dreams using AI
Female flies evolved serrated genitals that get in the way during sex
AI eavesdrops on Borneo’s rainforests to check on biodiversity
UK civil servants use Slack to chat about games, drinking and romance
Evolution-defying DNA makes mosquitoes infertile by changing their sex
Three people with paralysis can walk again with nerve-boosting implant
Riemann hypothesis likely remains unsolved despite claimed proof
Japanese space hoppers reveal glorious sci-fi vision of asteroid Ryugu
Watch now: Sporting superheroes at New Scientist Live
Infinity war: The ongoing battle over the world's hardest maths proof
Stupid AI: How humans can stop machines from falling for visual tricks
Famed mathematician claims proof of 160-year-old Riemann hypothesis
A tiny robotic capsule could roam your intestines and suck up mucus
Subliminal messages can make you forget memories without realising
Zapping your guts with electricity can help relieve constipation
Earliest known animal was a half-billion-year-old underwater blob
Photography: heating up the climate campaign
Divers are attempting to regrow Great Barrier Reef with electricity
Animals can count, but can't read numbers - and now we know why
Octopuses taking MDMA get all huggy and loved-up with each other
NASA’s new exoplanet-hunter has spotted its first alien worlds
A pair of tiny hopping rovers are about to land on an asteroid
Watch now: Follow the action at New Scientist Live
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Field notes: Polluted polar bears await the great Arctic land grab
Killing 'zombie' brain cells can prevent memory loss in mice
Dramatic pictures of the storm damage from Florence and Mangkhut
Only one in five UK adults would choose to live forever if they could
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
Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt review – a joyful peek under the hood
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Lunar renaissance: start celebrating Earth's first moon landing
Why your brain is hardwired to be bad at economics – and how to fix it
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?
China’s uniform approach for students is a bad fit for other countries
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
Dance flies attract males with their hairy legs and inflatable sacs
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
SpaceX’s 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 – but it may shrink your brain
Why wouldn’t 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
Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt review – a joyful peek under the hood
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
We’ve found a pulsar spinning so slowly that it shouldn’t 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 – to save ourselves
Watch this robotic fruit fly swoop, dive and perform impressive flips
New Apple Watch heart monitor sounds great – 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 – 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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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 Florence’s 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
World’s 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 – it speeds sleep training
After the cat: Celebrating Schrödinger’s 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 hasn’t the LHC found anything new?
A giant pool noodle to clean up ocean plastic launches today
New Scientist Live: what it’s 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
Reddit’s 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
‘The pain was instant’: 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
We’re not unique – lots of species can recognise themselves
Feedback: US politician claims she was abducted by aliens
Crossword #22
An extreme close-up with a beautiful furry moth
Gas guzzlers reborn: Why your next car could run on hydrogen
CERN's mini particle accelerator could finally smash apart electrons
Ceramic art is a clever foil for a collector's science teaching aids
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The clues to finding alien life could lie in Earth's deep past
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Our thirst for water is turning the oceans saltier
The 'me' illusion: How your brain conjures up your sense of self
Did someone deliberately sabotage the International Space Station?
Butcherbird uses vicious whiplash technique to kill its prey
We've discovered a shark that eats plants as a side dish to shellfish
Your brain power varies throughout the year, peaking in autumn
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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
Hey America, you can finally choose to elect people who rely on facts
AIs are being tested to see how well they understand our thoughts
New Scientist Live: can you live forever and would you want to?
Babies are at risk from air pollution but some pram designs can help
Puppies treated with CRISPR show improvement from muscular dystrophy
A species of fish has passed the mirror test for the first time
DNA editing before birth could one day massively expand lifespans
Are UK teens in the grips of a self-harm epidemic? It's complicated
Dark matter blasted by star explosions may explain misfit galaxies
Multiple sclerosis drug is first to dramatically cut brain shrinkage
Opioid crisis: powerful but non-addictive drug could replace morphine
A warm-water time bomb could spell disaster for Arctic sea ice
Humans have shaped the Serengeti's ecosystems since the Stone Age
CERN's mini particle accelerator could finally smash apart electrons
The real danger of deepfake videos is that we may question everything
We have the power to halt evolution itself – should we use it?
Feedback: Can plants have fun? This experiment aims to find out
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China's spectacular rainbow lake disguises trouble below the surface
A trip into the past: Swiss watches, Korean ginseng and UK tea breaks
Floating nuclear plants could herald a new era of cheap, safe energy
Is studying your gut bacteria key to good health or a waste of money?
Why an orbiting moon station is the worst idea of the new space age
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Ebola outbreak has killed 75 in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Evolution is making us sick and for the first time we can stop it
New Scientist Live: step into many quantum worlds
Facebook bans Myanmar’s military leader in unprecedented move
We dream even when under general anaesthetic
Naked mole rats may become good parents by eating their queen’s faeces
Breathing polluted air may make you worse at maths and language
How a positive mind really can create a healthier body
AI can make high-definition fake videos from just a simple sketch
Doomed crew seeking Northwest Passage didn’t die from lead poisoning
Flashing checkerboard patterns let us see a picture that doesn’t exist
Colourful clownfish carry an unusual health warning for predators
Nose breathing in yoga may calm the mind by slowing brainwaves
We can train ourselves to be better at knowing when we are wrong
Women in England to be allowed to have abortions at home
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Facebook to tell 4 million users their data may have been misused
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5000-year-old monument was built by a society without leaders
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New Scientist Live: can we defend Earth from asteroids?
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New Scientist Live: sneak preview of this year’s mission to Mercury
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New Zealand becomes the latest country to ban plastic bags
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High-speed electrons prove Einstein was right about the speed of light
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'Hey': short messages are the best dating site strategy, study says
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California's worst wildfire in history is now the size of Los Angeles
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Women more likely to survive heart attacks if treated by female doctor
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More than 90 people killed in massive earthquake on island of Lombok
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Two huge Antarctic glaciers are losing much more ice than we thought
New Scientist Live: how can we fix a problem like plastics?
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Mystery of Welsh bodies buried at Stonehenge as first stones arrived
Robot laws: 5 new rules that could save human lives (at least on TV)
Dark matter might be harder to detect because it’s not from our galaxy
Modified mosquitoes wipe out whole city’s dengue for the first time
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Newly-discovered type of lung cell has central role in cystic fibrosis
Extreme weather finally brings home the reality of climate change
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New Scientist Live: are we about to uncover the dark universe?
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Lemurs self-medicate by rubbing toxic millipedes over their bottoms
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An Amazonian snake has two types of venom that kill different prey
NASA's plans to end the ISS could put its Mars missions in danger
When you ride the subway you share bacteria with everyone in your city
Boy’s brain works just fine after a large piece was removed
Pulses of laser light could find murder victims in unmarked graves
Women have more miscarriages than live births over their lifetime
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Mass graves found on Scottish islands may be ancient tsunami victims
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New Scientist Live: will we ever understand the true nature of time?
Drug to treat endometriosis pain first to be approved in over a decade
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Amazon face recognition mistakes US politicians for crime suspects
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Only 13 per cent of the world's oceans are considered a wilderness
The scientific guide to stockpiling food for a 'no deal' Brexit
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Parasite fungus sends insects on sex spree by loading them up on drugs
Self-healing graphene could make robots that fix themselves with water
Starlight stretched by Milky Way's black hole proves Einstein right
Many chimps are active at night but we don’t know what they do
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Biodiversity may prove to be the defining issue of our age
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Massive lake of water found beneath Mars’ south pole could host life
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An 'obesity virus' could be to blame for many people being overweight
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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
‘Amazing dragon’ find in China rewrites evolution of massive dinosaurs
Business students more likely to have a brain parasite spread by cats
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New Scientist Live: should we zap our brains to boost our abilities?
We might only see time because we can’t think in quantum physics
HPV vaccine to be offered to all children in England, not just girls
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
Fewer baby boys were born after three major earthquakes in Japan
If we’re in the Meghalayan, whatever happened to the Anthropocene?
Spectacular new photos of Titan show Saturn's moon like never before
Climate change is forcing geese to give up pit stops when they migrate
Neanderthal hand axes were also used as lighters for starting fires
Levitating glass particles are fastest spinning objects ever seen
Smart bandage sees when wound is infected and treats it automatically
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Deaths from liver disease have been rising since the financial crisis
First snake found in amber is a baby from the age of the dinosaurs
Robotic grabber catches squidgy deep sea animals without harming them
UK announces plans for two spaceports that could see launches by 2021
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Why weird star systems are where we'll find alien life
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Google hit with €4.3 billion fine from EU for abusing market dominance
Lazy thinking – not bias – is the real reason we believe fake news
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Cape Town drought was made three times more likely by global warming
Tiny planets full of diamonds have been created in the lab
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Drones are checking up on insurance claims to look for fraudsters
Trump's meeting with Putin may have had a surprise nuclear twist
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Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming
UK announces plans for two spaceports that could see launches by 2021
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Honeybees gang up to roast invading hornets alive — 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
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Dopamine levels in our brains affect the risks we’re happy to take
Think your surfing is secret in private browsing mode? Think again
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Violent black holes spit neutrinos at Earth and we finally caught one
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High blood pressure in older people linked to Alzheimer’s 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
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Crossword #20
The amazing assortment of stuff at the bottom of one Amsterdam canal
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Elon Musk’s submarine plan to rescue Thai cave boys deserves respect
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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?
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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
Whoops! NASA burned best evidence for life on Mars 40 years ago
New dinosaur fossil explains how Diplodocus evolved to be so massive
Apple peel drug makes mice live longer by targeting a cause of ageing
Quantum dots in brain could treat Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases
Watch a ‘heart’ made from liquid gallium beat in an electric field
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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
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Chris Packham: 'Let's stop sleepwalking towards mass extinction'
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Solar-powered nanotech could automatically defrost your car
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Tiny mitochondria may be controlling genes in heart of our cells
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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
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Novichok poisoning: How could it happen again in Salisbury?
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Trio of stars shows Einstein is still right about relativity
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NHS England considers plans to cut some surgeries
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Watch magnets organise themselves and then leap into the air
Facebook promises to better explain who is paying for ads
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Heroin users’ brains hint at a new treatment for narcolepsy
Launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope delayed another year
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Fire crews prepare 'heavy attack' on massive moorland wildfire
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A new arms race threatens to unleash laser warfare in the skies
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Uber has won a short-term licence to operate in London
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London's Horniman Museum has squeezed a world into a room
First cannabis-based drug approved in the US to treat epilepsy
Here’s 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
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An entire Arctic ecosystem could vanish within the next decade
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Cannabis oil: what is it and does it really work as medicine?
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Japan’s 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 EU’s 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
Cambridge’s Museum of Zoology: Bobby the whale and Attenborough
Herpes viruses in the brain linked to Alzheimer’s disease
Moths fly 1000 kilometres with Earth’s magnetic field as a guide
World’s 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
Ötzi 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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Hawking’s memorial service
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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 ‘fly’ 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
DeepMind’s AI can ‘imagine’ a world based on a single picture
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EU will limit the use of palm oil as car fuel but won’t stop it
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When a daddy longlegs is attacked by a flatworm things get messy
The brain has a special clock that tracks sleepiness
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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 – 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
Britain’s 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
NASA’s 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
Parkinson’s 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 ‘missing’ 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 – 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 – 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
We’re beginning to understand how some people can control HIV
Ripples in Saturn’s 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 ‘holy grail’ 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 ‘sandpaper’
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' – 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
It’s time we stopped dismissing women’s 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 – 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 – let's just get on with it
World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran
: Why China’s online oversight is anything but crude
How a frog’s eye robbed us of a genius’s 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 bonobo’s 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 media’s 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 – it's a billion comets squished together
Escher's Journey: there's more to this artist than his maths
Dentists can smell your fear – 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 can’t 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
There’s a new kind of superfood – and it’s not what you think
Changes in your sperm reveal if you’ve had a difficult life
Quantum stopwatch could be the best in the universe
‘Impossible’ EM drive doesn’t seem to work after all
Why the UK’s 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 moon’s 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 May’s 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 NASA’s 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 ‘midwives’ spotted helping female bonobos give birth
The way toddlers waddle can teach robot footballers how to play
A third of ‘protected’ 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
Let’s all heed the health benefits of a month without alcohol
Plastic waste is a problem – 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
Trump’s 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 – now there's a fix
Falling mini-moons may have created Earth’s first continents
Hawaii’s erupting volcano may blast out ‘10-tonne cannonballs’
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
We’ve 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 Korea’s 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 farmer’s 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 ‘hobbits’
Let’s 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 – 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
Google’s 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 Tutankhamun’s tomb
Mystery of the cosmic dawn: What’s 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
Colombia’s 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 ‘hobbits’
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?
Moon’s 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
We’ve 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 ‘depression genes’ shows it’s a complex condition
Cute but dim quolls have been taught to stop eating toxic toads
Could a tax on chocolate make us healthy? Let’s 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 dragonfly’s 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 can’t 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 spring’s 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 – 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 ‘torture rack’ 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 ‘heartbeat’ 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 – here’s why they’re wrong
UK failing child refugees because we can’t 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 doesn’t exist, and other strange facts about time
Quantum time: Is this where the flow of existence comes from?
Big tech can digitally erase us – do we need new protections?
Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’
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
Don’t blame academics like me for Facebook’s 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 Saturday’s 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 – here’s what’s next for Facebook
2017 was the year of the biggest fire storms ever seen
Struggle to get up in the morning? You’re at risk of early death
Ovarian cancer vaccine improves women’s 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 year’s 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 – 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 – and now we may know why
5 healthcare myths that can drive you to unneeded treatments
Robots don’t take people’s jobs - they make new ones
Theresa May pledges £75 million for prostate cancer research
One bad night’s sleep may increase levels of Alzheimer’s 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 – here's how he can address data fears
World’s 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 can’t 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
We’ve spotted a weird galaxy that’s 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 ‘one-stop shop’ 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 Dublin’s 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: It’s 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
Yorkshire’s 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 body’s bacteria
Earth had water even before the collision that made the moon
Jupiter's hefty twin found just 12 light years away
We’ve spotted a weird galaxy that’s 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 Pluto’s 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 you’re not scared
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been delayed – 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 you’re 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 kids’ 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 birds’ 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 ‘disco ball’ satellite just fell back down to Earth
Watch this robotic fish flap its fins in Fiji’s Rainbow Reef
Wearable scanner can image your brain while you’re 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
​Upgraded Pap test detects two extra cancers before ​they 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
There’s no point reviving the northern white rhino – 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 Down’s 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 – here’s 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 – but microplastics aren’t 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 – it needs a tough response
Exercising during pregnancy can make your labour shorter
Our ancestors mated with the mystery 'Denisovan' people – twice
Band-aid made of youthful protein stops wounds from scarring
Jupiter’s 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 it’s not like Earth’s
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 – it will change the world
Salary survey: Here’s 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 sun’s 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?
We’ve 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 UK’s natural treasures
Young babies disapprove when they see adults acting immorally
Ancient black holes may have made the first stars look cool
Ancient birds couldn’t 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 ‘electric skin’ 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 ‘sarcastic fringehead’ 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 UK’s 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 won’t work
Nice prize for Alzheimer's work, shame about the lack of a cure
Doctors race to identify poison affecting former Russian spy
Australia’s 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 Saturn’s moon Iapetus may be a former ring
We’ve evolved to sleep less and that may be causing Alzheimer’s
Fish called ‘sarcastic fringehead’ 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 – homes in the UK won’t run out of gas for heating
NASA’s 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 ‘thoughts’ 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 – 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 – 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
Weird particle soup may have formed stars in the early universe
We may be overdue a massive war, says a statistical analysis
Eating fish as a child seems to protect you from hay fever
Miniature personalised tumours could help you get the best chemo
Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the world
Having children may add 11 years to a woman’s biological age
Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out
Why do firms like Uber and Citymapper keep reinventing buses?
Bats spread Ebola because they’ve evolved not to fight viruses
There's an alt-right alt-Twitter and it's filled with hate
Almost every antidepressant headline you'll read today is wrong
Cycling in later life makes you less likely to have a bad fall
First speakers announced for New Scientist Live 2018
Sea urchins can drill holes in solid rock with just their teeth
Ancient 'dark-skinned' Briton Cheddar Man find may not be true
We can now squeeze a molecule and turn it into one that we want
Flu is evolving in new and unpredictable ways in China’s poultry
Venezuela launches its own cryptocurrency backed by oil
Cases of measles in Europe have quadrupled in just one year
France wants to have 500 wolves roaming its countryside
Facebook may guess millions of people’s sexuality to sell ads
Curbing hate speech isn’t censorship – it’s the law
Feedback: Some cows are pessimists, just like us
Mystery 'honeycombs' are found on many rocks and now we know why
Knife-wielding robot makes it a piece of cake to divide dessert
: writing about knowing
Transmediale digital arts: The internet's impossible paradox
This hacker will turn your boring car into a self-driving one
Green is the new black: Redesigning clothes to save the planet
Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future
These strange lines of cloud are seeded by pollution from ships
Trigger warnings are taking over universities, but do they work?
When it comes to climate change, a tantrum is just what we need
Rock dusting on farms could cool the climate, so let's try it
Huge underwater landslides and tsunamis may be caused by ooze
The tamed ape: were humans the first animal to be domesticated?
How you speak predicts if psychedelic therapy will help you
Why big pharma might pay cryptocurrency for your DNA
Bunnies draped in fake polar bear fur are both cosy and stealthy
Cyclone Gita hits New Zealand after hammering Tonga
Mystery honeycombs in rock may be created by water and salt
Technology firms must develop new ways to jam Russia's fake news
We're evolving a gene that may stop us from drinking alcohol
Electric eel-inspired batteries could power life-long pacemakers
Flu is evolving in new and unpredictable ways in China’s poultry
Mute male crickets are still trying to serenade females
Electronic skin animates heartbeat on the back of your hand
Quantum computer could have predicted Trump's surprise election
Facebook may guess millions of people's sexuality to sell ads
Will a new wave of smart glasses make us 'glassholes' again?
We thought gorillas only walked on their knuckles. We were wrong
Shampoo is causing air pollution, but let’s not lose our heads
Three photons stick together to create a new form of light
Stem cells zapped with radiation can protect mice from cancer
People are slaughtering orangutans and wiping them out
CRISPR has fixed the genetic cause of a learning disability
How a bat’s hairy tongue lets it suck up nectar like a sponge
Surgical instruments may spread Alzheimer’s proteins
Virtual reality walking stick tutors blind people to cross roads
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?
Long haul with a free conscience
Cape Town is about to run out of water – how did this happen?
Feedback: Does a robot in robes make a mechanical priest?
Our cities are driving evolution and it's not all bad news
William Harvey: The delightful inside story of blood
How clever biochemistry is tackling HIV
Real-life Lord of the Flies experiment led us up the warpath
Meet the mafias making buckets of cash from illegal sand
World without sand: The race to save a precious resource
Dirty talk: How pollution is snuffing out plants' scent messages
Drone captures humpback whales catching krill with bubbles
Oceans on alien worlds may form when the air explodes in flames
The best way to take down a drone is with another drone
Quantum time machine: How the future can change what happens now
Transgender woman is first to be able to breastfeed her baby
Valentine’s Day seems to cause a mini baby-boom 9 months later
China's reckless attitude to space debris needs to change
Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean
Opioid painkillers are prescribed more in northern England
Skincare science is frivolous and warrants attack, right? Wrong
Face-recognition software is perfect – if you’re a white man
A single atom is visible to the naked eye in this stunning photo
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
Australia’s deadly 1800s storms help us predict future extremes
Dark matter could be produced by twisted gravitational waves
This record-breaking photo was taken from 6 billion km away
Birds 'dream sing' by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep
We should use nukes to deflect asteroids, says astro algorithm
Is the quantum computer revolution really just five years away?
Deadly superbugs are evolving to beat alcohol hand sanitisers
We need to start taking vaping seriously as a way to save lives
Primitive human eggs matured in the lab for the first time
First glimpse of how genes may cause mental health problems
App guesses your emotions to target you with adverts
Oldest dog burial suggests prehistoric humans loved dogs as pets
Is Elon Musk's playboy space odyssey really the future we want?
Deep-sea fish lay eggs near hydrothermal vents to keep them warm
Fears of Brexit chaos for medicines agency should worry us all
Training parents to work in hospitals benefits premature babies
A much better asthma drug has shown promise in early experiments
The worst mass extinction may have begun with mass sterilisation
Long-lost relatives: An amazing poster of the sun’s family tree
5 moments that made Big Tech big
The truth about what downing energy drinks really does to kids
Bitcoin tumbles as regulators start clamping down on trading
LHC finds hints of strange quasiparticle called the odderon
SpaceX set to launch massive Falcon Heavy rocket for first time
Two types of bacteria damage DNA and may help cause bowel cancer
Feedback: Botoxed camels disqualified from Saudi beauty contest
Crossword #15
What is our place in the natural world?
To enjoy Robert Newman's gig, park your scientific scepticism
Life lessons: The tiny neuro-gadgets rebuilding our bodies
The doctor who exposed the UK's terrible experiments on patients
Suns and daughters: The family tree that may unite all the stars
The survivors: Is climate change really killing polar bears?
Delicate solar panels of Martian lander are tested before launch
Chinese police use face recognition glasses to catch criminals
SpaceX's rocket test wasn't a complete success - but was close
Pre-life molecules found floating in nearby galaxy
I got DNA tested to see if I would pass on diseases to my kids
Big tech is unpopular, but we mostly have ourselves to blame
How Google and Facebook hooked us – and how to break the habit
We can now read the whole genome of a fetus in the womb
Online chatter could give warning of incoming cyber attacks
Early Briton from 10,000 years ago had dark skin and blue eyes
The US agency that guards the environment is going to be hobbled
Beetles escape alive after almost 2 hours in a toad’s stomach
Seeing SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket take off for the first time
Have we just found thousands of planets outside our galaxy?
Nano-claw snatches bacteria from blood like tiny Venus flytrap
Ancient rock art rewrites the natural history of Arabia
There could be entire stars and planets made out of dark matter
Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire
Some people with epilepsy can learn to stop their own seizures
Weird ice found on Neptune and Uranus has now been made on Earth
DeepMind’s virtual psychology lab seeks flaws in digital minds
It may be impossible to live comfortably without trashing Earth
Shrinking black holes avoid paradox by oozing hidden information
Tropical plants are blooming as they gorge on our pollution
Data as Culture: Humour and absurdity stalk the internet
Leaked photos suggest China may now have a hypersonic railgun
Shark-free world? That's a wish that would come back to bite us
First UK three-parent babies could be born this year
Brain genes hint at why Zika doesn’t always cause microcephaly
Pregnant women have to navigate a minefield of painkiller advice
At least three types of bacteria may help cause bowel cancer
Dancing galaxies may shake up our ideas of galaxy formation
Polar bears waste lots of their energy and it could be a problem
Dark web users are easy to unmask through their bitcoin use
It's time to label all meat as stunned or unstunned at slaughter
Sound waves may be able to trigger earlier tsunami warnings
Depriving the brain of a sense may improve stroke recovery
People are using mosquito nets for fishing and that’s a bad idea
Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago
Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier
Cryptocurrency hack makes off with $500 million
Secret US military bases revealed by joggers using fitness app
Renewables now generate more electricity than coal in Europe
We shouldn't hide the gory details of how meat reaches our plate
We must stand up to bad politics, not hide in an ivory tower
Trump's 90-day plan for opioids has failed – here's a better one
Feedback: Plastic plug protects against e-smog, memories
Old Scientist: Separating the sheep from the sheep
Defence strategies: How immunology took its great leap forward
Primate archaeology: Digging up secrets of the monkey Stone Age
The love drug that could draw people away from any addiction
The unpalatable truth about your favourite foods
Ghostly images show the history of X-ray tubes
‘Speaking’ orca is further proof they shouldn’t be kept captive
New Scientist appoints Emily Wilson as first female editor
Two satellites scrambling into orbit after launch went wrong
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
A more humane way of slaughtering chickens might get EU approval
Can a brain implant treat Alzheimer's? It might just be placebo
Renewables made more electricity than coal in Europe in 2017
A brain scan can reveal which people you're friends with
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 – but it’s still safer than smoking
Facebook is making a chatbot that can fill awkward silences
Vaping could cause cancer – but it’s 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 – China is not racing ahead with human CRISPR trials
These are the worst ready-made sandwiches for the climate
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 Earth’s air may show us how to find signs of alien life
Smart contact lens monitors sweetness of diabetics' tears
3D ‘holograms’ made with lasers by moving one particle at a time
Spy balloons flying 40km up track drug smugglers on the ground
Ruptured Tibetan glaciers triggered massive speedy avalanches
Veganism should be an informed and evidence-based choice
Ghost ships: The autonomous vehicles making waves on the water
Peril on the sea: Why are so many megaships sinking?
Cute cats the size of kittens are seeing their homes destroyed
Feedback: Getting starry-eyed over old school astrology
Cycle for your supper on a gyro-spiraliser
Powerful or powerless: The backdoor to our cyberfuture
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 China’s 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
Living on the veg: 10 things you thought were vegan but aren't
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 – 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 Newman’s gig, park your scientific scepticism
Medieval gamblers turned their back on fate and made dice fair
No, the worst-case climate change futures haven’t 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 yoga’s 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 SpaceX’s 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
Planet and people: new books for Anthropocene times
The Amazonian arrow poison that made modern anaesthesia
So long, suckers: Where have all the black holes gone?
Forgotten mountain shrine to a Soviet superstar of astrophysics
How 'stem cell' clinics became a Wild West for dodgy treatments
Swollen eye is setback for blindness treatment using stem cells
Bitcoin's utopia has failed as big players hold all the power
Trump, this 'shithole' continent pioneered heart swaps and more
Chit-chat makes humans and robots work together better
Source of world’s biggest listeria outbreak still unknown
End of days: Is Western civilisation on the brink of collapse?
All other primates live their lives according to a simple rule
Bowel cancer test may be a much better way to screen for polyps
Johann Hari doesn't know depression's real causes – no one does
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 ‘proper’ volcano at all
DNA of man who died in 1827 recreated from his living relatives
Life Time: Bio-art comes of age at a gem of a show
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 world’s 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 Crohn’s 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 – now it must make amends
Feedback: California's craze for untreated water goes viral
Crossword #14
Sniff the apocalypse: An art show with perfume for the end times
: 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?
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No sweat: Does listening to music make exercise easier?
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No sweat: How can marathon runners avoid hitting ‘the wall’?
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 – 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 it’s 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 ‘shaken baby’ 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
Old Scientist: Just like the movies
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 world’s 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 Alzheimer’s brain plaques?
Blood test spots ovarian cancer years before it is usually found
It's never too late to get a tattoo, an implant – 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 don’t 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
Vienna’s 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
It’s 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
After crows fight they touch and preen each other to make up
How Trump’s ‘ban’ on science words could harm public health
Video gaming disorder to be officially recognised for first time
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Well-being will suffer if we don’t trump the anti-science trend
Let it glow, let it glow, let it snow
Elf Lands: The new fantasy
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
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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
Great tits avoid bad food after seeing grossed-out friends
New Scientist 2017 holiday quiz
Feedback: Fairy lights shine in Britain as elf sightings rise
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Exploring the universe – and how we found our place in it
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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 world’s rarest colour
Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane
2017 review: The 12 best science and tech stories of the year
Ravenous rainforest resident plucks midnight snack from thin air
The body’s 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 system’s twin with 8 planets
Venice may be almost 200 years older than anyone thought
A family in Italy doesn’t 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
We’re homing in on the pathways that shape sexual orientation
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Antisense therapy promises to slow Huntington’s 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 ‘pigs’ 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
England’s 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
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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 art’s 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 Saturn’s 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 Earth’s 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 LIGO’s 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 Murdoch’s climate stance?
Food delivery robots are teaching themselves how to cross roads
Africa’s 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 ‘gay genes’ 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
Earth’s 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
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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 world’s 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
Japan’s 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
Moon’s explosive birth drove iron deep into Earth's core
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has a hidden ‘conveyer belt’ of heat
Focus on liberty and purity may change anti-vax parents’ 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?
World’s 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 days’
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 – 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 children’s well-being
Weird tiny galaxies found hiding in Hubble’s 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 can’t tell what’s important and what isn’t
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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 – 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 Alzheimer’s
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 it’s weird
How a tiny fly can ‘scuba dive’ 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
Scott’s 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
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Scopus award winners for Australia and New Zealand announced
Blue tits divorce their partners if they turn up late to mate
Why setting ‘safe’ limits for environmental damage won’t 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 can’t 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 Scotland’s minimum alcohol price plan
Trump to let Americans import ivory and hunting trophies again
What’s 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 Pluto’s 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 Sea’s 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 others’ 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 Caribbean’s giant ground sloths
Watch a monkey floss its teeth with a bird feather
Neptune’s 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
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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 years’ worth of greenhouse gases
We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted
Why burying loved ones in unmarked graves could save wildlife
China’s 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 Trump’s ‘madman’ North Korea strategy
Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day
Your brain signals weaken and slow down when you’re really tired
Enceladus’s 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 ‘hub’ in their brains
Why Hawking's PhD thesis is now an internet-breaking inspiration
Cosmic rays have revealed a new chamber in Egypt’s 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 aren’t 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 Alzheimer’s 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
UK’s plan to tackle ‘crack cocaine’ of gambling lacks evidence
Alzheimer’s 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 – but there’s 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
Lincoln’s Frequency digital festival gets into the city’s 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: Enigma’s Alan Turing and Linear B’s Michael Ventris
Robot carers are a reality: I only wish my mum got one
Gaming addiction probably isn’t a real condition, study suggests
What drove the WHO to make Robert Mugabe a goodwill ambassador?
Early menopause is more likely if you’ve ever been underweight
We may have just seen the first comet from another solar system
Light’s quantum weirdness survives after going to space and back
Oysters can ‘hear’ the ocean even though they don’t have ears
We’ve 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
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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
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Gas-filled black balloons create eerie floating worlds
Banking a baby's cord blood may save their life. Is it worth it?
Google-sponsored private moon race delayed for the fourth time
A surveillance state is no fix for Brexit's Irish border issue
Netflix vegan hit
The air we breathe
Atomic Legoland: How to build wonder stuff from the atom up
Tiny robots crawl through mouse's stomach to heal ulcers
Fish eat bits of plastic because they think they smell good
England will need over 71,000 extra care home places by 2025
Twitch gamers live-stream their vital signs to keep fans hooked
Ice at Mars’s equator hints the planet was once much more tilted
How US diplomats may have been attacked by sonic weapons in Cuba
There are almost 100 new volcanoes hiding under Antarctic ice
Ancient warriors killed and ate their dogs as rite of passage
This year may be one of the worst ever for Atlantic hurricanes
Even ‘healthy’ overweight people have a higher cardiac risk
Childhood exercise may protect against memory loss in old age
Choosing alternative cancer treatment doubles your risk of death
Activated charcoal drug can protect microbiome from antibiotics
AI artist conjures up convincing fake worlds from memories
Smart cameras spot when hospital staff don’t wash their hands
The BBC should stop giving unwarranted airtime to Nigel Lawson
Why UK midwives are back-pedalling on natural childbirth
Mystery of missing tsunamis explained by geological model
Al Gore: The return of climate science’s preacher man
Tottering piglets can't walk at first but learn super-fast
Trump says he’ll declare US opioid epidemic a national emergency
Goldfish go months without oxygen by making alcohol inside cells
There is a good case to unleash job-killing AI on the high seas
Fighting to breathe in the face of Canada’s wildfire emergency
Primate brains react differently to faces of friends and VIPs
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
DeepMind AI teaches itself about the world by watching videos
Side effects kill thousands but our data on them is flawed
No, North Korea (probably) won’t nuke the US territory of Guam
This is why the first CRISPR baby won't be born in the US
From statistics to surgery to psychology: Our favourite reads
Tethered satellites could see the moon’s weird swirls up close
Moon’s magnetic field lasted twice as long as we thought it did
Type 1 diabetes may be halted by experimental immunotherapy
Ancient skull belonged to a cousin of the ape common ancestor
DeepMind dojo will train AI to beat human
Early humans may have seen a supervolcano explosion up close
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Google employee fired after controversial gender-diversity memo
'Three parent' technique must not be marketed in US, says FDA
Farmland is in retreat. We should make the most of that
Feedback: Gem-studded power pants to put a sparkle in your life
We can stop hacking and trolls, but it would ruin the internet
Crossword #9
The enigma of the face in forming first impressions
The playful inventor whose copper-whiskered mouse led us to AIs
Cold comfort: How chilling the lungs could beat heart attacks
Back to the wild: How nature is reclaiming farmland
Endangered animals – and made-up beasts – drawn with gonzo charm
Are atheists really morally depraved? The idea defies logic
England's dire north-south health gap is a scandal that must end
Chemical controllers: How hormones influence your body and mind
Science fiction picks: Time for a reality check
Largest ever dinosaur may have been as long as 7 elephants
Church floodlights are driving away the bats that roost there
Penguin tail feathers reveal secrets of where they swim for food
Memo to all tech bros: Sexism, not biology, holds women back
Americans already feeling effects of climate change, says report
Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars
Mars’s 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
Over-mothered puppies more likely to fail guide dog training
Self-propelling droplets creep towards heat to cool microchips
New sky survey shows that dark energy may one day tear us apart
You could finally control your Facebook data if UK law is passed
Watching others wash their hands may relieve OCD symptoms
First implants derived from stem cells to ‘cure’ type 1 diabetes
I tried ingesting rat tapeworm parasites and my poo turned green
Parasitic worm eggs may soon be legally sold as food in Germany
Siri rival can understand the messy nature of our conversations
Bees are first insects shown to understand the concept of zero
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
Teacup tornado’s inner twists and writhes seen for first time
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
Space cucumbers may help plants grow better water-seeking roots
CRISPR skin grafts could replace insulin injections for diabetes
Big, armoured dinosaur still had camouflage to evade predators
One day without notifications changes behaviour for two years
Cancer runs in my family, but now we can pick it up in time
Hidden cancers detected by combining genetic tests with MRI
The slime mould instruments that make sweet music
NASA’s planetary protection officer will defend Mars, not Earth
Al Gore's
Eight great accidents in scientific discovery
Nano aluminium offers fuel cells on demand – 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
Internet giants need to be reined in for the public good
The renewables reality: clean energy hasn't risen for 25 years
Oldest mass animal stranding revealed in Death Valley fossils
IVF babies grow up heavier and may have higher risk of obesity
Feedback: God's phone number revealed by Zimbabwean pastor
Old Scientist: How to make a car chase really boring
Wild tales of stuffy sharks, intimate otters and unloved horses
Is our environmental future better than we thought?
Finding the first pulsar set my world spinning
Eradicating rabies: Why man's best friend holds the key
Getting on the map: How to fix the problem with addresses
Satellite shows clear-up operation after severe floods in China
How to strip 99 per cent of harmful BPA from water in 30 minutes
Deforestation may soar now Colombian civil war is over
On the trail of dragons with blood that can save people’s lives
North Korea isn’t bluffing, the nuclear threat to the US is real
Brain box: Multitasking chips that can match the human mind
Eating a lower calorie diet improves learning ability in worms
IVF babies tend to be lighter than others but end up heavier
Voyage to study Earth’s mostly submerged hidden continent begins
Fast radio bursts may be dark matter ‘stars’ hitting black holes
What the first flower on Earth might have looked like
Quantum gravity detector will use atom clouds to survey for oil
You’re wrong, Amber Rudd – encryption is for ‘real people’
A US firm is microchipping staff – here's what they should fear
Hacking a US electronic voting booth takes less than 90 minutes
Signs of Alzheimer’s 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 Saturn’s largest moon
Smart glasses let you turn off the lights in the blink of an eye
Flatworms can still ‘see’ even after they are decapitated
Time to bust the myth that Ada Lovelace was an overhyped aristo
Hot science makes an unexpected appearance at a cool festival
Keep having nightmares? You may be getting too much sleep
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 what’s not there
Bronze Age DNA helps unravel true fate of biblical Canaanites
DNA of long-dead cows read from pages of Medieval books
Men’s sweet tooth may increase risk of anxiety and depression
Lectin-free is the new food fad that deserves to be skewered
Clinic ‘turkey baster’ method may be worth trying before IVF
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
Half the atoms inside your body came from across the universe
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
Prehistoric creatures dazzle in recreated art nouveau murals
Tech giants don't want you fixing your phone. Time to fight back
Donate your voice so Siri doesn’t just work for white men
Fish can't recognise faces if they’re upside down – just like us
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
Mysterious mega-swan once waddled through New Zealand
Fungi use water droplet cannons to fling spores into the breeze
Maths explains how bees can stay airborne with such tiny wings
Sperm count has fallen by nearly 60 per cent in richer countries
Yellowstone National Park hit by 1400 earthquakes in six weeks
See inside the 580-million-year-old creature no one understands
Aliens slumbering for billions of years are out there – really?
Lasers reactivate ‘lost’ memories in mice with Alzheimer’s
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 ‘old’ DNA more likely to survive epic migration
Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t 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
Bitcoin study reveals how early adopters influence our decisions
Con artists took me for a ride. Here's how to protect yourself
Giant deep-sea worms may live to be 1000 years old or more
Trump’s 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 – 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
See the 'tuskers' hunting woolly mammoths in Siberian permafrost
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 Alzheimer’s 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
Prenatal test spots genetic anomalies linked to miscarriage
Towards the sound of silence
Buzz of drones is more annoying than any other kind of vehicle
Rising life expectancy in England has slowed since recession
At least 75 per cent of our DNA really is useless junk after all
Why fast birds, fish and animals are never too small or big
Find your next must-play game by flying through a virtual galaxy
The cosmic dance of three dead stars could break relativity
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
AI coach will train hopeless chatbots to pass the Turing test
The day Hope the whale stole the show
Rats can tell when they've forgotten something, just like us
Hailing e-Volvos as imminent saviours of the planet is nonsense
What is chemsex and why is the UK government worried about it?
Laws of mathematics don’t apply here, says Australian PM
Hundreds charged in huge opioid and healthcare fraud crackdown
150-year-old zombie plants revived after excavating ghost ponds
Polar bear attacks on people set to rise as climate changes
US ranked worst healthcare system, while the NHS is the best
Use waste rather than crops for biofuels, says UK report
A type of bacteria might speed up the growth of colon cancer
Ravens can plan for future as well as 4-year-old children can
Swiss bank becomes first to offer bitcoin to its richest clients
Robotic landers could start mining the moon as early as 2020
Experiences or stuff, what's the best buy for a happiness boost?
Women with worse endometriosis pain have more fertility problems
Glove turns sign language into text for real-time translation
Video stored in live bacterial genome using CRISPR gene editing
Video stored in live bacterial genome using CRISPR gene editing
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AI doctors should improve healthcare, but not at any cost
Tiny laser inside your body could detect cancer, then dissolve
Feedback: Help us design our very scientific pub crawl
In search of a treatment for a devastating genetic disease
A mouthful of history: How teeth reveal our evolutionary past
To understand why we behave the way we do, we need to zoom out
Why help a torturer come to terms with their past?
Artificial Intelligence ushers in the era of superhuman doctors
Smart but dumb: probing the mysteries of brainless intelligence
Bioluminescent termite mounds lure insects to their death
Real reform must follow ruling on flawed NHS-DeepMind data deal
Battle lines are being drawn on the best way for babies to sleep
First close-ups of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot from Juno flyby
Brexiteers must not risk UK’s nuclear future by leaving Euratom
Hairs use chemical signals to tell each other when to grow
Swinging birds play with rhythm like jazz musicians
Breast implants can lessen gunshot injuries by slowing bullets
Why your favourite websites are protesting over the net's future
Uninhabitable Earth? In fact, it’s really hard to fry the planet
Backstreet fried chicken shops must stop using killer trans fat
Five things physicists hate about physics
When is a black hole not a black hole? When it’s a boson star
A massive iceberg just broke off Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf
Nations of the world agree to ban nuclear weapons – now what?
Transformer robots can be printed on demand in just 13 minutes
Ants build living towers that flow like a fountain in reverse
Large carnivores have lost more than 90 per cent of their range
Sleeping less in old age may be adaptation to survive in wild
Whales sneak into shallow water to eat salmon from hatcheries
Spider waves its front legs like antennae to mimic warlike ants
Online harassment on the rise – but no one can agree what it is
Melting ice may be making mountains collapse in Greenland
Meningitis B vaccines may fight the rise of super-gonorrhoea
Sunflowers work together to avoid overcrowding and soak up rays
Brain-training game fails test against regular computer games
Quantum cheques could be a forgery-free way to move money
The exoplanet zoo – a whistle-stop tour
Climate change lets invaders beat Alpine plants in mountain race
Spiders lure bees for dinner by making flowers look flashier
Mathematics has a bad hair day
Mike Pence says he touched NASA equipment on a dare
Child tooth is fourth fossil clue to mysterious Denisovan humans
Invisibility cloak makes solar panels work more efficiently
People are hacking antidepressant doses to avoid withdrawal
Boy finds 'extinct' frog in Ecuador and helps revive species
After 80 years, will forensics solve the Amelia Earhart mystery?
Even toddlers expect bullies to get more than their fair share
Titan's conditions could be just right to power US-sized colony
Frogs may have evolved the first kneecaps on Earth
Neural network poetry is so bad we think it’s written by humans
Smartphone components work beautifully at nearly absolute zero
Tesla to build world’s 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
AI photo check exposes scale of diversity problem at top firms
Chinese dinosaurs make a historic trip to the UK
CRISPR gene editing technique is probably safe, study confirms
LHC pops out a new particle that could test the strong force
Hazardous waste identified and sorted using simple barcodes
A cholera pandemic has raged for 56 years. Time to stamp it out
Eating lots of sugar when pregnant may raise risk of allergies
Serious head injuries nearly double your risk of dementia
Bad eczema flare-ups may be caused by strains of bacteria
Cancer vaccines could prime our own bodies to fight tumours
UK's first public autonomous taxi trial to begin soon
Using light to reset the body clock can treat brain disorders
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UK National Health Service should do more to exploit genomics
Aid shipments aren't enough to stop Yemen's cholera epidemic
San Francisco is first US city to ban flavoured tobacco products
It's time we all burst our carbon bubbles
Nice science, but don't forget about the ethics
Feedback: Magnetic monopoles for toddlers
Crossword No 8
How Californian design helped us to transform the world
Futuristic artwork captures sounds to celebrate famous airfield
How the living world was changed, by the woman who changed it
Premier exoplanet hunter on finding the first alien world
How Aboriginal knowledge can help the world combat wildfires
Meticulous engravings that gave first glimpse of the invisible
Next-gen drones will fly and dive into the sea like pelicans
Should cash-strapped NHS pay for unproven gene sequencing?
North Korean missiles could soon reach the US. Can we stop them?
Who do we think we are?
The ethics issue: Should we stop doing science?
The ethics issue: Should we colonise other planets?
The ethics issue: Should we impose population controls?
The ethics issue: Should we geoengineer the planet?
The ethics issue: Should we let synthetic life forms loose?
The ethics issue: Should we give robots the right to kill?
The ethics issue: Should we abandon privacy online?
The ethics issue: Should we make everyone 'normal'?
The ethics issue: Should we edit our children's genomes?
The ethics issue: Should we give other animals rights?
Children who sleep less may age faster at a cellular level
We may have mated with Neanderthals more than 219,000 years ago
Real reform must follow ruling on flawed NHS-DeepMind data deal
Ukraine claims Russia launched NotPetya ransomware attack
North Korea claims test of an intercontinental ballistic missile
Arthur C. Clarke award makes science fiction a family affair
Demise of dinosaurs opened the doors to the age of tree frogs
Peering inside an AI's brain will help us trust its decisions
Google DeepMind’s NHS data deal 'failed to comply' with law
Cuckoos mimic the sound of musk hogs to avoid being eaten
Rocket failure may delay China’s space station and moon missions
Protons are lighter than thought, which may solve a big puzzle
Synthetic fingerprints make plastic particles tiny security keys
Magpies recruited to safeguard vineyards from grape-eating birds
Blood doping: Were Armstrong and Russia wasting their time?
Why Morocco loves its meteorites
Sun’s gravity could power interstellar video streaming
Fighting climate change could trigger a massive financial crash
Our young moon’s supersonic winds made waves in its magma ocean
It’s not you – solving a Rubik’s cube quickly is officially hard
Abortion law needs a UK-wide update, not just Northern Ireland
Old brains can’t hear similar sounds but a drug can change that
Strongest evidence yet that neonicotinoids are killing bees
‘Missing link’ whale could filter feed and hunt larger prey
Artificially intelligent painters invent new styles of art
The way we run protects our upper bodies but our legs suffer
Wildfires’ 'killer haze' tracked with Twitter as it spreads
Access to the internet is great, but it's not a human right
People with higher IQs are more likely to live to their 80s
Gecko-inspired robot has grippers that could clean up space junk
Birds play sick jungle beat with drumsticks they make themselves
The greatest science show in the known universe
Planets in other star systems fit a puzzling pattern
Consciousness helps us learn quickly in a changing world
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Modified maize that kills with RNA is given go-ahead in the US
Senate bill could leave 22 million more without health insurance
Dams can lead the way to a better relationship with nature
Drone blowback: High-tech weapons come home to roost
Feedback: Behold, space socks. Never leave Earth without them!
Old Scientist: Want something new to worry about?
Tattoos: how the art gets under our skin
How to stay pro-tech when social media can eat young lives
Mary Somerville: Queen of 19th-century science
Open the floodgates: Designer deluges could save dammed rivers
Find the flow: Harnessing the incredible power of living fluids
The spongy fuel that's made from trees
ISIS is weaponising consumer drones and we can't stop them – yet
Google’s €2.4bn fine is small change - the EU has bigger plans
A fine-tuned universe may be controversial but can't be ignored
Women need a rosy outlook? Then give us reason to be optimistic
Video: science in a jar
Why your real age may be older – or younger – than your years
Nature and human nature intersect in a crowdsourced exhibition
New ransomware outbreak hits organisations around the world
Ozone layer recovery will be delayed by chemical leaks
Consciousness helps us learn quickly in a changing world
Can we count on utopian dreamers to change the world?
Chimps are not as superhumanly strong as we thought they were
SpaceX has launched and landed two rockets in one weekend
Peruvian monkey avoids stomach trouble by adding mud to its diet
More killer hail coming unless we curb global warming
Research on male animals prevents women from getting best drugs
Cyberattack on UK parliament exploited weak email passwords
Birds use cigarette butts for chemical warfare against ticks
Living near noisy roads could make it harder to get pregnant
Synthetic iris could let cameras react to light like our eyes do
Uranus's crooked, messy magnetic field might open and shut daily
Amputees control avatar by imagining moving their missing limbs
Google's multitasking neural net can juggle eight things at once
Bird eggs may be shaped by the way their mother flies
Trump's wise monkey environment plan: See no evil, hear no evil
If you want to be a mega philanthropist Jeff Bezos, take note
Google on track for quantum computer breakthrough by end of 2017
Special cells explain why cabbage and stress churn your guts
Italy’s drying lakes imperil rare shrimp species found only here
Weird amphibians found at record depth in dark underground lake
Oil-exploration airguns punch 2-kilometre-wide holes in plankton
Escape to the future with virtual reality
Volunteers teach AI to spot slavery sites from satellite images
Radio powered by your own sweat hints at future of wearables 
Don’t blame Instagram for the rise of botox and lip fillers
The Dos and Don’ts 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
Keep your stuff under lock and RFID
Feedback: The university offering a class on calling bullshit
Say it with feeling: The complex world of emojis
Can heightened empathy be a bad thing?
High-stakes hide and seek in the digital age
Would you give one of your kidneys to a stranger?
Gorgeous rainbow frogs come in different colours on every island
LA’s 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
World’s largest annual wildlife drowning boosts river ecosystem
Anxiety drug may prevent common virus that causes birth defects
Footballers move around pitch like chaotic particles in a fluid
Buckyballs mysteriously show up in cold space and warp starlight
Bizarre new deep-sea creatures discovered off Australian coast
Maths website stops you being ripped off by your flatmates
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 Musk’s Mars dream
Time to embrace our odd place in the cosmos, inside a huge void?
UK’s hunger for prawns is killing thousands of turtles a year  
Chinese satellite beats distance record for quantum entanglement
Wise elk learn to outsmart hunters and tell apart their weapons
How did London tower block fire spread so fast and kill so many?
Billion-dollar dams are making water shortages, not solving them
Projecting power: A new dance work makes darkness visible
Watch how spiders use sticky silk to win deadly wrestling match
DeepMind now learns from human preferences – 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 it’s 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 – 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
‘Devil weeds’ threaten wildebeest migrations in Serengeti
Cub photo raises hope for Europe's rarest and largest wild cat
Orbiting ‘space nation’ 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 Haiti’s beaches turned into laptop packaging
Smart jacket and VR headset let you pilot a drone with your body
DeepMind’s 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 Parkinson’s
Extreme plants thrive at 72°C in New Zealand's hot volcanic soil
This science fiction trip is delightful, confusing – 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 YouGov’s 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 Earth’s 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
There’s as much water in Earth’s 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
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Mass of a white dwarf star directly measured for the first time
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SpaceX launches first reused Dragon capsule full of research
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Drinking small amounts while pregnant may affect the baby’s face
Accelerating Antarctic crack will hasten calving of huge iceberg
Theresa May’s repeated calls to ban encryption still won’t work
Giant bumphead parrotfish begin mating in their hundreds
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Extinct species of Galapagos giant tortoise may be resurrected
Photos of human faces reassembled from monkeys’ brain signals
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LIGO’s third detection hints at how black hole binaries are born
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Tumour-tracking drug that kills cancer approved in the US
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Hello, Robot: The show that braves the future
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NASA mission into sun’s atmosphere named after astrophysicist
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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 you’re ill
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CRISPR causes many unwanted mutations, small study suggests
Sea stars filmed hunting squid and squabbling over eating it
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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
Saturn’s moons could reassemble after a cosmic smash-up
Nowcasting may help forecast big earthquakes in 53 major cities
Amazing pictures show cyclones swirling above Jupiter’s 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
Trump’s budget jettisons ‘irreplaceable’ marine mammals agency
Newly-evolved microbes may be breaking down ocean plastics
Giant octopus suffocates foolhardy dolphin that tried to eat it
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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
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Dust reveals giant black holes merging in galactic collisions
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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 Africa’s drought threatens iconic wildebeest migration
Win a stack of science books for foodies
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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
Trump’s 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
DeepMind’s 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 ‘alien megastructure’ 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 waves’ 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
Titan’s 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
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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
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Synthetic biology's ties to our humanity let it elude definition
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Corals that grow faster in warm water could beat climate change
Driest ten months in 100 years recorded in southern England
Pregnant rays tangled in trawler nets have small, sickly babies
Google DeepMind NHS data deal was ‘legally inappropriate’
UK may force charities to prove complementary therapies work
Memo to whoever lands the world's top health job – 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
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Remote Pacific island found buried under tonnes of plastic waste
Ladybird’s 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
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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
Vultures smear their faces in red mud which they use as makeup
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What is it like to be a robot for a day? Weird and wonderful
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Test combo could distinguish Alzheimer’s 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
Mussel gloop can be used to make wounds knit without any scars
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
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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
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A small class-action lawsuit could stop the US opioid epidemic
will polarise opinion on Trump's wall
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Fear is a killer: Nuclear expert reveals radiation's real danger
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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
Spray-on touch controls give an interactive twist to any surface
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 ostriches’ 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 ‘Neo’, the most complete skeleton of
Synthetic bone implant can make blood cells in its marrow
Parasitic robot controls turtle it’s 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
Wish you had a shorter workday? Here's why that's a bad idea
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 Wolfe’s 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-ray’s worth of radiation
Robot inspector helps check bridges for dangerous defects
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
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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
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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 Australia’s 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 don’t 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 people’s 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
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
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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
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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 sun’s 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
Marvel at the images from Cassini's first Grand Finale orbit
Will Google's groundbreaking health study really do any good?
DIY gun control: The people taking matters into their own hands
Desk traffic lights show when you're too busy for interruptions
Liberals are no strangers to confirmation bias after all
Cancer Drug Fund didn’t deliver value ‘to patients or society’
Mud DNA means we can detect ancient humans even without fossils
Did Goya get an autoimmune disease before his art went scary?
We could detect alien life by finding complex molecules
Does mind-hack tech mean your brain needs its own legal rights?
UK loses another court case over failure to tackle air pollution
Addicted to love? Craving comes in two forms, and both can hurt
Female dragonflies fake sudden death to avoid male advances
Robots taught to work alongside humans by giving high fives
Electric shocks could help you perfect your running technique
How to usher in an AI future with gain rather than pain
First look at images from Cassini's dive between Saturn's rings
Chimps pass on sponge drinking trick like a family tradition
First Americans may have been Neanderthals 130,000 years ago
New Super-Earth looks habitable and could reveal signs of life
Infrared telescope spots mystery flare-ups in distant galaxies
We still haven’t heard from aliens - here’s 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 nature’s 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
Moth’s disguise is so good, spiders love it instead of eating it
Typhoon Haiyan’s 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 – here’s 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
Google’s 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 Enceladus’s 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 won’t 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
Here’s what to expect from Saturday’s March for Science
Quickest we could visit another star is 69 years – here’s 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 partner’s food cravings
The five best exoplanets in the galaxy to check for alien life
Earth’s 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 it’s 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
California’s 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 night’s 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 Enceladus’s 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 world’s 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
It’s 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 Alzheimer’s risk approved for sale in US
Twisted semiconductors could help project moving holograms
We dream loads more than we thought – and forget most of it
Injecting virus into brain may relieve Parkinson’s 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 hosts’ 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 NASA’s 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
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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 – 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 they’re anonymous
Watching SpaceX’s 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 fish’s 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 don’t 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 €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 – 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
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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
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Inside knowledge: What's really going on in the minds of animals
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Implants let quadriplegic man drink from mug and feed himself
Trump signs executive order to reverse Obama’s 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
“They said I was peri-menopausal. It’s a miracle I got pregnant”
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 Titan’s 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 Saturn’s 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 – 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 world’s 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 Mbeki’s South Africa
This bird has flown: Unravelling the mysteries of bird migration
The beautiful bird corpses left by illegal Maltese sharpshooters
Quarter of California’s 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 ‘laughter’ 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 babies’ brains respond differently to gentle touching
These fish are evolving right now to become land-dwellers
Chimp filmed cleaning a corpse’s 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
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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 – 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 champion’s
UK announces extra funding for robotics and driverless cars
Machine learning reveals lack of female screen time in top films
Millions raised for women’s health after Trump’s 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 Trump’s budget proposal
Brain’s 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 – but it may not last
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Moon's hidden craters detected by gravity mapper
Humans control robots with their minds by watching for mistakes
Brain’s reward system earns researchers €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 friend’s 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-nam’s face
Autoimmune disorders linked to an increased risk of dementia
Gene therapy ‘cures’ 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 – 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 – 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 – should you buy them?
Snow will melt more slowly in a warmer world – 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
Technoaddicts: turn on, touch in, swipe out
Milking time at the den of deadly snakes
Anaesthesia: What really happens when the lights go out
The opposite birds: What wiped out the ancient rulers of the sky
How to dust a telescope’s 78-square-metre mirror with CO
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?
Cosmic uncertainty: Are there really just three dimensions?
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 – here’s 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
In China, this is science fiction's golden age
Try these simple mental tests to see if you're a good athlete
Winning words: Write us a sci-fi masterpiece in 48 hours
Having a cigarette may make your body crave coffee too
Strange futures, with air islands and dung radios
Morphing drone takes off like a helicopter, flies like a plane
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? Doesn’t look like it
There's no such thing as 'clean coal' – it’s 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 Enceladus’ icy plumes 25 years early
The EU’s 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 didn’t 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
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The 1830s seamstress who solved Aristotle’s 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 Australia’s 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 – why the change of tack?
Alarm as climate sceptic named head of US environment agency
Smart meter tracks when the kettle’s on to check grandpa’s 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 – but don’t 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 doesn’t 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 Alzheimer’s drug shows ‘virtually no chance of working’
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 – 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
Sperm whale's skin comes off during mass 'scratchathon'
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 shouldn’t be used for enhancement – yet
How to build better sex robots: stop making them look human
Honeybees let out a ‘whoop’ 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 Museum’s 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 Zealand’s ‘whale trap’ 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 ant’s butt and hitches a ride
AI learns to solve quantum state of many particles at once
Magnetic meteorites narrow down solar system’s 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 Europa’s 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 – 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
Everest is not the world's tallest mountain – and here's why
Smart-reading: How to read faster and comprehend more
Seeking refuge in the heat of the night
Age verification for online porn will be a security disaster
Massive lake drained for hydropower leaves dry bed and no fish
Women with a thicker brain cortex are more likely to have autism
Evolved instincts shaped democracy to resist bullies like Trump
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 – here’s why it won’t work
Printed ‘lab on a chip’ 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 it’s too late
Health insurer calls analysed for signs of disease in your voice
Internet ‘playground’ 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 ‘baby dragons’ 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 ‘see’ 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?
World’s 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
Bat-inspired robot swoops and dives like the real thing
Ant choosiness reveals they all have different personalities
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
£1 million prize for engineers who invented digital camera tech
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, the man who shaped biology and art
One time or another: Our best 5 theories of the fourth dimension
Essence of reality: Hunting the universe's most basic ingredient
Plant keeps moths captive inside its fruits for almost a year
Tiny spacecraft could brake at exoplanet using alien starlight
Ant choosiness reveals they all have different personalities
Completely paralysed people use thoughts to say they are happy
Long-lost continent found submerged deep under Indian Ocean
Trump’s 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
World’s 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
AI tracks your every move and tells your boss if you’re slacking
Goat plague wipes out 10 per cent of endangered antelopes
Being 'hangry' exists: why a lack of food can change your mood
Chimps beat up, murder and then cannibalise their former tyrant
Wood-burners: London air pollution is just tip of the iceberg
Yellow fever outbreak is killing off rare monkeys in Brazil
US scientists can look to Canada for ways to fight a crackdown
How almost-impossible video games can create euphoric moments
Planet Earth makes its own water from scratch deep in the mantle
Genetic fix can make mass-produced tomatoes taste great again
Metallic hydrogen finally made in lab at mind-boggling pressure
Memories can be disconnected – and it could help those with PTSD
Uber hasn’t taken taxi drivers’ jobs but has slashed their wages
How LSD affects the brain and creates its trippy effect
The world just ticked a bit closer to Doomsday thanks to Trump
Three ways to find your purpose in life and reap the benefits
AI agony aunt learns to dole out relationship advice online
More empathy isn't the right prescription to heal our planet
Giant flying reptile was top predator like a winged T. rex
Gene editing has saved the lives of two children with leukaemia
Gene-blocking therapy reverses Alzheimer's-like symptoms in mice
Earth’s water must have arrived here earlier than we thought
AI rivals dermatologists at spotting early signs of skin cancer
Dried-up slime could help microbes survive briny waters on Mars
Animals that grow designer organs for humans are a step closer
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No room for complacency over threats from space
We should have no beef with bureaucracy if it keeps food safe
Stretchy robotic suit reduces energy used to walk by 23 per cent
Feedback: RBS banks on a mind reading device for new hires
Give your old phone a new career as a remote eye
We need smarter ways to probe primate brains
How Moore’s microchip law is still shaping our world
Diaper tech: inspired by babies
Nappy tech: inspired by babies
I could speak a different language every week for a year
Embryonic education: How learning begins long before birth
Encryption wars: The privacy debate raging in your smartphone
Village's crane guests seen from a 'grain's point of view'
Should NHS limit spending on treatments for rare diseases?
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
The Alzheimer's problem: Why we are struggling to find a cure
Hit threatening asteroids' bright spots to deflect them
A meaning to life: How a sense of purpose can keep you healthy
Can IBM's principles for taming AI win over public doubts?
Starting periods at a young age is linked to early menopause
The folds in your brain may be linked to how neurotic you are
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 Yemen’s 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
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AI pilot helps US air force with tactics in simulated operations
Google’s 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
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A dash of hydrogen and methane could have kept Mars warm
Global sea ice has reached a record low – should we be worried?
Gut tissue wired up with nerves created in lab for first time
Fijian ants grow their own plant cities and farm tropical fruits
Unconscious brain training beats phobias without the stress
Projected sprite makes Shakespeare’s
Dutch police use augmented reality to investigate crime scenes
Flying machines and chickens: The art of thinking about science
Window to hell: Io's strongest volcano changes face as we watch
Google’s DeepMind AI can lip-read TV shows better than a pro
First ever lightning-mapping satellite set for take off
Are the US and China heading for a gene-editing ‘space race’?
Crowdsourced prime number could help solve a 50-year-old problem
Bleached corals in the Pacific have started bouncing back
Is new talk of interstellar drive too good to be true?
How can Facebook and its users burst the 'filter bubble'?
Girl with terminal cancer wins right to be cryogenically frozen
Kangaroo-bone nose piercing is oldest bone jewellery ever found
Dinosaur-killing asteroid turned planet Earth inside-out
Stopping brain protein from going rogue may prevent Alzheimer’s
Chinese tourist town uses face recognition as an entry pass
Masquerading spider looks like living and dead leaves at once
Watch some of the most endangered seals caught napping underwater
US healthcare still lags far behind other developed nations
Smart skin patch listens to your body sounds, from heart to gut
Energy-efficient engine turns waste hot water into electricity
Mystery cosmic radio blasts come with side of gamma rays
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China's space station now has insects, weeds and rice on board
New Zealand earthquake could trigger a mega-quake
The world needs scientific values more than ever
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This virtual-reality driving game aims to make you feel sick
Feedback: Oxygen in a can offers customers a peppermint puff
Old Scientist: Happily upholding ideals since issue number 1
Scurvy: A tale of the sailors' curse and a cure that got lost
Playing politics: exposing the flaws of nudge thinking
Hacker, the humpback whale who got tangled in an internet cable
World’s best navigators mostly come from Nordic countries
Pilot whales babysit each other’s young while swimming in groups
All UK doctors should join the call to decriminalise drugs
Synaesthetes who ‘see’ calendar hint how our brains handle time
Stanisław Lem: The man with the future inside him
The inventions of our lifetime, picked by the people who know
The world in 2076: That nuclear war was a bit of a bummer
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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 Alzheimer’s 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
Facebook’s tech boss on how AI will transform how we interact
2016 now looks dead set to become the hottest year on record
New Zealand’s latest earthquake could trigger a mega-quake
Bunnies eat toxic leaves to conquer Australia’s snowy peaks
Monday's bright supermoon will be closest to Earth in 68 years
‘I’m more confident’: Paralysed woman’s life after brain implant
First home brain implant lets ‘locked-in’ woman communicate
Primal fear can blinker our decisions, even in elections
Smallest sliver of time yet measured sees electrons fleeing atom
Trump’s 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 didn’t 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 DeepMind’s AI learns to play with physical objects
President Trump’s 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 – 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
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We must take the poison out of the 'shaken baby syndrome' debate
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Forget Trump and Brexit, let’s 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 – 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 they’re right
Exoplanet hunters are missing 75 per cent of two-star worlds
A wind turbine’s 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 ‘brain orgasms’ 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 universe’s 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
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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 Alzheimer’s
First Australians ate megafauna and used nets for hunting
Classic quantum experiment could conceal theory of everything
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If you value science, there’s 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
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When politics fills the language gap, can science be neutral?
I use the world’s biggest laser to recreate the inside of stars
Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began
Whale tales: The real-life Moby Dicks
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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 ‘see’ 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 world’s 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
World’s largest marine reserve agreed for Antarctica’s 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 – 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
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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
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Lab mice are sending us on a wild goose chase
The road to artificial intelligence: A case of data over theory
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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
‘Autism therapy helped my child speak’ – 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 – 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 – 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
Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ 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 Francisco’s 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
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Lab-made eggs will help people have children when they choose to
It’s fine to put a price on life, as long as it’s 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 – 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
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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
Whales’ 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 – 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
It’s 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
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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
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Exploding Samsung phone shows how risky lithium batteries can be
Could plan for new ‘nation in space’ 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
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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: ‘3-parent’ 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 b’s star transit leaves us in the dark
Algorithmic trading could be to blame for pound’s ‘flash crash’
Chimps, bonobos and orangutans grasp how others view the world
How brain cells move through newborn babies' brains
There’s 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 ‘finprinting’ 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
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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 – get over it
Feedback: Wheeling and dealing in a post-truth era
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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 – 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 ‘secretly scanned emails for a US government agency’
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 Gabon’s caves
Super-dim galaxy may be one of hundreds orbiting the Milky Way
Pangolins and parrots protected – 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 world’s 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 Uganda’s oil drilling bid
Rosetta's final landing spot on comet revealed in new image
Don’t 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 ancestor’s 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
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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 – we must act
Feedback: Investigators on the scent of missing Sardinian blood
Camera spots your hidden prejudices from your body language
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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: World’s first baby born with new “3 parent” technique
Swarm of voracious comb jellies threatens fish off Italian coast
Plumes spotted on Europa raise hopes that we can taste its ocean
Why tonight’s debate is ‘narcissist’ Trump v ‘liar’ 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 Europe’s 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 world’s first mandatory DNA sampling law
The oil and gas we have already tapped will take us past 1.5 Â°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
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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 turtle’s tail makes swinging crabs monogamous
Arctic ice melt is killing birds and will leave caribou stranded
reviews the Royal Society book prize winners
It’s time for a serious debate about head transplants
World's hardiest animal has evolved radiation shield for its DNA
Oil pipeline leak threatens Alabama river rich in unique species
Head transplant team's new animal tests fail to convince critics
China’s fancy for ‘aquatic cocaine’ could wipe out rare porpoise
New NASA budget could put asteroid-grabbing mission in jeopardy
Supernova extraordinaire might actually be a black hole's lunch
‘Alien megastructure’ star may be explained by interstellar junk
Quantum teleportation over 7 kilometres of cables smashes record
Grand project to unify global efforts to understand the brain
The warps in space that make Einstein's perfect cosmic accident
Tap-dancing songbirds drum with their feet to attract mates
Blind people use brain's visual cortex to help do maths
Win classic utopian and dystopian books from The Folio Society
Rattlesnakes silently shook their tails before evolving rattles
Snub-nosed monkeys are so inbred they may struggle to survive
Saturn’s rings may be from the whirl of a passing icy rock
Arctic summer sea ice melts to second lowest level ever recorded
Don't lose sleep over the claim that long naps may make you ill
Building blocks of memories seen in brains for the first time
The US isn’t giving away the internet – it never had control
Gaia's new star map will also reveal asteroids and dark matter
Kamikaze galaxy explodes after diving into the Milky Way 
Visions of utopia arrive in London from around the world
What you eat when you're sick may determine if you'll get better
China launches a space station and wants an even bigger one
UK approves controversial Hinkley C nuclear power plant
Doctors ‘nudged’ into prescribing far fewer antibiotics
Hawaiian crows can use sticks as tools but are nearly extinct
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Travellers warned of fatal tick-borne disease in Western Europe
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New Horizons discovery raises solar wind riddle around Pluto
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Asteroid assault on early planets was more like a gentle massage
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Exhibition seeks to put utopia in its place
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Star arrangement that hid for a decade spotted at galaxy’s heart
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Oil pipeline construction halted after Native American protests
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Blue Origin unveils big new rocket that will put humans in orbit
Full and new moons linked to timing of largest, deadliest quakes
Oceans given boost as nations agree to protect a third worldwide
Placenta’s alarm clock signals when it’s time for birth to begin
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 moon’s thin soil
Global treaty set to halt invasive species ravaging our oceans
Virgin Galactic returns to the skies two years after fatal crash
Doctors must let patients decide whether to take statins
World's first 'nanofish' could be used as guided drug missiles
White gulls dependent on ice are disappearing from the Arctic
Reform damaging prisons, or risk losing the fight against crime
Drones get first anti-laser lasers to stop being shot down
North Korea’s largest nuclear test still lacks missile capacity
Fear of vaccine safety is higher in Europe than in the US
CSI Eta Carinae: Clouds suggest odd star's history of violence
Paradise lost: we’ve destroyed most of the world’s wilderness
Hackers stealing and selling your health records must be stopped
Human activity means sharks are disappearing from the North Sea
Dark matter clumps may have punched through star stream
White killer whales were a legend – now they are everywhere
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This is why Apple got rid of the headphone jack on the iPhone 7
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NASA probe about to leave for asteroid Bennu and bring bits home
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Smart wristband tracks vital signs to keep truckers moving
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Artificial ovary may boost fertility and postpone the menopause
Boom time for whales in the Arctic driven by the loss of sea ice
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NASA probe about to leave for asteroid Bennu and bring bits home
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Warming strengthens typhoons that batter Asian coast
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Found: Philae lander finally spotted by Rosetta on comet 67P
NASA’s Juno probe snaps first images of Jupiter’s north pole
Giant panda off endangered list as China’s 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
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Stars burning strangely make life in the multiverse more likely
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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Zika vaccine trials begin – but fears remain over virus’s impact
Ancient rock formations could be oldest fossils on the planet
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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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Revealed: Google's plan for quantum computer supremacy
Elephants' footprints leave behind tiny oases for aquatic life
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Instagram posts can reveal depression before doctors diagnose it
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Slow-to-breed elephant hurtles towards extinction
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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
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Italy to test earthquake predictor to reduce deaths and damage
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Tale of world of supersmart spiders takes Clarke SF award
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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
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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
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Darwin and DNA: How genetics spurred the evolution of a theory
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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
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Interstellar probes will be eroded on the way to Alpha Centauri
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Magnitude 6 earthquake in Italy destroys towns and kills dozens
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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 world’s rarest cat in jungles of Java
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China’s drive to clean up its coal power, one plant at a time
Fluorescent jellyfish proteins light up unconventional laser
"Intersex" athlete Caster Semenya rightly free to run at Rio
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Synthetic supermicrobe will be resistant to all known viruses
Birds sing to their unborn chicks to warn them about hot weather
Blockchain grid to let neighbours trade solar power in Australia
UK childhood obesity plan is a spineless, worthless document
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Chemtrails conspiracy theory gets put to the ultimate test
Childhood obesity strategy stops short of banning junk food ads
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Bunnies helped a great civilisation in ancient Mexico thrive
How winning at cards can help you win at life
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Mystery of déjà vu explained – it's how we check our memories
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Newborn baby opioid addiction quadruples in US in 15 years
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Australian AI spots dodgy deals that look like money laundering
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US Air Force wants to plasma bomb the sky using tiny satellites
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LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase
President Perón, I'll give you fusion in a bottle
No-fly zone: Exploring the uncharted layers of our atmosphere
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Surfer physicist wins superparticle bet with Nobel laureate
Our biases get in the way of understanding human behaviour
Giant ancient supervolcanoes threw rock right across Australia
Oldest jewellery in East Asia is crafted 37,000-year-old shell
Marsupial lion’s primate-like forearms made it a unique predator
Scammer AI can tailor clickbait to you for phishing attacks
Plan to kill alien carp with herpes could suck life out of river
Plunging deep beneath the sea in a tiny sub to map the ocean
Life may have emerged not once, but many times on Earth
Decline of wild bee species in England linked to pesticide use
Scorchio! Earth's surface is the hottest it has been in history
Mystery of déjà vu explained – it’s how we check our memories
China launches world's first quantum communications satellite
NASA urged to rejoin the hunt for gravitational waves
Without oxygen from ancient moss you wouldn't be alive today
Are you a nice person? Brain scans can tell how generous you are
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
World’s oldest ocean crust dates back to ancient supercontinent
Black hole made in the lab shows signs of quantum entanglement
The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars
104-year-old cyclist named world's greatest centenarian athlete
Human-animal chimeras may be key to us living healthier lives
First wearable brain scanner to probe people with amazing gifts
Expensive drones take flying lessons from cheaper stunt doubles
How UN will check if illegal chlorine was used in Syria bombing
Polio back in Nigeria two years after being wiped out in Africa
Canadian meteorite may be first visitor from the Kuiper belt
How big is a proton? No one knows exactly, and that's a problem
Aphrodisiac virus makes plants super-attractive to bumblebees
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World’s oldest vertebrate is a shark that may live for 500 years
Cherry or rhubarb? Orangutan mixes tasty cocktails in its mind
LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase
Here's how to watch the great Perseid meteor shower tonight
US government wants more cannabis farms for science
Lead in Australia's drinking water is leaching from brass taps
Virtual reality helps eight paralysed people feel their legs
First real-time look at genes switching off in live human brains
Selfish dogs would rather play with a toy than help a human
First Americans must have arrived by sea, not via Alaska
How does people’s generosity around the world compare?
We have to recycle water on a massive scale – this is how we can
Physicists look to the future as new particle dream dies
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Parents giving unproven IQ-boosting drugs to kids with Down's
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US ban on some types of human-animal embryos could be lifted
More haste, less speed: Don't rush to publish premature theory
It's time we all became eco-warriors for water
Marconi forged today's interconnected world of communication
Rainbow cake mountains show stunning slices of colour
Quantum computing race heats up as trapped ions rival microchips
Feedback: Putin in his place
Cast into limbo, UK science is confronting Brexit uncertainty
We risk our lives daily to safeguard Virunga National Park
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How Tesla's batteries can change the solar power game
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Simple lab life makes an evolutionary leap in a few generations
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Whales dive slower and feed less in response to shipping noise
Green Olympic pool: perfect storm of sun, heat and still water?
Ocean worlds: Searching for life in the solar system's seas
Genius crow's tool-bending behaviour may be natural to its kind
Wasps stitch up spiders in silk nests where they are eaten alive
Can we reduce mass shootings by changing how they are reported?
Gluten-free water: surely that's not a real thing is it?
Plan to replant millions of trees in central England slows down
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IceCube telescope in Antarctica rules out sterile neutrinos
Dog sperm quality decline is blamed on pet food chemicals
Beyond Pokémon Go: augmented reality is set to transform gaming
US Air Force wants to plasma bomb the sky using tiny satellites
Just a few hours’ exercise a week makes your heart grow bigger
World’s longest lake is being depleted of life as waters warm
Warming seas linked to rise in cholera bacteria in Europe and US
Some of the earliest plants took root by growing up, not down
Triple-whammy drug kills parasites that make 20 million sick
Obamacare has already improved health of low-income Americans
Ice age fashion showdown: Neanderthal capes versus human hoodies
Triple signal of ‘alien megastructure’ star baffles astronomers
More than 60 per cent of coral reef in Maldives hit by bleaching
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Gene doping in sport could make the Olympics fairer and safer
Venus could have been habitable while life evolved on Earth
Elusive Arabian sand cat spotted after 10 years' disappearance
GM mosquito trial in Florida given the go-ahead by regulator
Small gas cloud caught blowing a huge bubble in the Milky Way
Libraries of plastic molecules could store huge amounts of data
School field trips to creationist Ark? Sink that idea right now
Mall tales: an artist's take on modern retail psychology
Physicists mourn as hinted particle vanishes in leaked LHC data
Counting genetic mutations predicts how soon you’ll get cancer
First evidence of legendary flood reveals China's origin story
Mystery of why some sunflowers track the sun across skies solved
AI reads your tweets and spots when you’re being sarcastic
Baby monkeys smile in their sleep - more so than human babies
What Donald Trump has said about science – and why he’s wrong
Being fat in middle age may shrink your brain’s white matter
Beyond drugs: the war on lifestyle disease needs new tactics
Giant honeybees may act like a collective lung to beat the heat
Found: brain switches that wake flies up and send them to sleep
Quantum computing race heats up as trapped ions rival microchips
July was bad news but I’m fine – so why do I feel so terrible?
Transgender Olympians in Rio don't have an unfair advantage
Banking is still risky business as usual despite new rules
Can polio success help India improve its public health?
Now you see me: true invisibility cloak impossible to build
America's last mammoths died of thirst on an Alaskan island
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We need a new secular approach to dignity
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Troll hunters: the Twitterbots that fight against online abuse
Feedback: It’s sheer madness to give up on MAD, says May
Iridium: story of a communications solution no one listened to
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Enter an ecologist's playground with the birdman of Wytham Woods
Have black holes hurled half the universe into the wilderness?
Does science undermine human rights?
Ghost particles may explain why gravity is so surprisingly weak
Crystal mimics brain cell to sift through giant piles of data
There could already be 40,000 people carrying Zika in the US
Record-breaking year shows Earth’s climate is in real trouble
Superfoods on trial: How can we know if they work?
Miracle meal or rotten swindle? The truth about superfoods
Videos reveal the Russian doll parasitic world of the deep seas
China's Jade Rabbit moon rover dead after 31 months on surface
First evidence birds nap in flight without dropping out of sky
Large carnivores under threat as prey they depend on decline
First diagnosis of dinosaur arthritis shows it lived in pain
Tolerance of smoke may have given us an edge over Neanderthals
Spatter from blood-soaked sponges could aid gun forensics
African ibis and South American coati among 37 on EU’s kill list
Fleet of robots could hunt for life on icy moon Enceladus
Gas halo flips galaxies from bright young things into has-beens
Could sex robots and virtual reality treat paedophilia?
July was bad news but I’m fine – so why do I feel so terrible?
Mathematicians finally starting to understand epic ABC proof
High Court backs campaign to fund preventative HIV drug on NHS
Pregnant women travel warning as Florida Zika cases rise to 14
The art of climate change impresses but doesn't go down a storm
America's last mammoths died of thirst on an Alaskan island
Indonesian fires sent huge smoke plume halfway around the globe
Child dies in anthrax outbreak linked to thawed reindeer corpse
Cactus bugs compensate for lack of weapons with bigger balls
Mysterious dark brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s and stress
Google firm hopes to control organs with electrical signals
The Pandora Effect: Why curiosity usually beats common sense
US police use machine learning to curb their own violence
California’s wildfires blaze on as communities evacuate
First locally transmitted Zika case confirmed in continental US
Ocean-cleaning sea bins will gobble up plastic waste to recycle
Now you see me: true invisibility cloak impossible to build
Autoimmune diseases may be side effect of a strong immune system
Deep-sea ecosystems still under threat despite UN protection
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Fossil tumour is oldest evidence of human cancer discovered yet
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Crows are first animals spotted using tools to carry objects
Theresa May reassures UK scientists in wake of Brexit fears
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CRISPR genome editing could save sight by tweaking DNA
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Done right, seabed mining could be environmentally friendly
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Baidu uses millions of users' location data to make predictions
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Most powerful obesity gene found so far adds 1.5 to BMI scores
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How lasers found gravitational waves – and could hunt for aliens
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Vast undersea eruption revealed by wiring up a sea-floor volcano
See beautiful magnetic liquids bloom into stunning shapes
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Alzheimer’s drug that failed trial may still slow disease
Orangutan learns to mimic human conversation for the first time
Hammerhead sharks roll over and swim sideways to save energy
You are junk: Why it’s not your genes that make you human
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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 sheep’s 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
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Neanderthal skulls and brains may have developed just like ours
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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
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California’s fires force evacuation of people and exotic animals
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2-minute guide to particle physics
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Hunting for Mars-like life a kilometre below Earth’s surface
Alcohol linked to at least seven cancers – 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
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Hubble telescope looks back in time to see far-off galaxies
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Dark matter no-show puts favoured particles on death row
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Bees spew water at their hive-mates when the temperature rises
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Meet the robot champion being house-trained in a Korean lab
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Storks dine out on giant landfill sites instead of migrating
Baidu uses millions of users' location data to make predictions
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First superatom molecules pave way for new breed of electronics
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Fossils, islands and forests added to UNESCO World Heritage List
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Hummingbirds’ unique way of seeing prevents them from crashing
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Russia engaged in 'state-directed' Olympic doping, finds probe
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Feedback: Things can only get better, claim UK politicians
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Male sand martin birds filmed having sex with a dead male
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Wild gorillas compose happy songs that they hum during meals
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Young, hotheaded stars could host habitable worlds
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Dark matter tops physicists' wish list, post-Higgs
Real
Texan creationism showdown may 'contaminate' textbook
Hairy black hole could show gaps in Einstein's theory
US federal shutdown puts key science functions on hold
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Hot Jupiters push exoplanet count over 1000 milestone
Mice get replacement glands, grown from scratch
UK will launch its own cyberattacks, not just defend
Hunting quantum gravity in the big bang's echoes
Infertile woman gives birth after boost to ovaries
SpaceX gets a rival – and tests novel reusable rocket
IPCC digested: Just leave the fossil fuels underground
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Glowing jester plane reveals invisible wind eddies
Predict the physics Nobel to win a trip to Germany
Climate report: How the science has moved on
Will push for global digital privacy treaty succeed?
Rockstar planet hunter: Genius award will free my brain
First physical evidence of why you're an owl or a lark
Light-bending black hole mimic is first you can watch
Glowing sperm go head to head in fight to be the daddy
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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
Mammals in fragmented forests die out within 25 years
Real Lives: Science journalist
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Pop-up island emerges from the sea after earthquake
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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
Fish oils don't boost brain power
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
Matchstick-sized sensor can record your private chats
Reverse ageing by boosting cells' energy factories
DNA-grabbing bacteria hint at early phase of evolution
First nanotube computer could spark carbon revolution
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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
It's never too late for a midlife crisis
Climate science: Why the world won't listen
Deadly lake turns animals into statues
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How do you look at art? Take part in an experiment
NASA revives Starshade to let Earth-like worlds shine
First vaccine for H7N9 may be too little, too late
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World won't cool without geoengineering, warns report
Apollo astronauts still have a problem - 45 years on
Vive le carbon tax: France to tax fossil fuels
Early humans saw black hole light in the night sky
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Pretty plankton needs your help
Just wiggle a fake finger to get rubber hand illusion
Robo-fishmonger uses 3D images to aim its knife
GPS antenna filters out noise to boost urban accuracy
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Stars' escape velocity shows how to exit the Milky Way
Date glitch delays Cygnus's rendezvous with ISS
Bye-bye Bambi: Eagle snags deer in ambitious attack
Green energy pays for itself in lives saved from smog
Overcome fears by manipulating memory as you sleep
Mexico's people hit by double whammy of tropical storms
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
Biomusic lets you dance to the beat of your own drum
Hawking: all we need to know
Colour-changing clothes could make tech fashionable
Warning sounded over three-parent IVF safety
Mystery deepens as Martian methane eludes Curiosity
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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
First silicon paper ushers in era of bendy electronics
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
New imaging shows Alzheimer's unfolding in live brains
Studying supervolcanoes in North Korea
Science for peace
One Per Cent
Phones track firefighters when the heat is on
Forget premiums: A peer-to-peer network will cover you
Warblers begin migrating after interbreeding
First silicon paper gives bendy electronics a boost
Genes linked to left-handedness identified
Herpes virus cleared from blood for first time
US dolphin deaths set to rise as migration begins
Universe's baby pictures suggest a bubbly birth
Mini drug factory churns out drugs from inside bone
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Voyager 1: still looking forward after all these years
It's time to let GM insects fly free
We think, therefore we are
What has the Higgs boson done for us?
Gravity ripples: The race to catch the next wave
What's brown and soggy and could save the world?
Dan Dennett's handy tools for easier thinking
Mind games: From Ancient Greece to Schrödinger's cat
Thoughts: The inside story
Enigma Number 1767
Manners maketh man: how disgust shaped human evolution
Grizzly cameraman snaps rare shots of swimming bears
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Underwater robot gliders are the eyes of the storm
Costa Concordia's rise to reveal seafloor legacy
Dinosaur in a wind tunnel tests feathered flight
Heatwave and wildfires worsened Colorado flooding
CDC warns of future catastrophic antibiotic resistance
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Halve emissions to avoid dangerous climate change
Australia's new government dumps science minister post
Russia commences Arctic naval patrols
Private space race takes off as new firm heads for ISS
Healthy living can turn our cells' clock back
Astrophile: Cosmic poltergeist messed up Milky Way
Whales record major life events in their earwax
New Syria sarin deal will need speedy UN checks
Floods engulf highways and homes in Colorado
Wristband monitors your rock-climbing prowess
Lost river guided early humans out of Africa
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Crack a comet to spawn the ingredients of life
Girl who feels no pain could inspire new painkillers
Genes linked to left-handedness identified
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Salvage of Costa Concordia wreck is most expensive ever
Opera therapy and beetle astronomy win Ig Nobel prizes
NASA says Voyager 1 has left the solar system, honest
Zoologger: Transformer insect has gears in its legs
Crispy frog photo-bombs LADEE moon launch
Touchscreen phones know it's you from taps and swipes
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Gold for chicken art project with our health in mind
Portable lab could guzzle Syria's sarin stockpile
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The matrix: the secret to superhealing regeneration
Cells inside a body reprogrammed to become stem cells
Grey wolf's future hinges on taxonomic row
The foreign language copycat catcher
One Per Cent
Gamers unleash swarms of nanoparticles on tumours
Automatic style spotter can spot your next book
Tough robo-challenge casts robots as rescuers
Mosquitofish are efficient lovers
Crime-scene DNA extracted from single hair
Earth's extreme life holds hints to Martian past
Heart of glass could be key to banking organs
Supergoop universe offers a window into glassy physics
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UK fracking could come out carbon neutral
What makes the purrfect pet?
Deep trawling: no plaice for complacency
Healing Syrian refugees' anguish
Feedback: Animating Shakespeare
The genes that make you a true individual
More than a feline: the true nature of cats
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
*Me* medicine could undermine public health measures
Is this the most extraordinary human brain ever seen?
3D-printed pump keeps damaged hearts beating in time
Predators learn to see through incredible camouflage
Coping with the lasting costs of the Syrian war
New UK banknotes could provide cosy home for bugs
Strength of gravity shifts – and this time it's serious
Vast supplies of groundwater found under Kenya
Nanotube-coated spider silk can sense your heartbeat
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
Old memories recombine to give a taste of the unknown
E-cigarettes help you quit as well as nicotine patches
How NSA weakens encryption to access internet traffic
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World's biggest volcano was born in the dinosaur age
Fiftieth anniversary of the day the Earth moved
We can rebuild you: Spare body parts made with matrix
Virgin Galactic ship shakes its space-flight feathers
The jets of air that can alter your emotions
Gravity movie shows the dark side of space flight
Quantum chip connected to internet is yours to command
Threatwatch: Syrian refugee flood brings many dangers
Solar system caught in an interstellar tempest
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The whole internet can't identify this mystery cocoon
Should babies have their genomes sequenced at birth?
Samsung launch kickstarts the smartwatch boom
Chemists' clever fakes are better than nature
Brain gyms can work – if they train one skill at a time
Forget roads – drones are the future of goods transport
Why a cyberwar won't happen
The rare red kites that keep blogs about their flights
Future factories let workers build a car from home
One Per Cent
Frugal science gets DIY diagnostics to world's poorest
Wrap brain in antibiotic film to protect after surgery
Martian chemistry was friendlier to life
Death by Higgs rids cosmos of space brain threat
Your genomic future: Personalised medicine is here
Stop global warming and save biodiversity? Yes, we can
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'Boring' Higgs has powers we never dreamed of
Biodiversity: Keep fighting the good fight
The right to genetic ignorance
Feedback: God Particles for sale
Higgs boson: At a crossroads
Higgs boson: What's next?
Higgs boson: A discovery
Higgs boson: Why do we need it?
Giraffes look gorgeous, even in decline
Play your way to evolutionary fitness
Chance inheritance: The subtle power of birth order
Penal code: The coming world of trial by algorithm
Voices from the past: Ancient secrets in today's words
Enigma Number 1765
Mind into matter: Where we end and the world begins
Moth-hunters prowling the English countryside
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NASA orbiter will use laser to bring broadband to moon
Fracking chemical leak kills threatened fish
Carbon dating shows ancient Egypt's rapid expansion
Japan will build wall of ice to stem Fukushima leak
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Wagtail battles itself in award-winning photo
Hobbyists tracked US spy satellites leaked by Snowden
How the US may try to destroy Syria's chemical weapons
Wristband unlocks your devices with your heartbeat
Zoologger: Miniature frog can hear with its mouth
Skin-eating fungus is wiping out fire salamanders
Victorian skiing holidays melted Alpine glaciers
Wanna watch your volcano danger zone? Go fly a kite
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Martian soup may have been tasty to early life
Whales tan too, basking in the big blue
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Spouse's voice easy to home in on… and easy to ignore
Walking shark moves with ping-pong paddle fins
Steep rise in drug harm – opioids the most deadly
Butterfly-wing electronics converts light to heat
Around the world with dark matter
Poverty can sap people's ability to think clearly
Bio-inspired speaker uses clear gel to play music
Reroute town's traffic to get emergency vehicles through
Astrophile: Milky Way's black hole is a picky eater
Whooping cranes learn migration from wise elders
Vast canyon discovered under Greenland ice sheet
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Boa constrictor swallows strangled monkey
Primordial broth of life was a dry Martian cup-a-soup
Fresh evidence emerges for superheavy element 115
Wasting time on Facebook? You're in for a shock
Mini human 'brains' grown in lab for first time
Meet the man writing a language to program life
Tae kwon do VR simulator to train UK Olympians
Firms unite to bring internet to billions of new users
One Per Cent
Auto-diary turns every action into part of your story
Biodiversity app logs insects by their telltale call
Swift treatment halves early death risk in HIV babies
Double blasts may have birthed exotic quark stars
Planet Earth was blue long before we knew
Whoa! How to rein in the US's wild horses
Why your brain may work like a dictionary
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Acid rain's surprising legacy in US rivers
Millions of Chinese at risk of arsenic poisoning
Are 'fire ice' methane hydrates the new fracking?
Feedback: Profitable protection
Did a bet on metal prices save the lives of millions?
The third factor: Beyond nature and nurture
Frozen fuel: The giant methane bonanza
Out of the shadows: Picking up hints of dark matter
The knockout enigma: How your mechanical brain works
Enigma Number 1764
NASA is turning science fiction into fact
Separating neuromyths from science in education
Surf's up for pack of hunting sharks
The rain in the Serengeti falls mainly on the lions
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Twitter reveals the happiest spots in New York
Syria: Drop medicines, not bombs
ButtonMasher: DIY video game tools put you in control
Iraq offers grim lessons for Syrian gas survivors
Wind and rockets key clues in Syrian chemical puzzle
Red sprites snapped dancing above a Nebraska storm
Yosemite Rim Fire is taste of things to come
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UK farmers start shooting badgers to prevent TB spread
Strike blinds the world's largest radio telescope
Japanese probe to sniff out why planets lose gases
Old Scientist: 50 years battling the waves
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
What forensics can say about Syria chemical attack
Should Fukushima's radioactive water be dumped at sea?
Bottoms up for a bird on a balance
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Fossil treasures from UK's museums showcased in 3D
Most precise clock to watch tiniest ever time dilations
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Carved ostrich egg is oldest depiction of the New World
How many uncontacted tribes are left in the world?
India plans to subsidise food for 800 million
Race against time to investigate Syria chemical attack
Astrophile: The iron planet with a 4-hour year
Spicy food on the menu 6000 years ago
Tweet success: How to boost your online impact
Star twinkles could help pin down planet sizes
Listen to the music of the drones to forecast weather
Twitter hashtags predict rising tension in Egypt
One Per Cent
Basketball sleeve knows you've hit the perfect shot
AI systems switch your energy bills to save you money
Drones tag and track quarry using nanoparticle sprays
Mind-altering drug could offer life free of heroin
Fresh interstellar travel plans inspire tech spin-offs
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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
Health myths: Being a bit overweight shortens life
Health myths: Antioxidant pills help you live longer
Health myths: Our bodies can and should be 'detoxed'
Health myths: Sugar makes children hyperactive
Health myths: Drink eight glasses of water per day
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
Fish need no refrigeration in Earth's coldest city
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Capturing alien auroras in a bottle
Gene clues may explain why Brandt's bat lives so long
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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'
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 – it's demeaning and dangerous
Ballooning size of world's second-largest refugee camp
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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
Twitter tracker shows where food poisoning is a risk
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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
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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
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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 – 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My so-called viral life: is discovery new life form?
Gut bacteria vital in evolution of new animal species
MERS is worrying – 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
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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
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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
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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 – 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
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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
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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
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New play shines light across time on women astronomers
Seabed sponge forest basks in ice-free Antarctic sun
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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
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30-kilometre ice crack makes PIG calve
Sensitive piano keys let pianists create new sounds
Bitcoin sells out as big business moves in
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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
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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
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-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?
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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
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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
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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
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What does the rise of green power mean for you?
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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
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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 – 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 – have you noticed?
Enigma Number 1754
Forget pandas – 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
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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?
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Court ruling on genes is a 'victory for common sense'
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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
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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
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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
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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 – 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
Ötzi 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?
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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
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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
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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
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Zoologger: The lyrebird that's a song-and-dance man
Heavy Einstein spaceship will leave a glamorous legacy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nasal spray could buy time in flu pandemic
How to test Weinstein's provocative theory of everything
Apple patents point to slimmer battery tech
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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
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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
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Phew! Earth won't end up as a Venus-like hell
Personal clouds let you take control of your own data
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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
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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 – why do we hate exercise?
Let them eat crickets – 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
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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
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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
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Thriving fungi at home on a human hair
Mindscapes: First interview with a dead man
Atomic weights revision changes periodic table
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Long may science continue to inspire poetry
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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
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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
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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
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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 – minus the camera
Zap the brain with electricity to speed up mental maths
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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
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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
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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 – forever
Face-reading system watches you watching ads
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Today on New Scientist: 24 April 2013
Smart dust computers are no bigger than a snowflake
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E-tattoo monitors brainwaves and baby bump
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Quantum effects get a weirdness scale
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Brazilian twist to tale of the first Americans
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Feedback: Read before you ride
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What outsiders can teach us about creativity
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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
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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
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Social media made Boston's bad news bad for health too
Not just athletes – 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
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Miracle mix looks like liquid but shatters like glass
Lab-grown kidney blazes trail for bespoke donor organs
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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
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It's time physics recognised that time is real
We can save Iraq's 'Garden of Eden'
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Heading south for the new origin of our species
Hints of oldest human skin found on ape-like ancestor
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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
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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
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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
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Time to get tough on the physiological causes of crime
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Smart heat nets fire the next energy revolution
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Satellites could be targeted to stop cyberattacks
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Brain imaging spots our abstract choices before we do
Republican voters want action on climate change
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Female great whites reveal long-range mating secrets
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NASA's next exoplanet hunter to launch in 2017
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Information technology in Africa: The next frontier
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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 – 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 – 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
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Our enduring love affair with 'flying jewels'
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The brain: Milestones of neuroscience
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Lost in translation: Body language myths and reality
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OMG – 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
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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
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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
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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
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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 – 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
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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
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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
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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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