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Humans

Stupidity: What makes people do dumb things

Technology

Lost in the cloud: How safe are your online possessions?

Earth

Atmospheric rivers: When the sky falls

Humans

Migration mystery: Who were the first Americans?

Table of contents

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Apollo moon mission engines rise from the ocean floor

Rockets that sent people to the moon have just been pulled from the bottom of the sea as part of an effort led by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos

Health

Anti-doping agency warns athletes of black market drug

Technology

US to regulate Bitcoin currency at its all-time high

Earth

Bees to have their day in court over insecticide use

Shapely algebra and string theory makes millionaires

60 Seconds

Environment

Fake caviar threatens existence of dino fish

Earth

US soldiers sue over Fukushima radiation exposure

Physics

Planck map reveals birth, life and death of a cosmos

Health

Gene therapy cures leukaemia in eight days

Earth

Master gene helps weeds defy all weedkillers

Health

Quality control opens path to synthetic biology’s Ikea

Health

How a surgeon installs seizure sensors inside a skull

Earth

Zoologger: The changing face of the lion

Health

Women abused as children likelier to bear autistic child

Space

Outcast black holes surround the Milky Way

Life

Books expose the rise of the emotionless zombies

Health

New malaria drug packs a triple punch

Physics

Information superhighway approaches light speed

Earth

Europe to be battered by Sandy-style superstorms

Life

Bigger isn’t always better for becoming multicellular

Space

Astrophile: Snapshot of a two-faced Tatooine world

Health

Brain circuits uniquely disrupted in Gulf War syndrome

Technology

Crowd-sensing apps tap every stranger’s eyes and ears

Health

Digital shrinks find depressed faces and body language

Technology

Smell-o-vision screens let you really smell the coffee

Opinion

Humans

Time to get smarter about stupidity

If we want to avoid repeating past mistakes, we must acknowledge that even the brightest people can do monumentally daft things

Physics

Planck cosmos and LHC’s Higgs: Hurray for big science

Earth

Ships must kill off the beasties in the ballast water

Physics

It is time to train atoms to do what we want

Space

Nobel physicist: Give people a one-way ticket to Mars

Analysis

Health

Robo-surgeon da Vinci faces lawsuits

Robot surgery can mean less blood loss, smaller scars and quicker recovery time, but what if there are complications?

Aperture

Cherry-blossom volcano spews forth lava and lightning

Sakurajima volcano, on the southern tip of Japan, is almost constantly erupting鈥€� and sometimes there's accompanying lightning

Features

Humans

Stupidity: What makes people do dumb things

Human intelligence varies astonishingly. Why didn鈥檛 evolution make us all geniuses, and why do even those with high IQ act like fools?

Technology

Lost in the cloud: How safe are your online possessions?

Earth

Atmospheric rivers: When the sky falls

Humans

Migration mystery: Who were the first Americans?

More

Enigma Number 1742

Time for economics to shed its fanciful past

Technology

Real life with robots in 20 and 200 years

Has technology forced us into a ‘present shock’?

Regulars

Feedback: Which part of ‘partial zero’ don’t we get?

Partial zero, elephant sizing, quantum icing and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Get up, sit down

Feel the heat

Chocolate medals

Worm wouldn’t?

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