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Smart heat nets fire the next energy revolution

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Mystery cancer: Inside the villages of the damned

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Free for all? Lifting the lid on a Wikipedia crisis

Humans

How flower power paved the way for our evolution

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快猫短视频

Earth

Republican voters want action on climate change

Just 35 per cent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents support the party's stance on climate change, according to a new poll

Space

Obama will reveal $100-million plan to seize asteroid

Technology

What can North Korean missiles hit? Can we stop them?

60 Seconds

Health

US women can get morning-after pill over the counter

Space

NASA’s next exoplanet hunter to launch in 2017

Earth

Nervy flyers be warned: warming will boost turbulence

Health

Cost of cuts: Austerity’s toxic genetic legacy

Physics

Twist in dark matter tale hints at shadow Milky Way

Physics

Going underground in search of dark matter strikes

Health

China bird flu may be two mutations from a pandemic

Health

Interspecies telepathy: human thoughts make rat move

Humans

Stone tools helped shape human hands

Health

Transparent brains make neuroscience clearer

Earth

Sea urchins evolving to cope with ocean acidification

Space

Saturn’s rings leave ghostly imprint on atmosphere

Environment

Female great whites reveal long-range mating secrets

Space

Astrophile: Nude crashing stars spark radiation bursts

Health

What we exhale is unique to us 鈥� our ‘breathprint’

Life

Baby dinos pumped their muscles inside the egg

Humans

Woman WLTM tall, broad man. Big penis preferred

Health

Red meat boosts gut bugs that raise heart disease risk

Physics

Little ripples make syrup stringy

Technology

Virtual traveller: Beam a live, 3D you into the world

Technology

Online juries help curb bad gamer behaviour

Technology

Linked smartphones catch the action from all angles

Technology

Wikipedia can help give news junkies their fix

Opinion

Margaret Thatcher’s legacy in British science

The late prime minister Margaret Thatcher raised the alarm about global warming 鈥� but British science funding has never recovered from her governments' cuts

Health

The hidden costs of austerity

Health

We must wake up to the threats of new chemical weapons

Humans

Use the internet to defuse gang culture

Technology

Satellites could be targeted to stop cyberattacks

Analysis

Technology

Map of the internet could make it stronger

The most comprehensive maps yet of the the internet's infrastructure could help shore it up against disasters and sabotage

Aperture

Orange-lipped teenager relaxes after clay lick

This shot of a wild bonobo was taken after she had eaten orange clay to neutralise plant toxins

Features

Earth

Smart heat nets fire the next energy revolution

Waste heat costs us billions and messes with our climate 鈥� now there's a grand plan to round it up and put it to work

Health

Mystery cancer: Inside the villages of the damned

Technology

Free for all? Lifting the lid on a Wikipedia crisis

Humans

How flower power paved the way for our evolution

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Enigma Number 1744

Time to get tough on the physiological causes of crime

Regulars

Environment

Feedback: Conspiranoid swapshop

Fashionable conspiracies, gone phishing, DNA database for dogs, and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

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