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Out of Asia: Our surprising origins

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Space

New satellite sail is propelled by solar protons

Here's a repulsive idea: a newly launched satellite is propelled using a super-thin thread of positively charged string that repels protons fired out by the sun

Earth

Keystone’s pipeline cousins come under scrutiny

Technology

3D-printed gun’s first shots spark calls for ban

Health

Make HIV testing routine, US health task force says

Space

Mars rover wakes up, gets better laser aiming

Health

Drug for autism makes people more sociable

60 Seconds

Environment

The swarm: stand by for the deafening cicada orgy

Health

How a scientific DSM will transform psychiatry

Humans

European and Asian languages have one mother tongue

Health

US invokes emergency act to keep H7N9 flu at bay

Earth

Earth’s crust had a billion-year youthful rampage

Health

Meditation boosts genes that promote good health

Physics

Iron nanocrystal shape-shifts to get out of a jam

Health

Brain implant gives early warning of epileptic seizure

Earth

New York at high risk of alien invasions

Space

New type of supernova born in stellar smash-up

Environment

First land animals kept their fish faces

Earth

Painted turtles set to become all-female

Space

Astrophile: Diamond planets get even more precious

Space

Supersonic cosmic winds blew up giant galactic bubbles

Health

Silver nanoparticles provide clean water for $2 a year

Environment

Zoologger: The hibernating lemur that feeds on its tail

Health

Mindscapes: The woman who can’t recognise her face

Technology

World’s largest events database could predict conflict

Technology

Expired emails provide easy route to Facebook hacking

Technology

One Per Cent: Robot, dress thyself

Environment

Gliding robot mimics flying fish

Opinion

One manual shouldn’t dictate US mental health research

The new edition of the DSM "bible" is so flawed that the US National Institute of Mental Health is right to abandon it, says eminent psychiatrist Allen Frances

Predictive power won’t take away the big decisions

Earth

Bees need Europe’s pesticide ban, whatever the UK says

Physics

Nothing to see: The man who made a Majorana particle

Earth

When disaster strikes, it’s survival of the sociable

Analysis

Technology

Hunt for car bombs using lasers

A system uses lasers to detect traces of explosives left on car door handles by would-be bombers

Aperture

Technology

Fanning the flames: House burns in wildfire simulation

Many people think wildfires burn right up to the house and then burn the place down 鈥� in fact, homes are destroyed by embers, as fires in a research chamber show

Features

Physics

Dark energy is still the greatest cosmic mystery

A new field, a new force, the power of our own ignorance? It鈥檚 two-thirds of the cosmos but it just keeps us guessing

Environment

Lone wolf: The beast that shouldn’t have been

Humans

Out of Asia: Our surprising origins

Health

Pain ray: The US military’s new agony beam weapon

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Enigma Number 1748

Humans

What does it mean to be posthuman?

Life

How science takes the Bible to bits

Postdoc payday: Salaries for fellows are on the up

Regulars

Feedback: Light up your brain

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Smelling double

Water stones

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