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Earth
Central Europe floods portend a wet future
As rising waters sweep through Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic, scientists say Europe must prepare for waterlogged years ahead
News
Environment
Turtle conservationist murdered in Costa Rica
News
Earth
Monsanto modified wheat mystery deepens in Oregon
News
Space
Fast-approaching asteroid has its own small moon
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Fukushima radiation caused little damage to health
News
Earth
Battle Los Angeles: the fight to stop urban fracking
News
Space
Asteroid miners unveil first crowdfunded space scope
News
Environment
Our earliest primate cousin discovered in Asia
News
Life
Hungry algae may explain how plants became green
News
Physics
How to test Weinstein’s provocative theory of everything
News
Earth
Egypt’s city of bean counters suffered flash floods
News
Health
Antibody wakes up T-cells to make cancer vanish
News
Earth
Carbon emissions helping to make Earth greener
News
Physics
Time cloak hides events by splicing them movie style
News
Humans
Finding the players in the symphony of IQ genes
News
Space
Earliest galaxies were powered by ‘obese’ black holes
News
Health
Nasal spray could buy time in flu pandemic
News
Environment
Starfish sacrifice arms to beat the heat
News
Health
Avatar helps schizophrenics stand up to voices in head
News
Space
Elderly suns rip their closest planets to shreds
News
Earth
Mon dieu! French wine is from Italy
News
Life
Zoologger: The sea cow with super-sensing hairs
News
Space
Return trips to Mars pose unacceptable radiation risk
News
Health
Mind-controlled exoskeleton lets paralysed people walk
News
Earth
Old smartphones called in to save Indonesian forests
News
Health
Photo of your face is all it takes to predict your BMI
News
Technology
Remembering objects lets computers learn like a child
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Graffiti codes let you surf with a wave of your phone
News
Opinion
Technology
Time we all learned how to program the world we want
The next generation of programming languages will put computation directly into the hands of people who can use it best
Opinion
Earth
Is Earth’s orbit scarily close to Venus’s sultry zone?
Opinion
Fear of unemployment is rational, despite low figures
Opinion
Life
‘We will be amazed by the diversity of exoplanets’
Opinion
Humans
A biological basis for free will
Opinion
Features
Humans
Mind readers: How we get inside other people’s heads
Humans have an impressive ability to take on other viewpoints – it's crucial for a social species like ours. So why are some of us better at it than others?
Features
Technology
Binary babel: Fixing computing’s coding bugs
Features
Life
Goodbye, Goldilocks? The untimely end of life on Earth
Features
Life
Dawn of the water eaters: How Earth got its oxygen
Features