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Nudge: You’re being manipulated 鈥� have you noticed?
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Earth
Farmed fish overtakes farmed beef for first time
For the first time in modern history, the world has been producing more farmed fish than farmed beef. It's not good news for the environment
News
Space
New NASA astronauts headed for destinations unknown
News
Health
New Zealand law permits ‘low risk’ designer drugs
News
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News
Technology
Google’s Project Loon to float the internet on balloons
News
Earth
China aims to slash its air pollution by 2017
News
Health
Syria has crossed chemical red line, says Obama
News
Health
Rapid evolution of tumours may be their Achilles’ heel
News
Physics
Cosmic preheating baked planets, stars and people
News
Earth
Up to half of all birds threatened by climate change
News
Physics
Wormhole entanglement solves black hole paradox
News
Health
World’s first baby born from ‘natural’ IVF
News
Space
New lease of life for hobbled planet-hunter Kepler
News
Life
Slime mould could make memristors for biocomputers
News
Health
US court ruling on breast cancer genes a mixed blessing
News
Earth
Inside Fukushima: Draining a radioactive flood
News
Environment
Naked mole rats reveal why they are immune to cancer
News
Physics
Single-atom light switch could probe quantum frontier
News
Technology
Echolocating app will let you map a room with sound
News
Technology
First glimpse of a single molecule dumping heat
News
Space
Astrophile: The runt of the galactic litter
News
Earth
Acidifying seawater sees oysters in race to grow shells
News
Environment
Zoologger: Bees create nest-quakes to warn of danger
News
Environment
Prehistoric armoured fish had the world’s first abs
News
Health
Heartbeat used to generate out-of-body experience
News
Technology
Virtual reality: Get your head in the game
News
Technology
Virtual reality: Live your dreams in real time
News
Technology
Simulated spaces
News
Technology
Virtual reality: Meet founding father Jaron Lanier
News
Technology
Virtual reality: Illusions help you explore on foot
News
Technology
Virtual reality display lets fire crews see in a blaze
News
Opinion
Humans
Nudge: The gentle science of good governance
Don't like having your mind stealthily manipulated? That's just another cognitive bias. We should welcome governance based on behavioural insights
Opinion
Health
The battle to find a cure for every cancer is evolving
Opinion
Technology
Virtual reality: It’s time for garage inventors again
Opinion
Earth
Does habitat replacement let developers off the hook?
Opinion
Environment
Forget pandas 鈥� ugly animals should be protected too
Opinion
Health
Court ruling on genes is a ‘victory for common sense’
Opinion
Humans
Nudge: When does persuasion become coercion?
Opinion
Features
Humans
Nudge: You’re being manipulated 鈥� have you noticed?
A mass experiment is under way to change your behaviour for the better. If it's working properly, you鈥檝e probably barely noticed
Features
Humans
Nudge: How the subtle revolution is improving society
Features
Earth
Electric Avenue: When the people have the power
Features
Physics
Ultimate chill: The epic race to reach absolute zero
Features
Life
Jumbo challenge: How elephants keep their cool
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Space
Mars fans vote to immortalise Curiosity rover in Lego
A model of Curiosity is the latest of the many Lego space kits: it was demanded by thousands of space fans and designed by an engineer from the real Mars rover
Regulars
Enigma Number 1754
Regulars
Health
The diagnosis of mental illness needs its own therapy
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