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Earth

Gaia’s comeback: How life shapes the weather

Technology

Civic hackers: Techies volunteer to rescue government

Earth

Blast from the past: Solving the Tunguska mystery

Health

Workouts are no antidote to death by desk job

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Indian flood deaths blamed on ‘mindless’ construction

Construction in flood zones, slope deforestation and climate change mean devastating floods in India are likely to repeat

Space

NASA launches new telescope to solve sun heat mystery

Physics

Mathematicians think like machines for perfect proofs

Earth

Wild Alaskan weather intensifies climate debate

60 Seconds

Earth

Go green to profit from environmental change

Life

Three habitable worlds found around the same star

Technology

Submarine internet cables are a gift for spooks

Health

How to grow human spare organs inside pigs

Physics

New signs of language surface in mystery Voynich text

Physics

Tabletop accelerator shoots cheap antimatter bullets

Earth

Want fewer hurricanes? Pollute the air

Health

Evidence that Tamiflu reduces deaths in pandemic flu

Life

Oldest animal genome is sequenced from horse bone

Health

Genetic medicine hints at bloodletting for astronauts

Physics

Is missing ‘partial’ neutrino a boson in disguise?

Earth

Erosion helps keep mountains standing tall

Health

Nerve grafts let paralysed rats pee again

Physics

What a new jumbo particle reveals about extreme matter

Humans

Ready, aim, throw! Lobbing rocks key to meat-eating

Humans

Expectation alone turns a rubber hand into a ‘real’ one

Health

Give picked veg some light to make it better for you

Environment

Zoologger: Pilot whales cuddle in the abyss

Mind

Mechanical eye will help wine-makers improve vintages

Humans

AI makes social game characters all too human

Technology

Wi-Fi-hopping brings phone signal to remote villages

Health

Video system detects pulse from tiny head movements

Technology

Bloodhound robot navigates by its sense of smell

Opinion

Health

Don’t stop stockpiling Tamiflu

The campaign against Roche's controversial anti-flu drug is not based on the best available evidence

Health

Don’t take life sitting down

Health

Human-animal hybrids mean boom time for bioethicists

Earth

Europe’s carbon tax is down but not out

Technology

Why I’ve built a search engine that doesn’t follow you

Health

My life goal is to cure colour blindness

Analysis

Health

Brazil uprising points to rise of leaderless networks

Recent riots in places like Brazil and Turkey behave like a contagious disease 鈥� and conditions are perfect for their spread

Technology

Multi-shot video can identify civil rights abusers

Aperture

Life

Peaceful passenger pigeon waits for resurrection

There were once 5 billion passenger pigeons in the US, but hunting drove them to extinction in just decades. Could genetic techniques bring them back?

Features

Earth

Gaia’s comeback: How life shapes the weather

The world would be warming even faster if forests weren't calling in the clouds. Could it be that Gaia is not so helpless after all?

Technology

Civic hackers: Techies volunteer to rescue government

Earth

Blast from the past: Solving the Tunguska mystery

Health

Workouts are no antidote to death by desk job

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Enigma Number 1755

Technology

Citizen scientist: Out of the lab and onto the streets

Regulars

Feedback: Holy breadsticks

Holy edibles, marketing fraud, marketing fraud and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The nose knows

Chocolate medals

Metallergy

Trick photography

Stick in the mud

Big blue

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