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Thirsty clean energy may add to water stressed world
The US energy grid is poorly equipped to survive droughts, and switching to renewable energy won't necessarily solve the problem
News
Health
Inside the industry supplying millions of mutant mice
News
Space
Neptune’s strange new moon is first found in a decade
News
Health
Supplements fingered in sprinters’ positive dope tests
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Air pollution kills over 2 million people each year
News
Earth
China and the US agree a deal on slowing emissions
News
Earth
Sun’s quiet spell not the start of a mini ice age
News
Humans
First look into workings of the Neanderthal brain
News
Humans
Go-carting babies reveal origin of fear of heights
News
Health
Obesity gene makes you fat by keeping you hungry
News
Space
NASA urged to seek live Martians with 2020 rover
News
Physics
Sound waves levitate and mix floating drops of liquid
News
Earth
Fight to preserve pristine Antarctic ecosystem stalls
News
Health
People in their 90s are getting smarter
News
Health
Chromosome that causes Down’s silenced for first time
News
Environment
Chimps have experimented with sex more than humans
News
Earth
Dam! Beavers have been busy sequestering carbon
News
Technology
Virtual avatar lets you experience being a 4-year-old
News
Space
Astrophile: Searing hot exoplanet is an unearthly blue
News
Environment
Zoologger: Traitorous fish throw friends to the wolves
News
Health
Fungus foray: Which London tube line is mouldiest?
News
Physics
Fragility of entanglement no bar to quantum secrets
News
Earth
Volcano’s screams may explain eruption’s awesome power
News
Space
Solar system has a tail shaped like a four-leaf clover
News
Technology
Digital camera add-on means the light’s fantastic
News
Technology
Lines on the face help pick out the twin who dunnit
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Biometric touchscreen recognises prints for first time
News
Opinion
Humans
Gene breakthrough shows Neanderthals in new light
Neanderthals have had a bad press, but with the first look at gene activity in their brains, their reputation is going from strength to strength
Opinion
Health
No evidence behind British cigarette pack decision
Opinion
Technology
Don’t think and drive or you’ll crash
Opinion
Technology
Hands on the wheel, mind on the road – not cyberspace
Opinion
Humans
To create a robot with common sense, mimic a toddler
Opinion
Life
Rules of evolution go a bit random if you’re small
Opinion
Features
Physics
Particle puzzle: Honey, I shrunk the proton
Curious goings-on at the heart of the atom may be pointing to a new force of nature
Features
Earth
Storm warning: The winds of climate change
Features
Life
A tall tale: How the sauropod got its neck
Features
Life
How the ‘youth bulge’ can make or break a country
Features
Culture
Space
Holiday reading: The dark glamour of astronomy
If your holiday takes you under dark skies, you might want a novel with astronomy at its heart: try The Movement of Stars, Equilateral or The Falling Sky
Culture
Holiday reading: Gorge on the mistakes of others
Culture
Holiday reading: The latest scientific must-reads
Culture