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Humans

Not like us: Artificial minds we can’t understand

Earth

Frack on or frack off: Can shale gas save the planet?

Health

Fight for the right to stem cells

Earth

Solar superflares: A new danger from the sun

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Earth

Fracking could accelerate global warming

With the row over fracking reaching the UK, leading climate scientists are warning that its ability to combat climate change might be illusory

Earth

Fukushima leaks will keep fisheries closed

Health

Colombia first country to eliminate river blindness

Health

Uruguay vote moves the country towards legal cannabis

Space

Space station poised to launch open-source satellites

Health

Henrietta Lacks’ genome to be open to all

60 Seconds

Earth

Arctic ice grows darker and less reflective

Humans

Ability to perceive minds of others emerges in robot

Earth

What’s the beef? Cultured meat remains a distant dream

Health

Cells that help you find your way identified in humans

Health

Astronaut twins could reveal genetics of space health

Life

Sense of smell has a genetic flavour

Earth

Climate change may make civil wars much more common

Humans

Arabian flights: Early humans diverged in 150 years

Health

Maths quiz helps paralysed people talk with their eyes

Earth

Asteroid pinpointed as likely source of Russian meteor

Environment

Forget doggy paddle – apes prefer breaststroke

Physics

Light makes crystals leap 1000 times their own length

Health

Poor sleep makes food more appealing

Physics

Giant clouds of lead glimpsed on distant dwarf stars

Life

Headbanging termite drummers sound the alarm

Health

Tracking the viruses that cause the ‘Hajj cough’

Health

Genetic discovery links autism and schizophrenia

Environment

Zoologger: Quail whip up a lovely sperm meringue

Technology

Keep tags on your stuff and never lose it again

Technology

Meshnet activists rebuilding the internet from scratch

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

Robot face lets slime mould show its emotional side

Technology

After tweeted rape threats, Twitter promises change

Opinion

Health

Whose stem cells are they anyway?

Patients are right to question government control of their body parts. It鈥檚 time for a shake-up

Earth

The fracking debate needs more light, less heat

Technology

Technical tweaks won’t stop online abuse

Health

Ban boxing 鈥� it’s demeaning and dangerous

Health

If it isn’t life-threatening, don’t call it cancer

Earth

An unearthly answer to the lightning enigma

Aperture

Earth

Ballooning size of world’s second-largest refugee camp

Zaatari refugee camp has grown from almost nothing to a population of more than 140,000 in a year, as refugees pour in from neighbouring Syria

Features

Humans

Not like us: Artificial minds we can’t understand

We have created a completely new form of intelligence, though no human can fathom how it thinks and reasons

Earth

Frack on or frack off: Can shale gas save the planet?

Health

Fight for the right to stem cells

Earth

Solar superflares: A new danger from the sun

Culture

Physics

The making of Niels Bohr

Art's effect on science isn't always clear, shows Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom by Finn Aaserud and J.鈥塋. Heilbron

Physics

An elementary history lesson

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Enigma Number 1761

Regulars

Feedback: Pink quinine mystery solved

Too stupid to post, ever-enlarging cats, small print for eye tests and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Back to the future

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