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快猫短视频

Space

Strike blinds the world’s largest radio telescope

The ALMA observatory has stopped taking data due to a worker's strike spurred by the extreme conditions in Chile's remote Atacama desert

Technology

X Prize for genomes cancelled before it begins

Space

NASA seeks takers for moon-mission launch pads

Life

How many uncontacted tribes are left in the world?

Health

Millions of Chinese at risk of arsenic poisoning

Earth

Acid rain’s surprising legacy in US rivers

60 Seconds

Earth

Yosemite Rim Fire is taste of things to come

Health

Wind and rockets key clues in Syrian chemical puzzle

Health

Iraq offers grim lessons for Syrian gas survivors

Earth

Should Fukushima’s radioactive water be dumped at sea?

Humans

Why your brain may work like a dictionary

Earth

Whoa! How to rein in the US’s wild horses

Earth

Planet Earth was blue long before we knew

Physics

Most precise clock to watch tiniest ever time dilations

Space

Double blasts may have birthed exotic quark stars

Earth

Acidifying oceans will heat the planet more

Space

Astrophile: The iron planet with a 4-hour year

Life

Time-lapse footage shows snail embryo in high gear

Health

Spouse’s voice easy to home in on鈥� and easy to ignore

Health

Swift treatment halves early death risk in HIV babies

Health

Mini human ‘brains’ grown in lab for first time

Life

Spicy food on the menu 6000 years ago

Environment

Biodiversity app logs insects by their telltale call

Technology

Auto-diary turns every action into part of your story

Technology

One Per Cent

Humans

Tae kwon do VR simulator to train UK Olympians

Opinion

Earth

Are ‘fire ice’ methane hydrates the new fracking?

If schemes to extract gas from icy cages beneath the oceans are successful, don't be surprised to hear scare stories from people with vested interests

Health

Syria: Drop medicines, not bombs

Technology

ButtonMasher: DIY video game tools put you in control

Humans

Separating neuromyths from science in education

Space

NASA is turning science fiction into fact

Life

Meet the man writing a language to program life

Analysis

Technology

Firms unite to bring internet to billions of new users

Mark Zuckerberg's lofty ambition of bringing connectivity to the "next 5 billion" people is backed by big companies, but will it get off the ground?

Aperture

Life

Surf’s up for pack of hunting sharks

A unique shot of lemon sharks hunting in a group shows why respect is growing for this maligned group of animals

Features

Humans

The knockout enigma: How your mechanical brain works

Your neurons are whirring with movement like clockwork. Understanding how it works may give us a new way to tinker with the brain

Physics

Out of the shadows: Picking up hints of dark matter

Earth

Frozen fuel: The giant methane bonanza

Environment

The third factor: Beyond nature and nurture

Culture

Earth

Did a bet on metal prices save the lives of millions?

Paul Sabin reveals the huge repercussions of a wager in The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and our gamble over Earth's future

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Feedback: Profitable protection

Save yourself from remote brain manipulation, official pickpockets, super supersize coffee, and more

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