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Physics

Higgs boson: What’s next?

Physics

Higgs boson: A discovery

Physics

Higgs boson: Why do we need it?

Physics

Higgs boson: At a crossroads

Humans

Voices from the past: Ancient secrets in today’s words

Technology

Penal code: The coming world of trial by algorithm

Health

Chance inheritance: The subtle power of birth order

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Earth

Fracking chemical leak kills threatened fish

Chemicals used in the controversial gas extraction process spilled into a river in 2007, wiping out the local population of the vulnerable blackside dace

Space

Hobbyists tracked US spy satellites leaked by Snowden

Health

How the US may try to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons

Life

Skin-eating fungus is wiping out fire salamanders

60 Seconds

Space

NASA orbiter will use laser to bring broadband to moon

Earth

Japan will build wall of ice to stem Fukushima leak

Health

Steep rise in drug harm 鈥� opioids the most deadly

Earth

Stop global warming and save biodiversity? Yes, we can

Health

Your genomic future: Personalised medicine is here

Physics

Death by Higgs rids cosmos of space brain threat

Martian chemistry was friendlier to life

Earth

Vast canyon discovered under Greenland ice sheet

Health

Wrap brain in antibiotic film to protect after surgery

Life

Whales tan too, basking in the big blue

Technology

Bio-inspired speaker uses clear gel to play music

Life

Whooping cranes learn migration from wise elders

Health

Brain gyms can work 鈥� if they train one skill at a time

Earth

Victorian skiing holidays melted Alpine glaciers

Humans

Poverty can sap people’s ability to think clearly

Space

Astrophile: Milky Way’s black hole is a picky eater

Technology

Wristband unlocks your devices with your heartbeat

Health

Frugal science gets DIY diagnostics to world’s poorest

Technology

One Per Cent

Environment

The rare red kites that keep blogs about their flights

Opinion

Health

The right to genetic ignorance

People should be free to choose whether to be informed about risk factors in their genomes, or those of their children

Earth

Biodiversity: Keep fighting the good fight

Physics

‘Boring’ Higgs has powers we never dreamed of

Technology

Why a cyberwar won’t happen

Technology

Forget roads 鈥� drones are the future of goods transport

Humans

Mind into matter: Where we end and the world begins

Analysis

Technology

Future factories let workers build a car from home

Machines that can be controlled over the internet open up the possibility of factory workers joining the home-working revolution

Aperture

Life

Moth-hunters prowling the English countryside

Butterflies get all the love, but there are four times as many species of moth in the UK 鈥� the annual Moth Night survey aims to redress the balance

Features

Physics

Higgs boson: What’s next?

Checking whether we really have found the Higgs boson of the standard model is high on the agenda, as is looking for clues that it is a more exotic version

Physics

Higgs boson: A discovery

Physics

Higgs boson: Why do we need it?

Physics

Higgs boson: At a crossroads

Humans

Voices from the past: Ancient secrets in today’s words

Technology

Penal code: The coming world of trial by algorithm

Health

Chance inheritance: The subtle power of birth order

Culture

Humans

Play your way to evolutionary fitness

No one is exactly sure why humans and animals play, but Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin propose an answer in Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation

Environment

Giraffes look gorgeous, even in decline

More

Enigma Number 1765

Chemists’ clever fakes are better than nature

Regulars

Feedback: God Particles for sale

The goddam particle, scamferences, 10 funniest jokes and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Hard question

Inside out

Smelling double

Seeing red

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