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Humans

Thoughts: The inside story

Humans

Mind games: From Ancient Greece to Schr枚dinger’s cat

Humans

Dan Dennett’s handy tools for easier thinking

Earth

What’s brown and soggy and could save the world?

Physics

Gravity ripples: The race to catch the next wave

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Earth

Costa Concordia’s rise to reveal seafloor legacy

The operation to right the stricken cruise ship is going smoothly, but the crash's biggest impact 鈥� to the seabed ecosystem 鈥� has yet to be seen

Health

CDC warns of future catastrophic antibiotic resistance

Earth

Australia’s new government dumps science minister post

New Syria sarin deal will need speedy UN checks

60 Seconds

Earth

Heatwave and wildfires worsened Colorado flooding

Earth

Halve emissions to avoid dangerous climate change

Earth

Russia commences Arctic naval patrols

Private space race takes off as new firm heads for ISS

Earth

Mini drug factory churns out drugs from inside bone

Life

Flotilla of designer insects is new weapon in pest control

Earth

Lost river guided early humans out of Africa

Life

Universe’s baby pictures suggest a bubbly birth

Environment

US dolphin deaths set to rise as migration begins

Health

Herpes virus cleared from blood for first time

Space

Where to next for interstellar pioneer Voyager 1?

Health

Healthy living can turn our cells’ clock back

Genes linked to left-handedness identified

Space

Astrophile: Cosmic poltergeist messed up Milky Way

Earth

Whales record major life events in their earwax

Life

Crack a comet to spawn the ingredients of life

First silicon paper gives bendy electronics a boost

Earth

Warblers begin migrating after interbreeding

Health

Girl who feels no pain could inspire new painkillers

Life

Zoologger: Transformer insect has gears in its legs

Technology

Underwater robot gliders are the eyes of the storm

Technology

Forget premiums: A peer-to-peer network will cover you

Technology

Phones track firefighters when the heat is on

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

Touchscreen phones know it’s you from taps and swipes

Technology

Portable lab could guzzle Syria’s sarin stockpile

Opera therapy and beetle astronomy win Ig Nobel prizes

Opinion

Humans

We think, therefore we are

The scientific tools to explore the true richness of our mental lives are at last within reach

Environment

It’s time to let GM insects fly free

Space

Voyager 1: still looking forward after all these years

Earth

Science for peace

Earth

Studying supervolcanoes in North Korea

Humans

Manners maketh man: how disgust shaped human evolution

Aperture

Environment

Grizzly cameraman snaps rare shots of swimming bears

Their startling closeness and rare perspective is thanks to Roggo's daring鈥€� and his waterproof camera, attached to a 9-metre-long pole

Features

Humans

Thoughts: The inside story

What are thoughts, and what exactly is thinking? Take a trip into the fantastic, ceaseless world our minds create

Humans

Mind games: From Ancient Greece to Schr枚dinger’s cat

Humans

Dan Dennett’s handy tools for easier thinking

Earth

What’s brown and soggy and could save the world?

Physics

Gravity ripples: The race to catch the next wave

Culture

Physics

What has the Higgs boson done for us?

After all the excitement surrounding the discovery of the Higgs, a new book called Beyond the God Particle asks where we go next

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