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Earth
Human cost of coal in the UK: 1600 lives a year
Pollution from coal-fired power plants can disperse over vast distances – new figures add to the evidence of its disastrous effect on health
News
Health
Stop persecution to halt HIV, says United Nations
News
Environment
Record ivory seizures point to trafficking rise
News
Environment
Animal-rights group sues to secure freedom for chimps
News
Earth
Could China combat smog with artificial rain?
News
Environment
60 Seconds
News
Health
Hong Kong gets its first case of deadly H7N9 bird flu
News
Humans
Oldest human genome dug up in Spain’s pit of bones
News
Health
Fear of a smell can be passed down several generations
News
Physics
Hints of cold dark matter pop up in 10-year-old circuit
News
Space
Crazy comet ISON returns bearing solar system secrets
News
Health
Fake brain helps investigate age’s intelligence decline
News
Earth
Extreme weather could become norm around Indian Ocean
News
Space
Alien-hunting equation revamped for mining asteroids
News
To kill a black hole, recruit a cosmic string army
News
Earth
Microbe steals neighbour’s electricity to make methane
News
Space
Astrophile: Europa’s choppy ocean looks friendly to life
News
Life
Synthetic primordial cell copies RNA for the first time
News
Earth
Whirling dervish skirts are ruled by hurricane physics
News
Humans
Mapped: male and female brain connections
News
Life
Snakes outpacing other vertebrates in race to evolve
News
Humans
Zoologger: How koalas make their deep seductive grunts
News
Health
Oxygen drop makes people with spine injury more mobile
News
Space
Boxy CubeSats get a propulsion boost in new space race
News
Technology
Mapping pilgrims’ body heat to make a safer hajj
News
Technology
Find the ungoogleable with crowdsourced search engine
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Send wireless power long range with lasers and balloons
News
Opinion
Earth
Is it time to stop worrying about global warming?
Surface temperatures may not be rising as quickly as they were, but that's just one small part of a much bigger and more troubling picture
Opinion
Life
Mouse memory inheritance may revitalise Lamarckism
Opinion
Health
Coin-flip judgement of psychopathic prisoners’ risk
Opinion
Space
How the US and China can help each other in space
Opinion
Humans
Modern moral responses need a manual mode
Opinion
Features
Earth
Climate slowdown: The world won’t stop warming
The rate of global warming has slowed – but why? Does it mean we can stop worrying about global warming? Here's the lowdown on the slowdown
Features
Life
Magic of mushrooms: Dawning of the Fungus Age
Features
Physics
Quark stars: How can a supernova explode twice?
Features
Earth
The odd couple: Can bioengineering protect nature?
Features
Culture
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Space
China’s Jade Rabbit blasts off for the moon
If all goes according to plan, the Chinese Chang'e 3 mission will beat the private teams competing in the Google Lunar X Prize
Regulars
Enigma Number 1778
Regulars
Tough choices for postgrads
Careers
Rock stars: Geoscientists in the business of risk
Careers
Promising postgrads of the near future
Careers