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Space
First commercial moon delivery could be sports drink
Destination: moon. A can of the Japanese drink Pocari Sweat is set to arrive there in 2015, aboard a lander built by Google Lunar X Prize hopeful Astrobotic
News
Earth
Disease-defying spuds exiled from Europe – again
News
Health
Belgium legalises euthanasia for children of any age
News
Space
China’s Jade Rabbit moon rover showing signs of life
News
Earth
Health trauma of floods may last after waters subside
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Deep-sea mining projects land in hot water
News
Health
Acid-bath stem cell results called into question
News
Earth
UK must abandon or adapt in face of floods
News
Earth
World governments set out to slash wildlife crime
News
Space
Earth is prepared enough for the next asteroid strike
News
Physics
Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check
News
Health
Travelling truck surgeons save lives in the Andes
News
Life
First animals may have lived with almost no oxygen
News
Health
Cannabis can kill without the influence of other drugs
News
Physics
Baby universe rumbled with thunder of Higgs bubbles
News
Health
Spit test could allow depression screening at school
News
Earth
Honeybee trade is hotbed for carrying disease into wild
News
Earth
Melted magma could warn of brewing volcanic eruptions
News
Health
Liquid-crystal bath puts live bacteria on display
News
Earth
Arctic thaw significantly worsens global warming risk
News
Health
Fishing rod reels brain tumour cells to their death
News
Environment
Zoologger: The hardest ant in the world
News
Sloshing sea may make Neptune’s moon Triton habitable
News
Health
Blind mice see the light after simple drug therapy
News
Environment
Monkey brain waves control hand of paralysed pal
News
Health
Empires and slave-trading left their mark on our genes
News
Space
Robots with human-like brains to take on Mars unaided
News
Technology
Termite robots build castles with no human help
News
Technology
Cockpit for apps: Minority Report meets Google Glass
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Space
Interplanetary comms get easier with a nanotech boost
News
Technology
NHS plans leave ‘anonymous’ medical data vulnerable
News
Opinion
Earth
Will record floods finally shift UK climate debate?
There is a possible silver lining to the disastrous floods swamping the UK – an end to public apathy on climate change
Opinion
Physics
Stellar archaeologist: We excavated the purest star
Opinion
Humans
Our blender brain: How mixing ideas made us human
Opinion
Features
Health
Healing spark: Hack body electricity to replace drugs
We're learning to speak the electrical language of the body – and using it to develop treatments for diseases from arthritis to diabetes
Features
Environment
Do invertebrates feel pain?
Features
Earth
Cryptic river: The torrents that flow on the seabed
Features
Health
Testicular time bomb: Older dads’ mutant sperm
Features
Culture
Humans
Britain’s earliest humanity in epic exhibition
A groundbreaking display at London's Natural History Museum reveals the humans that occupied Britain for the past million years – and tells their stories
Culture
Technology
The poetry of code and the code of poetry
Culture
Lego competition winners
Culture