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Earth

Dare we hope for a global climate treaty next year?

Health

The therapy pill: Forget your phobia in fast forward

Life

Eccentric Earths: Weird planets where life might lurk

Earth

Evolution’s traps: When our world leads animals astray

Health

Virtual clone: A guinea-pig twin will keep you healthy

Table of contents

Leaders

Earth

Formula 1 will spearhead greener cars for us all

Rule changes that force Formula 1 racing cars to burn less fuel will lead to more efficient cars in general

Earth

US-Mexico deal shows how to make water peace, not war

Earth

Dare we hope for a global climate treaty next year?

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Space

Australia hatches plan to zap space junk with lasers

Down under won't take space junk lying down. Australia is leading an effort to track tiny pieces of space debris and zap them with lasers

Health

First twin astronauts take on space microbiome

Technology

Malaysian plane sent out engine data before vanishing

Earth

Massive stores of UK shale gas will tempt frackers

Health

Threatwatch: Chikungunya may explode with rainy season

Environment

60 Seconds

Earth

Four banned ozone depleters detected in the atmosphere

Health

Monkeys expose narrow window for baby HIV ‘cure’

Earth

Huge water pulse to bring Colorado river back from dead

Physics

Earth raises a plasma shield to battle solar storms

Space

Most Mars meteorites may be from same giant crater

Health

Rugby players warned of long-term brain injury risks

Health

First test to predict Alzheimer’s years in advance

Health

Is OCD an addiction like drugs or gambling?

Earth

How much hotter is the planet going to get?

Physics

Desktop quantum cloud to hunt elusive space-time waves

Space

Invisible Saturn-sized planet given away by comet army

Health

A burst of orange light wakes up our ‘circadian eye’

Earth

Bummer. Climate change will shrink gnarly Aussie waves

Life

Did dark matter kill the dinosaurs? Maybe鈥�

Life

The genes that mean you have a good ear for music

Environment

Shrub is a smart gambler when tackling parasites

Environment

Zoologger: Female spider kills male to attract a mate

Environment

Spider monkey society is sexually segregated

Humans

7 tricks to keep F1 cars fast and fuel-efficient

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

Robot elephant trunk learns motor skills like a baby

Technology

Watch as the world’s first 3D-printed house goes up

Opinion

Earth

Clean energy or cheap energy? We can have both

Rising energy bills don鈥檛 mean we should give up on cutting our carbon emissions. Quite the opposite

Life

Why I gave away the fossils I spent 20 years finding

Earth

We’ll live to see a low-carbon world: UN climate chief

Analysis

Technology

Facebook drones alone won’t help the offline world

Big tech firms like Facebook and Google want to bring the internet to the poor world, but their high-flying access points can be only part of the solution

Aperture

Life

Cute but deadly furball launches death attack

With their massive eyes, tarsiers are the epitome of cuteness. But it comes at a price: each eyeball is as big as the primitive primate's brain

Features

Health

The therapy pill: Forget your phobia in fast forward

Talking cures for phobias or addictions take ages to detrain your brain. What if a memory-boosting drug let you do it in a day? Jessica Hamzelou pops the pill

Life

Eccentric Earths: Weird planets where life might lurk

Earth

Evolution’s traps: When our world leads animals astray

Health

Virtual clone: A guinea-pig twin will keep you healthy

Culture

Earth

Wet revolution: Where’s the world water manifesto?

We need a fourth water revolution to cope with the world's shortages, says Fred Pearce: two new books reveal the problem but don't go far enough

Physics

No coincidence? Statistics and the outrageously unlikely

More

Lift off: How to launch your career after a postdoc

The Postdoc Survival Guide: Part 3In a three-part series, 快猫短视频 serves up all you need to know about bagging a postdoc, making the most of your experience, and successfully transitioning to the tenure trackLanding one of the few job openings on the faculty tenure track requires luck as well as scientific excellence, so ensure you have a realistic backup plan

Regulars

Feedback: Going down the tubes with CO2

Global flattening, acrostic topology, Gove me the word and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

It’s not the knot

Why lie?

Transforming tee

Let there be light

High growth

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