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Synthetic biology can supplement traditional farmers
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Physics
Einstein’s waves would make a cosmic overture
We haven't heard a single gravitational wave in the century since Einstein said they should exist. Hopefully, that's about to change
Opinion
Humans
Parental guidance advised over virtual embryos
Opinion
Earth
Synthetic biology can supplement traditional farmers
Opinion
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Health
Shared trial data may identify at-risk cancer patients
An initiative to share the control group data from 34 clinical trials of cancer drugs could lead to more efficient trials and better outcomes for patients
News
Technology
Ultrasonic ‘pings’ now strongest clue in MH370 hunt
News
Earth
Indian election speaks to internet, nukes and climate
News
Environment
Global plan to shush ships for the sake of whales
News
Space
Ringed asteroid will make a star blink out over Africa
News
60 Seconds
News
Space
Cold war in space? What NASA’s Russia boycott means
News
Earth
Almost half of new electricity is now clean and green
News
Health
Meet your unborn child 鈥� before it’s even conceived
News
Physics
Dark matter hunters turn to nano-blasts and enzyme ice
News
Space
Best dark matter signal yet hints at heftier particles
News
DNA nanobots deliver drugs in living cockroaches
News
Humans
Human ‘missing link’ fossils may be jumble of species
News
Space
Squirting moons face off in race to find alien life
News
Earth
UN’s safe drinking water target was never really met
News
Health
Pioneering implant revives legs of paralysed men
News
Health
Harsh world makes kids’ chromosomes look middle-aged
News
Earth
Flimsy rocks allowed Earth’s plates to start moving
News
Life
Zoologger: The blind fish that sucks it and ‘sees’
News
Space
Gaggle of dwarf planets found by dark energy camera
News
Health
Dysentery parasite attacks gut by eating cells alive
News
Technology
Pro violinists fail to spot Stradivarius in blind test
News
Space
Volcanic blasts hint that Mercury is a migrant planet
News
Earth
Redesigned crops could produce far more fuel
News
Health
Online army helps map Guinea’s Ebola outbreak
News
Technology
Digitising cave art will prevent it being lost forever
News
Technology
Ghostly glasses let you learn through a teacher’s eyes
News
Life
Wire up hives to keep bees happy and healthy
News
Technology
One per cent
News
Opinion
Features
Health
Pharma to fork: How we’ll swallow synthetic biology
Our best antimalarial drug comes from a plant, but now modified microbes are brewing it in a factory. Synthetic biology has got real 鈥� and food may be next
Features
Physics
Einstein’s silence: Listening for space-time ripples
Features
Environment
Killing with kindness: Conservation’s cautionary tale
Features
Culture
Health
We turn brainwaves into sound for music and medicine
A neuroscientist and a musician explain how they built the Brain Stethoscope, which is both brain scanner and musical instrument
Culture
Earth
What climate change has done to Walden’s woods
Culture
Humans
How ancient needs still drive our weird ways
Culture
