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We can’t be too fussy when it comes to green energy

Earth

No more primal soup: Creating life without water

Space

Shakespeare: Did radical astronomy inspire Hamlet?

Health

Shakespeare: The godfather of modern medicine

Humans

Shakespeare: Unleashing a tempest in the brain

Physics

Mystery physics: What does the M in M-theory mean?

Health

Heritage plaque: Our ancestors’ health read from teeth

Table of contents

Leaders

Quick off the market: what’s fair in flash trading?

Keeping up with algorithmic traders is tough 鈥� getting everyone off the starting line at the same time will help

Contemplating the power of war to end all wars

We can’t be too fussy when it comes to green energy

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Space

SpaceX to test landing legs for future reusable rocket

As part of its next cargo delivery run, commercial spaceflight's darling will try out rocket legs that may help lower spacecraft costs by a factor of 100

Environment

Grand Canyon struggles to repel invading beefalo

60 Seconds

Stem cells debacle: Obokata admits enhancing images

Health

Syria chemical weapons deadline needs fair seas

Technology

Submarine drone dives into hunt for missing MH370 jet

Health

Exclusive: My lab-grown vagina and hopes for a family

Atomic time lord to battle sneaky high-speed trades

Space

NASA ‘flying saucer’ for Mars to land in Hawaii

Environment

Are RNA fragments making gene tweaks in descendants?

Quantum phone booth lets you encrypt your calls

Physics

LHC spots particle that may be new form of matter

Environment

Flies steer like mini-helicopters to avoid attackers

Environment

Zoologger: Cannibal tadpoles eat the competition

Flesh-eating bacterium is a child of the 80s

Drama therapy frees imaginations of kids with autism

Health

Genetic risk of Alzheimer’s has gender bias

Health

Banish jet lag with a handy mathematical scheduler

Technology

When the internet dies, meet the meshnet that survives

Technology

Digital mirror reveals what lies under your skin

Technology

Blue skies on tap, whenever you need them

Technology

Why a hacker got paid for finding the Heartbleed bug

Technology

Helmet to offer tongue-in-cheek gadget control

Opinion

Unclaimed bodies are anatomy’s shameful inheritance

Medical science must stop using the bodies of some of society鈥檚 most vulnerable people for dissection, says anatomist Gareth Jones

Let me show you how to make your own glowing plant

Life

What’s war good for? It’s made a more peaceful world

Analysis

Health

Is stockpiling pandemic flu drugs shrewd or misguided?

A group questioning the stockpiling of antiviral drugs has renewed its claim that they don't work. What does the evidence say?

Technology

Giant solar farm uses molten salt to keep power coming

Aperture

Stealthy surfaces make for psychedelic laser scanning

Lidar 3D laser scanning sounds ultra-precise 鈥� but real-world noise and confusion turns Berlin's Oberbaum Bridge into an ecstatic vision

Features

Earth

No more primal soup: Creating life without water

The last thing the first life needed was a wet environment 鈥� so did it even start here on Earth?

Space

Shakespeare: Did radical astronomy inspire Hamlet?

Health

Shakespeare: The godfather of modern medicine

Humans

Shakespeare: Unleashing a tempest in the brain

Physics

Mystery physics: What does the M in M-theory mean?

Health

Heritage plaque: Our ancestors’ health read from teeth

Culture

Physics

Smallest subversive: Mathematical fight for our world

At stake in the fierce 17th-century debate over a mathematical concept was nothing less than our modern world, says Amir Alexander in Infinitesimal

Life

The coolest biology is under the microscope

Regulars

Feedback: Keeping your cheese safe

The vacuum in the fridge, arithmetically interesting effects of health reports, Goldilocks, where are you? and more

Eat and slim

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