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Tech breakthroughs mean all can be differently abled

Space

Big bang breakthrough: The dark side of inflation

Health

Weird thought-generator: How society’s fears shape OCD

Earth

Aliens versus predators: The toxic toad invasion

Life

One rule of life: Are we poised on the border of order?

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Leaders

Cosmic inflation seen? Don’t get hopes up too quickly

Sceptics are rounding on last month's claims of evidence for inflation and gravitational waves. But it was right to publish to allow independent scrutiny

Tech breakthroughs mean all can be differently abled

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Environment

T. rex didn’t need proper arms thanks to its neck

Tyrannosaurus rex was terrifying, apart from its silly little arms 鈥� but now it turns out that it didn't need proper arms because its neck was so powerful

GM mozzies get go-ahead in fight against dengue fever

Gas attack alleged in Syria as refugees starve

Physics

Longest experiment sees pitch drop after 84-year wait

Space

Space shuttle carrier plane heads out on Texas convoy

60 Seconds

Tournament of primes is too difficult to continue

Earth

Mississippi dams aren’t to blame for flood risks

Health

Threatwatch: Is the MERS virus spreading its wings?

Deaf people get gene tweak to restore natural hearing

Physics

Make graphene in your kitchen with soap and a blender

How ailing bodies hasten the progress of Alzheimer’s

How to build a stable wormhole with dark alien allies

Earth

Slow-motion tremors make Tokyo megaquake more likely

Earth

Virtual Earth plays out fate of life on the planet

Health

Will an antiviral drug put paid to measles?

Physics

Star dust casts doubt on recent big bang wave result

Health

Protein that shrinks depressed brains identified

Health

Mini robot doctors that could swim in your bloodstream

Space

Smallest life-friendly exoplanet may be lit by auroras

Environment

Zoologger: Gender-bending cave insects found in Brazil

Why we get autism but our Neanderthal cousins didn’t

Life

Zoologger: Sailfish is lethal d’Artagnan of the deep

Health

Scans can be vital in judging severity of brain damage

Technology

Second Life 2.0: Virtual world recreates the real you

Technology

One Per Cent

Earth

Congo’s fragile forests watched over with online map

Technology

Armed Russian robocops to defend missile bases

Earth

The story of climate change gets star treatment

Opinion

Physics

Maths spying: The quandary of working for the spooks

Intelligence agencies hire lots of mathematicians, but would-be employees must realise that their work is misused to snoop on everyone, says Tom Leinster

Environment

Rhino horn isn’t a hangover cure or a cancer treatment

Technology

Automatic, for the people: Welcome the robot workforce

Aperture

Nested interests: A bespoke farm for edible bird nests

With the market for bird's nest soup at $5 billion a year, the natural supply is not meeting demand, so farmers are offering swiftlets good nesting spots

Features

Space

Big bang breakthrough: The dark side of inflation

The sighting of gravitational waves from the universe's birth is a great advance 鈥� but if confirmed might also be the ultimate setback for cosmology

Health

Weird thought-generator: How society’s fears shape OCD

Earth

Aliens versus predators: The toxic toad invasion

Life

One rule of life: Are we poised on the border of order?

Culture

Synthetic biology gets reborn as an aesthetic dream

In Synthetic Aesthetics, researchers and designers team up to present an exciting way of learning from nature

Regulars

Feedback: Fossils battle evolution

Fossils battle evolution, a name by any other name, metaphor miasma, and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

It’s not the knot

Silent fleet

Holocene park

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