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God not-botherers: Religious apathy reigns
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Technology
Cyborg angst: 5 ways computers will perplex us in 2039
What is the ideal number of fingers? Do plants need Facebook? All this and more is on the agenda of a fictional conference set 25 years in the future
News
Health
US death penalty practices raise disturbing questions
News
Health
Pharma megadeals do nothing for neglected medicines
News
Earth
Satellite maps can’t measure carbon stored in forests
News
SpaceX to sue US air force for rocket rights
News
60 Seconds
News
Space
Canada uses satellite to scold Russia over Ukraine
News
Health
Insulin-making cells created by Dolly-cloning method
News
Health
Blood of world’s oldest woman hints at limits of life
News
Environment
Spark of life: Metabolism appears in lab without cells
News
Physics
Turbulent black holes grow fractal skins as they feed
News
Earth
Why did evolution stall during the ‘boring billion’?
News
Environment
Captive lions risk brain damage from deformed skulls
News
Space
Sun’s fractal surprise could help fusion on Earth
News
Space
Epic Mars flooding triggered by collapsed crater lake
News
Stone Age DNA shows hunter-gatherers shunned farming
News
Health
Fibre sends appetite-suppressing molecule to the brain
News
Life
Scent of a man: Male sweat stresses out lab mice
News
Space
Sun ‘smoke rings’ give clue to solar wind mystery
News
Life
Jurassic predator had surprisingly sensitive snout
News
Life
The bacteria that chat back and tell you how they are
News
Space
Supernova found aligned with galactic magnifying glass
News
Health
Induced hallucination turns doctors into pizza chefs
News
Technology
Watson in your pocket: Supercomputer gets own apps
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Sun-focusing satellite dish heats water on your roof
News
Opinion
Environment
Killing animals is a necessary evil for natural history
A lot of research relies on the collection of wild specimens. Curbing the practice could hamper science, says an entomologist and museum director
Opinion
Earth
Bat man and Putin: In exile for fighting for wildlife
Opinion
Physics
Forget dark matter 鈥� embrace my MOND theory instead
Opinion
Features
Humans
Losing our religion: Your guide to a godless future
The human mind is primed to believe in god, so why are so many people abandoning religion 鈥� and should we be worried about living in an atheist world?
Features
Life
The mirror crack’d: Why physics is lopsided
Features
Life
Bird brainiacs: The genius of pigeons
Features
Health
Survival of the fattest: Why we’re wrong about obesity
Features
