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Health

Rebirth of psychiatry will be slow and painful

Humans

QBism: Is quantum uncertainty all in the mind?

Humans

Jumping Frog Jubilee: Secrets of amphibian Olympians

Physics

Norse UFOs: What are the glowing orbs of Hessdalen?

Technology

The Victorian monster destruction engine

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Leaders

Technology

Historic breaking machine holds lessons for our times

The Victorian era's triumph of engineering facts over opinions helped make bridges, trains and much else safer. Modern times could use more of this ethos

Earth

El Ni帽o forecasters must not repeat mistakes of 1997

Health

Rebirth of psychiatry will be slow and painful

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Space

Wannabe reality-TV Mars colonists are highly educated

Who wants to go to Mars? Lots of graduates, US citizens, men and young people, according to Mars One, which aims to colonise the planet by 2025

Health

Global emergency declared as polio cases surge

Physics

Elusive element 117 now closer to periodic table glory

Health

Antibiotic-resistant superbugs now a global epidemic

60 Seconds

Earth

US Supreme Court air pollution ruling will save lives

Health

Hundreds of lives saved by universal healthcare in US

Earth

World is unprepared for major El Ni帽o later this year

Health

Psychiatry’s scientific reboot gets under way

Environment

Only known chimp war reveals how societies splinter

Life

Fire missiles at Mars to find deeply buried life

Life

Terminator-style liquid metal connects severed nerves

Health

3D shape of genome could diagnose leukaemia type

Health

Pregnancy hormone could offer simple treatment for MS

Environment

Baboons with pig hearts pave way for human transplants

Space

Pluto may be wearing a dark belt of moon dust

Life

Itsy bitsy bacterium gets a bigger genetic code

Space

Tiny dark matter ‘bullet’ may be one among hundreds

Environment

Zoologger: Deep-freeze maggot feeds on new form of fat

Space

Astrophile: Dizzy exoplanet has a compact 8-hour day

Health

Silicon pill beams back body’s response to medicines

Technology

Speech analyser monitors emotion for call centres

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

Flying 3D printer could seal off nuclear waste

Technology

Smartphone sensors could give aircraft accident clues

Opinion

Technology

Lights out: The dark future of electric power

Electrical blackouts that cause disruption to millions are a looming threat to society

Life

Seed saviour: I’m preserving our edible heirlooms

Technology

Conform or fail: Social media’s broken promise

Aperture

A visual time machine into US history

From intrepid Canadian explorers to a century-old iron mine, a new digital collection reveals the history of a nation

Features

Humans

QBism: Is quantum uncertainty all in the mind?

The microscopic world described by quantum theory seems a strange, confusing place 鈥� but some physicists argue it's just us who are uncertain

Humans

Jumping Frog Jubilee: Secrets of amphibian Olympians

Physics

Norse UFOs: What are the glowing orbs of Hessdalen?

Technology

The Victorian monster destruction engine

Culture

Physics

Alex Bellos wanders in his mathematical wonderland

From the appeal of seven to a shadowy textbook-writing cabal, Alex Through The Looking Glass is a whistle-stop tour of entertaining areas of mathematics

Life

The world’s most beautiful birds’ eggs

Regulars

Feedback: Is this a cornucopia of cures?

In search of a cornucopia of cures, the parts of a naming, an application of the Goldilocks Meso-Tech Principle and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Slip the difference

Storm in a teacup

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