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Health

Big pharma market forces won’t save us from superbugs

Humans

Friendship: Do animals have friends, too?

Humans

Friendship: Friends with many benefits

Humans

Friendship FAQ: The ‘just friends’ dilemma, and more

Humans

Friendship: Friends in high-tech places

Space

Into the methane depths of Kraken, Titan’s strange sea

Table of contents

Leaders

Earth

Let them eat crickets: Insects could be the new potato

From the humble potato to gourmet lobster, convincing people to eat unusual foods requires style as well as substance

Health

Big pharma market forces won’t save us from superbugs

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Space

Astronaut sows first fresh veg in NASA space ‘garden’

Caesar salad, captain? Red romaine lettuce is now growing on the International Space Station in a chamber that may one day produce food for astronauts

Earth

US bees die a bit less but still need feeding up

Health

Fans’ World Cup trip could be dampened by dengue

Earth

Balkan flood zones may face even more rain next week

Space

NASA lets enthusiasts reboot zombie 1970s spacecraft

Health

At risk of HIV? Pop a pill for protection, says CDC

Earth

60 Seconds

Earth

China and Vietnam in new spat over oil-rich waters

Life

Earth’s backup: Sending religious texts to the moon

Health

Superbug crisis: Global push to save antibiotics begins

Space

Skinny wormholes could send messages through time

Earth

Pressure mounts to save Africa’s Eden from drillers

Earth

Six legs tasty: First edible insect farm opens in US

Health

Wireless energy powers pacemaker in live rabbit

Health

Mindscapes: The woman who gets lost in her own home

Space

Dead spacecraft helps map Bermuda Triangle of space

Environment

Zoologger: Larval hunter uses bifocals to catch prey

Life

Flooded cave hides Naia, a 13,000-year-old American

Health

Separated at birth, but split brains build new bridges

Environment

North American land birds migrate along three flyways

Health

‘Heavy’ mice may reveal why soft tissues turn to bone

Health

Immune-boosting drug shows promise against lung cancer

Physics

There’s a lightning strike hike in strong solar wind

Technology

Indian election win threatens biggest biometrics bank

Health

Tweets map the world’s emotional response in real-time

Technology

ButtonMasher: Storytelling beats action in new games

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

Say cheers to music with a Bitcoin micro-tip

Technology

Rescue robots could help in next Turkish mine disaster

Technology

Astronomer royal: Why we need a new Longitude prize

Opinion

Earth

Dredge-and-dump will damage the Great Barrier Reef

Dumping spoil from Australian port expansion projects into the Coral Sea will do serious damage to the Great Barrier Reef

Physics

Reconstructing physics: The universe is information

Aperture

Earth

Ethiopia’s blue volcano burns deadly sulphuric gas

Erupting on the Danakil Depression, this volcano's lava is the usual orange-red 鈥� the blue we see comes from flames formed as the escaping sulphuric gases burn

Features

Humans

Friendship: Do animals have friends, too?

Whether you're a human or a horse, it takes a lot of brainpower to support a complex social group 鈥� and that puts a limit on how many friends we can have

Humans

Friendship: Friends with many benefits

Humans

Friendship FAQ: The ‘just friends’ dilemma, and more

Humans

Friendship: Friends in high-tech places

Space

Into the methane depths of Kraken, Titan’s strange sea

Culture

Humans

How moral fundamentalism becomes a scientific sin

We are moral because we need to be, argues Mark Johnson in Morality for Humans 鈥� and our moral compass rests on our knack for imagining future scenarios

Health

Why antibiotics are WMDs to our bodies’ microbes

Regulars

Feedback: Primary school puzzler

Mysteries of progress, Telepathic Transport for London, The Brussels Interpretation of political mechanics and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Night vision

Feel the heat

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