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Life

Open your mind to the gene-modified American chestnut

Health

Memory implants: Chips to fix broken brains

Environment

Extreme evolution: How snakes became the 眉ber-eater

Race to read the H-bomb timestamp that marks all cells

Table of contents

Leaders

Earth

Time to chow down on 脿 la carte chemicals

Note-by-note cooking goes beyond molecular gastronomy to build foods from the bottom up using basic chemicals. It's a concept whose time has come

Life

Open your mind to the gene-modified American chestnut

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Technology

UK government tried 3D-printing guns to assess threat

Researchers at the British Home Office printed a gun to understand how dangerous they might be, 快猫短视频 has learned

Earth

The US plan to cut emissions: What you need to know

Space

SpaceX unveils sleek, reusable Dragon crew capsule

60 Seconds

Health

Violence threatens bid to eradicate guinea worm

Health

School food fight rages on in the US

Earth

Europe’s eagles under threat from vulture-killing drug

Space

Venus death dive to unlock secrets of Earth’s evil twin

Earth

Chemical cuisine poised to shake up food chain

Health

Unravelling taste genes could help us eat healthily

Earth

Convert waste CO2 and chicken feathers into fertiliser

Health

Learn a second language to slow ageing brain’s decline

Environment

American chestnut set for genetically modified revival

Pluto and its moon snuggle under a shared atmosphere

Earth

Global warming may quintuple summer downpours in UK

Health

Teen growth spurt left Richard III with crooked spine

Earth

We are killing species at 1000 times the natural rate

Space

Fireball meteors emit unique radio wave signals

Space

Impossibly heavy planet is the first ‘mega-Earth’

Life

3000-year-old trousers were cut like Justin Bieber’s

Health

Forget the dentist’s drill, use lasers to heal teeth

Technology

Wearable submarine to hunt for 2000-year-old computer

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

Methane leak? Robot sniffer dog is on the case

Humans

Smart subtitles help you learn a second language

Opinion

Earth

Making science cool won’t win over the denialists

US pop culture now celebrates science 鈥� but that doesn't stop science deniers dismissing inconvenient truths. Showbiz can help

Humans

How I conjure a social illusion with ventriloquism

Earth

Why cities shouldn’t lose their distinctive stinks

Analysis

Technology

Twitch turns bedroom gamers into internet superstars

A website that lets you live-stream your gameplay is creating celebrity players as well as fresh ways of generating games

Aperture

Earth

The idyllic tropical island 鈥� now covered in concrete

Carpeting this barren volcanic rock with plants was Darwin's brainchild 鈥� but thirsty British marines sacrificed greenery for concrete

Features

Health

Memory implants: Chips to fix broken brains

Transplanted memories and mind-controlled wheelchairs are real 鈥� now implants are on the horizon that will repair brain damage and maybe even patch dementia

Environment

Extreme evolution: How snakes became the 眉ber-eater

Race to read the H-bomb timestamp that marks all cells

Culture

Humans

Information famine at the centre of the infosphere

Two new books explore how the internet is changing us and our world 鈥� but it's too soon to tell which of the changes really matter

Life

When trilobites ruled the seas

More

How further education can propel your career

There are a growing number of back-to-school options for boosting your scientific knowledge and career potential 鈥� whatever your background

Regulars

Feedback: Kitchen disaster trumps

Pressure cooker horror, the origins of petards and further adventures of petards, toilet paper 鈥� the view from below, and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Seeing red

Hungry for victory

Light fantastic

Made to last

Put a lid on it

Make yours count

Salt seller

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