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Health

Me and my microbiome: Rethink bacteria to save lives

Earth

Energy trilemma: Can power be cheap, clean and secure?

Health

Manhunt to bug hunt: Cop skills track nature’s killers

Technology

Whistling Wi-Fi: How gadgets sing data to each other

Earth

This vast lake will die so millions can live better

Table of contents

Leaders

Earth

Break electricity addiction to win the power struggle

Electricity suppliers are struggling to supply cheap, clean and reliable power - managing our contstant demand will help

Technology

Hail hackers for reverse-engineering NSA bugs

Health

Me and my microbiome: Rethink bacteria to save lives

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Life

Colonial borders not the problem in Syria-Iraq crisis

A government that provides security for diverse populations, or shuffling people into ethnically or religiously defined regions: which model will work in Iraq?

Earth

Extremists in Iraq now control the country’s rivers

Earth

New European rules on biotech crops please no one

Environment

60 Seconds

Health

E-cig users are young, heavy smokers trying to quit

Earth

Brazil’s mega power line threatens Amazon’s top reserve

Health

Human brain’s ultimate barrier to open for first time

Environment

Weird organisms emerge from the deep, dark biosphere

Physics

Create the ultimate world clock with a quantum link

Earth

Oil works threaten health of people in Peruvian Amazon

Space

Saturn’s largest moon was once a titanic snowball

Health

Bionic pancreas frees people from shackles of diabetes

Health

First medical X-ray scanner heads for space station

Sound sieve lets you choose what to levitate

Health

Our humming brains help us learn rapidly

Earth

Bacterial suspects identified in Caribbean coral deaths

Environment

First predator fish crushed armoured prey in its jaws

Clingy dark matter may slow corpse star spins

Physics

Water that stays liquid below freezing probed by lasers

Earth

Massive ‘ocean’ discovered towards Earth’s core

Health

Blood molecule predicts success of antidepressants

Health

Next-generation hearing aids get some iPhone cool

Technology

Hackers reverse-engineer NSA’s leaked bugging devices

Technology

Spot-the-difference software maps city’s mean streets

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

Buzzing glove teaches Braille through good vibrations

Opinion

Environment

Compassion in conservation: Don’t be cruel to be kind

Killing and harming animals in the name of conservation is not just unethical, it is counterproductive

Physics

Doubts about big bang breakthrough won’t kill inflation

Health

Meaty puzzle: Did TB evolve to boost hungry brains?

Analysis

Technology

Harvey, the robot farmer fixing the US labour shortage

It's getting harder to find people to work on farms in the US 鈥� robo-farmers are shifting plants and could soon be picking strawberries in their place

Aperture

Earth

Tumbling weeds: The rolling invasion of the US

Giant balls of tumbleweed are causing problems across the western US, where prolonged drought and high winds have led to a boom in their numbers

Features

Earth

Energy trilemma: Can power be cheap, clean and secure?

When it comes to electricity supply, we're caught in a vicious triangle. A bold scheme that pays big business to switch off could be part of the solution

Health

Manhunt to bug hunt: Cop skills track nature’s killers

Technology

Whistling Wi-Fi: How gadgets sing data to each other

Earth

This vast lake will die so millions can live better

Culture

Physics

Logical armour: A primer in mathematical self-defence

Can you spot a fake health crisis? Are politicians bamboozling you with numbers? Mathematics can open your eyes, says Jordan Ellenberg in How Not to Be Wrong

Earth

Heroic and humble quests for overlooked animals

Regulars

Feedback: Dolls of destiny

Toy torture, disclaimers as art, Danube detonation danger and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Bubbling under

Why lie?

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