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Health
Unique California dataset links pesticides to autism
Children of pregnant women exposed to pesticides were more likely to develop autism, claim a team who mapped GPS data on pesticide use to their homes
News
Health
Ebola outbreak in West Africa is deadliest ever
News
Earth
Neonicotinoid pesticides are bad news for everything
News
Space
Mountain top exploded to make way for ghost telescope
News
60 Seconds
News
Technology
How ISIS is winning the online war for Iraq
News
Earth
Track every single fishing boat to preserve the ocean
News
Earth
Why Illinois has banned exfoliating face washes
News
Earth
Ice sheets may have already passed point of no return
News
Earth
Bangladesh’s sea walls may make floods worse
News
Dr No: Seven things you shouldn’t let your doctor do
News
Physics
Big Bang breakthrough team back-pedals on major result
News
Environment
Solving spider mysteries in the Peruvian Amazon
News
Physics
Cryptographic proof paves way for nuke-free world
News
Health
Computer spots rare diseases in family photos
News
Earth
Crystal cocoons kept bacteria safe in space
News
Health
Sunbathing may have similar effects to drug addiction
News
Physics
First quantum transmission sent through space
News
Environment
Pollution on other worlds may show advanced alien life
News
Earth
Zoologger: The fish that kill with special-ops signals
News
Space
Black hole made peek-a-boo galaxy go mysteriously dark
News
Health
Stone Age worm egg hints at origins of modern scourge
News
Near-death experiences are overwhelmingly peaceful
News
Earth
Global warming will serve up more pea-soupers
News
Environment
Zoologger: Old magpies get wise to freeloading cuckoos
News
Humans
Neanderthals evolved their teeth before big brains
News
Earth
Fog catchers pull water from air in Chile’s dry fields
News
Technology
Forget passwords – to log in, just start typing
News
Technology
Shoppers tracked as they go wild in the aisles
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Humans
Even online, emotions can be contagious
News
Opinion
Earth
Time to kick cigarette butts – they’re toxic trash
Poisons leach from the 4 trillion cigarette filters that we chuck each year, harming health and environment alike. They should be banned
Opinion
Health
My cell fitness test will fine-tune your health
Opinion
Earth
Don’t have a cow: Making milk without the moo
Opinion
Features
Physics
Embrace the lumpiverse: How mess kills dark energy
An elegant assumption underpins our cosmic model: that everything looks the same everywhere. But does it make us see things that aren't there?
Features
Life
Crime mining: Hidden history emerges from court data
Features
Earth
The wonder food you’ve probably never heard of
Features
Environment
Rights versus bites: The great shark culling debate
Features
Culture
Earth
Park the eco-apocalypse for a journey of hope
Adventures in the Anthropocene: AÂ journey to the heart of the planet we made by Gaia Vince is a story of optimism about how 10 billion people can live together
Culture
Earth
Russia’s relentless quest for Arctic fuel treasure
Culture
Life
Dr Death: The gruesome career of a Victorian poisoner
Culture