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Earth

Drop the eco-pessimism 鈥� you can make a greener world

Earth

We can build a sustainable world 鈥� if you want it

Health

Man up: Is testosterone an elixir of youth?

Earth

How to kill knotweed: Let slip the bugs of war

Physics

Solar flair: The wonder material shaking up sun power

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Leaders

Earth

Drop the eco-pessimism 鈥� you can make a greener world

After six years cleaning up England's environment, the Environment Agency's outgoing chair is in no mood for surrender

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Science ignored in US birth control ruling

The US Supreme Court has ruled that asking companies to provide free contraception is a violation of religious freedom 鈥� a decision made without looking at the science

Environment

Kill cattle not badgers to halt UK’s TB epidemic

Humans

Facebook emotional manipulation experiment causes ire

Earth

El Ni帽o will make Indonesia’s deforestation even worse

60 Seconds

Space

‘Flying saucer’ airbag for Mars splashes down in Hawaii

Space

Biggest X-ray eye in space to hunt hot cosmic objects

Health

Threatwatch: Top malaria drug may lose punch in Africa

Earth

Ancient water cache may be pristine primordial soup

Humans

Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain

Space

Biggest void in universe may explain cosmic cold spot

Health

Tibetan altitude gene came from extinct human species

Health

Diabetes drugs may sometimes do more harm than good

Physics

Magnetic bubble may give space probes a soft landing

Health

Designer red blood cells could move drugs around body

Physics

Longest-running experiment gets a fast forward

Health

Supercool livers to keep transplant window open

Earth

Melting ice puts emperor penguins on a slippery slope

Space

Swedish space rock may be piece of early life puzzle

Environment

A vampire mite injected this bee with a deadly virus

Earth

Huge ‘whirlpools’ in the ocean are driving the weather

Physics

Pillars of creation built by big stellar bubble

Technology

The AI boss that deploys Hong Kong’s subway engineers

Technology

Google and Apple battle for the key to your smart home

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

Make robots useful by teaching them to talk like us

Opinion

Humans

How to curb the threat of homecoming jihadist fighters

Research has shed enough light on jihadist fighters and radicalisation to help us mitigate the ISIS threat

Environment

I’m modelling whale ways to keep them safe from ships

Humans

We must prepare for superintelligent computers

Aperture

Life

The common crane and its violin cry

This preening bird has an extraordinary adaptation 鈥� its windpipe is three times as long as you'd expect for a bird this size. Hence its unique call

Features

Earth

We can build a sustainable world 鈥� if you want it

Healthy, happy and peaceful 鈥� that's what life will be like if we choose to tackle climate change and overconsumption. But will a green economy be any fun?

Health

Man up: Is testosterone an elixir of youth?

Earth

How to kill knotweed: Let slip the bugs of war

Physics

Solar flair: The wonder material shaking up sun power

Culture

Space

How the moon lost its magic even before Apollo 11

In No Requiem for the Space Age, a new history of NASA's Apollo programme, Matthew D. Tribbe says the moon landings came too late for Americans tired of war

Space

Curiosity piqued: The minds behind the Mars missions

Health

A film homage to a brain-damaged friend

Regulars

Feedback: Do solar cells suck sun?

The thorny question of sucking solar cells, spotting the first fruitloop of summer, a no-energy energy drink and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Let there be light

Heavy metal

Bugging the forest

Time for tee?

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