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Life

Spark of life revisited thanks to electric bacteria

Physics

Turing’s oracle: The computer that goes beyond logic

Environment

Sorry, tiger: Why we should save weird species first

Physics

White holes: Hunting the other side of a black hole

Earth

Kelp wanted: Pioneering the seaweed farm of the future

Table of contents

Leaders

Technology

What will hypercomputers let us do? Good question

Machines that go beyond human logic could help us understand how we think 鈥� if we can only figure out what to ask them

Life

Spark of life revisited thanks to electric bacteria

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Earth

Church takes ‘important’ long-term view on fossil fuel

The World Council of Churches has said investing in fossil fuels is unethical. The move won't affect emissions, but it could have a wider impact

Health

US admits security breaches with deadly virus samples

Health

Detroit water shut-offs condemned as threat to health

Space

Spaceport UK: Government plan to launch spaceplanes

60 Seconds

Earth

Will UK reshuffle boost science and environment?

Space

Disco-era spacecraft not dead, just out of gas

Space

Exoplanet names will be put to public vote

Life

Meet the electric life forms that live on pure energy

Health

Arthritis drug shows potential to stall Alzheimer’s

Physics

Strange dark stuff is making the universe too bright

Physics

Panning for dark matter in an Australian gold mine

Technology

Waste paper turned into a super-spongy battery

Environment

Chimpanzee brain power is strongly heritable

Life

Amphibians’ swim stroke has lasted 270 million years

Physics

First boron buckyballs roll out of the lab

Health

Famine puts next two generations at risk of obesity

Life

Electrifying feet help geckos keep their grip

Physics

Largest laser gives diamond a record-setting squeeze

Physics

High-precision hydrogen clock to hunt for new physics

Life

Marine microbes march to the beat of the same drum

Health

Food influences body clock and may ease jet lag

Technology

Meet Jibo, the cute social robot that knows the family

Technology

Books out, 3D printers in for reinvented US libraries

Technology

One Per Cent

Health

Sensor-laden smart bandages to monitor vital signs

Opinion

Humans

Defending the grand vision of the Human Brain Project

Criticism of the European Union's Human Brain Project misses the point of its unifying mission, says the project's co-executive director Richard Frackowiak

Earth

We’re growing living walls to save lions

Earth

We’ve locked up carbon dioxide by turning it to stone

Analysis

Technology

Ethical 3D printing begins with plastic waste pickers

Pick the right plastic off a refuse tip, then shred, melt and convert it into feedstock for 3D printers 鈥� it's a living for some of India's poorest people

Aperture

Humans

Cycling is a drag act in virtual wind tunnel

A hideously complex mass of equations can tell you about air flow over your boat, F1 car or bike 鈥� while also making the prettiest images in engineering

Features

Physics

Turing’s oracle: The computer that goes beyond logic

For 75 years, computers have worked within limits defined by Alan Turing. Now work has begun to fulfil his prophecy of a machine that can solve the unsolvable

Environment

Sorry, tiger: Why we should save weird species first

Physics

White holes: Hunting the other side of a black hole

Earth

Kelp wanted: Pioneering the seaweed farm of the future

Culture

Humans

Beyond the bones: The archaeology of human networks

The idea of human as networker is fast replacing the idea of human as toolmaker in the story of the human brain, claim two new books on our evolution

Environment

A bird in the hand: The tale of one woman and her hawk

Regulars

Feedback: Bringing dark to our lightness

Afraid of the lights, the bulb from which a conspiracy theory grows, a recursive conspiracy conspiracy, and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

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Internal reservoirs

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