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Fat and sugar: Diet of confusion

Health

Heart attack on a plate? The truth about saturated fat

Physics

Einstein’s perfect theory: General relativity rebooted

Earth

Ghost of the cloud forest: Seeking the white possum

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Leaders

Fat and sugar: Diet of confusion

In the debate over food and health, it is too soon to absolve fat and demonise sugar. Some nutritional clarity is urgently needed

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Health

Google launches new project to understand human health

The company's latest foray into research aims to create a detailed picture of what it means to be a healthy person

Environment

Brazil bans catfish fishery that used dolphins as bait

Earth

UK’s national parks may not be safe from fracking

Health

Ebola outbreak: What you need to know about its spread

Earth

Smoky wildfires in US and Canada damage lung health

60 Seconds

Space

Europe makes final delivery run to space station

Earth

UK failing to protect bees from pesticides, say MPs

Pigeon paradox reveals quantum cosmic connections

Health

‘Epigenetic’ gene tweaks seem to trigger cancer

Health

Protector gene’s evil twin linked to spread of cancer

Zoologger: Octopus mum broods for record-breaking time

Space

Ancient Earth fossils could be found on the moon

Earth

Local people preserve the environment better than governments

Health

The super-abundant virus controlling your gut bacteria

Environment

Killer sperm ravages internal organs of luckless worms

Environment

Decisions ripple through flocks of birds like a wave

Life

Bloodsuckers fed on dinosaurs 130 million years ago

Earth

An easier way to turn plant scraps to plastics

Face tester can predict how you will judge a face

Space

Leaving Earth made the moon lemon-shaped

Technology

Iron supplements in nano form are gentler on your gut

Environment

Feathersaurus: plant-eating dinos had plumage too

Health

Robotic suit gives shipyard workers super strength

Technology

Twitter bots grow up and take on the world

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

US government chatbot gets you to tell all

Opinion

World’s poor need grid power, not just solar panels

Small-is-beautiful electricity can't power a way out of poverty; big energy is either dirty or uneconomic. Time for some new ideas

Leopards can be good neighbours in Mumbai

Health

Are we thinking about OCD backwards?

Analysis

Space

When NASA space crews play make believe

Two simulated trips to space, on a Hawaiian volcano and underwater off Florida, have just ended. What do these fake expeditions help astronauts learn?

Technology

The secret system controlling your Facebook News Feed

Aperture

Space

Space salad glows purple in a greenhouse made for Mars

In warm colours of artificial lights, lettuce is growing in an aeroponic greenhouse module for use on the moon or Mars

Features

Health

Heart attack on a plate? The truth about saturated fat

After decades of health warnings, the idea that steak, cheese and lard are bad for your heart is melting away. The truth is more complex 鈥� and delicious

Physics

Einstein’s perfect theory: General relativity rebooted

Earth

Ghost of the cloud forest: Seeking the white possum

Culture

Earth

A globetrotting, water-saving tour of sewage gardens

Would you dine in an artificial wetland laced with human waste? In The Wastewater Gardener, Marc Nelson makes an inspiring case for a new ecology of water

When art changes the rules for science

More

Chemistry of success: careers with a chemical degree

A career in chemistry can look tough for recent graduates 鈥� and not just because of the scientific rigours of a potential life in the lab

Regulars

Feedback: Such lightness with their fear

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

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