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Technology

Who’s driving? Autonomous vehicles have a problem

Technology

Who’s flying this thing? End in sight for pilots

Health

Let the sunshine in: We need Vitamin D more than ever

Environment

Where the wild things are: Big beasts return to Europe

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Leaders

Space

Snap-happy space fans deserve quick pics

Space agencies hoarding exciting new images from space probes doesn't help science

Technology

Who’s driving? Autonomous vehicles have a problem

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Missing mercury pollution is enough for mass poisoning

Thousands of tonnes of mercury have been emitted by industry but now cannot be found, suggesting the lethal pollutant is lurking somewhere

Earth

How to stop toxic blooms clogging up Lake Erie

Health

Israel withdraws, but Gaza’s health system is on brink

Space

Next rover will pull oxygen from Martian air

60 Seconds

Space

US is wasting money on too many spy satellites

Earth

Uncertainty surrounds massacre of indigenous group

Health

Stem cell scientist found dead in apparent suicide

Earth

Deadliest Ebola outbreak being driven by urbanisation

Language of chemistry is unveiled by molecular make-up

Technology

Magnets join race to replace transistors in computers

Earth

Flip the birds: Migration began in the north not south

Humans

Human exodus may have reached China 100,000 years ago

Life

FBI errors throw forensic convictions into question

Space

Comet-mapping Rosetta spacecraft prepares for duty

Environment

Zoologger: Hero ant jumps off cliff to eject invaders

Health

Cold potatoes could counter health effects of red meat

Health

Grizzly bears become ‘diabetic’ when they hibernate

Environment

Extinct mega penguin was tallest and heaviest ever

Health

Stomach rumbles start in the back of your brain

Physics

Japanese paper cuts make graphene extra stretchy

Space

Saturn moon may host its own Dead Sea

Environment

Dinosaurs shrank for 50 million years to become birds

Earth

Massive smart light lab tests tech to slash emissions

Technology

City and rural super-dialects exposed via Twitter

Technology

Messaging app lets you leave secrets on street corners

Technology

One Per Cent

Health

Machine predicts heart attacks 4 hours before doctors

Technology

How the weirdest designs can become great paper planes

Opinion

Space

Comet mission must not keep space fans in the dark

The European Space Agency should change tack and not sit on pictures from a pioneering mission to a comet, says a space science writer

Health

I won the Nobel by experimenting on myself

Health

My recreational drugs can defeat organised crime

Analysis

Technology

Traffic light hackers could cause jams across the US

Researchers have hacked traffic lights across a Michigan city, and they warn that the weakness they found exists at 100,000 intersections in the country

Aperture

Technology

The spy who bugged me: spook kit from the 1960s

The belly buster, ultra-thin pincers and a secret silver dollar. The tools of 20th century western spycraft, from the CIA Museum

Features

Technology

Who’s flying this thing? End in sight for pilots

Computer pilots could make human error a thing of the past. But would you get on a plane flown by a machine instead of a captain?

Health

Let the sunshine in: We need Vitamin D more than ever

Environment

Where the wild things are: Big beasts return to Europe

Culture

Festival shows the promises and perils of open data

Governments and big businesses want information to be free, but how will it work? A Berlin festival last week cast a friendly but critical eye over the idea

Physics

The surprising power of the unseen

Regulars

Feedback: Plumbing to be proud of

Papering over some differences, Platonists deny patentability, paradoxical numbers' plethora and more

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My old china

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