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Earth

Let’s talk about the weather to revive climate debate

Health

A to zinc: What supplements are worth taking?

Earth

Sliding stones of Death Valley: Rocky riddle resolved

Technology

Formula E: Roar power matters for electric racing cars

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Leaders

Earth

Let’s talk about the weather to revive climate debate

Explaining how climate change is affecting today's weather will be tricky, but it might bring home to the public the everyday reality of global warming

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Earth

Californian earthquake piles stress on dangerous fault

The magnitude-6.0 quake that hit California's Napa Valley wasn't the "big one", but it loaded stress on to the Hayward fault close to the Bay Area

Technology

The high-tech hunt for James Foley’s killer

Space

Five sites shortlisted for Rosetta’s comet landing

Health

Open schools later so teens can lie in, say US doctors

Health

Ebola ripple effect: riots, looting, healthcare failure

Environment

Every living thing in the Antarctic Ocean mapped

60 Seconds

Space

Europe launches two satellites into wrong orbit

Earth

And now the weather, featuring climate change blame

Life

Your death microbiome could catch your killer

Physics

Source of sun’s power revealed by ghostly particles

Physics

Beautiful spiral cracks could be a feature, not a flaw

Health

Mapping the web of disease in Nairobi’s invisible city

Earth

Earth’s tectonic plates have doubled their speed

Physics

Earliest stars lived short, fiery lives

Physics

Stretchy plastics hide secret pictures

Humans

Sex secrets of the weevil with a curiously long snout

Health

Botox blitz could work against stomach cancers

Environment

Chimps show empathy by mimicking pupil size

Space

Vibrations in rings reveal Saturn’s inner secrets

Health

Modified yeast makes opiates for the first time

Health

Eye implant turns smartphone into a glaucoma monitor

Environment

Swelling Australian cities harbour ever bigger spiders

Technology

Supercomputers make discoveries that scientists can’t

Humans

Emailing angry? Your keyboard feels your pain

Technology

China sting shows censors fear posts that incite unrest

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

3D-printed books make pictures real for blind children

Opinion

Life

Crowd-control policing in the US is stuck in riot mode

Protest policing in the US adheres to outdated, aggressive tactics that only deepen tensions. There is a better way

Health

More autopsies on a body don’t mean more answers

My ‘verbal autopsies’ reveal what really killed people

Analysis

Technology

Ferguson protests spark calls for cops to wear cameras

On-body cameras mean police use less force, and a range of new apps are giving citizens new ways to hold errant police officers to account

Aperture

Soviet-era hyperboloid tower saved from destruction

Modern technology appears to have saved a Soviet relic, following a smartphone vote on the fate of Moscow's extraordinary Shukhov Tower

Features

Health

A to zinc: What supplements are worth taking?

Vitamins, minerals, fish oils鈥� the list of nutritional supplements you can buy keeps growing. Some are worth it, some aren't. We sift the evidence for you

Earth

Sliding stones of Death Valley: Rocky riddle resolved

Technology

Formula E: Roar power matters for electric racing cars

Culture

Humans

Biography of our ingenious species is full of twists

Humans innovate to dodge disaster, and we are pretty good at it, according to The Big Ratchet by Ruth DeFries聽鈥� but can we do it indefinitely?

Earth

Nature and conservation from a perfect point of view

Environment

Beautiful but doomed: Demise of the passenger pigeon

Regulars

Feedback: Dowsing the night away

Verdicts on fake detectors, solar cleaner is like magic, bring back the Quackometer and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

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Deposit account

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