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Earth
Fungal fix for UK’s Himalayan balsam problem
Himalayan balsam has aggressively outcompeted many native plants in the UK 鈥� a rust fungus imported from its homeland could help to bring it under control
News
Earth
Jobless young people desert sinking Pacific islands
News
Earth
Great Barrier Reef may be safe from massive mud dump
News
Technology
Jennifer Lawrence photo hack highlights risks of cloud
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
US aiming to help more heroin addicts and jail fewer
News
Health
Boost for cancer therapy sought by Ashya King’s family
News
Health
New push for better handling of football head injuries
News
Physics
Chameleons and holograms: Dark energy hunt gets weird
News
Humans
First Neanderthal etching is a #stoneagehashtag
News
Environment
Moving home? Your microbes will make the trip too
News
Health
Wrecked knees? Nose cartilage can fix them
News
Physics
‘Factorisation factory’ smashes number-cracking record
News
Health
Gene variant found that may help people live to be 100
News
Earth
No more pause: Warming will be non-stop from now on
News
Earth
Bill Gates’s epic project transforms farming in Africa
News
Health
Major quarantine and experimental vaccines to curb Ebola
News
Technology
Use of ‘language of deceit’ betrays scientific fraud
News
Health
Tiny buckybombs could make bacteria explode
News
Environment
Zoologger: Cockatoos learn to make and use a tool
News
Health
Children who skip breakfast might raise diabetes risk
News
Life
Taming of the bunny rewrote rabbit genome
News
Life
Mammals’ reptile ancestors may have hunted at night
News
Life
Iron Age CSI finds gold thieves died in the act
News
Health
Painful memories eased by inhaling xenon gas
News
Space
Voyager 2’s view of solar system’s edge will be unique
News
Health
$10 million tricorder X Prize unveils 10 finalists
News
Space
‘Soccer-ball’ robots to patrol space for deadly junk
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Iris register to eyedentify voting fraud in Somaliland
News
Technology
Silence your phone with the radio wave of a hand
News
Opinion
Life
No ghosts, no gods, no aliens on my atheism channel
Viewers in the US are bombarded with nonsense masquerading as聽fact. They should switch to AtheistTV, says its founder
Opinion
Health
Ebola’s silver lining: We can clamp down on bushmeat
Opinion
Health
We need shrinks in hospital emergency rooms
Opinion
Features
Humans
End of nations: Is there an alternative to countries?
Nation states cause some of our biggest problems, from civil war to climate inaction. Science suggests there are better ways to run a planet
Features
Life
Code generation: Kids who program before they can read
Features
Earth
Burning blue sky: Earth’s cloud shield is failing
Features
Culture
Health
A manifesto for playing god with human evolution
Fancy living forever, or uploading your mind to the net? The Proactionary Imperative embraces transhumanist dreams, but reminds why we need medical ethics
Culture
Life
Harness randomness to succeed at life
Culture
Space
Myths and reality of the Nazi space rocket
Culture
