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Humans

Life in the multiverse means endless possibilities

Humans

Multiverse me: Should I care about my other selves?

Health

Tumour traps: How to arrest cancer as it spreads

Space

Cosmic ray blitz: Space invaders that fry electronics

Environment

Behind the smile: What dolphins really think

Table of contents

Leaders

Earth

Reasons to be optimistic about NY climate summit

Significant advances were made at the latest United Nations climate meeting, though we won't really know if it has delivered until next year

Humans

Life in the multiverse means endless possibilities

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Free will persists (even if your brain made you do it)

If neuroscientists were one day able to predict your every action and decision based on brain scans, will you abandon the concept of free will? Probably not

Life

NIH in bold move to fight gender bias in research

Earth

UN ready for climate change talks in New York

Space

US probe enters Mars orbit, Indian craft close behind

Scotland’s scientists breathe easier after No vote

60 Seconds

Space

Private flights may make space station more expensive

Health

Development goals 2.0: focus on premature deaths

Environment

Stricter rules will thwart Japan’s whaling attempts

Health

World wakes up to Ebola as cases set to top 1 million

Space

CubeSat craze could create space debris catastrophe

Physics

Ripples from dawn of creation vanish in a puff of dust

Earth

Global population may boom well beyond the year 2050

Environment

Modified aubergines could transform farming in India

Space

Water found in atmosphere of exo-Neptune

Earth

Wind causing most of temperature rise in north-west US

Earth

Looming quakes may be betrayed by groundwater changes

Physics

Einstein makes an appearance in superheavy chemistry

Health

Make tough tasks seem easier by zapping the brain

Health

Epilepsy gives woman compulsion to write poems

Environment

Zoologger: Ants fight dirty in turf war with spiders

Earth

Finding Nemo is real: Clownfish make epic sea journeys

Life

Hackathon aims to invent breast pumps that don’t suck

Technology

Wireless charger powers up iPhone in your pocket

Technology

Air-chaeological drones search for ancient treasures

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

Chatter tracker helps design the perfect office

Technology

Buttonmasher: Gaming bots learn from how we play

Opinion

Earth

Chagos marine reserve polluted by politics

Exiled Chagossian islanders complain that a marine reserve gives fish more rights than them. They have a point

Health

Why we weren’t ready for Ebola

Humans

Beat temptation with the marshmallow psychologist

Aperture

Earth

Earth’s navel: Stare into an eye-wateringly big hole

The Siberian mining town of Mirny is home to the second-largest hole ever dug in the world, which produced a monster diamond with a ghastly name

Features

Humans

Multiverse me: Should I care about my other selves?

Every decision you make may spawn parallel universes where people are suffering because of your choice. Welcome to the quantum moral maze

Health

Tumour traps: How to arrest cancer as it spreads

Space

Cosmic ray blitz: Space invaders that fry electronics

Environment

Behind the smile: What dolphins really think

Culture

Humans

How to be genuinely yourself when always online

If you want to be free in a digital age, must you switch off your computer, ask two new books, The End of Absence and The Glass Cage

Earth

How air conditioning overwhelmed its hothead haters

More

Is there a cure for adjunctivitis in university jobs?

An increasing number of university professors are hired as poorly paid adjuncts. Can unionization improve pay and working conditions?

Regulars

Mind

Ig Nobel prize for watching dogs urinate

The prizewinning science of banana-skin slips, seeing Jesus in toast and dogs aligning themselves with magnetic fields lines when relieving themselves

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