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Space

Nowhere to hide: the danger of satellite spies

Technology

Wonder stuff: Electron freeway for cool gadgets

Technology

Wonder stuff: Glass that will store your info for ever

Environment

Wonder stuff: Shrimp plus spider kills plastic

Technology

Wonder stuff: Frozen smoke to clean the world

Technology

Wonder stuff: Heat scavengers promise energy bonanza

Technology

Wonder stuff: Amazing material that does grow on trees

Humans

Upside-down world: the goggles that remake reality

Humans

Automatic authors: Making machines that tell tales

Table of contents

Leaders

Humans

Cave art discovery is rewriting human prehistory

The discovery of the oldest hand stencils in Indonesia strike a death blow for a Eurocentric and chauvinistic view of human evolution

Space

Nowhere to hide: the danger of satellite spies

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Earth

Wild panda land threatened by China’s forest reforms

Chinese government legislation could see 15 per cent of panda habitats sold off for commercial use, but they could be protected for just $1.3 billion

Nobels scooped by blue LEDs and our brain’s satnav

Health

All countries likely to see Ebola cases by year’s end

Health

What drug-data ruling means for pharma firms and you

60 Seconds

Earth

World not on course to meet 2020 biodiversity targets

Earth

Martian methane sniffer adapted for Earth

Health

Womb transplant: old uterus as good as a 20-year-old’s

Humans

Found: closest link to Eve, our universal ancestor

Life

World’s oldest hand stencil found in Indonesian cave

Physics

Inside exotic dead stars are piles of waffles

Health

‘Perfect storm’ turned HIV from local to global killer

Health

Computer mind meld gives voice to man after a stroke

Environment

Cerebellum’s growth spurt turned monkeys into humans

Space

Moon water blew in on solar wind

Earth

The world is warming faster than we thought

Health

Exercise may be the best anti-ageing pill

Health

LSD’s ability to make minds malleable revisited

Environment

No escape from hunting harvestman’s sticky grasp

Physics

Snowflake-shaped networks are easiest to mend

Space

Vast glaciers carved out Martian Grand Canyon

No fear: thrill-seekers fail to recognise a threat

Earth

Clever clams and algae show how best to harvest light

Space

Super-close supernova used to map the Cigar Galaxy

Life

Birds colour-match their nests for camouflage

Space

World’s first space detective agency launched

Technology

Chicago uses big data to save itself from urban ills

Technology

Real Holodeck turns your living room into a game

Space

One Per Cent

Opinion

Humans

Let science decide the voting age

Research on the adolescent brain can help us decide whether 16-year-olds should have the vote

Health

We must try a lot harder to beat fake antimalarials

Health

What I’d ask Spider-Man, mascot of bio-inspiration

Analysis

Technology

Virtual reality throws you in at the deep end

The latest prototype of virtual reality headset Oculus Rift allows you to step right into the movies you watch and the games you play

Technology

Gamers polled on Xbox can predict US election results

Aperture

Environment

Grizzled veteran chimp shares snack with stripling

How come this elder male chimpanzee is happy to share berries with a 4-year-old? Thanks to Jane Goodall, we know them so well we can hazard a guess

Features

Technology

Wonder stuff: Electron freeway for cool gadgets

Wish your smartphone could keep its cool? Then discard its wasteful silicon chip and get on the stanene superhighway instead

Technology

Wonder stuff: Glass that will store your info for ever

Environment

Wonder stuff: Shrimp plus spider kills plastic

Technology

Wonder stuff: Frozen smoke to clean the world

Technology

Wonder stuff: Heat scavengers promise energy bonanza

Technology

Wonder stuff: Amazing material that does grow on trees

Humans

Upside-down world: the goggles that remake reality

Humans

Automatic authors: Making machines that tell tales

Culture

Technology

How big data algorithms see us 鈥� while they eat us up

From home shopping to homeland security, big data's sausage machine is devouring us all, according to Christian Rudder's future-looking Dataclysm

Environment

A life spent chasing down how whales evolved

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Health

Lighting dark: Fixing academia’s mental health problem

Academia is starting to acknowledge the depression and anxiety that some faculty members, students and postdocs experience 鈥� and help is there

Regulars

Feedback: Einstein said: I didn’t say that

A bee quote for the birds, Albert Einstein's 200 motels, spooky attribution at a distance and more

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