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Health

Cutting off the Ebola zone would be a mistake

Humans

Transformers: 10 revolutions that made us human

Humans

Transformers: Humanity’s next 1000 years

Physics

The future’s flat: The wondrous world of 2D materials

Environment

The comeback cubs: The great sea otter invasion

Table of contents

Leaders

Health

Cutting off the Ebola zone would be a mistake

Travel bans aren鈥檛 the answer: distancing ourselves from countries and people afflicted with Ebola could prove tragic for the world

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Health

Why closing borders won’t stop Ebola’s rampage

Read our complete guide to the Ebola outbreak

60 Seconds

China set to launch probe on round trip to the moon

Ban of vulture-killing drug in India is working

Environment

‘Missing’ disaster led to all-time worst extinction

Thoroughly modern humans interbred with Neanderthals

Locked-in people’s awareness revealed by rainbow hair

Fetus’s arthritis genes can affect the mother

Environment

Oldest genitals found. Went out of fashion for eons

Powering up the poor shouldn’t hurt the climate

Health

Sleepy sun could make Mars trips deadly

Dark matter signal points to exotic black-hole origins

Health

This is what brain cell conversations look like

Number of eggs a woman has predicts heart attack risk

Diet fast or diet slow, the same weight piles back on

Chaotic cosmic wombs may birth backwards planets

Environment

Shy lemurs communicate using toilet trees

Saturn’s moon Mimas might have its own subsurface sea

Environment

Spanish amphibians struck down by virus attack

Quantum internet could cross seas by container ship

Technology

Personal helicopter will be as easy to drive as a car

Health

Slumdog mapmakers fill in the urban blanks

Technology

One Per Cent

Opinion

Health

Global agency needed for battling infectious diseases

Ebola underlines the urgent need for a new way of responding to global epidemics

Technology

Legalise online protests to safeguard democracy

Health

Enlist our microbiomes in the fight against cancer

Analysis

Technology

Can Google Express deliver on same-day shopping?

Google has found another way to reach into our lives with its same-day delivery service. But it needs to harness new technology to make Google Express viable

Aperture

Environment

Coming face to face with a shy thresher shark

Meeting sharks can be a moving experience, says photographer Jean-Marie Ghislain, who works to educate people on the plight of sharks around the world

Features

Humans

Transformers: 10 revolutions that made us human

Two million years ago we were just your average primate 鈥� then we started to have some revolutionary ideas and human evolution went into hyper-drive

Humans

Transformers: Humanity’s next 1000 years

Physics

The future’s flat: The wondrous world of 2D materials

Environment

The comeback cubs: The great sea otter invasion

Culture

Life

What one Amazonian tribe teaches us

From female suicide to the nature of being civilised, probing tribal life in the 21st century needs an unflinching, critical eye

Breaking point: Storming the barriers of unreason

More

Shelf appeal: Making packaged food more alluring

Coffee-scented packets, edible wrappers and biodegradable containers: it's up to inventive scientists to develop food packaging that is smart, clean and appealing to the senses

Regulars

Feedback: Trial by water

Advertising standards fail, decent desert dessert, pencils for the End Times and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Shelling out

Time for tee

Booze cruisers

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