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Health

Wider breast cancer screening won’t be a boon to women

Health

14 myths and maybes about burning fat

Health

Are some people doomed to be fat?

Life

World War R: Rise of the killer robots

Life

How I’m bringing ancient music back to life

Table of contents

Leaders

Technology

Automated killer robots come with enormous risks

The first world war should be a reminder of the dangers of mass, uncontrolled experimentation with new killing machines

Health

Wider breast cancer screening won’t be a boon to women

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Environment

Turbopump failure behind Orbital rocket explosion

A failed rocket propellant pump was the likely cause of the explosion of an Antares rocket taking cargo to the ISS, says the rocket's maker, Orbital Sciences

The wait for Philae’s comet touchdown is on

Environment

Ban on capturing whales for zoos a step closer

Earth

US and China talk climate before crucial 2015 summit

60 Seconds

Health

Australian smokers learn to accept gruesome packets

Technology

Obama shocks cable firms with call for net neutrality

Health

First world war dysentery bug was penicillin-resistant

Earth

Record-breaking ocean temperatures wreak havoc

Mind

Ever felt a ghostly presence? Now we know why

Monster cancer chromosome is made from shattered DNA

Humans

Oldest European genome illuminates diverse ancestry

Health

Human thoughts used to switch on genes

Physics

Twisted light sends Mozart record distance through air

Health

Critics say wider breast screening trial ‘unethical’

How to build a circuit with frozen atoms

Environment

Gulls switch to trash-diet as fish stocks run low

Life

Zoologger: Bats jam each other’s sonar to steal meals

Health

Composition of your gut bacteria may be inherited

Space

Red Planet racers: Next Mars rovers get a speed boost

Health

No magic gene behind supercentenarians’ longevity

Life

Blood odour chemical gets carnivores drooling

Space

First action shot of planet birth around a young star

Health

The man who can hear Wi-Fi wherever he walks

Earth

Bio-drone simply melts away when it crashes

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

Microsoft’s 3D audio headset tested: we see with sound

Opinion

Earth

Should we all get out of fossil fuels now?

UN head Ban Ki-moon has urged divestment from fossil fuels. Premature posturing or vital and timely?

I’m engineering for 10,000 metres under the sea

Physics

Quantum logic: It’s simpler to be two things at once

Analysis

Technology

The rise of digital courts in settling disputes

If you've been stung by an online buy, you can get even online too, thanks to an unexpected side effect of the e-commerce boom

Aperture

Earth

Rainbow palette found in Brooklyn’s contaminated water

The Gowanus canal is one of the most polluted waterways in the US, but new species of microbe have evolved in these toxic but strangely beautiful waters

Features

Health

Are some people doomed to be fat?

Some people can't lose weight 鈥� and others can't put it on. Linda Geddes explodes the myths about what separates whippets from walruses

Health

14 myths and maybes about burning fat

Life

World War R: Rise of the killer robots

Life

How I’m bringing ancient music back to life

Culture

Life

Are we ready for quantum biology?

In Life on the Edge, Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden argue quantum effects are decisive in biology 鈥� but this challenging idea needs proof

Gift-wrapped: Exploring the history of selling pleasure

Technology

Optical trickery brings Rothko’s paintings back to life

More

Medicine’s engine room

Biomedical engineers are essential to the high-tech world of health, but a dearth of them is costing lives

Regulars

Feedback: When the web was in the egg

We may think the machine stops, a world palace of knowledge, web arrives with woo-woo prose and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Spiralling down

Odd jobs

Tense situation

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