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Environment
Wildlife trafficking is rife online in many countries
More than 33,000 animal products, 54 per cent of them live animals, were advertised for sale on websites from 16 countries, mainly in China.
News
Physics
Run your own experiment using CERN’s public LHC data
News
Health
1004 travellers screened for Ebola on entry to the UK
News
Environment
Sophisticated Regin spyware ‘built by nation state’
News
60 Seconds
News
Space
#Rosettawatch: homing in on Philae’s resting spot
News
Earth
Geoengineering the planet: first experiments take shape
News
Opening the door to immigrants is good for the economy
News
Earth
Severe El Niño stunted Peruvian children’s height
News
Quantum searching gets a software upgrade
News
Earth
Robot subs find Antarctic sea ice thicker than expected
News
Humans
How baby talk gives your child the best start in life
News
Polish ‘vampire’ burials weren’t just for outsiders
News
Calorie-burning fat boosted by Chinese medicine plant
News
Life
Zoologger: tickly kiss turns on hairy-mouthed spiders
News
Life
Saturn’s calming nature keeps Earth friendly to life
News
Bubble physics explains beer’s own anti-spill mechanism
News
Space
Galaxies in filaments spaced like pearls on a necklace
News
Health
Watch a tapeworm squirm through a living man’s brain
News
Earth
Humans needed barley to conquer Tibet’s giddy heights
News
Life
First digital animal will be perfect copy of real worm
News
Technology
Free bitcoin for students: how will they spend it?
News
Technology
One per cent
News
Opinion
Earth
Total safety an illusion for Japan’s nuclear restart
Some Japanese nuclear reactors, mothballed since the 2011 Tohoku quake, may soon restart. But nature can outpace new safety precautions, warns a geophysicist
Opinion
Space
I helped build Apollo and the shuttle – Orion is next
Opinion
Humans
Most violence arises from morality, not the lack of it
Opinion
Analysis
Space
Finding aliens harder now we know DNA survives space
A rocket painted with DNA flew to the upper atmosphere and back. The DNA still worked – but this means contamination of other planets by robot explorers is a serious problem
News
Humans
Dog head-turning shows they do understand what you say
News
Technology
Drones do awkward dance to avoid crashing
News
Technology
Security savvy services beat online cyber spies
News
Features
Environment
Toxic shockers: Key chemicals to look out for
From BPA to burnt toast, pretty much everything in the modern world comes with a hidden cocktail of chemical extras. Get the facts on what to worry about
Features
Humans
Bone bonanza: Chamber of secrets yields human remains
Features
Technology
Lassie text home: Pooches get technological
Features