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Health

Fed up with fad diets? Just tweak your habits instead

Humans

The time illusion: How your brain creates now

Space

Mapping the Milky Way: What’s where in our galaxy

Health

Forget the fads: The easy way to control your eating

Environment

Talking gibbonish: Deciphering the banter of the apes

Table of contents

Leaders

Health

It’s time to take drug trial participation seriously

A high drop-out rate in drug trials means lots of wasted time, effort and money. Empowering patients to choose the right trial for them could change that

Health

Fed up with fad diets? Just tweak your habits instead

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Health

Drug trials begin as Ebola plays hide-and-seek

Ebola drug trials are getting under way in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone 鈥� but the fluctuating epidemic may make it hard to find enough participants

Health

New antibiotic could work for 30 years 鈥� if used right

Technology

AirAsia crash may have been caused by a stall

Earth

How much oil must stay buried to avert 2 掳C warming?

Earth

60 Seconds

Earth

Save the monarch butterfly from extinction

Physics

Mathematician’s anger over his unread 500-page proof

Life

Brave new world-hunters spot exoplanets on the cheap

Health

Radical therapies that could beat my brain tumour

Forensic holodeck to transport jury to the crime scene

Life

Deep bacteria may evolve even without passing genes on

Environment

How conservation drives villagers to kill animals

Health

Celebrate your fat 鈥� it’s fighting off infection

Life

Bright black hole may have blasted early Earth life

Earth

Climate change may halve giant panda’s habitat by 2070

Health

Booze binge has immediate effect on immune system

Life

Volcanic iron delayed explosion of life on Earth

Health

Death rate drops when top heart surgeons are away

Space

Jupiter’s eroding core may already be just a husk

Health

Cancer copies how healthy cells move to invade organs

Environment

Zoologger: The tasty crab that looks like an ugly frog

Technology

Cooking Watson-style: Supercomputer turns to recipes

Technology

One Per Cent

Opinion

Technology

Buttonmasher: Return of the video game arcade

New events and public spaces aim to introduce the wider public to the vast variety of experiences that video games offer

Health

War on drugs: The Kiwi comedown has lessons for all

Health

I’m tapping the housefly’s genome to fight disease

Space

NASA chief scientist: First an asteroid, then Mars

Aperture

Life

Swooping frigatebird swipes fish from pelican’s mouth

Wildlife photographer Michael Poliza snapped this photo of a frigatebird living up to its Hawaiian name of "thief" off the coast of the Galapagos Islands

Features

Humans

The time illusion: How your brain creates now

Time is not out there 鈥� "now" is a strange trick of the mind. The good news is that with training you can live in the moment for longer

Space

Mapping the Milky Way: What’s where in our galaxy

Health

Forget the fads: The easy way to control your eating

Environment

Talking gibbonish: Deciphering the banter of the apes

Culture

Life

Three searches for the wellsprings of creativity

Do you need to be extraordinary? Wealthy and white? Or can anyone be creative? Three books come at the question from different angles

Environment

Whaleworld: Looking for cetacean culture

More

Space

Hubble’s new view of iconic ‘Pillars of Creation’

One of the most famous pictures of the cosmos has received a high-def update thanks to a new camera installed on the Hubble Space Telescope

Regulars

Feedback: Mindlessness for health

The boojum was seen, you see, scandal on a plate, chemistry by the numbers and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Shell suits

Shall we press on?

Sabre-toothed squirrel

Gimme the plane truth

Toil and bubble鈥�

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