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Earth

Hottest year on record ramps up the climate pressure

Earth

Plastic Age: How it’s reshaping rocks, oceans and life

Technology

The bitcoin rush: Pioneers on the financial frontier

Earth

Thaw point: Why is Antarctica’s sea ice still growing?

Table of contents

Leaders

Technology

Defending net neutrality is a fight for human rights

The liberating power of the internet must not be sacrificed on the altar of narrow commercial interest

Earth

Hottest year on record ramps up the climate pressure

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Self-help healthcare fuelled shock Greek election win

Volunteer-run services are plugging holes left by cutbacks in Greece and may have helped focus support for the radical Syriza party

Health

Fight against Ebola turns a corner

Life

Twinkle telescope to check out exoplanet climate

Earth

India eyes ambitious renewables targets – with US help

Earth

Brazil hit hard by worst drought since 1930

60 Seconds

Space

Moon milestone prizes awarded to XPrize competitors

Health

Portable mind-reader gives voice to locked-in people

#RosettaWatch: My summer holiday around a comet

Mice evolve better, not bigger, balls in sperm race

Shapely photons break rules to fly slower than light

Laser flight path caught on camera for the first time

Ancient planets are almost as old as the universe

Human ancestors got a grip on tools 3 million years ago

Health

Cells from stressed-out mice act as an antidepressant

Health

Second blow to the head for effects of brain zapping

Fractals seen in throbs of pulsating golden stars

Environment

Polar bear penis bone may be weakened by pollution

Is MSG a silent killer or useful flavour booster?

Anti-radiation drug could work days after exposure

La Ni帽as on the rise in climate change double whammy

Finding ET 鈥� we’re gonna need a bigger dish

Space

Solo supernovae challenge cosmic distance standards

Space

Multibillion-dollar race to put internet into orbit

Health

Blood bank data turns donations into a numbers game

Technology

Data archaeology helps builders avoid buried treasure

Technology

One Per Cent

Opinion

Earth

Ozone hole: How we are misled in the fight to cut smog

Obama wants to cut ozone pollution, but Republicans are crying foul over the cost. Europe is being tougher鈥� or is it? Much is obfuscation

Technology

Prince Philip: Great engineers can improve the world

Humans

The maths drive is like the sex drive

Analysis

Health

It’s OK to soak up the sun, just don’t get burned

Sunshine police take note, the latest guidelines from the UK's health advisory body NICE suggest we should actively seek out some rays

Aperture

Environment

Sperm whale’s emergency evacuation… of its bowels

What does such a gigantic animal have to be scared of? Spooked by the photographers, this sperm whale protected itself by enveloping them in a poonado

Features

Earth

Plastic Age: How it’s reshaping rocks, oceans and life

The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy 鈥� but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene

Technology

The bitcoin rush: Pioneers on the financial frontier

Earth

Thaw point: Why is Antarctica’s sea ice still growing?

Culture

Humans

What makes us altruistic 鈥� and what’s it good for?

Two new books use the latest brain science to figure out what makes us behave selflessly 鈥� and also suggest practical steps for encouraging it

Technology

Back to black: The enduring quest to portray nothing

Regulars

Feedback: Where little fears grow great

Self-awareness by the link elf, the time itself unsorted soon, when news comes round again and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Ray bands

Deposit account

No scraping, please

Heart to heart

Spin doctors

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