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Environment

We can have more stuff without the guilt trip

Earth

Sun-free farming: Indoor crops under the spotlight

Earth

Elemental risk: Securing the raw stuff of modern life

Humans

Rules of attraction: 10 biggest love myths exploded

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Leaders

Environment

We can have more stuff without the guilt trip

Many in rich countries worry about overconsumption exhausting the world鈥檚 resources. But it鈥檚 ethics rather than minerals that are in short supply

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Space

Neil Armstrong’s secret bag of moon-landing souvenirs

The astronaut's widow has given the US National Air and Space Museum a bag of hoarded knick-knacks, including the camera used to film his "one small step"

Space

Bold spacecraft prepare for lift off 鈥� and re-entry

Health

Unfounded vaccine myths harm measles herd immunity

Health

Chronic fatigue syndrome gets yet another name

60 Seconds

Earth

Rise in shark attacks does not mean more sharks

Fat chance of advice

Earth

Geoengineering would be ‘irrational and irresponsible’

Life

Donors wanted: your bodily waste could be a big earner

Health

Not just obesity 鈥� faecal transplants’ weird effects

Should the UK frack for gas?

Space

Dark force could keep Milky Way’s neighbours away

Physics

Add a dash of quantum for secure cloud computing

Life

The secret of the world’s largest seed revealed

Physics

First stars get 150 million years younger overnight

Life

Glassed-in DNA makes the ultimate time capsule

Physics

Magic number makes acid fall apart in water

Physics

Maths model suggests glass ceiling can be cracked from below

Health

Don’t read this aloud in your head. Drat, failed

Earth

Melting ice spells volcanic trouble

Health

Musical software helps mothers push babies out faster

Space

Pluto’s evaporating ice leaves it with a blank face

Environment

Meet 鈥� and hear 鈥� the world’s first bilingual chimps

Life

The island paradise overrun by giant cannibals

Technology

The four main roadblocks holding up self-driving cars

Space

One Per Cent

Technology

Hackathon invents the digital tools to fix Congress

Technology

Robot firefighter puts out its first blaze

Opinion

Health

Crossing the germ line 鈥� facing genetics’ great taboo

Let's stop drawing lines in the sand when it comes to genetically modifying people and talk about engineering everybody

Physics

Bad air day: See my ‘tornado in a bottle’

Earth

We’ve got the evolution of complex cells inside-out

Analysis

Drop in Ebola cases may thwart drug and vaccine trials

The steep fall in new Ebola cases is good news 鈥� but it makes it difficult to run trials of the new drugs and vaccines that might prevent the next outbreak

Aperture

Earth

See one of the world’s dirtiest jobs: e-waste disposal

This tiny workshop is one of thousands in China where our gadgets go to die 鈥� poisoning land and people on their way out

Features

Earth

Sun-free farming: Indoor crops under the spotlight

It tastes great, is hyper-local and is available all year round. But is growing food indoors in our cities really sustainable, asks Michael Le Page

Earth

Elemental risk: Securing the raw stuff of modern life

Humans

Rules of attraction: 10 biggest love myths exploded

Culture

Technology

Work in an age of robots

As automation and the internet sweep away employment certainties even for the creative classes, three books explore the depth of our predicament

Earth

Risking everything to save songbirds

Regulars

Environment

Feedback: Men make monthly mistakes

A whale's hall of fame, send soccer standard to safety, double-deck decibel distress and more

whales and dolphins

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Algal bloom

Supply chains

Who’s on top?

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