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Health

Body swaps sound like fantasy, but pose real questions

Humans

Why your brain needs touch to make you human

Life

Evolution’s big bang: How life on Earth took off

Physics

Kitchen-table physics lets you do big science at home

Earth

Suez superhighway: Stopping the tide of alien invaders

Table of contents

Leaders

Health

Body swaps sound like fantasy, but pose real questions

Transplanting living human heads onto new bodies raises extraordinary ethical questions. We'd better think about them before someone tries it

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Men have hands amputated and replaced with bionic ones

Three people with paralysed arms had their hands amputated and replaced by prosthetic ones that they control with their mind

Google DeepMind AI outplays humans at video games

Renewable energy poised to overtake nuclear in the UK

Actual race on moon could decide Lunar XPrize winner

Drug-resistant malaria poised to cross into India

Environment

Indians lose billions of life years to air pollution

60 Seconds

Earth

Climate change sceptic’s work called into question

Health

First human head transplant could happen in two years

Health

6 things you’re dying to ask about head transplants

Life

The plan to find alien life in Europa’s icy seas

Space

Ancient black hole had an inexplicable growth spurt

Gerbils and Silk Road to blame for the plague

Environment

Kenya’s electrified route to human-wildlife harmony

Did sponge microbiomes help aerate the oceans?

Rats can’t get drunk after a dose of oxytocin hormone

Physics

Volleyballene puts a new spin on buckyballs

Burst of warming may end lull in rising temperatures

Life

Dragonfly eyes see the world in ultra-multicolour

Stellar intruder’s daring fly-by of the solar system

Environment

Oral sex may be a life saver for spider

UV rays damage skin hours after exposure to sun

Searching for signs of Mars life could destroy them

Technology

Cheap wonder metals will make a faster, cleaner world

Technology

One Per Cent

Environment

Keep an eye on your city’s pollution in real time

Technology

Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links

Opinion

Earth

To save the rainforest, let the locals take control

Global intervention in tropical forests to combat climate change could sideline their most effective guardians

Health

My drug-filled nanospheres heal at the speed of light

Health

I’ve found the real reason so many children are obese

Analysis

Health

2015 a watershed year for assisted suicide in the US

With bills introduced that could legalise the right to die in 20 more states, this year could be a turning point for the highly controversial practice

Aperture

Life

Giant robot eyes scan stars for dust

The huge eyes of the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona are staring across vast cosmic distances in the hope of finding signs of alien life

Features

Humans

Why your brain needs touch to make you human

Being touchy-feely isn't just nice 鈥� caresses build social worlds from families to sports teams and may even give us our sense of self

Life

Evolution’s big bang: How life on Earth took off

Physics

Kitchen-table physics lets you do big science at home

Earth

Suez superhighway: Stopping the tide of alien invaders

Culture

Health

Art, elections and mad cow disease

With a British election looming, an exhibition on BSE stands as an awful warning to politicians who put business interests before public trust

Physics

Birth of a Theorem: Mathematics, Boltzmann and brio

Regulars

Feedback: Nominative determinism redux

Rigorous riparian research, nominative contradeterminism, whistleblowers: don't blow it and more

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