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Physics

Will the revamped LHC make or break physics?

Health

Not just a headache: How migraine changes your brain

Health

How to understand and deal with migraines

Physics

It’s the faster, stronger, better Large Hadron Collider

Earth

Dambusters: The end of Brazil’s hydroelectric dreams?

Technology

Blinded by the heat: The laser weapon you’ll never see

Table of contents

Leaders

Physics

Will the revamped LHC make or break physics?

With CERN鈥檚 Large Hadron Collider about to reopen after a two-year upgrade, any failure to uncover new physics would be a huge roadblock to progress

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World’s most infectious dress

An inexpensive dress worn to a wedding in Scotland turned out to be a highly contagious virus

Health

Real flu hits just twice a decade

Space

Dawn spacecraft set for first visit to a dwarf planet

Earth

Droughts in Syria and California linked to climate change

60 Seconds

Space

Tiny CubeSats could hitch a ride with ESA mission

Technology

Victory declaration on net neutrality may be premature

Earth

Amazon deforestation soars after a decade of stability

Would you wear yeast perfume? Microbes used to brew scent

Earth

Europe blazes trail against climate change

Space

Key to quantum gravity may lurk in cosmic haze

Health

After handshakes, we sniff people’s scent on our hand

Space

Weather forecast for early Earth involved iron rain

Environment

Modified E. coli spin fibres as tough as spider silk

Physics

Programmable pop-up materials can morph on command

Health

Treating inherited disease could start in the womb

Humans

Memory lapse draws bumblebees to untried flowers

Environment

Drill into Mars for clues to Earth’s climate

Environment

Great white sharks attack prey under cover of sun

Life

Britons may have imported wheat long before farming it

Health

Future-predicting neurons discovered in the brain

Technology

Virtual reality film revolution puts you in the scene

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

Facebook invents an intelligence test for machines

Opinion

Migrants and asylum seekers are not a zero-sum game

An unfounded fear of competition is what's driving anti-immigration sentiment in the West

Health

How many girls mask autism spectrum disorder, like me?

Health

I showed that nicotine is a gateway to hard drugs

Analysis

Health

Why US law on guns and mental health needs to change

As eight die in shootings in Missouri, why oppose a law compelling psychiatrists to report patients with mental illness, asks Jessica Hamzelou

Aperture

Earth

Kangaroo frozen in time by red dust storm

This grey kangaroo probably died at the peak of Australia's recent 15-year drought, and then became half-buried in the country's iconic red dirt

Features

Physics

It’s the faster, stronger, better Large Hadron Collider

Still basking in the glory of the Higgs discovery, CERN's celebrity particle smasher is aiming for even wilder particles 鈥� and the truth about supersymmetry

Earth

Dambusters: The end of Brazil’s hydroelectric dreams?

Health

Not just a headache: How migraine changes your brain

Health

How to understand and deal with migraines

Technology

Blinded by the heat: The laser weapon you’ll never see

Culture

Humans

Where we’re headed in the search for our minds

Split brains taught us plenty, now super-imaging is imminent, but Michael Gazzaniga, Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman show the mystery of mind still eludes us for now

This Idea Must Die: Which science ideas should retire?

Regulars

Feedback: Occam’s razor blunted a bit

Conspiracy counterclaims, journal jinx jamboree, Simpsons' scholarly scam, precise pi day next week and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Angle of dangle

Tree time

Mind lags body

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