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Life

Don’t believe in belief

Humans

Are you deluded? The strange things we believe

Humans

I believe: Your personal guidebook to reality

Technology

Future cameras will make living photographs reality

Environment

Dark eaters: The animals living an alternative life

Table of contents

Leaders

Technology

Who said the camera never lies?

Devices that can alter the lighting or even the angle of a shot after it's taken will alter our relationship with photography

Life

Don’t believe in belief

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Health

HIV outbreak spurs needle exchange reprieve in Indiana

Needle exchange programmes are illegal in Indiana, but will be allowed to open for 30 days while the US state tries to tackle a HIV epidemic

Earth

Bee pesticide study furore is called a ‘scandal’

Life

Twin Earths may lurk in our nearest star system

Technology

Germanwings co-pilot ‘deliberately crashed’ plane after locking out captain

60 Seconds

Earth

Asian solar spending helps drive renewable energy boom

Health

UK to pioneer national meningitis B vaccination scheme

Physics

Three ways to fix the LHC before its big reboot

Life

Is this ET? Mystery of strange radio bursts from space

Earth

Major Antarctic ice survey reveals dramatic melting

Physics

Dark energy could signal collapse of the universe

Health

If the drugs don’t work on the cancer, transform it

Life

Fire ants kill and eat baby caimans as they hatch

Space

The moon’s got two tails 鈥� and its friends might too

Health

A big bank balance leads to big-brained babies

Space

Scorch marks left by spacecraft on Mars soon fade

Environment

Killer seals develop a taste for shark guts

Environment

Giant pandas’ secret social life revealed

Health

French toddler nearly killed by flu had gene mutation

Life

Bacteria power up by using magnets as batteries

Physics

Galaxy smash-ups show dark matter wants to be alone

Technology

AI interns: Software already taking jobs from humans

Technology

One Per Cent

Earth

Waste pickers get tool to pinpoint local jobs

Health

Emergency app tells rescuers how to reach and save you

Opinion

Humans

How your biology could overrule you when voting

Your ideology might be swamped by your biology when you cast your vote, and this is why parties like UKIP are riding high, say John Hibbing and Kevin Smith

Humans

There’s no such thing as a sex drive

Physics

Tapping the weirdness of water to get enough to drink

Aperture

Abandoned underground railway preserved in 3D scan

Laser technique captures aerial view of the Mail Rail network abandoned in 2003, strewn with workers' personal items

Features

Humans

Are you deluded? The strange things we believe

We assume our beliefs are based on a truth. But with over 90% of people holding beliefs that can be classed as delusions, it could be time to reframe reality

Humans

I believe: Your personal guidebook to reality

Technology

Future cameras will make living photographs reality

Environment

Dark eaters: The animals living an alternative life

Culture

Life

Eye of the Beholder: Life through the camera obscura

Both 17th-century artist Vermeer and scientist van Leeuwenhoek made pioneering use of optics. A joint biography shows how they changed our world view

Earth

Is imagery the real key to marketing outrage?

More

Laying the foundations for open innovation

The topics in this article were developed by AstraZeneca, which paid for it to be published

Regulars

Feedback: Epidemic fact-intolerance

The scienciest neologisms for accent-induced confusion, we discover nibbolethic determinism, peaky Peak Palin pachyderm and more

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