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Culture clash: When scientists must tread with care

Health

Grow fat, get thin? We put brown fat to the test

Earth

In the beginning: How Earth got its continents

Humans

Eye of the beholder: How colour vision made us human

Table of contents

Leaders

The science of inequality deserves political attention

Policy-makers the world over urgently need to address the growing divide between haves and have-nots. Science has much to tell them 鈥� if only they would listen

Culture clash: When scientists must tread with care

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Health

IBM’s Watson to provide software for personalised healthcare

IBM is partnering with Apple and medical device companies to develop a cloud-based health platform for its Watson supercomputer

Earth

UK political parties woo voters with green tech promises

Earth

Dutch government taken to court over climate change

Space

Philae’s sensors show comet 67P has almost no magnetic field

Environment

Massive UK oil find claim met with caution

Environment

60 Seconds

Space

Reusable Vulcan rockets that parachute to Earth to launch in 2019

Technology

Can we stop killer robots? UN meets to debate possible treaty

Health

Mind-control exoskeleton gives unprecedented paralysis recovery

Health

Your own personal placebo: Genes reveal response to sugar pill

Humans

Women may have pioneered hunting with weapons

Space

Native Hawaiians halt construction of giant telescope

Life

NASA’s Curiosity rover finds astronauts could farm water on Mars

Environment

Neanderthal chefs may have spiced up menus with wild herbs

Health

Knuckle cracking caught on film for the first time

Physics

Parasitic populations solve algorithm problems in half the time

Paper microphone may help charge your cellphone

Environment

New monkey species revealed thanks to distinctive penis

Painful baldness cure: Regenerate hair by plucking what’s left

Health

Smartphone holograms can diagnose cervical cancer

Environment

Baboon bone found in famous Lucy skeleton

Health

Extreme inbreeding is no big deal for mountain gorillas

Mind

Smart drones that think and learn like us to launch this year

Technology

Smartphone data to give early warning of earthquakes

Technology

Control smartphones with a stroke of your hair

Technology

Robots go deep inside Fukushima nuclear plant to map radiation

Technology

One Per Cent

Opinion

Earth

Africa’s parks must be off limits for oil and gas

There are better ways to help Africa prosper than ripping up protected park borders in the hunt for oil and gas

Earth

Rich nations are laying road to ecological Armageddon

Does music strike a chord with everyone?

Humans

Morality is rooted in the way societies get their energy

Aperture

Life

Nice legs: Native American bee poses for his close-up

A photographer has set himself an epic project to capture all North America's bee species, including this fuzzy-legged specimen that bared its mandibles for the camera

Features

Health

Grow fat, get thin? We put brown fat to the test

Brown fat burns calories instead of storing them 鈥� and you could activate yours by taking cold dips and eating spicy food. But does it really help fight flab?

Earth

In the beginning: How Earth got its continents

Humans

Eye of the beholder: How colour vision made us human

Culture

Earth

Future ruin: Can we design our way out of eco-crisis?

Some may be sticking-plaster solutions, but all the entries from the 2015 Designs of the Year show at least have sustainability in mind

Life

The Triumph of Seeds: Our huge debt to tiny marvels

Regulars

Feedback: Some numerology of astronomy

Food and drink for thought, we revisit magic DNA numbers, suspecting a subliminal message on education and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Brain gain

Who’s on top?

Radio GAGA

Insect impostor?

Bubble trouble

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