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Life
Guilty pleasures: Can you make a convincing liar?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: How much chocolate can your body handle?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: What’s the cost of being a couch potato?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: How often can you eat a juicy steak?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: Can you party all night and not pay tomorrow?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: When is it wise to switch off your screen?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: Can you ease the effects of drinking too much?
Features
Earth
Guilty pleasures: How to live your microlives to the full
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: Is there a safer way to soak up the sun?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: Just how bad is social smoking?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: What are the real risks of taking drugs?
Features
Earth
Guilty pleasures: Can you fly without the footprint?
Features
Humans
Antisocial media: How Facebook is helping us to be nicer
Features
Health
The cat made me do it: Is your pet messing with your mind?
Features
Table of contents
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Life
Mystery disease claims half world population of saiga antelopes
Up to 120,000 animals are feared dead in central Kazakhstan, and still the cause is not known. Vets are investigating three main possibilities
News
Earth
Wild weather across US and Mexico a sign of El Ni帽o’s return
News
Earth
North American ragweed to bring autumn allergy misery to Europe
News
60 Seconds
News
Physics
Record smashed at LHC as machine limbers up for its second run
News
Health
Forget colour overlays 鈥� dyslexia is not a vision problem
News
Space
US SPACE Act extends easy ride for commercial space ventures
News
Health
Brain implant that decodes intention will let us probe free will
News
Space
Dust from asteroid mining spells danger for satellites
News
Life
Artificial DNA links up just like the real thing
News
Health
Fetal cells injected into a man’s brain to cure his Parkinson’s
News
Space
Spacecraft built from graphene could run on nothing but sunlight
News
Environment
Ancient DNA suggests dogs split from wolves 40,000 years ago
News
Health
‘Vaccine’ stops mice feeling stress 鈥� but should people take it?
News
Earth
Win-win deal helps avoid war over Ethiopia’s $5 billion Nile dam
News
Environment
First evidence that dinosaurs laid colourful blue-green eggs
News
Technology
Solar-cell thread heralds promise of wearable chargers
News
Humans
New species of early human was Lucy’s neighbour in Africa
News
Health
Bowel screening to become less of a pain in the backside
News
Earth
Ocean’s microbiome has incredible diversity 鈥� and human likeness
News
Why we should all seek out awesome experiences
News
Space
Vesta has no moons 鈥� is it unlucky or did it eat them?
News
Environment
Zoologger: Musical spider purrs like a cat to attract mates
News
Life
Chatting with endangered possums may be the ticket to save them
News
Health
Inside Obama’s plan to use open data to curb police brutality
News
Technology
Machines are about to start making their own beautiful music
News
Technology
New Ugandan radio stations run on sun, smartphones and buckets
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Opinion
After ISIS storms Palmyra, race is on to log global heritage
Ancient buildings are sitting ducks in war. But efforts are growing to preserve them digitally in case disaster strikes
Opinion
Health
If the US can ban harmful trans fats, the UK should act too
Opinion
Health
Heir to UK throne should keep out of controversial health debate
Opinion
Space
Help me 3D print homes for a NASA mission to Mars
Opinion
Environment
Hydra paradox: When culling animals makes them thrive
Opinion
Features
Life
Guilty pleasures: Can you make a convincing liar?
Telling porkies is a universal part of human nature 鈥� and there are tricks you can learn to do it better
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: How much chocolate can your body handle?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: What’s the cost of being a couch potato?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: How often can you eat a juicy steak?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: Can you party all night and not pay tomorrow?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: When is it wise to switch off your screen?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: Can you ease the effects of drinking too much?
Features
Earth
Guilty pleasures: How to live your microlives to the full
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: Is there a safer way to soak up the sun?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: Just how bad is social smoking?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: What are the real risks of taking drugs?
Features
Earth
Guilty pleasures: Can you fly without the footprint?
Features
Humans
Antisocial media: How Facebook is helping us to be nicer
Features
Health
The cat made me do it: Is your pet messing with your mind?
Features
Culture
Life
Intelligent life: Why don’t we consider plants to be smart?
Plants eavesdrop on each other and communicate with other organisms via subtle messages. So why don鈥檛 we recognise them as smart beings, ask two new books
Culture
Life
The whole hog: Unpacking our love-hate relationship with the pig
Culture
