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Brexitology: What science says about the UK鈥檚 EU referendum

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Humans

Free speech has met social media, with revolutionary results

solar system

Space

Your explosive guide to the end of the universe

industrial civilisation

Humans

What happens when society crumbles and progress stops

Shari Forbes

Humans

Life amid death at Australia’s new body farm

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Health

No disease, no natural conception, no mind of your own. Excited?

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Earth

Meet the new Earthlings who will take over our planet

Table of contents

Leaders

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Humans

Free speech has met social media, with revolutionary results

Social media鈥檚 personalisation has led to 鈥減ost-truth politics鈥� as politicians chase popular opinion. But democracy must be more than a popularity contest

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Health

WHO warned there will be more Zika cases if Olympics go ahead

Nearly 200 bioethicists have called for this year鈥檚 Olympics to be postponed due to the threat of Zika virus in Rio, where 32,000 people may be infected

Technology

Microsoft and Facebook plan to lay internet cable under the sea

Earth

First commercial carbon-capture plant set to open in Switzerland

Health

Relax – your phone probably isn鈥檛 going to give you cancer

Health

60 Seconds

Technology

Google plans to replace smartphone passwords with trust scores

Environment

鈥楢gitated鈥� gorilla had to be shot as it was acting unpredictably

Health

UK to trial HPV vaccine in gay men but no plans yet for all boys

Humans

Britain鈥檚 oldest writing found buried near London Tube station

Physics

Schr枚dinger’s cat alive and dead even after you saw it in half

Health

Vaccines might be able to stop Alzheimer鈥檚 plaques from forming

Space

Building blocks of life spotted around comet for the first time

Health

Blogging cells tell their stories using CRISPR gene editing

Humans

Neanderthals built mystery underground circles 175,000 years ago

Health

Drop in Google searches reveals success of chickenpox vaccine

Health

See-through brains reveal memory pathways for pleasure and fear

Space

Rare cosmic balancing act makes Perseid meteor showers brighter

Earth

Mongol hordes gave up on conquering Europe due to wet weather

Environment

Invasive trash-eating jackals save Europe 鈧�2 million a year

Life

Compare the meerkat: Animals size each other up in race to top

Physics

Bloated baby black holes spotted in the distant universe

Environment

This deep-sea creature could be the world’s oldest living animal

Technology

Prisoners’ code word caught by software that eavesdrops on calls

Technology

Study of 1 million sites shows just how closely we’re watched

Health

NHS could soon use smart outfit to diagnose epilepsy

One Per Cent

Humans

Controversial software claims to tell personality from your face

Analysis

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Brexitology: What science says about the UK鈥檚 EU referendum

With reliable information hard to come by, what will swing the vote to Remain or Leave?

Vote Brexit and British science will still be a powerhouse

In a world of cross-border cooperation, Brexit will harm the UK

Humans

There are better ways to decide the big issues than referendums

Aperture

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Environment

Eider duck caught diving beneath the Norwegian waves

This snap of a male eider plunging below the surface was photographer P氓l Hermansen鈥檚 favourite shot after three years photographing the birds

Features

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Space

Your explosive guide to the end of the universe

Our sun will swell, our galaxy will collide with its neighbour and the universe could suddenly be swallowed by a vacuum bubble

Health

No disease, no natural conception, no mind of your own. Excited?

Humans

What happens when society crumbles and progress stops

Earth

Meet the new Earthlings who will take over our planet

Humans

Life amid death at Australia’s new body farm

Culture

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Earth

The Oracle of Oil: The man who predicted peak oil

M. King Hubbert was a smart geologist with canny ideas about oil that no one listened to at the time. Can a fascinatingly flawed book rescue his legacy?

Humans

It’s not funny being female: A famous comic examines womanhood

Environment

This is Your Brain on Parasites: strong stories, shaky science

Regulars

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Feedback: All hands on deck as Noah’s ark resurfaces in Kentucky

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

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Playback payback

Rooting out trouble

Brewed at altitude

Born to drive

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