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Health

Is proton beam therapy really a game-changing cancer treatment?

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Environment

Monkey experiments are a necessary evil for better medicine

Jennifer Richeson

Humans

Is news of the US’s changing racial mix increasing racism?

expert witness

Humans

How an expert witness’s say-so can make you a murderer

eyewitness

Humans

How an unreliable eyewitness can make you a murderer

interrogation

Humans

How an aggressive interrogation can make you a murderer

courtroom

Humans

How biased judges and juries can make you a murderer

crispr

Health

Command and cure: We don’t need to edit genomes to control them

crime scene

Humans

How faulty crime-scene forensics can make you a murderer

dark energy

Physics

Dark energy must die 鈥� these rebel physicists can take it down

Making you a murderer: How bad science can put you behind bars

Table of contents

Leaders

Humans

Why we all need to fight the irrational fear of outsiders

Donald Trump and pro-Brexit campaigners are playing on understandable but irrational psychological reactions to change

Environment

Monkey experiments are a necessary evil for better medicine

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Space

Milky Way obscured by light pollution for a third of the world

A new map of global light pollution reveals that a third of the world's population can't see our galaxy at night

Health

Radical MS treatment is cure or kill

Health

Orlando massacre prompts call to ease gay blood donor rules

Physics

Four new element names to be added to the periodic table

60 Seconds

Life

US gives cautious go ahead to controversial gene drives

Earth

Was Kyoto climate deal a success? Figures reveal mixed results

Environment

Human flesh found in stomach of bear shot after fatal attacks

Physics

LIGO discovers new gravitational wave 鈥� and new era of astronomy

‘Monkey archaeology’ reveals macaque’s Stone Age culture

Humans

Supernovae 2 million years ago may have changed human behaviour

Health

Souped-up 鈥榞ene drives鈥� may help eliminate pests and diseases

Environment

First monkey genetically engineered to have Parkinson’s created

Health

Hormone injection lets ageing muscles run harder and longer

Technology

Carbon nanotubes too weak to get a space elevator off the ground

Space

Massive exoplanet鈥檚 close dance is making its star spin faster

Life

Ancient enzyme resurrected from the ancestor of all bacteria

Life

Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice

Life

Doing it froggy style: Kermit Sutra鈥檚 seventh position revealed

Earth

CO2 injected deep underground turns to rock 鈥� and stays there

Earth

Artificial dome world set for largest indoor weather experiment

Health

If antidepressants don’t work well, why are they so popular?

Health

We now have the tech to fingerprint babies 鈥� but should we?

Environment

On the trail of a missing elephant with latest surveillance tech

Technology

Algorithm knows when corporate money is pushing memes online

One Per Cent

Technology

Sonar to listen for moving icebergs near Arctic oil platforms

Analysis

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Health

Is proton beam therapy really a game-changing cancer treatment?

Evidence that proton beam therapy is better than conventional radiotherapy is contentious but that hasn鈥檛 stopped a push for protons. What鈥檚 behind the rush?

Earth

A slow revolution in the skies will transform life on the ground

Health

Prince’s overdose: How painkillers unleashed a deadly epidemic

Aperture

Earth

National parks at 100: Images of changing US landscapes

To mark 100 years of the US National Parks, an exhibition reflects on how photographers have depicted them, from early days to their tourist-laden present

Features

dark energy

Physics

Dark energy must die 鈥� these rebel physicists can take it down

Has an expansionist power ruled the cosmos for the past 5 billion years 鈥� or is dark energy just an illusion created by a curvy cosmos?

Health

Command and cure: We don’t need to edit genomes to control them

Humans

How faulty crime-scene forensics can make you a murderer

Making you a murderer: How bad science can put you behind bars

Humans

How an unreliable eyewitness can make you a murderer

Humans

How biased judges and juries can make you a murderer

Humans

How an aggressive interrogation can make you a murderer

Humans

How an expert witness’s say-so can make you a murderer

Humans

Is news of the US’s changing racial mix increasing racism?

Culture

A boy and a girl looking out of a train window

Humans

Perfect people: How tomorrow鈥檚 children will make babies

When it comes to making babies, is it all over for sex? The rise of fertility technology suggests so, argues The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction

Technology

Theatre and dance are full-on and fearless at Click festival

Humans

Stolen penises and other exotic psychological tales

Regulars

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Feedback: Straight to the stars on a heterosexual space ark

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

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