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A wall of trees across the Sahara is cool 鈥� but we don’t need it
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Technology
AI can join the fight back against the post-truth world
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Environment
Primate labs give us an edge, says China’s brain project chief
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Humans
Computers that can argue will be satnav for the moral maze
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Get inside the collective mind of a genius superorganism
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Lessons in reality from particles that don’t exist
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NASA probe about to leave for asteroid Bennu and bring bits home
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will pioneer a new way to grab samples off an asteroid and then return them to Earth
News
Earth
Hurricane Hermine’s flood damage was ramped up by climate change
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Health
Ebola virus has lurked in a man’s semen for more than 500 days
News
Earth
60 Seconds
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Space
Found: Philae lander finally spotted by Rosetta on comet 67P
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Environment
Giant panda off endangered list as China鈥檚 conservation pays off
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Environment
Bees die needlessly as Zika prompts US state to spray pesticide
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Health
Artificial ovary may boost fertility and postpone the menopause
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Environment
Boom time for whales in the Arctic driven by the loss of sea ice
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Life
Stars burning strangely make life in the multiverse more likely
News
Environment
Ants trapped in nuclear bunker are developing their own society
News
Health
Superagers with amazing memories have shrink-resistant brains
News
Environment
Air pollution is sending tiny magnetic particles into your brain
News
Health
There is now a sixth taste 鈥� and it explains why we love carbs
News
Childhood inflammation raises risk of later bipolar symptoms
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Earth
Warming strengthens typhoons that batter Asian coast
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Space
Here’s what colourful clouds on alien gas giants would look like
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Health
Laser made from human blood could help hunt down tumours
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Health
Antidepressant makes bones weaker by slowing down new growth
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Health
Superfast evolution could save Tasmanian devils from extinction
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Environment
Ancient rock formations could be oldest fossils on the planet
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Technology
How to profit from your data and beat Facebook at its own game
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One Per Cent
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Mind
Smart wristband tracks vital signs to keep truckers moving
News
Technology
Extremists are turning Twitter and Facebook into theatres of war
News
Humans
The threat of robot guards is not enough to stop people stealing
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Health
Nanobots could swarm like bats to hunt out brain tumours
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Analysis
Earth
A wall of trees across the Sahara is cool 鈥� but we don’t need it
The African Union is planning an 8000 kilometre stretch of trees across the entire continent, but the Great Green Wall isn't the best way to halt desertification
News
Health
Time is right for a global ban to end trans fat health scandal
News
Life
Spoiler alert: Why strange signals are never really from aliens
News
Features
Environment
Get inside the collective mind of a genius superorganism
The amazing bridges and scaffolds that ants build using their own bodies can teach us a thing or two about robotics, engineering and cooperation
Features
Physics
Lessons in reality from particles that don’t exist
Features
Humans
Computers that can argue will be satnav for the moral maze
Features
Environment
Primate labs give us an edge, says China’s brain project chief
Features
Culture
Physics
Fast forward: How we learned to love time travel
A classic H. G. Wells story and key mathematics made time travel such a popular idea that it fundamentally changed our thinking, argues James Gleick in Time Travel: A history
Culture
Space
Stardate 08092016, Star Trek’s birthday mission
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Groundskeeper unwittingly triggers doomsday alert
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
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