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cars

Environment

How to save ourselves from the invisible gas choking us to death

mouse studies

Environment

Man or mouse? Why drug research has taken the wrong turning

balancing pencil

Physics

The universe is flat as a pancake, and we don’t understand why

eye artwork

Technology

The road to artificial intelligence: A case of data over theory

Joseph Garner

Environment

Lab mice are sending us on a wild goose chase

thermometer

Physics

Space is all the same temperature. Coincidence?

humanoid robot face

Humans

Exploring the uncanny valley: Why almost-human is creepy

galaxy

Physics

The universe lines up along the ‘axis of evil’. Coincidence?

face in the dark

Physics

Cosmic dark matter and energy balance 鈥� for now. Coincidence?

Physics

One idea explains all the weird coincidences in the universe

bubble

Physics

The Higgs boson makes the universe stable 鈥� just. Coincidence?

Table of contents

Leaders

mouse studies

Environment

Man or mouse? Why drug research has taken the wrong turning

Drug research has got so hooked on working with genetically modified animals that it has lost touch with human disease

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Gordon Hamilton against icy landscape

Earth

Snowmobile plunge claims life of Antarctica researcher

An expert on how melting glaciers feed sea level rise has died in a crevasse fall 鈥� a reminder of the hazards of the Antarctic terrain

Space

Mars orbiter spots new crater that may be ExoMars’s lost lander

Health

Kuwait to change law forcing all citizens to provide DNA samples

Earth

Why San Francisco鈥檚 next quake could be much bigger than feared

60 Seconds

Technology

Massive botnet-powered web attack fuels need to step up defences

Health

Addiction to prescription drugs is UK ‘public health disaster’

Environment

Hundreds of endangered wild snow leopards are killed each year

Health

Paralysed people inhabit distant robot bodies with thought alone

Physics

Physics tweak solves five of the biggest problems in one go

Life

Shawl thing: Cashmere could soon come from gene-edited goats

Environment

Mice fall for rubber hand illusion just like us

Earth

Iceland drills hottest hole to tap into energy of molten magma

Life

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

Health

$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant

Technology

Material that shrinks in heat can weather extreme temperatures

Humans

Lying feels bad at first but our brains soon adapt to deceiving

Humans

Mice鈥檚 love songs go wrong when 鈥榣anguage gene鈥� is messed up

Space

Pluto may sport clouds of poisonous acid and flammable gases

Space

Double star may light up the sky as rare red nova in six years

Environment

Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal

Environment

Our ancestors chose reeds over grain when quitting nomadic life

Health

Is pain catching? First clues that it might spread to others

Health

Smart camera system checks patients’ vital signs from afar

One Per Cent

Mind

Robot learns to play with Lego by watching human teachers

Technology

Playing Grand Theft Auto can teach autonomous cars how to drive

Technology

Roaming fashion robots keep busy doing odd jobs on your clothes

Analysis

cars

Environment

How to save ourselves from the invisible gas choking us to death

Cities are battling to meet legal standards for air pollution, but even that isn't enough to make air safe, says Michael Le Page

Earth

Final US presidential clash fails on climate change once more

Health

Dental checks can’t verify the age of child asylum seekers

Technology

Police mass face recognition in the US will net innocent people

Aperture

Glen Canyon

Earth

Space view makes for an eerie sight of the Colorado river

This impressive patchwork of Glen Canyon, 500 kilometres north-east of the Grand Canyon, was stitched together from shots taken by an ISS astronaut

Features

humanoid robot face

Humans

Exploring the uncanny valley: Why almost-human is creepy

From sinister clowns to humanoid robots, we're freaked out by faces that are like ours, just not enough. Now we're finding out why

Physics

Cosmic dark matter and energy balance 鈥� for now. Coincidence?

Physics

The universe lines up along the ‘axis of evil’. Coincidence?

Physics

One idea explains all the weird coincidences in the universe

Physics

The universe is flat as a pancake, and we don’t understand why

Physics

Space is all the same temperature. Coincidence?

Technology

The road to artificial intelligence: A case of data over theory

Physics

The Higgs boson makes the universe stable 鈥� just. Coincidence?

Environment

Lab mice are sending us on a wild goose chase

Culture

fuzzy woman

Humans

A Day in the Life of the Brain hunts consciousness

Susan Greenfield's latest book struggles to find a different solution to how the "water" of objective neural activity becomes "wine" of consciousness

Environment

Trees have an inner life like ours, claims bestseller

Technology

Lo and Behold takes Werner Herzog on a tour round the internet

Regulars

blackboard

Feedback: The many scientific titles of Nobel winner Bob Dylan

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

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Snore flaw

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