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Health

Why some people with HIV can now ditch condoms

We all have our favourite way to read 鈥� what’s yours?

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Humans

Why your brain is like a conscious termite colony

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Humans

Smart-reading: How to read faster and comprehend more

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Health

Cholesterol wars: We may be fighting the wrong enemy

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Earth

Everest is not the world’s tallest mountain 鈥� and here’s why

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Health

Cholesterol wars: Does a pill a day keep heart attacks away?

Table of contents

Leaders

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Health

We need transparent trials to keep confidence in medicine

Controversies about the safety of medicines given to millions of people can鈥檛 be settled unless data is made more freely available

We all have our favourite way to read 鈥� what’s yours?

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse questions Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt

Earth

US conservative bill aims to axe EPA 鈥� here鈥檚 why it won鈥檛 work

The bill is latest in a series of signals that the US Environmental Protection Agency will be reined in under President Trump, but it might not end it just yet

Space

Space junk collector burns up after hitting snag in first test

Environment

Flies are spreading antibiotic resistance from farms to people

Health

New HIV infections in gay men have dropped by a third in England

Humans

More than 100 tech firms sign letter opposing Trump travel ban

Earth

60 Seconds

Health

Switching from smoking to vaping does reduce your carcinogens

Environment

World鈥檚 most endangered marine mammal has 30 individuals left

Health

Injection could permanently lower cholesterol by changing DNA

Physics

Starlight test shows quantum world has been weird for 600 years

Environment

Honeybees welcome friendly migrants to hives but repel raiders

Health

Looking at a virtual hand reduces the pain in your real hand

Health

Health insurer calls analysed for signs of disease in your voice

Physics

Gravitational wave detector prepares to peer into bizarre stars

Technology

Internet 鈥榩layground鈥� trials new tech to deliver smart cities

Neural net learns words like a child, by looking and listening

Health

Mystery radiation ‘clouds’ may pose risk to air travellers

Physics

LHC sees matter and antimatter misbehaving in alternate particle

Health

Why the sound of noisy eating fills some people with rage

Environment

Being friendly puts monkeys at risk in times of revolution

Health

Drug stops nasty chemotherapy side effects in mice with cancer

Environment

Carnivorous plants repurpose stress genes to digest their prey

Physics

Sun’s rotation is slowed down by its own photons

Space

Tiny spacecraft could brake at exoplanet using alien starlight

Health

Blood test could catch pancreatic cancer before it鈥檚 too late

Environment

Rare 鈥榖aby dragons鈥� discovered in five new caves thanks to DNA

Health

Powerful Zika vaccine protects mice and monkeys from the virus

Technology

Bat-inspired robot swoops and dives like the real thing

Analysis

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Health

Why some people with HIV can now ditch condoms

If you take your meds regularly, and you are monogamous, two new studies show a negligible chance of passing on HIV. How will this change lives?

Physics

Have we found evidence that we live in a holographic universe?

Space

Time to make sure Europe’s troubled satnav system really flies

Technology

Age verification for online porn will be a security disaster

Aperture

Humans

Seeking refuge in the heat of the night

Photographer Richard Mosse has captured stark images of refugees in various countries, using a long-distance infrared camera designed for military use

Features

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Health

Cholesterol wars: Does a pill a day keep heart attacks away?

Statins lower cholesterol, which lowers heart-disease risk. The official line justifies many people popping these pills 鈥� but the evidence is not so clear-cut

Health

Cholesterol wars: We may be fighting the wrong enemy

Humans

Smart-reading: How to read faster and comprehend more

Earth

Everest is not the world’s tallest mountain 鈥� and here’s why

Humans

Why your brain is like a conscious termite colony

Culture

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Humans

The high cost of being digital

The loss of rights and freedoms of our new post-privacy economy are charted clearly in Data for the People, yet the book鈥檚 author remains neutral

Mind

The great VR Science Challenge

Humans

D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, the man who shaped biology and art

More

Fruit sliced in half to reveal moth

Environment

Plant keeps moths captive inside its fruits for almost a year

Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals 鈥� and occasionally other organisms 鈥� from around the world

Humans

Find romance on Valentine’s Day with a digital treasure hunt

Regulars

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Feedback: Astral-nauts once performed a psychic probe of Jupiter

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

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Poor little urchins

Never bettered

Offal way to die

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