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Environment

Can data save rhinos? How to attack wildlife crime at source

Technology

It’s time new media companies admitted that that’s what they are

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Environment

This bird has flown: Unravelling the mysteries of bird migration

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Health

Beetroot for AIDS: Fighting denialism in Mbeki鈥檚 South Africa

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Humans

Mind the gaps: The holes in your brain that make you smart

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Earth

Tomorrow’s menu: Termites, grass and synthetic milk

Table of contents

Leaders

Technology

It’s time new media companies admitted that that’s what they are

Social media titans like Facebook claim to exercise no control over their content. It鈥檚 time they dropped the pretence and picked up their responsibilities

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Earth

Environment

US climate science in the firing line for Trump’s first budget

The president's proposed budget is under fire for massive cuts to US science while diverting billions of dollars to defence and the Mexico border wall

Space

ExoMars dips into the Martian atmosphere to sniff for life

Technology

Electronic devices banned on US-bound flights from 8 countries

Technology

UK government pulls ads from YouTube in extremist content row

Earth

60 Seconds

Weather and climate extremes continue to set new records

Global warming worsened snowpack loss in California’s drought

Health

Deadly, drug-resistant Candida yeast infection spreads in the US

Health

Old blood can be made young again and it might fight ageing

Humans

Robots could help children give evidence in child abuse cases

First dinosaurs may have been omnivores in the north hemisphere

Health

Artificial lungs in a backpack may free people with lung failure

Humans

Special glasses give people superhuman colour vision

Physics

Atomic clocks make best measurement yet of relativity of time

Health

Recoded organism paves way to new genetic language of life

Earth

On front line of climate change as Maldives fights rising seas

Space

Cosmological ruler could help us get the measure of dark energy

Humans

E-tattoos turn knuckles and freckles into smartphone controls

Health

Vision saved by first induced pluripotent stem cell treatment

Space

Mysterious water-like streaks on Mars might be sand flows instead

Environment

Exposed: Soviet cover-up of nuclear fallout worse than Chernobyl

Environment

Parrots find 鈥榣aughter鈥� contagious and high-five in mid air

Technology

3D-printed bacteria could make bespoke graphene-like materials

Environment

Gentle breeze may help Venus’s atmosphere spin like crazy

Environment

These fish are evolving right now to become land-dwellers

Humans

Robot eavesdrops on men and women to see how much they talk

Life

Chimp filmed cleaning a corpse鈥檚 teeth in a mortuary-like ritual

Space

Dark matter took its time to wrap around early galaxies

Health

O my! Paper strip test determines blood type in just 30 seconds

Analysis

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Environment

Can data save rhinos? How to attack wildlife crime at source

By the time surveillance technology catches a poacher, it's already too late. Now researchers are training a new generation of technology on the demand for endangered animals, not the supply

Space

A little less ET, a little more astrophysics, if you please

Earth

Scott Pruitt’s climate denial may be Putin’s real prize

Humans

New autism blood test likely to join ranks of also-rans

Aperture

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Environment

The beautiful bird corpses left by illegal Maltese sharpshooters

Every spring, millions of migrating birds are illegally shot as they seek rest and recuperation in the Mediterranean after epic flights across the Sahara

Features

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Humans

Mind the gaps: The holes in your brain that make you smart

A map of the brain鈥檚 wiring reveals the spaces may be just as important as the connections 鈥� and you have the holes to thank for your most impressive mental feats

Earth

Tomorrow’s menu: Termites, grass and synthetic milk

Environment

This bird has flown: Unravelling the mysteries of bird migration

Health

Beetroot for AIDS: Fighting denialism in Mbeki鈥檚 South Africa

Culture

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Technology

War by any means: The story of DARPA

With the nature of war changing fast, what goes on in the Pentagon鈥檚 most secretive research agency, asks the first insider to lift the lid in The Imagineers of War

Health

Can a new history of vaccination silence doubters?

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Technology

Thrills and spills: We built a sentry duck for our bath

Here鈥檚 a quacking idea for a stress-free soak in the tub. All you need is a rubber ducky, plastic tubing, an alarm system, a ball bearing, a hacksaw...

Regulars

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Feedback: Placenta pills promise new mums more Vitamin U

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

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