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Environment

Mega-canals could slice through continents for giant ships

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Humans

Unholy? Atheists should embrace the science of religion

Oganessian

Mr Element 118: The only living person on the periodic table

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Humans

Faith of the faithless: Is atheism just another religion?

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Environment

Make like a leaf: How copying photosynthesis can change society

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Earth

Bolt from the blue: Lightning doesn’t form like we thought

Table of contents

Leaders

science fish

Humans

Unholy? Atheists should embrace the science of religion

鈥淏elief-ologists鈥� are revealing how religion works. Belittling their work does nothing to further the secularists鈥� cause, but learning from it might

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Space

Volunteers spot four super-Earths orbiting sun-like star

Zooniverse鈥檚 Exoplanet Explorers project invites citizen scientists to scour data from the Kepler spacecraft - within two days they found a planetary system

Space

NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts

Environment

Trump plans to revive nuclear waste plans axed by Obama in 2010

Humans

Syria chemical attack looks like nerve gas 鈥� and was no accident

Earth

60 Seconds

Genetic test for Alzheimer’s risk given approval for sale in US

Earth

Mass bleaching hits Great Barrier Reef for second year in a row

Technology

Facebook will use photo-matching tech to take down revenge porn

Space

New approach to dark energy might explain our cooling universe

Health

Injecting virus into brain may relieve Parkinson鈥檚 symptoms

Technology

Fingerprint challenge aims to automate how best prints get taken

Earth

Life could exist up to 10 kilometres beneath the sea floor

Humans

We dream loads more than we thought 鈥� and forget most of it

Health

Rich black people have worse health than rich white people

Health

People on ecstasy feel loved-up because MDMA boosts trust

Life

Giant viruses may just be small viruses that stole hosts鈥� genes

Radiation-eating bacteria could make nuclear waste safer

Technology

Thousands of fake companies added to Google Maps every month

Technology

New computer vision challenge wants to teach robots to see in 3D

Health

Gluten allergy in coeliac disease may be provoked by virus

Twisted semiconductors could help project moving holograms

Environment

How smaller snakes strangle bigger snakes and swallow them whole

Health

Cheap stroke drug boosts pancreatic cancer survival in mice

Environment

Squishy robotic manta ray flaps its wings to spy in the ocean

Life

Sabre-toothed tigers in ice-age Los Angeles had bad back trouble

Physics

Mars is so small because Jupiter shook up its formation

Technology

Sock puppet accounts unmasked by the way they write and post

Environment

World’s largest canary discovered on island of giants and dwarfs

Analysis

canal

Environment

Mega-canals could slice through continents for giant ships

The Panama Canal may soon have a giant neighbour across Nicaragua 鈥� and two huge waterways could be built in Asia. Will they help or hurt the environment?

Health

Is taking sugar out of food as difficult as industry says it is?

Humans

Ongoing academic purge shows Turkey is heading to a dark place

Humans

Why the “bisexuality hormone” study is not as simple as it seems

Aperture

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Environment

Drone spots humpback whales and orcas moving in on cloud of fish

Aerial photo shows mass of Atlantic herring that will soon be supper for humpback and killer whales in glowing water off the north Norway coast

Features

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Environment

Make like a leaf: How copying photosynthesis can change society

Fusing living cells with our best light-harvesting technology could lead to cyborg factories for clean energy and new compounds. And not just on Earth

Humans

Faith of the faithless: Is atheism just another religion?

Earth

Bolt from the blue: Lightning doesn’t form like we thought

Mr Element 118: The only living person on the periodic table

Culture

archaeology

Humans

Three Stones Make a Wall: the inside story of archaeology

What will future archaeologists make of our most cherished cultural objects? Eric Cline answers this question and more in his history of the discipline

Space

Go at throttle up: The secret world of NASA鈥檚 mission control

The 2017 Wellcome book prize shortlist is dramatic and diverse

More

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Technology

Unlocking the online potential of disadvantaged young people

The Prince鈥檚 Trust is looking for volunteer e-mentors to help young people find their feet on the web and beyond

Regulars

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Feedback: Our body heat is melting the ice caps, say US senator

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

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Ever decreasing circles

Let’s be blunt

Midnight chorus

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Milk’s mucky mass

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