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A rack of guns for sale

Health

DIY gun control: The people taking matters into their own hands

pollution

Earth

The UK government’s attitude to air pollution stinks

Bill Laurance

Environment

Risking it all in a last-ditch search for Australia鈥檚 lost tiger

time crystals artwork 1

Physics

Time crystals: A new state of matter that outlasts the universe

Physics

5 impossible things the laws of physics might actually allow

Earth

Cutting through the smog: What to do to fight air pollution

orchid

Environment

Sweet salvation: Stopping orchids from being eaten to extinction

A woman wearing a face mask to filter out polluted air

Earth

Cutting through the smog: 5 ways to slash your pollution intake

smog over the city

Earth

Cutting through the smog: Is pollution getting worse?

Cutting through the smog: How air pollution shortens your life

Table of contents

Leaders

pollution

Earth

The UK government’s attitude to air pollution stinks

Despite debate over how many "deaths" air pollution causes, it is clear bad air damages our health, so attempts to delay rules on reducing it must be resisted

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Open-heart surgery

Health

Deadly infection spread by contaminated heart surgery machines

To get a new heart valve, patients have to undergo open-heart surgery. But a machine used in such procedures has been contaminating these implants

Space

Cassini takes first plunge between Saturn’s rings

Earth

Climate march brings more than 200,000 activists together

Earth

UK loses another court case over failure to tackle air pollution

Health

US science budget gets some breathing room ahead of Trump cuts

Earth

60 Seconds

Space

NASA might run out of space suits before it quits the ISS

Health

Cancer Drug Fund didn鈥檛 deliver value 鈥榯o patients or society鈥�

Space

Gravitational waves could show hints of extra dimensions

Health

Immune war with donor cells after transplant may wipe out HIV

Humans

Desk traffic lights show when you’re too busy for interruptions

Health

Listening to your heartbeat helps you read other people鈥檚 minds

Environment

Chimps pass on sponge drinking trick like a family tradition

Technology

Chatbot challenges will make AIs discuss the latest news

Life

We could detect alien life by finding complex molecules

Health

Did Goya get an autoimmune disease before his art went scary?

Technology

Electric shocks could help you perfect your running technique

Humans

First Americans may have been Neanderthals 130,000 years ago

Earth

Strange mantle plume under Iceland helps keep Scotland afloat

Humans

Most mammals big or small take about 12 seconds to defecate

Health

Addicted to love? Craving comes in two forms, and both can hurt

Space

Melting moons could support liveable atmospheres for aeons

Earth

Seabed images show the scars icebergs carve into polar sea floor

Environment

Moth鈥檚 disguise is so good, spiders love it instead of eating it

Neutron stars that slow down could be eating ‘backwards’ gas

Humans

Robots taught to work alongside humans by giving high fives

Environment

Wild bears do the twist to communicate through smelly footprints

Environment

Pollution nanoparticles may enter your blood and cause disease

Analysis

A rack of guns for sale

Health

DIY gun control: The people taking matters into their own hands

With the Trump administration stripping away firearms legislation, can citizen scientists and technologists rein in the excesses of US gun culture?

Technology

How to usher in an AI future with gain rather than pain

Health

Arkansas should halt execution spree and let its drugs expire

Humans

Liberals are no strangers to confirmation bias after all

Aperture

Alaska

Earth

Pink mountains light up in otherworldly view of fjord

These peaks are part of the Tracy Arm, a 43-kilometre-long fjord near Juneau, Alaska, and photographed with an infrared, ultraviolet, and visible light camera

Features

Physics

5 impossible things the laws of physics might actually allow

On the face of it, things like teleporters and invisibility cloaks shouldn鈥檛 exist 鈥� but loopholes in what physics allows means things aren鈥檛 always that simple

Physics

Time crystals: A new state of matter that outlasts the universe

Environment

Sweet salvation: Stopping orchids from being eaten to extinction

Earth

Cutting through the smog: Is pollution getting worse?

Earth

Cutting through the smog: 5 ways to slash your pollution intake

Earth

Cutting through the smog: What to do to fight air pollution

Cutting through the smog: How air pollution shortens your life

Environment

Risking it all in a last-ditch search for Australia鈥檚 lost tiger

Culture

numbers

Humans

How number words may have changed us from zeroes to heroes

In his exemplary new book Numbers and the Making of Us, Caleb Everett dissects the role that culture and language play in giving us our numerical smarts

Environment

We may have the evolution of beauty completely wrong

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teletext

Technology

Old 快猫短视频: Useless stuff we old folks know

Remember teletext? CDs? Myspace? Flipping through 快猫短视频s of Mays past reveals that they all seemed like the future, once

Regulars

raining shapes

Feedback: Sacred geometry carafes serve up restructured water

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Spin a yarn

Time and tide

Hot source

Morning compost

Whither weather?

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