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Editor's picks

nurses

Health

Is donating your DNA to the NHS worth the privacy risks?

online hate

Humans

Online hate victims must speak out if the law is to stop the mob

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Sponsored

How much is your science capital worth?

maths artwork

Humans

Our greatest creation: Where maths comes from and what it’s for

Zoe Quinn

Life

I survived a tsunami of online hate and now fight to help others

mind artwork

Health

How menopause and Alzheimer鈥檚 change the brain in similar ways

volcano eruption

Earth

Taking Earth鈥檚 pulse: How to predict eruptions from space

Table of contents

Leaders

Health

We need a more grown-up conversation about the menopause

It鈥檚 not just about women 鈥� a frank conversation acknowledging the link between cognitive symptoms of menopause and Alzheimer鈥檚 disease would benefit everyone

Humans

Online hate victims must speak out if the law is to stop the mob

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Humans

Lethal injection contained a chemical never tried before

Florida conducted an execution last week using the anesthetic chemical etomidate, which has never before been used in a lethal injection

Earth

Texas may be just as vulnerable when next big hurricane hits

Technology

North Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan for first time

Space

Exclusive: We may have detected a new kind of gravitational wave

Health

60 Seconds

Space

Steampunk rover design eliminates electronics to survive Venus

Environment

Snow leopards aren’t as rare as we thought 鈥� but aren鈥檛 safe yet

Health

Australia plans random drug tests for people receiving welfare

Environment

It only takes a few gene tweaks to make a human voice

Health

Human blood and skin cells used to treat Parkinson’s in monkeys

Humans

AI uses bitcoin trail to find and help sex-trafficking victims

Health

Photos of skinny women affect people鈥檚 minds in just 15 minutes

Technology

Your broadband provider can use your smart devices to spy on you

Health

We’ve seen how our brains file away memories for the first time

Space

Nobody knows how these baby stars got so close to our black hole

Earth

Large non-native species like donkeys can boost biodiversity

Environment

Monkeys can see faces in inanimate things, just like us

Health

Mummy autopsy reveals earliest known case of liver parasite

Space

Wonky signals from distant stars could be sign of exocomets

Earth

Secret lifestyle of the dodo revealed for the first time

Physics

First underwater entanglement could lead to unhackable comms

Humans

Medieval London was the most violent place in England

Environment

Low-ranked female monkeys band together against their leaders

Health

Doing meth raises the risk of strokes in young people

Health

Robot suit helps children with cerebral palsy to walk better

Physics

Twisted carbon nanotubes harness waste energy and put it to work

Health

Eat a seasonal diet and your gut microbes may change in sync

Technology

Icy hard drives cram 5300 movies onto a postage stamp

Health

Lithium in tap water seems to both raise and lower dementia risk

Analysis

nurses

Health

Is donating your DNA to the NHS worth the privacy risks?

NHS England's national DNA database could improve the health of millions of people, but concerns over privacy could easily scupper the project's success

Technology

Why aren’t we testing whether planes can survive a drone crash?

Humans

Culture not biology is behind many differences between the sexes

Health

Will Google鈥檚 targeted depression tests really help people?

Aperture

beewolf

Environment

A honeybee struggles to escape the grip of a fearsome beewolf

When beewolves have mated, the females hunt for honeybees. Once they have been paralysed with a sting, the bees form a living larder for her young

Features

goggles kid

Sponsored

How much is your science capital worth?

Too many young people rule themselves out of a science career. But boosting their "science capital" could change that, say educationalists

Humans

Our greatest creation: Where maths comes from and what it’s for

Health

How menopause and Alzheimer鈥檚 change the brain in similar ways

Earth

Taking Earth鈥檚 pulse: How to predict eruptions from space

Life

I survived a tsunami of online hate and now fight to help others

Culture

Technology

The Darkening Web: Misinformation is the strongest cyberweapon

China watches what its own people say, Russia spreads its own version of events and the US brags. A new book shows that cyber-conflict is largely a war of words

Environment

The day Hope the whale stole the show

Life

‘Radical鈥� new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

More

Technology

Old 快猫短视频: Goodbye Daedalus, our resident implausible genius

In memory of the extraordinary David E. H. Jones, better known as Daedalus, we revisit a few of his countless inventions that might almost have worked

Regulars

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Feedback: Little green men? How we might improve human beings

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Apocalypse then

Feel the heat

Water works

Hay fever fever

Spiralling backwards

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