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A man looks at devastation from Hurricane Irma

Earth

A rushed response to Hurricane Irma could cause bigger disasters

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Earth

The nuclear stalemate is crumbling 鈥� what are our options?

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Environment

The real clean food: How to eat well for yourself and the planet

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Physics

The Renaissance gambler who invented probability to win at cards

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Technology

The new nuclear race: Why North Korea isn鈥檛 the real story

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Humans

Brain farts: 9 ways your brain can make you feel stupid

Table of contents

Leaders

chess

Earth

The nuclear stalemate is crumbling 鈥� what are our options?

The two-party game theory of the cold war doesn't work any more 鈥� time for a new approach

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Human embryos genetically edited in the UK for the first time

The CRISPR technique was used to confirm a gene's key role in early human development, building knowledge that could help tackle fertility problems

Environment

World hunger is on the rise again due to climate change and war

Health

It’s too easy for bioterrorists to access dangerous research

Environment

Wolves and bears to be slaughtered in Romania once again

60 Seconds

Space

Cassini ends its 20-year mission by slamming into Saturn

Earth

Thousands likely to be killed by Hurricane Irma鈥檚 deadly legacy

Earth

Christmas Island鈥檚 only echolocating bat has gone extinct

Physics

Gravity may be created by strange flashes in the quantum realm

Health

Kids everywhere have damaging gender stereotyping set by age 10

Earth

Could we store carbon dioxide as liquid lakes under the sea?

Environment

Sex and aggression linked in male mouse brains but not in female

Technology

The NHS is using a chatbot to do tedious corporate team-building

Earth

Handheld scanner divines how nutritious your food really is

The closest star system may be home to a stolen star and planet

Environment

Tool-wielding monkeys push local shellfish to edge of extinction

Health

Blind people repurpose the brain’s visual areas for language

Physics

Ultrafast lasers catch electrons relaxing after brief excitement

Health

AI spots Alzheimer鈥檚 brain changes years before symptoms emerge

Earth

Lightning storms triggered by exhaust from cargo ships

Technology

End-of-life chatbot can help you with difficult final decisions

Space

Brown dwarfs have strong magnetic fields just like real stars

Environment

There are hardly any old fish left in the ocean 鈥� and that鈥檚 bad

Environment

Third-hand smoke in furniture and clothes damages mouse organs

Health

Robot made from a DNA strand could deliver cargo in your blood

Life

Sacrificial virgin spiders let their nieces eat them alive

Health

Plastic cubes injected into the body could replace booster shots

Health

Tumour bacteria sabotage chemotherapy by destroying cancer drugs

Humans

History of zero pushed back 500 years by ancient Indian text

Analysis

A man looks at devastation from Hurricane Irma

Earth

A rushed response to Hurricane Irma could cause bigger disasters

We must prepare for the bigger storms to come, 聽but if planners get it wrong, their efforts to protect people could make future mega-disasters even worse

Humans

It’s a disgrace there are no women on UK’s key science committee

Health

Eating more salt might save your life? Not so much

Earth

No, climate science isn’t wrong, and yes, global warming is real

Aperture

WIMP detector

Physics

Mirrored moat protects experiment searching for dark matter

A vast water tank blocks unwanted particles so the XENON1T experiment in Italy can seek out elusive WIMPS 鈥� the particles that may make up dark matter

Features

nuclear missile artwork

Technology

The new nuclear race: Why North Korea isn鈥檛 the real story

The sabre-rattling between Pyongyang and Washington is masking a dangerous destabilisation in deterrence 鈥� making nuclear war by accident a real possibility

Environment

The real clean food: How to eat well for yourself and the planet

Humans

Brain farts: 9 ways your brain can make you feel stupid

Physics

The Renaissance gambler who invented probability to win at cards

Culture

mining

Earth

Our terrifying energy future leaves us with uncertainties

We could outrun environmental disaster by ditching fossil fuels for safer options, but will we? Three new books paint a scary picture by refusing to commit

Technology

China’s struggle to overcome technological imperialism

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Sponsored

Beating the battery barrier

Electric cars need batteries that store plenty of energy, deliver it quickly and then recharge in the time it takes to gulp a cup of coffee. BASF researchers are developing the solution

Sponsored

The call of the sea

Technology

Jurassic Perk: A wine-loving dinosaur for your kitchen

Regulars

Paul McDevitt marmite

Feedback: The sticky truth about those so-called ‘Marmite genes’

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

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Stop the rot

In black and white

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