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Tesla's new trucks

Environment

Tesla’s electric trucks are great but they won’t save the planet

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Health

Another psychedelic revolution, but this time it’s different

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Physics

How a fiery matter-antimatter union may lead to limitless energy

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Health

Mind menders: how psychedelic drugs rebuild broken brains

Dan McKenzie

Earth

Dan McKenzie: The man who made Earth move

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Humans

How your digital style gives you away 鈥� and how to hide it

Table of contents

Leaders

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Health

Another psychedelic revolution, but this time it’s different

After years battling arduous laws and red tape, psychedelic therapy research is enjoying new found freedoms. The onus is now on scientists to prove it really works

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Earth

Light pollution is set to double between now and 2050

The first global 鈥渓ight census鈥� shows that the area affected by artificial lighting is growing by 2.2 per cent every year, posing risks to wildlife and human health

Health

Austerity cuts to NHS blamed for 120,000 excess deaths

Earth

Keystone XL oil pipeline will go ahead despite last week’s spill

Earth

Russia confirms ‘extremely high’ radiation levels in toxic cloud

Health

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Life

Private mission may get us back to Enceladus sooner than NASA

Earth

Latest climate talks actually made progress despite US obstinacy

Technology

An Argentinian submarine has vanished – here’s how to find it

Health

Making your brain cells longer could help ward off Alzheimer鈥檚

Health

Watch this soft robot squeeze a damaged heart to keep it pumping

Physics

The forces that govern matter and light could be united at last

Technology

How do you link the world’s blockchains? With another blockchain

Humans

Your music tastes can be changed by using magnets on your brain

Technology

Nothing you can do stops this code from watching you online

Space

Black holes that shred stars burp out cosmic rays and neutrinos

Technology

Rocket-powered Land Rovers can survive deadly roadside bombs

Space

We just sent a message to try to talk to aliens on another world

Earth

Spongy clay might create huge water deposits deep inside Earth

Physics

Free-fall experiment could test if gravity is a quantum force

Health

Common condition endometriosis reprograms brain for depression

Physics

Dark matter may be the source of antimatter streaming past Earth

Technology

What鈥檚 the best way to scare an elephant? Use an AI scarecrow

Humans

Why a female fly will ruin your drink, but a male is fine

Health

Amish gene can make them live 10 years longer and avoid diabetes

Space

A layer of haze keeps Pluto鈥檚 atmosphere extremely cold

Environment

Blue tits divorce their partners if they turn up late to mate

Space

We may know why Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is red instead of white

Space

We’ve just found a nearby exoplanet that could be right for life

Environment

Spiders reset body clocks to avoid 5-hour jet-lag every day

Analysis

Tesla's new trucks

Environment

Tesla’s electric trucks are great but they won’t save the planet

The electric trucks being unveiled by Tesla and co will speed the transition from fossil fuels. But to cut transport emissions, we must curb road freight too

Health

Why we should celebrate Scotland鈥檚 minimum alcohol price plan

Humans

In a Spotify world, why does anyone want to listen to cassettes?

Health

Gene drives can beat pests, but we can鈥檛 afford any mistakes

Aperture

VIIRS

Environment

Giant climate camera will watch how our planet changes

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite will take pictures of Earth to measure the temperatures of the sea and atmosphere and to watch how ice and water move

Features

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Health

Mind menders: how psychedelic drugs rebuild broken brains

The healing powers of illegal drugs like MDMA and psilocybin are finally living up to the hype 鈥� and they are already transforming our view of mental illness

Physics

How a fiery matter-antimatter union may lead to limitless energy

Humans

How your digital style gives you away 鈥� and how to hide it

Earth

Dan McKenzie: The man who made Earth move

Culture

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The latest science picks remind us why we really do need experts

Mary Halton聽considers the perils and pitfalls of acquiring and disseminating knowledge in a busy and confusing world

Humans

Can everybody on the planet all live well?

Technology

Future by design: Will the power of AI reshape our world?

More

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Technology

Put your hands together to bring a dead phone back to life

Elegant gloves convert wild applause into battery power, but you鈥檒l need a clap like thunder or you won鈥檛 have the juice to call a cab after that poetry slam

Regulars

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Feedback: Trump enlists a confederacy of dunces to run the EPA

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

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