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Jamie Oliver ban energy drinks

Health

The truth about what downing energy drinks really does to kids

Technology

Big tech is unpopular, but we mostly have ourselves to blame

techlash

Humans

How Google and Facebook hooked us 鈥� and how to break the habit

Milky Way

Physics

Suns and daughters: The family tree that may unite all the stars

three polar bears

Earth

The survivors: Is climate change really killing polar bears?

Pappworth

Health

The doctor who exposed the UK’s terrible experiments on patients

Table of contents

Leaders

Technology

Big tech is unpopular, but we mostly have ourselves to blame

Consumer demand and our own ignorance has done much to assist the rise of the likes of Facebook and Google, so restraint and knowledge can do much to tame it

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Tesla Roadster inside Falcon Heavy

Space

SpaceX set to launch massive Falcon Heavy rocket for first time

The rocket is one of the most powerful ever built and will launch SpaceX CEO Elon Musk鈥檚 personal Tesla Roadster into an orbit around the sun

LHC finds hints of strange quasiparticle called the odderon

Health

We can now read the whole genome of a fetus in the womb

Technology

Bitcoin tumbles as regulators start clamping down on trading

Health

I got DNA tested to see if I would pass on diseases to my kids

Health

First UK three-parent babies could be born this year

Earth

Ancient rock art rewrites the natural history of Arabia

Humans

DeepMind鈥檚 virtual psychology lab seeks flaws in digital minds

Space

Have we just found thousands of planets outside our galaxy?

Health

Some people with epilepsy can learn to stop their own seizures

Earth

It may be impossible to live comfortably without trashing Earth

Technology

Leaked photos suggest China may now have a hypersonic railgun

Health

Depriving the brain of a sense may improve stroke recovery

Humans

Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

Physics

Shrinking black holes avoid paradox by oozing hidden information

Space

Pre-life molecules found floating in nearby galaxy

Technology

Dark web users are easy to unmask through their bitcoin use

Two types of bacteria damage DNA and may help cause bowel cancer

Life

Nano-claw snatches bacteria from blood like tiny Venus flytrap

Health

Brain genes hint at why Zika doesn鈥檛 always cause microcephaly

Physics

Dancing galaxies may shake up our ideas of galaxy formation

Earth

Tropical plants are blooming as they gorge on our pollution

Earth

Polar bears waste lots of their energy and it could be a problem

Earth

Sound waves may be able to trigger earlier tsunami warnings

Technology

Art history AI sees links between hundreds of years of paintings

Analysis

Jamie Oliver ban energy drinks

Health

The truth about what downing energy drinks really does to kids

Campaigners in the UK want energy drinks banned for under-16s. The latest scientific evidence suggests they are right 鈥� these drinks are uniquely bad for children

Environment

Shark-free world? That’s a wish that would come back to bite us

Earth

Our best way to geoengineer the climate may well trash Earth

Health

Pregnant women have to navigate a minefield of painkiller advice

Aperture

solar panels

Space

Delicate solar panels of Martian lander are tested before launch

The arrays are due to open for real in November to power a two-year mission to probe the guts of Mars and reveal how rocky planets' core, mantle and crust form

Features

techlash

Humans

How Google and Facebook hooked us 鈥� and how to break the habit

Big tech companies avoid taxes and have taken over our lives and created monopolies 鈥� but what can we do about it and how much change do we really want?

Earth

The survivors: Is climate change really killing polar bears?

Physics

Suns and daughters: The family tree that may unite all the stars

Health

The doctor who exposed the UK’s terrible experiments on patients

Culture

prosthetics

Life

Life lessons: The tiny neuro-gadgets rebuilding our bodies

Nature's designs are helping to build amazing new devices that link to the body and each other, reveals a fascinating book called Bioinspired Devices

To enjoy Robert Newman’s gig, park your scientific scepticism

Humans

What is our place in the natural world?

Regulars

camel

Feedback: Botoxed camels disqualified from Saudi beauty contest

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Push me, Pull You

Dazzle Hassle?

Shadow of a doubt

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