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Earth

The real palm oil problem: it’s not just in your food

Bowl of food

Health

Meat substitutes aren’t perfect but they are worth a try

marijuana

Health

High times: The Victorian doctor who promoted medical marijuana

moon artwork

Earth

Moon鈥檚 weird pull could help predict deadly volcanic eruptions

burger

Environment

The fake burger test: Could meat made of plants ever fool you?

Dino head

Environment

Identity crisis: When is a dinosaur not a dinosaur?

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Leaders

Bowl of food

Health

Meat substitutes aren’t perfect but they are worth a try

Our taste for meat is disastrous from an environmental point of view. We should celebrate those developing ever-meatier plant-based alternatives

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The company investing its way to zero emission transport

It's time to accelerate the transition to pollution-free roads, says Simon Pickett of Octopus Group

Earth

The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides

Health

Smart people literally have bigger brain cells than the rest

Humans

Serial killer suspect identified using DNA family tree website

Technology

The world’s biggest hacking market has just been busted

Health

Lightning hit a woman’s home and switched off her brain implant

Technology

3000 missing children identified with face recognition in India

Physics

Our understanding of the universe’s expansion is really wrong

Health

This mind-reading hearing aid knows who you’re listening to

Earth

Cute but dim quolls have been taught to stop eating toxic toads

Physics

Entangled clouds of atoms are quantum record-breakers

Humans

Ancient Swedish massacre hints at chaos after the fall of Rome

Humans

Horses remember if you smiled or frowned when they last saw you

Health

G-spot surgery given to three women to boost sexual pleasure

Health

How some resistant bacteria can even eat antibiotics as food

Space

Gamma rays from the sun are acting weird and nobody knows why

Superlight aerogel made by mimicking a baby dragonfly’s wings

Earth

Humans may be to blame for a big earthquake in South Korea

Health

Blood cell and bacteria stuck together to deliver cancer drugs

Health

Stoner app lets cannabis users keep track of how high they are

Technology

Paint a touchpad on your wall to control lights with a swipe

Health

Huge haul of 鈥榙epression genes鈥� shows it鈥檚 a complex condition

Environment

Gross alert: You can get a urinary tract infection from your dog

Humans

How an Amazonian people convey their entire language by drumbeat

Analysis

Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in

Humans

North Korea’s nuclear-free pledge comes with a massive catch

Last week saw a historic meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea, but the promise of a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula may not be so easy

Earth

The real palm oil problem: it’s not just in your food

Life

Why growing human brain tissue in a dish is an ethical minefield

Space

What to expect from the controversial new choice as NASA boss

Health

Could a tax on chocolate make us healthy? Let鈥檚 not be too hasty

Aperture

Humans

Swirling wall of moving patterns represents our thoughts

It looks like a mountain range in a box, but it's really a frame from an undulating digital artwork, based on algorithms that convert brain waves into imagery

Features

burger

Environment

The fake burger test: Could meat made of plants ever fool you?

If you like meat, but don鈥檛 want a side of animal cruelty and environmental destruction, there鈥檚 something new on the menu聽鈥� and it tastes surprisingly good

Earth

Moon鈥檚 weird pull could help predict deadly volcanic eruptions

Environment

Identity crisis: When is a dinosaur not a dinosaur?

Health

High times: The Victorian doctor who promoted medical marijuana

Culture

Video-game players

Humans

Now Play This! A festival that’s game for anything

Ideas held centre stage, and technology was kept in its place, over a weekend of games at London's Somerset House

Humans

Elements of surprise: What fiction plots tell us about our minds

Technology

Bombhead and Bombs Away: when remembering is an art

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horse race

Environment

Old 快猫短视频: Animal experiments in the bad old days

There was a time when researchers were happy to pop goats in decompression chambers, as a look through the spring archives of 快猫短视频 shows

Regulars

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Feedback: Crafty baboons channel MacGyver to escape research lab

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

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