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Smear test

Health

Women aren’t being told real risks of cervical cancer screening

Astronauts in space

Space

Cosmic cooperation is just what space exploration needs

Somerton Man artwork

Humans

Who was the Somerton Man? Solving Australia’s coldest case

boat artwork

Humans

Have humans been sailors for a million years?

Walter Pitts

Humans

How a frog鈥檚 eye robbed us of a genius鈥檚 AI masterwork

water artwork

Earth

H2Oh! Water is actually two liquids disguised as one

Table of contents

Leaders

Health

It鈥檚 time we stopped dismissing women鈥檚 health problems

Controversy about cervical smear tests is just the latest in a series concerning women鈥檚 health. It鈥檚 time to talk about inequality in the doctor鈥檚 surgery

Space

Cosmic cooperation is just what space exploration needs

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A troop of Bonobos

Environment

Mystery ghost ape species found hidden in bonobo鈥檚 genome

A comparison of chimpanzee genomes has found signs that a previously unknown species of chimpanzee once lived in the forests of central Africa

Humans

Ireland votes to reform abortion laws in referendum landslide

Technology

Papua New Guinea bans Facebook for a month in fake news blitz

Health

GM golden rice gets approval from food regulators in the US

Physics

Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem

Technology

AI inspired by the film Spotlight could track down child abusers

Earth

The Great Barrier Reef has died 5 times in the last 30,000 years

Health

Brains grow brand new neurons after experimental drug injection

Health

Faulty placenta may explain why some people get schizophrenia

Space

Pluto is not a planet 鈥� it’s a billion comets squished together

Earth

Mystery ozone-destroying gases linked to badly recycled fridges

Health

Brain implant for OCD surprisingly helps alleviate diabetes too

Health

Dentists can smell your fear 鈥� and it may put your teeth at risk

Physics

Quantum stopwatch could be the best in the universe

World’s most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran

Technology

Bulletproof batteries could make body armour for combat

Physics

Bacteria teach us how to make green fuel from carbon dioxide

Environment

We may have got the evolution of our big brains entirely wrong

Space

Clouds of plasma let us zoom in on weird flashes from space

Health

Men more likely to get diabetes if they have overweight wives

Earth

In big cities even the fish are always rushing around the place

Earth

Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming

Environment

Seafood-lovers have more sex and take less time to get pregnant

Technology

Watch a badminton robot practice its game-winning trick shots

Analysis

Smear test

Health

Women aren’t being told real risks of cervical cancer screening

Efforts to prevent cervical cancer seem so straightforward that few women question them, but unnecessary treatment can cause miscarriages and premature births

Life

We need to grab some rocks from Mars 鈥� let’s just get on with it

Health

How a change in tactics could help autism research

Earth

Why the UK鈥檚 plan to tackle air pollution is mostly hot air

Aperture

stag beetles

Environment

Fighting with a fifth of your body weight on your head

European stag beetles聽live for only a few months in adult form, and males spend much of that time rutting, jousting and wrestling 鈥� all for access to females

Features

water artwork

Earth

H2Oh! Water is actually two liquids disguised as one

Earth's most precious liquid is weird, and if it wasn't we would die. Now experiments have uncovered its secret: it's not one liquid, it's two

Humans

Who was the Somerton Man? Solving Australia’s coldest case

Humans

Have humans been sailors for a million years?

Humans

How a frog鈥檚 eye robbed us of a genius鈥檚 AI masterwork

Culture

phone users

Humans

Censored: Why China鈥檚 online oversight is anything but crude

The three pillars of Chinese online censorship create a sophisticated, invisible system that democracies would do well to take seriously, a new book argues

Space

Halo Jones: return of the 50th-century galactic adventurer

Health

Model Behaviour: How a sceptic was won over by life in the lab

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Space

Old 快猫短视频: Communication on Earth 鈥� and beyond

Putting metallic needles in lunar orbit was once thought the ideal way to keep moon explorers in the loop, a dip in the June archives of 快猫短视频 shows

Regulars

confessional box cartoon

Feedback: Are fruitloopy healing stones costing the earth?

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

In the Drink

Woolly Ideas

One for the Eggheads

In black and white

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