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Health

Is studying your gut bacteria key to good health or a waste of money?

petri dish

Health

We have the power to halt evolution itself 鈥� should we use it?

virus

Health

Evolution is making us sick and for the first time we can stop it

Earth

Special report: The new megaprojects changing the face of our planet

Keri Bean

Space

How to drive the slowest vehicle in the solar system – on Mars

Red road through the green forest

Earth

Biodiversity in crisis: Earth鈥檚 giant construction projects mapped out

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Environment

Floating nuclear plants could herald a new era of cheap, safe energy

Table of contents

Leaders

Trump

Technology

The real danger of deepfake videos is that we may question everything

Realistic fake videos are now easier to make than ever. To fight back we need to find sources of information we can trust

Health

We have the power to halt evolution itself 鈥� should we use it?

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Health

Ebola outbreak has killed 75 in the Democratic Republic of Congo

There has been an uptick in deaths caused by the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the death count for the current outbreak up to 75

Technology

Facebook bans Myanmar鈥檚 military leader in unprecedented move

Environment

Breathing polluted air may make you worse at maths and language

Health

Women in England to be allowed to have abortions at home

Technology

AI can make high-definition fake videos from just a simple sketch

Life

Naked mole rats may become good parents by eating their queen鈥檚 faeces

Mind

Flashing checkerboard patterns let us see a picture that doesn鈥檛 exist

Health

We dream even when under general anaesthetic

Health

Mind-reading video game helps children with ADHD concentrate better

Humans

Doomed crew seeking Northwest Passage didn鈥檛 die from lead poisoning

Health

Nose breathing in yoga may calm the mind by slowing brainwaves

Physics

Artificial muscles and prosthetics could be made of gel-infused wood

Physics

Freak gravitational waves could form black holes and destroy Earth

Technology

Artificial stupidity could help save humanity from an AI takeover

Humans

The ancient palaces of Iraq glittered with a special type of glass

Mind

We can train ourselves to be better at knowing when we are wrong

Physics

Asteroids get spun so fast by the force of sunlight they fall apart

Physics

World鈥檚 cleanest drop of water reveals why nothing is ever truly clean

Life

The most trusted meerkats are those with impeccable reputations

Life

Fireflies don鈥檛 just glow for sex 鈥� they do it to warn away bats too

Health

Nanobots can eat nerve agents and then spit out an antidote

Health

One bad night鈥檚 sleep can make you put on fat and lose muscle mass

Life

Parrots make wise investment decisions to get what they want: walnuts

Earth

New world map is a more accurate Earth and shows Africa’s full size

Technology

Nanofibre net draws drinking water from the air for drought-hit people

Analysis

microbiome 3

Health

Is studying your gut bacteria key to good health or a waste of money?

Forget your own genome 鈥� now you can pay to sequence the DNA of the microbes in your gut and get advice on which foods to eat for better health

Comment

Here’s why the ban on vaping on trains and buses should stay for now

Comment

Call off the grizzly bear trophy hunt, it’s immoral and unscientific

Health

It’s too soon to tell if robots help autistic children’s social skills

Aperture

coloured algae

Environment

China’s spectacular rainbow lake disguises trouble below the surface

The colourful algal blooms of Yuncheng Salt Lake are made up of the most salt-tolerant complex cells known 鈥� but as they spread they throttle life beneath

Features

virus

Health

Evolution is making us sick and for the first time we can stop it

Far from being a slow process, evolution can act fast and is responsible for major health problems from cancer to antimicrobial resistance. Now we have the power to end it

Environment

Floating nuclear plants could herald a new era of cheap, safe energy

Earth

Special report: The new megaprojects changing the face of our planet

Earth

Biodiversity in crisis: Earth鈥檚 giant construction projects mapped out

Space

How to drive the slowest vehicle in the solar system – on Mars

Culture

Humans

Yuval Noah Harari: Why the reluctant guru is upsetting scientists

What could possibly go wrong when a world famous public intellectual grapples with our bewilderingly strange times? Find out in聽21 Lessons for the 21st聽Century

Technology

Don’t Miss: Comic promise, robot TV and a festival of errors

Humans

Edge of Memory: Distrusting oral tradition may make us more ignorant

More

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Humans

A trip into the past: Swiss watches, Korean ginseng and UK tea breaks

Old 快猫短视频 digs into the September archives and uncovers fears over digital wristwatches, a potent Korean stimulant and a British ban on 快猫短视频

Regulars

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Feedback: Can plants have fun? This experiment aims to find out

A giant slide in Florence is giving beans a taste of excitement. Plus: sniffer dogs sacked, fake gnus, black hole swallows man, and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Push me, pull you

The art of timing

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