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Model Tess Holliday

Health

Fat and proud: Why body-positive activists say obesity can be healthy

Dice

Physics

Mathematicians must be more prepared to test their truths

Priya Singh

Life

The rare-leopard spotter who accidentally caught gunmen in her traps

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Life

Hacking nature’s coolest inventions to create the perfect metal

Mind

Mind-reading devices can now access your thoughts and dreams using AI

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Humans

We thought the Incas couldn’t write. These knots change everything

Table of contents

Leaders

Paralysis

Health

Paralysis need not mean paralysis for life

Despite prevailing medical wisdom saying it shouldn't work, implants have allowed paralysed people to walk again. We need to pin down the science to help others

Physics

Mathematicians must be more prepared to test their truths

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Health

Loneliness among over 50s likely to increase in the next seven years

The number of older people who are lonely will increase by around 50 per cent in the next seven years, says the charity Age UK

Earth

Devastation continues more than a week after Hurricane Florence

Space

Japanese space hoppers reveal glorious sci-fi vision of asteroid Ryugu

Mathematics

Infinity war: The ongoing battle over the world’s hardest maths proof

Health

Three people with paralysis can walk again with nerve-boosting implant

Life

The 7 non-human mammals where females rule the roost

Space

NASA鈥檚 new exoplanet-hunter has spotted its first alien worlds

Physics

Riemann hypothesis likely remains unsolved despite claimed proof

Technology

A mind-reading headset lets people fly drones using their thoughts

Health

Evolution-defying DNA makes mosquitoes infertile by changing their sex

Technology

Stupid AI: How humans can stop machines from falling for visual tricks

Earth

Earliest known animal was a half-billion-year-old underwater blob

Physics

Quantum mechanics may contradict itself when applied to big objects

Technology

UK civil servants use Slack to chat about games, drinking and romance

Mind

Subliminal messages can make you forget memories without realising

Environment

Field notes: Polluted polar bears await the great Arctic land grab

Health

A tiny robotic capsule could roam your intestines and suck up mucus

Life

Octopuses taking MDMA get all huggy and loved-up with each other

Life

Dance flies attract males with their hairy legs and inflatable sacs

Environment

Mosquitoes are eating plastic and spreading it to new food chains

Health

Killing ‘zombie’ brain cells can prevent memory loss in mice

Health

The whiff of sandalwood makes the human head sprout more hair

Life

Honeybee swarms act like superorganisms to stay together in high winds

Health

Skin genetically engineered to destroy cocaine could prevent addiction

Analysis

Model Tess Holliday

Health

Fat and proud: Why body-positive activists say obesity can be healthy

Growing calls for "fat acceptance" fly in the face of accepted medical advice, but studies show you can be overweight and healthy

Comment

Smart pills can transmit data to your doctors, but what about privacy?

Humans

China鈥檚 uniform approach for students is a bad fit for other countries

Space

SpaceX鈥檚 billionaire moon trip is all about building a luxury brand

Aperture

快猫短视频 Live: Our report from the world’s greatest science show

With 35,000 visitors, 120 talks from world-class scientists and 100 immersive experiences, our science festival was better than ever 鈥� catch up with the highlights here

Features

Mind

Mind-reading devices can now access your thoughts and dreams using AI

We can now decode dreams and recreate images of faces people have seen, and everyone from Facebook to Elon Musk wants a piece of this mind reading reality

Humans

We thought the Incas couldn’t write. These knots change everything

Life

The rare-leopard spotter who accidentally caught gunmen in her traps

Life

Hacking nature’s coolest inventions to create the perfect metal

Culture

pincushion art

Health

Art: The Science Gallery opens in London

From heroin to Playstation, we are all users argues Hooked, a captivating show to launch a gallery with ambitions to demolish the boundaries around science

Environment

Don’t miss: Darwinian premiere, what’s really real and sun science

Humans

The Book of Humans review 鈥� a smart update on human exceptionalism

More

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Technology

Stuck for inspiration? Try this random idea generator

This creativity bot鈥檚 ideas are so stupid they might just be genius, at least once in a while

Regulars

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Feedback: Ghostly goat penned by police after spooking citizens

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

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