Environment
Are disposable nappies really so terrible for the environment?
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This week's magazine
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Editor's picks
Life
To truly blossom, science requires some unorthodox thinkers
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Life
Smarty plants: They can learn, adapt and remember without brains
Features
Physics
How a ghostly, forgotten particle could be the saviour of physics
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Technology
An audacious new plan will make all science free. Can it work?
Features
Life
37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body
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Table of contents
Leaders
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Health
Catching up on sleep at weekends may aggravate period pain
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Environment
Urbanisation made flooding from Hurricane Harvey 21 times as likely
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Health
Prefer tea or coffee? It may be down to your genes for bitter tastes
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Health
A new DNA sequencing service wants to reward you for sharing your data
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Mind
Walking backwards can boost your short-term memory
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Technology
Web tracker can follow you for months even if you delete your cookies
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Technology
A computer game's edible controller lets you play it with your gut
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Space
There’s an enormous ghost galaxy hiding at the edge of the Milky Way
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Technology
Microbots made from mushroom spores could clean polluted water
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Physics
Kilogram to be defined by Planck constant instead of a lump of metal
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Life
Termites in Brazil have covered an area the size of Britain in mounds
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Health
Silencing a gene may prevent deadly pre-eclampsia in pregnancy
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Humans
Complex stone tools in China may re-write our species' ancient history
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Super-Earth spotted hiding in plain sight around neighbouring star
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Huge 30-kilometre wide meteorite crater found under Greenland glacier
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Technology
Car assembly is heavy work – this exoskeleton can boost your strength
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Space
NASA has chosen the landing site for its life-hunting 2020 Mars rover
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Physics
Star smash-up is yet more evidence Einstein got it right about gravity
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Environment
Searching for Antarctica’s penguins, lost meteorites, and oldest ice
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Earth
Thousands evacuated as Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts again
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Environment
California's dry summer set the stage for the Camp Fire
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Technology
Electric zero-emissions plane raises hopes for eco-friendly air travel
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