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Mark Zukerberg

Technology

Taking on tech giants: Can anyone stop Facebook, Amazon and Google?

Life

It is time to bring global attention to the trade in Burmese amber

insect in amber

Life

Blood amber: The exquisite trove of fossils fuelling war in Myanmar

internet in space artwork

Space

The race to build a space internet available to anyone, anywhere

speech artwork

Humans

The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry

Table of contents

Leaders

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Life

It is time to bring global attention to the trade in Burmese amber

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Indonesia floods

Earth

Extreme flooding leads to deaths in Indonesia and Mozambique

Dozens of people have died in Indonesia and Mozambique as a result of storms and flooding, possibly driven by climate change

Health

Sales of opioid painkiller codeine have halved in Australia

Space

Wonky black hole spotted rapidly eating a doughnut made from a star

Humans

Major discovery suggests Denisovans lived in Tibet 160,000 years ago

Space

The moon may be made of magma that once covered Earth鈥檚 entire surface

Mathematics

Google has created a maths AI that has already proved 1200 theorems

Life

Two species of colourful stick insects discovered in Madagascar

Humans

Neanderthals may have prized golden eagle claws for symbolic value聽

Health

A bad sense of smell predicts early death but we don鈥檛 know why

Environment

The science behind Extinction Rebellion鈥檚 three climate change demands

Health

Sensors made from gummy bears could monitor how children chew

Environment

Have people in the UK really been banned from shooting wood pigeons?

Environment

Signs of human climate change influence on drought traced back to 1900

Space

Titan has a belt of ice 6300 kilometres long that shouldn’t be there

Humans

An Indian village has many more twins than can be explained

Health

Robotic tube for surgery autonomously navigates inside a beating heart

Technology

AI learns to paint in the styles of Van Gogh, Turner and Vermeer

Environment

China鈥檚 efforts to cut pollution in Beijing may make it worse overall

Health

Mind-reading device uses AI to turn brainwaves into audible speech

Health

Peanut allergy immunotherapy may actually do more harm than good

Health

21 million children miss first dose of measles vaccine every year

Life

鈥楻ule-breaking鈥� crab fossils have weird shrimp and lobster features

Humans

Over 400 languages spoken today may have originated in northern China

Space

NASA鈥檚 InSight lander on Mars has felt its first marsquakes

Health

Battery-free pacemaker harvests energy from pig hearts in first tests

Health

Working hypothesis: From slow ramblers to asteroid Ryugu

Analysis

A picture of someone in front of a Huawei sign

Technology

There鈥檚 little evidence that a Huawei 5G ban is the right approach

Relying on a single company for 5G infrastructure is a bad idea, but so far there is little public evidence that a complete ban for Huawei is needed

Technology

Taking on tech giants: Can anyone stop Facebook, Amazon and Google?

Comment

Is there anything we can do to stop Greenland from turning green?

Technology

How hacked rental e-scooters could be the future of street crime

Aperture

eagle

Life

Meet the white-tailed eagles making a comeback in the UK

White-tailed eagles like this fishing bird made their comeback in Scotland in the 1970s. Now there's a plan to reintroduce the birds in the south of England

Features

speech artwork

Humans

The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry

Two million years ago, our ancestors started singing to ward off predators putting humanity on a path that led to the evolution of language

Life

Blood amber: The exquisite trove of fossils fuelling war in Myanmar

Space

The race to build a space internet available to anyone, anywhere

Culture

magic exhibition

Mind

The psychology of magic and how it plays with our minds

We need to think our brain doesn't lie to get us through the day, but as a new London exhibition called Smoke and Mirrors shows, magic relies on the fact that it does

Mind

Don’t miss: cutting edge AI, Kubrick in 4K and our marvellous moon

Life

We still don’t know how some animals find their way on huge migrations

Technology

How games like Assassin’s Creed give us a feel for history

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Sponsored

How cell therapy innovation is changing cancer treatment

The idea of turning the immune system against cancer has a long history. This is the story of the scientific development of cell therapy

Space

From the archives: How do you get astronauts back from space?

Technology

Want to build robots and invent stuff? Here’s where to start

Liana Finck cartoon

Physics

Marcus du Sautoy: How maths blows my mind 鈥� and how it will save us

Regulars

Feedback: Advertisers set their sights on the night sky

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

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