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robotic arms

Technology

Robotic surgery is turning out to be an expensive fad

protesters

Health

Who should pay when medical drugs become too expensive to buy?

Health

How many steps a day do you really need? Spoiler: It isn’t 10,000

koala in hospital

Life

Koalas burned in wildfires can now be saved but the treatment is gross

astronauts

Space

Mission to Mars: The complete guide to getting to the Red Planet

Table of contents

Leaders

protesters

Health

Who should pay when medical drugs become too expensive to buy?

We depend on private companies to develop new drugs and treatments, but their need to profit has far-reaching consequences

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Deforestation in Madagascar, which has lost many plant species to extinction

Environment

Humans have driven nearly 600 plant species to extinction since 1750s

Plants have been hard hit by human activity over the past 250 years, with Hawaii alone losing 79 species. Other extinction hotspots include Brazil and Australia

Space

NASA will let people pay to stay on the International Space Station

Life

Carnivorous pitcher plants are regularly eating vertebrate animals

Environment

Creating an AI can be five times worse for the planet than a car

Humans

Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans

Health

3D-printed replica heads are being used to help treat cancer patients

Health

How your body processes food is only partially down to your genes

Health

A generic drug from Argentina offers cystic fibrosis families hope

Environment

Inside the audacious mission to map every microbe in Australia

Space

A weird star just rapidly dimmed for a few days and we don’t know why

Life

Some trees can change sex and are more likely to die when female

Space

Huge asteroid that hit the moon may be preserved below the surface

Life

Brainless fungi trade resources with plants like a stock market

Environment

Vital global climate monitoring scheme axed on remote UK island

Technology

Fake news generating AIs could be the best weapons to fight fake news

Physics

Bizarre pentaquark turns out to be a new kind of subatomic ‘molecule’

Life

52-million-year-old fossils suggest oak relatives evolved in the south

Humans

There’s a fundamental limit to the amount of energy our bodies can use

Life

Dragonfish have ‘invisible’ teeth to help them sneak up on their prey

Health

Oozing white mucus from giant salamanders makes excellent medical glue

Life

AI camera worn by gulls captures video highlights of their lives

Environment

Climate change may mean heavy rain falls in the early morning

Environment

Working Hypothesis: From Finland鈥檚 climate action to a rival Chernobyl

Analysis

Health

A drug may prevent Alzheimer鈥檚 but there are no plans to find out

A rheumatoid arthritis drug may also cut the risk of developing Alzheimer鈥檚, but there are no plans to conduct the trials needed to find out if it really works

Technology

Robotic surgery is turning out to be an expensive fad

Health

End the scandalous male data bias that determines women’s health

Physics

How Star Trek鈥檚 warp drives touch on one of physics’ biggest mysteries

Aperture

mangrove forest

Environment

How climate change is hitting crab hunting in the mangroves of Brazil

This spectacular mangrove forest on Brazil's Caratingui river provides rich ground for local crab hunting and protects the coastline -- but for how much longer?

Features

Health

How many steps a day do you really need? Spoiler: It isn’t 10,000

Forget 10,000 steps a day. Modern sports science and evolutionary biology now tell us how much exercise the human body really needs

Space

Mission to Mars: The complete guide to getting to the Red Planet

Life

Koalas burned in wildfires can now be saved but the treatment is gross

Culture

hand

Mind

Fate vs free will: A new book clarifies the determinism debate

We're not wrong to think we have free will, but The Science of Fate by Hannah Critchlow reveals the moral complexities underpinning our sense of unlimited choice

Physics

Dark matter can’t be seen, so this gallery is making it sing

Technology

Don’t miss: Celebrity prisons, virtual thrills and a dive under Paris

Godzilla: King of the Monsters reveals our obsession with radiation

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Humans

This Tank Man image from Tiananmen Square heralded a new digital age

"Tank Man" is an iconic image of how one man defied brutal state power at Tiananmen Square 30 years ago. It also marked the beginning of a new technological era

Technology

How to make a theremin with a light sensor

Liana Finck cartoon

Environment

Carbon farming scientist David Reay on repaying his emissions debt

Regulars

Feedback: What did big tech find when it looked inside a black hole?

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

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Why are animals stripy and why can’t humans have patterned hair?

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