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trees

Environment

Your guide to the carbon sucking tech we need to save the planet

Bacteria

Even if bacteria do cause heart disease, diet and exercise are vital

Health

Have we found the true cause of diabetes, stroke and Alzheimer’s?

numbers artwork

Physics

Inside the race to find the first billion-digit prime number

solar site

Technology

Outshining fossil fuel: Your guide to the revolution in solar energy

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Leaders

Bacteria

Even if bacteria do cause heart disease, diet and exercise are vital

Growing evidence that a common microbe plays a role in Alzheimer's and a host of lifestyle diseases doesn't mean we can give up on exercise and a healthy diet

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Four drams of whisky

Technology

Artificial tongue could taste whisky to make sure it isn’t counterfeit

An artificial tongue can taste subtle differences between drams of whisky and could one day help tackle the counterfeit alcohol trade

Environment

Space agency chief fired after revealing recent Amazon deforestation

Environment

Hottest day records set across Europe this year will soon be broken

Space

LightSail 2 has used sunlight alone to steer around Earth

Technology

Most people would rather lose their job to a robot than another human

Physics

New type of pipe for pumping blood is just liquid with no pipe

Physics

Physicists who came up with supergravity win $3m Breakthrough Prize

Environment

Wasps are shrinking in size and it may be because of climate change

Space

We could use Earth’s atmosphere as a giant lens for a space telescope

Technology

UK navy will use AI-guided robot submarines to find explosive mines

Life

Bees’ very hairy tongues help them mop up different types of nectar

Health

Cell injections could train the body to accept a transplanted organ

Environment

James Lovelock at 100: Ecclectic conference considers Gaia’s future

Health

Folic acid seems to be essential for fathers-to-be as well as mothers

Life

Birds can thank attractive dinosaurs for their flight feathers

Space

We spotted a star moving so fast it will enter intergalactic space

Technology

Yellow glasses don鈥檛 help night drivers spot dangers any faster

Life

Turtle embryos may control their sex by moving inside their eggs

Humans

Humans are good at smelling cheese thanks to special smell receptors

Physics

A super-thin slice of wood can be used to turn saltwater drinkable

Health

London鈥檚 public spaces are rife with multidrug-resistant bacteria

Technology

Cockroach robot won’t break after being repeatedly stamped on

Analysis

An RAF helicopter drops bags of aggregate to shore up the dam and divert water

Environment

The world’s ageing dams are not built for ever more extreme weather

A town in the UK has been evacuated after extreme rains eroded a dam鈥檚 spillway. It is just one of many ageing dams worldwide not designed for increasingly extreme weather

Health

It’s too soon to tell if DeepMind’s medical AI will save any lives

Environment

Your guide to the carbon sucking tech we need to save the planet

Comment

IVF add-ons are a waste of money 鈥� fertility clinics should ban them

Physics

How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets

Aperture

Gorilla

Life

Meet Kuimba, the French-born gorilla released into Gabon’s rainforest

Kuimba, a western lowland gorilla, adapts to her island home in Gabon after she was flown from a French zoo in a new project to save the endangered subspecies

Features

solar site

Technology

Outshining fossil fuel: Your guide to the revolution in solar energy

Solar power is getting so cheap it is overtaking fossil fuels 鈥� and that鈥檚 without next-generation photovoltaic technology and artificial photosynthesis

Physics

Inside the race to find the first billion-digit prime number

Health

Have we found the true cause of diabetes, stroke and Alzheimer’s?

Culture

Space

UK’s biggest moon exhibition captures centuries of lunar love

From Japanese painting of the harvest moon to Buzz Aldrin's "Snoopy cap", the UK's biggest moon exhibition at London's National Maritime Museum is bound to please

Life

Mosquitoes may have killed half the people who ever lived

Mind

Don’t Miss: FBI profiling, blanket-bog art and psychedelic minds

Technology

The real history of electricity is more gripping than The Current War

More

Technology

Why genetically modified ‘golden rice’ failed to conquer the world

20 years ago, genetically engineered rice with聽its increased nutritional content seemed a sure-fire win 鈥� but that reckoned without implacable critics

Technology

How to build your own intruder alarm with basic electronics

Liana Finck cartoon

Technology

The hardest thing about robots? Teaching them to cope with us

Regulars

How many Boris Johnsons does a Saturn V rocket weigh?

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

Schr枚dinger’s scissors: Why can’t we see things right in front of us?

Future fossils: Will new coal and oil reserves form once we’re gone?

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