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Health

A variety of CBD health products are in the shops – do they work?

Our obsession with perfection is damaging individuals and society

Physics

What if there was no big bang and we live in an ever-cycling universe?

Bee

Life

How killer bees evolved into chiller bees in just one decade

Mind

The misunderstood personality trait that is causing anxiety and stress

Table of contents

Leaders

Our obsession with perfection is damaging individuals and society

Increasingly we strive for unreachable ideals in personal and public spheres 鈥� with damaging consequences from mental health problems to Brexit deadlock

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An Ebola treatment centre in Butembo

Health

Ebola breakthrough: two drugs could treat up to 90 per cent of cases

A drug trial has found two experimental drugs for Ebola to be so effective that scientists have stopped the trial early so that more people can receive these drugs

Physics

No sign radiation from a missile explosion has spread beyond Russia

Technology

The NHS is setting up a lab for medical artificial intelligence

Health

Sperm sorting method could prevent girls being born, scientists warn

Technology

Google’s hate speech-detecting AI appears to be racially biased

Space

Milky Way’s black hole has got 75 times brighter and we don’t know why

Health

Chlamydia vaccine shown to be safe in first ever human trial

Technology

AI learns to predict the outcomes of human rights court cases

Life

Deep-sea microbe could answer one of evolution’s biggest mysteries

Technology

Hackers could use Wi-Fi to install ransomware on DSLR cameras

Technology

A company has used trees to find gold deep underground in Australia

Space

Mysterious signals from space could teach us how dark energy works

Health

Ibuprofen and other common drugs may help antibiotic resistance spread

Life

World鈥檚 largest frog builds its own ponds using heavy rocks

Environment

UN warns most plans for limiting climate change would wreck the planet

Space

Enormous 鈥榗annonballs鈥� of plasma spotted hurtling around the sun

Space

We just found dozens of missing galaxies from the early universe

Environment

Snowglow can cause the night sky to be twice as bright as a full moon

Life

World鈥檚 largest parrot was a metre tall and lived 19 million years ago

Life

Sharks use a special kind of protein to glow green in deep water

Earth

Earth’s magnetic poles probably won’t flip within our lifetime

Life

Staring down seagulls can stop them stealing your chips

Analysis

Alzheimer's disease causes damaged to the brain

Health

Why the news on dementia deaths is not as bad as it sounds

Dementia has been named the leading cause of death in England and Wales, but individual risk for the condition is falling, and cancer actually kills more people

Humans

Biologists have a problem with homosexuality 鈥� they should get over it

Health

A variety of CBD health products are in the shops – do they work?

Environment

White nationalists are perverting environmentalism to smear migrants

Aperture

Mars camera

Space

Mars 2020 rover cameras get eye exams to hunt life on the Red Planet

This Mars 2020 rover camera could be key to finding life on Mars and learning more about the planet 鈥� but only if it passes its vision examination by NASA鈥檚 team

Features

Mind

The misunderstood personality trait that is causing anxiety and stress

Perfectionism is a hidden epidemic, and its rise is damaging individuals and society. We investigate how to escape the cult of perfect

Life

How killer bees evolved into chiller bees in just one decade

Physics

What if there was no big bang and we live in an ever-cycling universe?

Culture

Humans

How walking helped humans take over the planet

We are all fitter for a good walk 鈥� and we become smarter just by standing up. In fact, says a new book, the act of walking helped humans colonise a whole planet

Life

Don’t miss: Curative comedy, cultural copies and an unlikely fish diet

Earth

Fossils of the earliest animals seen outside China for the first time

Life

Netflix鈥檚 bizarre riff on Mary Shelley鈥檚 Frankenstein oddly successful

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barbecue

Technology

How to make a BBQ thermometer with a BBC micro:bit

With a BBC micro:bit and a temperature sensor, you can make a device that tells you when your food is perfectly cooked

Liana Finck cartoon

Chemistry

Chemist Lee Cronin is building an alien to work out why life exists

Regulars

In a chess game played to the death, what piece should you be?

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Beef with tofu: is local beef better for the planet than tofu imports?

Clean limbs: the debate continues on whether you should wash your legs

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