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Green home

Environment

Could your home be net zero carbon? The radical plan to make it happen

hypnosis during surgery

Health

Return of hypnosis: Time to see if it really has a place in medicine

leaf-like rangeomorphs

Life

The bizarre plant-like animals that say life鈥檚 big bang never happened

Hypnosis

Health

What hypnosis does to your brain, and how it can improve your health

Technology

Seeing around corners: How to decipher shadows to see the invisible

Table of contents

Leaders

hypnosis during surgery

Health

Return of hypnosis: Time to see if it really has a place in medicine

Signs are growing that hypnosis, once the preserve of charlatans, has real medical benefits. We need robust research to find out for sure

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People walking in smog

Health

Authorities do little to halt severe air pollution in northern India

Levels of tiny particulate pollution, PM2.5, spiked in the Indian capital Delhi this weekend, at more than ten times the safety limit

Environment

Australian government to be sued over firefighting foam contamination

Humans

Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

Life

A quarter of all pigs have died this year due to African swine fever

Space

Cosmological crisis: We don’t know if the universe is round or flat

Environment

Exclusive: Spray-on gene editing could make genetic modification easy

Environment

UK government rings death knell for the fracking industry

Physics

Tactical voting campaign says maths can solve the UK’s political mess

Space

Alien water may have been found on interstellar comet Borisov

Mind

Newly discovered brain cells help us recall where we last saw objects

Environment

Discovering rainforest secrets atop the Eiffel Tower of the Amazon

Humans

Genetic studies have missed important gene variants in African people

Technology

Delivery drones could land on public transport to extend their range

Physics

AI could solve baffling three-body problem that stumped Isaac Newton

Health

Measles has a devastating and long-term effect on your immune system

Humans

Just thinking about bright objects changes the size of your pupils

Mind

A type of brainwave may help clean your brain while you sleep

Life

Female Asian elephants mysteriously stop reproducing later in life

Humans

脰tzi the Iceman’s last journey revealed by moss found in his stomach

Space

We’ve finally figured out what happens when a star explodes

Technology

DeepMind鈥檚 StarCraft-playing AI beats 99.8 per cent of human gamers

Technology

Electric cars could charge in 10 minutes with a new kind of battery

Analysis

Facebook's war room during Brazil's elections last year

Technology

Facebook has a plan to tackle fake news 鈥� here’s why it won’t work

Ahead of the UK general election, Facebook says it is tackling interference and misinformation. But the firm鈥檚 efforts are unlikely to have much effect

Environment

Could your home be net zero carbon? The radical plan to make it happen

Life

Who owns life? The world is about to decide, with huge ramifications

Environment

11 years remain to fight climate change 鈥� what progress have we made?

Aperture

solar panels Chile

Technology

Massive solar panels in Chilean desert point to our renewable future

These futuristic solar panels in Chile鈥檚 Atacama desert are part of ambitious plans to go carbon neutral, as unrest forces the country to abandon hosting a UN climate conference

Features

Hypnosis

Health

What hypnosis does to your brain, and how it can improve your health

The history of hypnotherapy is riddled with hucksters, but it can provide real benefits 鈥� from weight loss to managing pain. Why modern medicine is starting to take it seriously

Life

The bizarre plant-like animals that say life鈥檚 big bang never happened

Technology

Seeing around corners: How to decipher shadows to see the invisible

Culture

Science protest

Environment

Naomi Oreskes asks “why trust science” in an age of denialism

In Why Trust Science?, Naomi Oreskes's asks bold questions but knows there are no clear answers 鈥� and critiques herself as the book unfolds

Technology

Flop, an exhibition about failure, shows the joy and pain of mistakes

Physics

Don鈥檛 miss: Art meets science, atoms find love and numbers grow curves

Life

Netflix鈥檚 Living With Yourself shows the dangers of perfectionism

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How to inspire the next generation of engineers

Inspiring and hiring the next generation of talented, diverse engineers for the cutting edge projects of the future will need careful planning and considerable thought. But the first steps are already underway

Technology

How to watch Mercury’s transit of the sun with just binoculars

Mind

Why embracing failure, mistakes and forgetfulness is key to success

Regulars

How to read 20,000 words a minute, and more unbelievable claims

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

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