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Physics

Taming nuclear fusion is hard, but there are new reasons for optimism

Health

How brain scanners can help us revolutionise psychiatric drugs

Life

The biggest dinosaur ever may have been twice the size we thought

Physics

Why cracking nuclear fusion will depend on artificial intelligence

Physics

How quantum theory says we can never see a complete picture of reality

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Leaders

Physics

Taming nuclear fusion is hard, but there are new reasons for optimism

Technological advances, greater investment and growing political interest in addressing climate change mean the dream of harnessing nuclear fusion for energy may finally become a reality

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Issues with UK testing data are making it difficult to monitor the outbreak

Health

Lack of UK testing data is impeding our understanding of the outbreak

The UK government hasn't reported the daily numbers of how many people outside of hospitals and care homes have been tested for covid-19 in over two weeks

Health

Is it safe for coronavirus ‘shielders’ in the UK to go outside now?

Health

Covid-19: Social ‘bubbles’ unlikely to be allowed soon in the UK

Health

How South America became the new centre of the coronavirus pandemic

Technology

How the coronavirus pandemic is fuelling online trolls and scams

Physics

Exotic fifth state of matter made on the International Space Station

Technology

This robot can tell when sewers need repairing by scratching the walls

Space

Longest known comet tail stretched for over a billion kilometres

Life

First life on Earth may actually have been built from both RNA and DNA

Health

Electric current helps dampen tics in people with Tourette’s syndrome

Technology

GPS mystery is making ships appear to teleport and move in circles

Health

Human-like ears 3D-printed inside mice as surgery-free spare parts

Humans

We’ve just found the largest and oldest Mayan monument yet

Technology

Two-sided solar panels that track the sun produce a third more energy

Analysis

Health

Claims that some diets can protect you from coronavirus are unfounded

Plenty of diets offer to boost your immune system to help protect you from covid-19, but there isn't any evidence they are true, says James Wong

Aperture

Environment

Aerial images highlighting fight to protect the Amazon win photo award

Pablo Albarenga鈥檚 series documenting threatened Amazonian environments and the people defending them has won the top prize at the Sony World Photography Award 2020

Features

Physics

Why cracking nuclear fusion will depend on artificial intelligence

The promise of clean, green nuclear fusion has been touted for decades, but the rise of AI means the challenges could finally be overcome

Health

How brain scanners can help us revolutionise psychiatric drugs

Life

The biggest dinosaur ever may have been twice the size we thought

Physics

How quantum theory says we can never see a complete picture of reality

Culture

Humans

Humankind review: A compelling case for believing people are good

Rutger Bregman鈥檚 new book Humankind argues that people are innately good, and that if we assume this to be true, the whole world could benefit

Humans

Upload review: An odd afterlife where your brain is kept in the cloud

Health

Don’t miss: A Nobel prizewinner’s inside story of modern physics

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Tom Gauld on the benefits of wearing a lab coat

Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon

Twisteddoodles creates the Journal of Fairytale Research

Regulars

Can artificial intelligence solve our fiendish cryptic crossword?

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

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