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All in the mind?

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News

NASA prepares to boldly go

Science, not politics, will be the new launch pad for human space exploration. It's a grand vision, but it will need technology and funding to become a reality

Radiation risks unclear

Cancer cell study deepens fears over cellphone safety

Dispatches

Tree farms won’t save us after all

Soundbites

Keep an eye on the MSG

杏吧原创s condemn river reversal plan

Technology

Health

Plague on a national icon

Hopes are revived for CJD drug

It’s hard to predict Leonids if Jupiter gets in the way

Old Macdonald makes a GM pig

Viruses meet their mismatch

A hot tip for tough jobs 鈥� use a microwave drill

Oil spills show they can stick around

Disease bugs will thrive when the smog closes in

Cool glove stops tired athletes ‘hitting the wall’

Plastics recycler takes all sorts

It’s only the really big asteroid impacts that are a threat to life on Earth

Cells given lessons in how to fight cancer

Technology

Classy videos

Technology

Happy snaps

Technology

Sticky fingers

Sea lion scores top marks in memory test

We hear that鈥�

Stop the bleeding

The future of food

Insulin boost

Message in the mud

Dino defenders

Chinese hooked on myth of dragon child

Opinion

Signs of life?

It might be deep in crisis but NASA still has big plans for the future

Crying out for answers

Written in the dust

The word cirrus

Humans

Washington diary

Features

Ghost in the atom

It started as a routine experiment, but the outcome has cast doubt on our ideas about atomic nuclei. Eugenie Samuel investigates the strange tale of the tetraneutron

Sugar rush

Health

All in the mind?

Who are we?

More

Deadly skills

And the winners are

From cookiecutters to megamouths

Bestsellers – Online

Stars behind bars

On the brink

Physics for a new age

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