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We were meant to be鈥�

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News

Flawed water tests put millions at risk

Throughout Bangladesh, people are drinking contaminated water from wells that international screening programmes have wrongly declared safe

‘Wonky holes’ blamed for coral death

Technology

Twins raise ruckus

Coffee may ward off diabetes

More proof that MMR jab is safe

Dispatches

Soundbites

Bees buzz elephants

Computing’s dirty little secret is finally revealed

A faster, better, cheaper way to probe space failures

Technology

Anything to declare?

Have we got it horribly wrong?

Byzantine church gives up the secret of its longevity

It’s dress-down time for nuclear workers

Our Sun’s full glory is revealed

Fake targets fool hackers

Faster chips on the way as silicon learns to run on beams of light

We hear that鈥�

When cystitis might be good news鈥�

Antarctic neutrino trap comes with superstrings attached

Technology

Rolling back the years?

Technology

Sound repairs

Technology

Bring on the hurricane

Nice notes, shame about the glue

Why rocks off Red Planet are so young

Humans

Hidden risks of infant surgery

Humans

Watching dementia through young eyes

Humans

Don’t forget to feed your body clock

Bison bones

Galactic powerhouse

No mind over matter

A whiff of the reef

Why you’re hardly ever blue in the tropics

Head-to-toe migraine

Opinion

Who is the greatest of them all?

Let them eat vitamins

Birds, bees and laser beams

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

We were meant to be鈥�

If you think human intelligence is unique, think again. Its evolution on Earth was inevitable and it may have sprung up all over the Universe, argues Simon Conway Morris

My best friend’s a robot

Now you see it鈥�

Full of goodness

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The must-read list

How many of this year's science books have you had time to read? Don't worry, there's still time to catch up with some of the very best, says Maggie McDonald

Booklist

Y: The descent of men by Steve Jones

A galaxy of images

Fast forward

Deep in time

The straight story

The games people play

Unsung heroes

Leonardo’s Laptop: Human needs and the new computing technologies by Ben Shneiderman

Look up

Ascent of a man

Dear diary鈥�

Darling Dodo

Booklist

Fields of Battle edited by Peter Doyle and Matthew Bennett

Larger than life

Booklist

Child’s play

You are here

Charles Darwin: The Power of Place by Janet Browne (2002)

Regulars

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The last word

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