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Never ending story

Infinity upstaged

How does the brain “think big”?

The regeneration game

The head from Worsley Moss

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News

Stunting growth harms fertility

Women given hormones as children to restrict their growth are twice as likely to suffer infertility and many wish they had never been treated

Curvy shape is key to silencing sonic booms

Alarm over acidifying oceans

Misplaced optimism has delayed recovery of cod

Patients’ lawsuit is a ‘threat to science publishing’

Spin trick sets new record

Dispatches

Soundbites

Historic storms live again

Paper comes alive

Did a gamma-ray burst devastate life on Earth?

Traffic plan for Venice rules the waves

Technology

Random data reveals viruses

Technology

Smart theft protection

Technology

Web divorce cuts out lawyers

Indian firm creates hybrids with a twist

Same genes behind different disorders

Underwater wings could give tidal power a flying start

Where are all the giants?

Dispute over test for toxic shock syndrome

Life

Instant evolution

Life

Relic hints at primal force

Life

Life in a ball of fat

Life

Vital clues from Europa

Hungry killer whales snack on smaller prey

Farming came naturally

Bend it like Einstein

Wise old big-heads

Mend a broken heart

Escape route

Opinion

A nation of sceptics

More knowledge alone won't persuade the UK on genetic modification

What cost a few extra centimetres?

Just following orders?

The numbers game

Humans

Washington diary

Features

Never ending story

As far as we know, nothing in the universe is truly infinite 鈥� not even the universe itself. And yet infinity is a concept that we can't do without. Why is it so important, and can our brains ever grasp it? How do writers attempt to convey its power

Infinity upstaged

How does the brain “think big”?

The regeneration game

The head from Worsley Moss

More

The way we were

Francis Pryor has spent much of his working life in the Bronze Age site, Flag Fen. Barry Cunliffe considers his account of Ireland and Britain before the Romans

Down below

Bestsellers – Amsterdam

Nobel treasure trove

Earthy delights

Space rocks

Opportunity knocks

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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