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Earth

Huge sea level rises are coming 鈥� unless we act now

Life

Superhuman: what gives elite athletes the edge?

Space

Mars: What flows beneath

Health

Histories: The man who mended hearts

Table of contents

News

Space

Moon and Mars robots in Arctic tests

NASA tries out the next generation of survey robots in the Canadian Arctic

Space

Space station crew dump trash overboard

Health

Cot death controversy reopened

Life

Bold scheme to save rare seabirds

Life

Vital rainforest experiment under threat

Health

Libya sends foreign medics home

60 Seconds

Health

‘Cancer drug’ site shut down

Earth

Building for a cooler planet

Soundbites

Earth

Global warming is changing the world’s rain

Health

Human skin to replace animal tests

Space

Our local black hole may have a baby brother

Health

Blocking insulin may curb Alzheimer’s

This week 50 years ago

Health

Vaccine could halt deadly amoeba in its tracks

Technology

Insight: Where not to build nuclear power stations

Earth

Iodine enters the climate-change mix

Health

Less pain is more gain for gym junkies

Health

Spontaneous mutation may explain autism puzzle

Health

Vaccine stops ovarian cancer coming back

Earth

Earth’s crust is just like pizza dough

Life

Dinosaurs’ slow rise to world domination

Environment

Ravenous jumbo squid take to California

Technology

Trick of light advances quantum computing

Technology

Gizmo

Technology

Number-cruncher kills off checkers

Technology

Man takes on machine at poker

Technology

Cheap microphones listen for landmines

Technology

Evolutionary algorithms now surpass human designers

Technology

Cheap ‘polymer’ opal could fight fake currency

Life

Womb-on-a-chip may boost IVF successes

Opinion

Health

Editorial: A gene for restless legs?

Uncritical reporting of medical research may have played into drug companies' hands

Comment: Don’t vote for scientific ignorance

Technology

Interview: The shape of android robots to come

Features

Earth

Huge sea level rises are coming 鈥� unless we act now

NASA physicist James Hansen explains why he thinks a sea level rise of several metres is a near certainty if greenhouse gas emissions keep increasing unchecked

Life

Superhuman: what gives elite athletes the edge?

Space

Mars: What flows beneath

Health

Histories: The man who mended hearts

More

Earth

Second sight: An early geological map of Scotland

Geologist John MacCulloch produced a splendid map of Scotland in the 1830s, but never lived to see it published

Physics

Review: How Mathematicians Think by William Byers

Technology

Review: Glut by Alex Wright

Review: Mind, Life and Universe

Physics

The word: Silicon balls

Regulars

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This Week鈥檚 Letters

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Ice vines

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