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Bluetongue may infect fetuses to survive winter
How the sheep and cattle virus survives the cold season in northern Europe has been unclear 鈥� now it seems bluetongue may have a trick up its sleeve
News
Technology
Physicists slam publishers over Wikipedia ban
News
Health
Disease forecasts may be bad for your health
News
Humans
Discovery of tiny humans stirs ‘hobbit’ debate
News
Health
Gulf War syndrome linked to nerve gas
News
60 Seconds
News
Life
Space station gets an art studio
News
Health
GSK escapes prosecution over drug trial data
News
Health
Reprogrammed immune cells could fight disease
News
Physics
Dark matter theories vie to explain odd radiation
News
Soundbites
News
Health
Hijacked fetal enzyme helps cancers grow
News
Health
Killer wheat fungus threatens starvation for millions
News
Physics
Artificial event horizon generates Hawking radiation
News
Earth
Mediterranean’s ‘horror’ tsunami may strike again
News
Health
Every week counts for premature babies
News
Life
Drivers need a break every 80 minutes
News
Space
Saturn moon’s rings puzzle astronomers
News
Life
How wild asses became donkeys of the pharaohs
News
Life
Football fans and stadiums do not affect home wins
News
Life
Could we hear alien physics experiments?
News
Humans
Your height dictates how jealousy strikes
News
Life
Tropical ants use magnetic compass to get home
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Health
Supermarket sensor warns of pre-packed bugs
News
Technology
Robotic arm keeps wannabe drummers on track
News
Technology
Wiretapping moves into the wireless world
News
Life
Can conflict forecasts predict violence hotspots?
News
Technology
Long-range Wi-Fi threat to satellite communications
News
Technology
The right vibe gives planes a longer life
News
Opinion
Editorial: Time for a new agricultural revolution
Global food production is beset by problems 鈥� from disease to growing demand for grain 鈥� and it will take a concerted effort to head off a crisis
Opinion
Comment: Religious fund isn’t corrupting science
Opinion
Interview: Into Antarctica’s action zone
Opinion
Health
Perspectives: The flip side to multiple personalities
Opinion
Commentary: Work together, save the planet
Opinion
Features
Life
Do we read too much into our need for sleep?
We spend around a third of our lives doing it, so we assume sleep must be crucial for our survival. But that may not be the case, says Emma Young
Features
Technology
The future of television is online
Features
Technology
Next generation of video games will be mental
Features
Technology
Web 3.0: Playing it safe with our data
Features
Technology
How ‘citizen journalists’ are transforming the news
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Review: The Kingdom of Infinite Space by Raymond Tallis
There's much more to your head than just your mind, says Andrew Robinson
Books & Arts
Review: Risk: The science and politics of fear by Dan Gardner
Books & Arts
Review: The Great Warming: Climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations by Brian Fagan
Books & Arts
Review: The Oxford Companion to Cosmology by Andrew Liddle and Jon Loveday; Cosmology by Steven Weinberg
Books & Arts
Review: The Finger Book by John Manning
Books & Arts
