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Restaurant smoking bans stop teens getting the habit
Such smoking bans don't just protect diners and staff from other people's smoke, they help stop young people becoming habitual smokers
News
Health
Stigma helps AIDS flourish in Russia
News
Earth
Food crisis may hamper Burmese relief effort
News
Physics
‘Heaviest element’ claim thrown into doubt
News
Life
Bizarre genetic makeup of the platypus revealed
News
Earth
Global warming spells bad news for tropical insects
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Cow’s milk may increase the risk of diabetes
News
Health
How child soldiers can adapt to life after war
News
Health
Why hip fat is good, but pot bellies are bad
News
Life
Sea creatures had a thing for bling
News
Soundbites
News
Space
Do we occupy a special place in the universe?
News
Health
Depressed dads affect their kids’ speech development
News
Earth
Fuel prices hit US drivers where it hurts
News
Earth
Ocean ‘deserts’ are increasing as planet warms
News
Earth
Why didn’t Earth freeze under faint young Sun?
News
Life
Birds must babble before they tweet
News
Health
Why Popeye may have been right about spinach
News
Life
Rats feel peer pressure too
News
Earth
Uranium-eating fungi could clean up battlefields
News
Space
Black hole trysts revealed by ultraviolet light
News
Health
Kids’ hospital hallucinations not just a bad dream
News
Health
Artificial mouth takes on chewy problem
News
Health
Living bandage heals damaged organs
News
Life
Scanning corpses reveals killer’s fingerprints
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Life
Safe websites let you embarrass people in high places
News
Technology
Smart cables help bridges bounce back after quakes
News
Opinion
Editorial: How to wreck a nation’s scientific credibility
A series of blunders and poor decisions over UK government funding of research into physics and astronomy has badly dented the nation's reputation as a scientific partner
Opinion
Editorial: Child soldiers are no ‘lost generation’
Opinion
Earth
Comment: A Green Revolution for Africa
Opinion
Interview: Hans Blix 鈥� the man who won’t give up
Opinion
Perspectives: Why humanity needs a God of creativity
Opinion
Commentary: The US should dismantle its nuclear weapons
Opinion
Features
Life
Eight ways to get exactly what you want
Winning people over is a key element of human interaction 鈥� from politics to marketing to everyday dealings with friends and family. New 杏吧原创 lifts the lid on the science of persuasion
Features
Health
How flickering light could replace rubber bullets
Features
Earth
Aboriginal hunters raise a stink over tainted whales
Features
Physics
Do we need to change the definition of science?
Features
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Review: Body Shopping by Donna Dickenson
From biotech firms to black-market dealers, it seems that everyone is out to profit from body parts
Books & Arts
Review: Microcosm by Carl Zimmer
Books & Arts
Health
Review: Head Cases by Michael Paul Mason
Books & Arts
Technology
Review: The Future of the Internet: And how to stop it by Jonathan Zittrain
Books & Arts
