Humans
The outer limits of the human brain
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Health
Multi-drug ‘polypill’ finally to tackle heart problems
A long-mooted single, cheap tablet combining a slew of drugs that protect against heart disease and stroke is at last to be tested
News
Space
Is Mars lander standing in what was once a puddle?
News
Earth
Cities aren’t the only culprits in climate change
News
Earth
Everglades restoration bogged down by poor planning
News
Space
UN urged to coordinate killer asteroid defences
News
Health
Delinquent boys lack hormonal control
News
Earth
Tax credits promise brighter outlook for solar energy
News
60 Seconds
News
Humans
Could brain scans ever be safe evidence?
News
Health
African cities triggered the AIDS epidemic
News
Life
Were pterosaurs too big to fly?
News
Health
Transplanted frozen liver raises hopes of organ ‘bank’
News
Physics
Why nature can’t be reduced to mathematical laws
News
Life
What direction now for US space exploration?
News
‘I don’t think our kids are watching the space shuttle launches’
News
Life
Daughters thrive on mother’s pride
News
Earth
Discovery of world’s oldest rocks brew controversy
News
Life
Heroic ants give their lives to protect their colony
News
Health
A taste for scorpion venom could be cancer’s undoing
News
Health
‘Cancer-free’ stem cells hint at human therapies
News
Life
Maths helps bees read the waggle dance
News
Life
White meteorites from Mars may hide evidence of life
News
Space
Satellite galaxies cling onto their haloes
News
Technology
Rat brains show robots the way
News
Earth
Is Google gobbling up too much power?
News
Life
Web content contributors seek attention not altruism
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Technology
Repackaging data could ‘double internet speed’
News
Life
Videogame for flies lets them pilot a robot
News
Health
Hiding magnets in blood brings scans into focus
News
Opinion
Humans
Editorial: New lie detectors have yet to prove their worth
Using fMRI to detect a lie sounds seductive, but a lot more research needs to be done before the technology can safely be used in court
Opinion
Eleven things the next president should do for science
Opinion
Interview: Living a wild life
Opinion
Humans
Commentary: The marvellous mystery of mind
Opinion
Features
Humans
The outer limits of the human brain
How do the most gifted and talented brains stand out from the crowd? New 杏吧原创 discovers what grey matter is like at the outer limits of human achievement
Features
Earth
There’s gold in them there landfills
Features
Earth
Steam power takes to the road again
Features
Physics
Anyons: The breakthrough quantum computing needs?
Features
When concrete boxes were for healthy living
Features
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Gallery: Solargraphs show half a year of Sun
These pinhole photographs, exposed for six months, capture the journeys of the Sun from the winter to the summer solstice
Books & Arts
Review: Diagnosis: Mercury by Jane Hightower
Books & Arts
Review: Nature’s Blueprint by Dan Hooper
Books & Arts
Review: The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern by Keith Devlin
Books & Arts
Virtual bodies, real treatments
Careers
