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Humans

D茅j脿 vu: Where fact meets fantasy

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Arctic meltdown is a threat to humanity

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Can fractals make sense of the quantum world?

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Megaconservation: Saving wildernesses on a giant scale

Table of contents

News

‘Wasted’ wells fail to solve Africa’s water problems

Drilling wells and leaving them without basic maintenance means millions are still without clean water, claims a major report

Gloves come off in race to find the Higgs

Life

Texas creation vote hangs in the balance

Space

Speculation mounts over North Korean missiles

Great lakes lessen, and more

Carbon-sink experiment sunk by hungry crustaceans

Bush ban on morning-after pill is reversed

Red and processed meat linked to early death

Health

Special investigation: How my genome was hacked

Neutron tracks revive hopes for cold fusion

“In India we see four people travelling by motorbike. I thought they could travel more safely by car.”

Coral colony as old as the pyramids

‘Dark side’ of cancer drugs brings hope of cure

Humans

Spanking ‘brings couples together’

Space

Giant ice flows bolster case for volcanoes on Titan

Algal blooms’ lingering toxicity explained

Life

Deteriorating home life puts kids at risk

Space

Alien world created star’s odd twinkle

Health

Morphing liquid could lead to cancer breath test

Humans

Our complex brains thrive on the edge of chaos

Earth

Volcano plumes spin up a storm

Health

Artificial ‘baby butter’ accelerates healing

Longer summers are killing Mediterranean corals

Technology

Robots could flex nanotube ‘muscles’

Technology

Battlefield lasers move a step closer

Earth

Rare animals to feature on Google Earth

Space

How to save the world from an asteroid impact

Technology

Vibrating touch screen puts Braille at the fingertips

Technology

F1 cars get a power boost, but at what risk?

Opinion

Time for laws on genome spies

In the excited rush to develop personal genomics, issues of privacy have been left behind

Climate crunch warning

Grizzly crossing

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Health

Realities of boozing are tough to swallow

Health

Science is back in the driving seat

Media distortion damages both science and journalism

Features

Humans

D茅j脿 vu: Where fact meets fantasy

The feeling that history is repeating itself is one of the weirdest sensations a healthy human can have 鈥� it also offers clues about how we understand what is real

Earth

Arctic meltdown is a threat to humanity

Physics

Can fractals make sense of the quantum world?

Earth

Megaconservation: Saving wildernesses on a giant scale

More

Enigma Number 1538

Humans

Review: Supersense by Bruce M. Hood

Review: Animal Investigators by Laurel A. Neme

Space

Review: The Georgian Star by Michael D. Lemonick

Review: Shapes by Philip Ball

Regulars

Feedback

This week's Feedback reveals that a tyre's fragrance is as important as its grip, why the US navy can't give old stealth ships away, and why you can only post heavy books to the Irish Republic

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Husky envy

Net rage

It’s a dog’s life

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