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Ice on fire: The next fossil fuel

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Building a crash-proof internet

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News

Earth

Africa alone could feed the world

The doom-mongers may have got it wrong, there is enough land to produce the food needed to feed a growing population, reports say 鈥� and most of it is in Africa

New York researchers can pay for human eggs

Physics

Cool short cut could speed LHC restart

Pets play role in superbug spread

US refuses prisoners right to DNA tests

Stone Age flute, Cocaine subs, and more

Wind power could supply world’s electricity

Earth

Debate heats up over long-term climate forecasts

Technology

Bombers vs verifiers: A nuclear race worth winning

Physics

Statistics hint at fraud in Iranian election

“The physics of the first kiss were off. I knew where I needed to be, but it was hard to reconcile the differences”

Health

The genetic secrets of younger-looking skin

Space

In search of NASA’s next rocket

Language may be key to theory of mind

Earth

Biofuels could clean up Chernobyl ‘badlands’

Why great white sharks are like serial killers

Earth

Sun leaves Earth wide open to cosmic rays

Gangster leaning is in your genes

Giant sperm go back at least 100 million years

Space

Mars may hide secret water table

Health

Transplant drug turns traitor to tackle viruses

Life

Dinosaur demise brought the rise of the elephants

Brain sees tools as limb extension

Technology

Laser weapon dazzles but doesn’t blind

Technology

Taxibot could save airlines billions

Earth

Chicken feathers could make cheap hydrogen store

Health

Physios recommend a healthy dose of gaming

Technology

Triple-engined car could smash land-speed record

Health

Cryogenic chips could end IVF mix-ups

Opinion

A paradoxical cure for fossil fuel junkies

A new source of carbon could curb greenhouse emissions, but only if it is used sensibly

No hiding place for electoral cheats

Pirates ahoy!

Earth

Methane controls before risky geoengineering, please

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Finding a fair price for free knowledge

Features

Earth

Ice on fire: The next fossil fuel

Methane trapped in sub-marine ice and permafrost could possibly fuel the world for hundreds of years 鈥� but there's an explosive snag

Humans

Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain

Technology

Building a crash-proof internet

Physics

Solar ghosts may haunt Earth’s radioactive atoms

Earth

Surf’s up: Learning to forecast the waves

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