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News

Earth

England’s homogenised woods are bad for biodiversity

The woodlands of lowland England are becoming less diverse, even though most woods contain just as many species as before.

Health

Painkillers are about to get safer

Health

Rushing through flu vaccine could halve doses

Head for Mars, say Apollo veterans

Running on empty, HIV breakthrough, and more

Copernicus gets his place on the periodic table

Life

Plants get a boost from love hormone

Trident nuclear missile programme in doubt

Earth

Controversial palm-oil plan may save the orang-utan

Eclipse sparks hunt for gravity oddity

Doctors missing consciousness in vegetative patients

Humans

Fathers aren’t dispensable just yet

“We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission”

Life

Migrating red crabs driven by sugar rush

Health

Fears over HIV vaccines laid to rest

How hippos skip along the riverbed

Life

Lazy gene favours adventurous choices

Artistic tendencies linked to ‘schizophrenia gene’

Earth

Light brings lakes to life

Space

Giant ‘soap bubble’ found floating in space

Physics

How to make ice melt at -180 掳C

Humans

Why children paint trees blue

Mystery methane belched out from megacities

Technology

Pizza chefs help cook up dexterous robots

Technology

Electronic tags track roaming hospital equipment

Space

How to glue together a lighter spacecraft

Health

Should you trust health advice from the web?

Health

Microwave weapon will rain pain from the sky

Life

Robotic insect ‘flight’ may be just good vibrations

Space

Race is on for space-junk alarm system

Environment

What you can do to help gorillas

Opinion

Year of the disappearing ape

The aims of the UN's initiative to protect the last gorillas are laudable 鈥� but they are a distraction from the pressing need for anti-poaching measures

The biology of fatherhood

Time to end the great Pluto debate

Earth

Comment: Why people don’t act on climate change

Earth

Craig Venter: Programming algae to pump out oil

Falling out of love with market myths

Features

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Scramjets promise space travel for all

An air-breathing hypersonic engine could make jetting into orbit as normal as flying across the Atlantic

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Perils of the professional lab rat

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Is Pluto a planet after all?

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Enigma of the 23-year-old baby

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