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News

What’s the point of the Mars500 mission?

Locking up people for a fake mission to Mars should illuminate the psychological changes real astronauts will undergo 鈥� but the project has its limits

Next challenge for space taxis: emergency escape

Environment

Global biodiversity estimate revised down

Health

US doctors accused of performing torture experiments

Earth

Protected forests burn more

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Earth

Snake populations plummet

Health

Game over for stem-cell clinic

Earth

Gulf leak: biggest spill may not be biggest disaster

Earth

Green machine: It’s your eco-friendly funeral

Life

Hints of life found on Saturn moon

Health

Gut bacteria may contribute to autism

Physics

Did a ‘sleeper’ field awake to expand the universe?

Life

How religion made Jews genetically distinct

Health

Paper trail: Inside the stem cell wars

Environment

Bulldog bats ‘honk’ when they meet a stranger

Physics

Did wobbly cosmic strings create huge explosions?

Life

Biblical bee-keepers picked the best bees

Humans

Mystery seafaring ancestor found in the Philippines

Physics

Bursting bubbles beget tiny copies of themselves

Health

I’m smiling, so I know you’re happy

Health

Later menopause for women with polycystic ovaries

Health

Cancer guardian found playing a role in sex

Technology

Carbon nanotubes create underwater sonar speakers

Humans

Stress detector can hear it in your voice

Environment

Forget noisy blimps鈥� say hello to the Airfish

Life

Computerised critics could find the music you’ll like

Technology

Radiation-soaking metamaterial puts black in the shade

Life

Phone sensor predicts when thoroughbreds will go lame

Technology

Deter quantum hackers by hiding the photon keys

Opinion

Lift the veil of secrecy over peer review

Vetting of research should be scrupulously fair 鈥� and seen to be so

Wake up dreaming to explore consciousness

Earth

Take the political heat out of climate scepticism

Earth

David de Rothschild: At sea in a soda-bottle boat

Matt Ridley: Optimism without limits

Features

Earth

What’s wrong with the sun?

Right now our nearest star should be flaring up as never before. But instead it's eerily calm 鈥� and we need to find out why

Humans

Want to find your mind? Learn to direct your dreams

Environment

Family values: Why wolves belong together

Earth

Wonderfuel: Welcome to the age of unconventional gas

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Enigma Number 1599

Birds as you’ve never seen them before

Oddball animal behaviour to amuse and disgust

In search of the gamer’s fix

What makes good doctors go bad?

Regulars

World Cup competition: what’s your excuse?

Pensionable life on Mars, how one man's colon had negative mass, and a courier company offers way too much information

This Week鈥檚 Letters

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Lice and clean

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