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Physics

Schr枚dinger’s kit: Tools that are in two places at once

Earth

Climate control: Is CO2 really in charge?

Health

Desperate measures: The lure of an autism cure

Life

Evolvability: How to cash in on the genetic lottery

Table of contents

News

Blinded eyes restored to sight by stem cells

The treatment brings hope to people with eyes blinded by chemical and heat burns

Health

For US healthcare, the only way is up

Earth

Ice shelf was kept intact by underwater ridge

Space

Asteroid hunters part-blinded by the military

Earth

Climate change is leaving us with extra space junk

60 Seconds

Earth

Hollow victory for Monsanto in alfalfa court case

Earth

Lose whaling loopholes, consider quotas

Physics

Mystery glitch? Blame it on the sun

Environment

Vital fruit and berry collection set for destruction

Life

Zoo plans to bring rare animals back from the dead

Life

The ups and downs of speech that we all understand

Physics

Sterile neutrino back from the dead

Health

Why losing a loved one can be lethal

Physics

Free-falling atoms will put relativity to the test

Health

Faulty internal clock linked to diabetes

Humans

Chimpanzees kill to win new territory

Health

Ovulation gives women’s brains a boost

Flores ‘hobbits’ weren’t malformed humans

Health

Brain origins of ‘blindsight’ revealed

Earth

Corals living on edge could escape climate change

Space

Stellar debris created the Honeycomb nebula

Physics

Frozen antiprotons bring antimatter within reach

Chicks count from left to right 鈥� just like us

Language skills enhance our ability to navigate

Technology

Wide-angle photos put in realistic perspective

Technology

Capacitors roll up for power on the nanoscale

Technology

Touchscreen made from biggest graphene sheet

Technology

Drone alone: how airliners may lose their pilots

Technology

Lizard-like robot can ‘swim’ through sand

Earth

Hot electrons could double solar cell efficiency

Earth

Second well on the way to cap Deepwater Horizon

Opinion

Health

Stop uncontrolled experiments on autistic children

Desperate parents turning to unorthodox treatments may expose their child to unknown dangers 鈥� but might something useful be salvaged from this?

Don’t be misled by chimps’ warlike ways

Massive implications of a ghostly little particle

Life

Artificial life: let the people decide

Health

Robb Fraley: Monsanto is a champion of healthy eating

Humans

Gorilla psychologists: Weird stuff in plain sight

Features

Physics

Schr枚dinger’s kit: Tools that are in two places at once

A new generation of tiny machines are in a super position to unlock the mysteries of quantum mechanics

Earth

Climate control: Is CO2 really in charge?

Health

Desperate measures: The lure of an autism cure

Life

Evolvability: How to cash in on the genetic lottery

More

Enigma Number 1601

Six intuitions you shouldn’t trust

Is Facebook taking over the world?

How our species owes its success to religion

When Egyptian plunder made Enlightenment propaganda

How an angler’s dream became an ecological nightmare

Regulars

Have you heard that pyridaben carbozole sound?

Many an iPod makes a mile, hole-nesting birds on Twitter, years of rigorous testing for computers, and our World Cup competition

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Topsy-turvy world

Bounce back

Tree healer

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