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Physics

Is quantum theory weird enough for the real world?

Earth

Pee is for power: Your electrifying excretions

Space

Start-up enterprise: Launching the new space race

Table of contents

News

Alzheimer’s test: the real benefits

A highly accurate Alzheimer's test seems too good to be true 鈥� does it highlight a desperation for early diagnosis?

Earth

Race to save Pakistan’s agriculture

Environment

Autism explosion half explained, half still a mystery

Physics

Flawed proof ushers in era of wikimath

60 Seconds

Space

‘Swiss-army knife’ telescope tops astronomers’ wish list

Space

NASA mulls sending part of space station to an asteroid

Physics

Closing in on the inflaton, mother of the universe

Life

How DNA evidence creates victims of chance

Earth

Deep blue oceans spawn fewer tropical storms

Life

The genetical evolution of chimp culture

Life

Found: World’s oldest animal fossils

Life

Misconduct probe in Harvard animal morality lab

Physics

Atom images raise quantum computer hopes

Earth

Great Barrier Reef’s great-grandmother is unearthed

Health

Killer T-cells, the fix for organ rejection?

Physics

Lasers could make virtual particles real

Earth

Horned turtles butchered to extinction

Physics

Hydrogen bonds are caught on camera

Life

You don’t need brothers or sisters to be sociable

Space

Milky Way magnets solve cosmic ray conundrum

Health

Mystery of most common contact allergy solved

Technology

Lung-style fuel cell needs less bling for more oomph

Earth

Green machine: Fighting the efficiency fallacies

Health

Laser sets quail embryos’ hearts racing

Technology

Online games are a gold mine for design ideas

Earth

The next best thing to oil

Physics

First gold-iron alloy shows power of magnetic attraction

Physics

Acoustic archaeology: The secret sounds of Stonehenge

Opinion

Introducing CultureLab

Our blog has been so successful that we want to introduce it to the magazine

Harvard misconduct probe: the price of secrecy

Life

Don’t stand in the way of genomes for all

Environment

Orang-utan psychologist: Watching the ape pantomime

Features

Physics

Is quantum theory weird enough for the real world?

Our most successful theory of nature is bewilderingly remote from reality. But fixing that may require a weirder theory still

Earth

Pee is for power: Your electrifying excretions

Space

Start-up enterprise: Launching the new space race

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Enigma Number 1609

Artificial ape man: How technology created humans

How astrocoders have mapped the universe

The hokum and hubris of geoengineering our climate

Rubella epidemic stories warn us why vaccines matter

Regulars

Will this wash?

Serious dishwashing, a superconductor you can afford, and the surprisingly scarcity of Kindle-in-the-toilet stories

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