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Unseen universe: What bigger, better vision will see

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Unseen universe: Tuning into the deep space channel

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What’s in a name? The words behind thought

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Why wartime wrecks are slicking time bombs

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Junkie food: Tastes your brain can’t resist

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News

Health

Swine flu drug in narcolepsy probe

Fifteen children in Finland were diagnosed with narcolepsy after receiving swine flu vaccine 鈥� but it could have occurred by chance

Earth

Climate panel must ‘fundamentally reform’ to survive

Earth

New Orleans: Are the new defences tough enough?

Health

Can US Congress overturn stem-cell funding freeze?

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Space

Two Chinese satellites rendezvous in orbit

Health

Psychoactive drugs: From recreation to medication

Physics

Void that is truly empty solves dark energy puzzle

Humans

Tortoise banquet: Remains of the oldest feast found

Humans

Why your brain flips over visual illusions

Physics

Weird water lurking inside giant planets

‘Brain training’ may just hide symptoms of dementia

Life

How animals evolved personalities

Health

Oxytocin fails ‘trust elixir’ test

Life

Tobacco plants outsmart hungry caterpillars

Earth

Second super-fast flip of Earth’s poles found

Physics

Trojan asteroids make planetary scientist lose sleep

Space

Tilting stars may explain backwards planets

Health

Collagen corneas restore damaged sight

Technology

LED-studded skirt makes a bright fashion statement

Earth

Mobile chargers could keep electric cars juiced up

Technology

Shape-shifting robot compensates for damaged limb

Technology

Tech heavyweights set to move music to the cloud

Technology

Smart USB speakers pump up the volume from laptops

Technology

Computer games may be spawning reckless drivers

Health

Nano-engineered cotton promises to wipe out water bugs

Opinion

Time for Rajendra Pachauri to go

The departure of the IPCC head might give sceptics a propaganda coup but would strengthen the body in the long run

Defuse this oil time bomb

Health

What can deliver snakebite medicine where it’s needed?

Technology

Robot car passenger: On the road to China, no driver

Life

The natural selection of leaders

Features

Unseen universe: What bigger, better vision will see

New space observatories, huge earthbound telescopes and a continent-sized radio array will probe the origins of stars, elements and the universe itself

Unseen universe: Hot, violent, high-energy happenings

Unseen universe: Window on cosmic maternity wards

Unseen universe: Tuning into the deep space channel

Humans

What’s in a name? The words behind thought

Earth

Why wartime wrecks are slicking time bombs

Health

Junkie food: Tastes your brain can’t resist

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Enigma Number 1611

Fighting back against neurosexism

The cloud-shaped future of life online

Forgotten heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters

How calculus will beat the zombies

Regulars

Whirling water forgets its nasty past

Crystals that make water pure 鈥� yes, homeopathically pure 鈥� how to know a website by the ads it keeps, quantum detergent, and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

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Watermelon weirdness

Penalty tricks

Curdled coffee

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