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Life

Man’s best friends: How animals made us human

Space

Into the breeches: A makeover for Longitude’s villain

Humans

Mind readers: Eavesdropping on your inner voice

Humans

Bike to the drawing board

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News

Gr铆msv枚tn volcano spews more ash than Eyjafjallaj枚kull

The Gr铆msv枚tn volcano in Iceland is spewing ash into the stratosphere 鈥� it's a bigger eruption than Eyjafjallaj枚kull but the threat to flights is lower

Earth

China’s hydropower proponents unfazed by Three Gorges

Technology

Twitter forces rethink on English privacy law

Earth

Deforestation rises as Brazil debates protection laws

60 Seconds

Life

Is a mutated fungus killing American bats?

Technology

Faster laser promises cheaper data transmission

Health

America celebrates top 10 health advances

Earth

Reshaping the Mississippi for a warmer future

Earth

Zoologger: Clone army steals genes from other species

Space

Milky Way faces midlife crisis

Earth

African land grab could lead to future water conflicts

Life

Brain scans reveal why some people feel your pain

Health

Call to delay judgement on cellphone brain cancer risk

Health

Skin ‘cast’ helps wounds heal with minimal scarring

Humans

First images from Great Pyramid’s chamber of secrets

Limbless turtle embryos move to egg hotspot

Life

Llama muck and maize revolution drove Inca success

Earth

Liquid crystals could detect contaminated water

Life

Early mammals were brainy and nosy

Space

Birthplace of ‘hot Neptunes’ revealed

Health

Cross your arms to relieve pain

Physics

Ultracold measurements reveal shape of the electron

Health

Gene for tooth enamel could prevent decay

Health

Could milk get ultraviolet treatment?

Technology

Digital human actors set to break into the big time

Technology

One Per Cent

Earth

Wind power harnesses the energy of galloping

Opinion

Let the mind-reading begin

The benefits of technology that can translate thoughts into words are too great to ignore

Mississippi delta blues

Lights, computer, action!

Earth

Time to wave the green-spangled banner

Earth

Nuclear inspector: What we can learn from Fukushima

Earth

Elephant expert: Busting myths of Nature’s masterpiece

Aperture

Missouri tornado death toll is highest for 50 years

The tornado that carved a 10-kilometre path through south-western Missouri on 22 May left a massive trail of death and destruction in its wake

Features

Life

Man’s best friends: How animals made us human

Our bond with animals goes far deeper than food and companionship, argues Pat Shipman: it drove our ancestors to develop tools and language

Space

Into the breeches: A makeover for Longitude’s villain

Humans

Mind readers: Eavesdropping on your inner voice

Humans

Bike to the drawing board

Culture

Intel anthropologist: Fieldwork with the silicon tribe

Anthropologist Genevieve Bell gives the chip maker insight into how people experience new technologies

Putting illness on an exhaustive map

Lost giants of the Pleistocene

The prison of our beliefs and how to escape it

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Enigma Number 1648

Regulars

Feedback: Norse god has a day of his own

Why there's nothing wrong with Tue's night, a nine-dimensional bathtub, anachronistic charades, and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Stream of consciousness

Wet weather problem

Audio stream

Rotor imbalance

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