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Physics

Slim and beautiful: Galaxies too good to be true

Life

Eight arms, big brain: What makes cephalopods clever

Earth

United plates of America: The making of a new world

Technology

The defenders: Inside an online siege

Table of contents

News

Tevatron’s mystery signal grows stronger with more data

In April, physicists reported seeing hints of a new particle in data from the collider's CDF experiment 鈥� now even more data shows the signal is still there

Climate squeeze could wipe out vital crops

Health

$6 billion needed to save 7.4 million people with HIV

Earth

Fukushima fallout greater than thought

Skin cancer treatment: Biggest breakthrough in 30 years

Health

Big pharma offers cut-price vaccines to poor children

60 Seconds

Health

Cellphones are ‘possibly’ carcinogenic

Health

Beyond antibiotics: A new way to fight superbugs

Health

Stem cell therapy wasn’t unfair help for baseball star

Health

Slow-moving Alzheimer’s can buy people more time

Physics

Heaviest elements yet join periodic table

Earth

‘Sustainable’ timber is not always what it seems

Space

Meet the league of extraordinary supernovae

Physics

Erase entangled memory to cool a computer

Earth

Wired Californian forests to guide response to climate

Space

Small galaxies may only give birth to small stars

Earth

Fluorescent fish glows to show feminising chemicals up

Earth

Nano-foam could plug underground CO2 leaks

Earth

Weather records predict future cholera outbreaks

Health

Proteins protect against heart attack

Physics

New super-dense forms of carbon outshine diamond

Earth

Farmers were genetic breeders 10,000 years ago

Health

Mouse virus doesn’t cause chronic fatigue syndrome

Earth

Software simulator tracks undersea noise pollution

Space

China starts building world’s biggest radio telescope

Technology

One Per Cent

Earth

Hybrid cars give flywheels a spin

Technology

Unicycle robot keeps its balance while standing still

Opinion

The real problem of Bartolo Col贸n’s stem cell therapy

The furore over the baseball player's treatment misses a wider point 鈥� researchers should be carrying out trials of this therapy, not relying on athletic guinea pigs

More rights for cephalopods

The cyber-enemy at the gate

Earth

Forget Mother Nature: This is a world of our making

Robin Ince: Who needs religion?

A field guide to bullshit

Aperture

Bolivia’s stunning salt flats

Beneath the mirror-like surface of Salar de Uyuni lies an untapped resource that could one day power our laptops and electric cars

Features

Physics

Slim and beautiful: Galaxies too good to be true

Pristine spiral galaxies are some of the most stunning sights in the night sky 鈥� so perfect that they have cosmologists scratching their heads

Life

Eight arms, big brain: What makes cephalopods clever

Technology

The defenders: Inside an online siege

Earth

United plates of America: The making of a new world

Culture

Whales in close-up

In Among Giants, "Flip" Nicklin takes you on a genial tour of his enviable career as a free-diving wildlife photographer

Why the universe wasn’t fine-tuned for life

A stem cell retrospective

Of astronauts and artists: The romance of space flight

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Enigma Number 1650

Regulars

Feedback: Flying faeces in the lab

The endless fascination of turd-kicking grasshoppers, a dangerous god seized by police in south London, Beethoven's posthumous oeuvre, and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Blind to the truth?

Coloured snow

The end of the line

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