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Physics

Ultimate logic: To infinity and beyond

Life

Patchwork people: Our hybrid origins

Humans

Don’t get smart: The curse of knowledge

Technology

Smartphone surveillance: The cop in your pocket

Table of contents

News

Space

Water-scouting probe to take off for Jupiter

The planet should be full of water, but a probe that dropped into its atmosphere in 1995 found little 鈥� NASA's Juno mission should settle the matter

‘Predict your death’ longevity paper retracted

Physics

Highs and lows in first year of data from the LHC

Life

Next Mars rover will climb a mountain

Environment

Canadian cod make a comeback

Earth

Warming Arctic releases frozen organic air pollutants

60 Seconds

Health

Peanut butter to the rescue in Somalia famine?

Health

Delirium in hospital can be a killer for the elderly

Earth

Earth’s time bombs may have killed the dinosaurs

Life

Redefining hydrogen bonds, the givers of life

Space

Earth stalker found in eternal twilight

Health

IVF success rates boosted by a bed of nails

Environment

Archaeopteryx knocked off its perch as first bird

Health

Daily drug restores sight to hereditary blind

Health

Anti-addiction drugs face more than medical issues

Physics

‘Fluid cloak’ to help submarines leave no wake

Environment

Meerkat-like tayras invest in fruit futures

Mind

Lost memory function reversed in old monkeys

Health

Bacterial bioshield could keep HIV at bay

Health

Dim polar light drove humans to evolve larger eyes

Space

Fourth moon discovered around Pluto

Earth

Antarctica rising as ice caps melt

Environment

Electric dolphins: cetaceans with a seventh sense

Physics

Archimedean molecule creates brand new compounds

Health

Male infertility linked to protein invisibility cloak

Technology

3D printing: The world’s first printed plane

Technology

3D printing: A quick guide to the printable world

Technology

3D printing: Build your crazy robot ideas at home

Technology

3D printing: The technology that changes everything

Technology

3D printing: Game add-on makes Minecraft edifices real

Opinion

Environment

We shouldn’t mourn the demotion of Archaeopteryx

The fossil's reclassification from bird to dinosaur shows that science is still doing what it does best: revising cherished ideas in light of new evidence

Welcome to the complicated human family

Technology to sniff out terrorists’ work

Earth

The carbon cost of Germany’s nuclear ‘Nein danke!’

Life

Susan Greenfield: Living online is changing our brains

Life

Better mousetraps? Beware simple history

Aperture

Treehoppers put obsolete genetics to fashionable use

The cunningly shaped "helmets" that treehoppers carry on their backs are worthy of a royal wedding 鈥� and have an unexpected origin

Features

Physics

Ultimate logic: To infinity and beyond

The mysteries of infinity could lead us to a fantastic structure above and beyond mathematics as we know it

Life

Patchwork people: Our hybrid origins

Humans

Don’t get smart: The curse of knowledge

Technology

Smartphone surveillance: The cop in your pocket

Culture

Sculpting shapes that don’t exist

In his work, artist Tony Cragg explores the places that occupy the emptiness between our everyday objects

Were the best world leaders mentally ill?

Drowning in milk

How stamps got an astronaut fired

Playing God with the planet

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Enigma Number 1657

Regulars

Feedback: Cars that go clippetty clop

Sounds that satisfy, cosmic aspirations of parcel delivery company, fruitloopery of the week, and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Ant architects

No skidding

Sultry nights

Unmusical scale

Which way to go?

Plane thinking

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