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Life

First life: The search for the first replicator

Physics

Star power: Small fusion start-ups aim for break-even

Physics

Datacasting: What will you buy tomorrow?

Earth

Future funerals: What a way to go

Table of contents

News

Weeds acquire genes from engineered crops

Genetically modified canola weeds scavenging extra resistance genes is a reminder that genes do get around

Space

NASA bets on metal hydrogen and cosmic gas stations

Humans

London unrest: UK’s first networked riots

Boeing selects Atlas V rocket for space taxi service

60 Seconds

Physics

‘Haircuts’ identified as a cause of financial crisis

Earth

Prized sashimi tuna bred in captivity for first time

Humans

Reality check: Why dreams aren’t what they seem

Physics

Time need not end in the multiverse

Health

How Muslims can win Olympic gold during Ramadan

Health

Sex on the brain: What turns women on, mapped out

Humans

Stone Age toe could redraw human family tree

Space

Mars rover reaches rim of vast, ancient crater

Earth

Your faeces, my furry friend, are blowin’ in the wind

Life

Monkeys did not gain big brains by shrinking guts

Health

Building new faces from stem cells in the ear

Life

Mental abacus does away with words

Optical cloaks hide objects in broad daylight

Health

Lost the plot? The contraceptive pill might help

Life

Bacterial ‘wires’ an electronic dream

Health

Rare genetic mutation explains lack of fingerprints

Technology

US internet providers hijacking users’ search queries

Technology

Wire robot yanks your golf game into shape

Technology

Smartphone jiggles reveal your private data

Technology

4G crunch: Ultrafast mobile internet still snarled up

Technology

Home-made drone to help phone and Wi-Fi hackers

Opinion

Ecology could teach economists a thing or two

The latest financial crisis shows that we have still not learned all the lessons of the credit crunch

Hijacking web searches for cash threatens net success

Competition will fuel the nuclear fusion quest

Earth

The end of the road for motormania

Health

Whistle-blowing doctor: My fight to speak the truth

Humans

How to size up the people in your life

Aperture

Beyond Room 101: The hyperaggressive rat

In 1972, an experiment in domestication 鈥� and its opposite 鈥� began in the Soviet Union. See how far they've got today

Features

Life

First life: The search for the first replicator

Life must have begun with a simple molecule that could reproduce itself 鈥� and now we think we know how to make one. Michael Marshall reports

Physics

Star power: Small fusion start-ups aim for break-even

Physics

Datacasting: What will you buy tomorrow?

Earth

Future funerals: What a way to go

Culture

Science straight from the source

Future Science, Max Brockman's latest collection of essays by frontier researchers, is both thrilling and bewildering

Hacking the system, because he could

Astonishing stories of astronomy

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Enigma Number 1659

Regulars

Feedback: Myriad malfunctioning metaphors

Meticulously crafted imperfections everywhere you look, the British government's orgone adviser, amphibious cars, and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Cool bugs

Flower power

I’m not tired

The big chill

Sticky stuff

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