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Life

Crittervision: See like a bee

Environment

Crittervision: Turtles surf the magnetic ocean

Life

Crittervision: Enter the bat’s world of sound

Crittervision: What a dog’s nose knows

Environment

Crittervision: Heat-seeking snakes

Physics

Really dark matter: Is the universe made of holes?

Mind

Learning machines: The education of an animat

Health

Germ detectors: Unmasking our microbial foes

Table of contents

News

Extreme US weather: La Ni帽a or constipated jet stream?

Meteorologists are split on the causes of the Texas heat wave: La Ni帽a or a stuck jet stream?

Environment

US debates an end to medical research on chimps

Humans

Riot-ology: can science explain why riots spread?

Earth

Biggest UK oil spill for 10 years

Earth

Famine-struck Somalia faces cholera outbreak

60 Seconds

Rapid Arctic ice melt: humans and nature share blame

Health

Autism risk rises for siblings of autistic children

Environment

Reverse evolution: Chicken revisits its dinosaur past

Humans

Natural brain state is primed to learn

Physics

Bendy ‘plasmon’ beams focus better than light alone

Health

Brain’s synaptic pruning continues into your 20s

Life

RoboBee speaks honeybee dance language

Health

Experimental drug could defeat any virus

Health

Internet databases reveal new uses for old drugs

Earth

Warning: Killer fungi could run amok again

Physics

Lottery wins come easy, if you can spot the loopholes

Space

Moon may be 200 million years younger than thought

Life

Penguins don’t freeze, but they do get very, very cold

Physics

Need to block a coffee ring? Send in the torpedoes

Health

Brain cells protect themselves against stroke

Health

Electronic ‘tattoos’ to monitor vital signs

Earth

Foamy wakes cool the world, ships don’t

Physics

Black holes and pulsars could reveal extra dimensions

Environment

Plesiosaurs gave birth to big babies

Health

Artificial anal sphincter could limit bowel incontinence

Technology

Face recognition technology fails to find UK rioters

Environment

Nature’s unruly patterns unlocked with AI

Space

Space entrepreneurs may hold fate of ISS

Technology

Hirsute wetsuit lets swimmers go with the flow

Opinion

No need to fear rewinding evolution

Experiments to manipulate a chicken embryo to awaken the dinosaur within are in effect creating a "monster", but they can bring important advances too

Medicine should embrace diagnostic technology

Space

RIP shuttle 鈥� let’s get back to real space exploration

Health

Alternative medicine investigator: Placebos and platitudes

Physics

Game developer: Beware algorithms running your life

Aperture

Microkillers: A gallery of pestilence

They are microscopic, beautiful and deadly too. Organisms responsible for the demise of millions of people down the generations have been turned into art

Features

Life

Crittervision: See like a bee

Where you and I see flowers, bees see ultraviolet landing strips, and a lot more besides

Environment

Crittervision: Turtles surf the magnetic ocean

Life

Crittervision: Enter the bat’s world of sound

Crittervision: What a dog’s nose knows

Environment

Crittervision: Heat-seeking snakes

Physics

Really dark matter: Is the universe made of holes?

Mind

Learning machines: The education of an animat

Health

Germ detectors: Unmasking our microbial foes

Culture

The sounds of movement

In Harnessed, cognitive psychologist Mark Changizi suggests that language 鈥� and music 鈥� evolved to make use of our brain's pre-existing processing skills

The rise of the 150-year-olds?

A pair of maverick physicists

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Enigma Number 1660

Regulars

Feedback: Bottled bull

How to clean your cells from the inside out, the higher-dimensional theme park, Boston boiling, and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Think about it

Penalty tricks

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