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Technology

Art-ificial: The virtual virtuosos redefining creativity

Physics

ESP evidence airs science’s dirty laundry

Physics

Superstuff: When quantum goes big

Earth

Roaming quakes: is New York or London due a big one?

Table of contents

News

Health

UK politicians say take two alcohol-free days a week

People should give their liver a chance to recover by not drinking alcohol for two days each week, suggests a new report

Exhaustive search solves fiendish Sudoku mystery

Health

FDA bans some 鈥� but not all 鈥� farmyard antibiotics

Physics

Largest dark matter map holds clues to dark energy

Doctor linking MMR vaccine and autism sues critics

Earth

Last year costliest on record for natural disasters

60 Seconds

Earth

Fracking risk is exaggerated

Physics

Why physicists can’t avoid a creation event

Physics

Naked black-hole hearts live in the fifth dimension

Health

One mistake away from a worldwide flu pandemic

Before DNA, before RNA: Life in the hodge-podge world

Health

Hormone can mimic effects of a good workout

How DNA contamination can affect court cases

Health

Gold nano ‘ears’ set to listen in on cells

Earth

Mystery of the moving Antarctic lakes

Health

MS damage washed away by stream of young blood

Health

Blood test on mother detects fetus’s sex at five weeks

Life

Budgies find yawns irresistible too

Environment

First plant to use buried leaves to catch worms found

Space

Milky Way brims with planets

Health

Retina cell growth measured by lasers

Environment

Lizards may be made smarter by warming world

Physics

Thinnest silicon-chip wires refuse to go quantum

Technology

Wristband plugs you into smart buildings

Technology

Learn a language, translate the web

Technology

Software could spot face-changing criminals

Technology

Bitcoin online currency gets new job in web security

Technology

Loud-mouthed Wi-Fi devices could use sound to connect

Technology

Kopimism: the world’s newest religion explained

Opinion

Health

We need to fix the holey biosafety net

Research into lethal flu should not have got so far without scrutiny

Physics

The Genesis problem

Remember Scott’s legacy of Antarctic science

Humans

Into the mind of a Neanderthal

Aperture

Sounding out the sky

Features

Physics

Superstuff: When quantum goes big

In the coldest labs in the universe, bucketfuls of liquid flow uphill and solids pass through one another

Earth

Roaming quakes: is New York or London due a big one?

Physics

ESP evidence airs science’s dirty laundry

Technology

Art-ificial: The virtual virtuosos redefining creativity

Culture

Trying to make the cosmos out of nothing

A Universe From Nothing: Why there is something rather than nothing by Lawrence Krauss is an excellent guide to new physics; less good on theology

Algorithm engines of the networked world

Looking inside medics’ minds

Plastic surgeons: the 21st century’s portrait artists

How many languages can one person speak?

More

Happy and you know it

Over the past decade, the science of happiness has gone from the preserve of philosophers and self-help gurus to a bona fide academic discipline

The happiness equation 鈥� the making of a satisfied scientist

Words from the wise: Jenny Rohn

Words from the wise: Andre Geim

Words from the wise: Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Words from the wise: Chris Bishop

Enigma Number 1680

Regulars

Feedback: Come back and take this hurt off me

Miracle cures from welfare bureaucrats, when speech recognition goes bad, thrifty homeopaths, and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Hang on lads鈥�

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