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Health

Are you going too far in your quest to keep well?

Health

Everyday drugs: Are we taking too many preventive pills?

Health

Everyday drugs: The great statins debate

Health

Everyday drugs: The truth about testosterone

Health

Everyday drugs: The rise and fall of HRT

Health

Everyday drugs: Problems with the pill

Health

Everyday drugs: What’s the latest on aspirin?

Health

Everyday drugs: 7 you should know about

Life

Martian Magna Carta: Justice and freedom on the final frontier

Environment

Chainsaw sharks: The plight of the world’s weirdest fish

Table of contents

Leaders

Health

Are you going too far in your quest to keep well?

Feel perpetually guilty that you鈥檙e not doing enough to stay healthy? Wellness is all the rage 鈥� but we don鈥檛 really know what it is. That's got to change

News

Little to celebrate at review of nuclear disarmament treaty

Countries that have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are meeting this weeks. Despite the Iran deal, little has changed since they met in 2010

Earth

UK’s Conservatives to fight climate change but shun wind power

Health

First baby born with IVF that uses stem cells to pep up old eggs

Space

A new Hope: first Arab Mars probe given mission to track water

60 Seconds

Earth

Bj酶rn Lomborg’s proposed Australian research centre sparks row

Earth

Nepal hit by second huge earthquake and more are still to come

Earth

Sri Lanka first nation to promise full protection of mangroves

Health

Pill of super-protective ‘heavy’ fat may be key to eternal youth

Health

Brain-eating amoebas kill by turning your body against you

Health

City living in Roman Britain meant longer lives but worse teeth

Space

Millions of missing galaxies found hiding in plain sight

Physics

Corkscrew planets spiral back and forth between two stars

Earth

Extreme El Ni帽o expected to wreak havoc on weather this year

Health

Measles leaves you vulnerable to a host of deadly diseases

Earth

Uganda’s forests dwindle as illegal settlers hollow them out

Technology

Robots can count apples on a tree 鈥� as long as it’s night

Health

Genes have seasonal cycles that can play havoc with your health

Earth

Apparent slowing of sea level rise is artefact of satellite data

Life

Zoologger: Necrophiliac spider mite prefers its mate dead

Environment

Mysterious beautiful blue crayfish is new species from Indonesia

Health

Hold your breath to dampen the pain of an injection

Space

Mars volcanoes launch dust storms like a skate ramp

Space

Mercury’s magnetic heart was beating soon after its birth

Humans

Say hello to machines that read your emotions to make you happy

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

Robot cleaner can empty bins and sweep floors

Technology

Autonomous truck cleared to drive on US roads for the first time

Opinion

Amanda Knox legal fight highlights fallibility of DNA forensics

In the wake of the Amanda Knox case, a DNA expert for the defence says greater scrutiny of crime labs is needed to avoid further injustice

Technology

Pop history’s pivotal moments: Has big data settled the debate?

Earth

I’m building airships to fly over the Amazon

Health

Panic, depression and stress: The case against meditation

Analysis

Earth

Recharge pools could help quench future California droughts

California could solve its water problems, and cope with climate change, by actively refilling its overdrawn aquifers

Aperture

Earth

Ice hunters lasso an iceberg to turn it into vodka

Floating off the coast of Newfoundland, this massive chunk of ice is big business and will be sold to prestige mineral water and high-end vodka makers

Features

Health

Everyday drugs: Are we taking too many preventive pills?

As lifespans stretch, many of us are popping at least one pill a day. But all this medicine could be harming rather than helping your health

Health

Everyday drugs: The great statins debate

Health

Everyday drugs: The truth about testosterone

Health

Everyday drugs: The rise and fall of HRT

Health

Everyday drugs: Problems with the pill

Health

Everyday drugs: What’s the latest on aspirin?

Health

Everyday drugs: 7 you should know about

Life

Martian Magna Carta: Justice and freedom on the final frontier

Environment

Chainsaw sharks: The plight of the world’s weirdest fish

Culture

Life

Mixed Messages: Are our genes and culture at cross purposes?

Why privilege genes over culture when people like South America鈥檚 Mbaya, who eschew sex and pass on their culture through adoption, seem to argue the opposite?

Humans

Case of the Rickety Cossack reveals unease about our fossil past

Life

Life before death: How dying affects living minds

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