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Will tracking people via clouds of microbes stand up in court?
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US Supreme Court to hear case on restrictive Texas abortion law
The Court will consider whether to uphold a Texas law that requires abortion clinics to close unless they meet stringent building regulations, among other criteria
News
Technology
New UK Snooper’s charter still gives state wide hacking powers
News
Health
Zika virus likely to cause paralysing Guillain-Barr茅 syndrome
News
Earth
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Humans
Twin who spent a year on the ISS returns to Earth
News
Physics
Cosmic radio blast result called into question within days
News
Earth
China set to surpass its climate targets as renewables soar
News
Environment
Animal invaders on Europe’s kill list are set to be wiped out
News
Space
Ageing Milky Way stopped making stars before it ran out of gas
News
Earth
First life may have been forged in icy seas on a freezing Earth
News
Environment
Bromance helps stressed out warring chimps keep their cool
News
Health
Gentler attack on cancer may mean we can live with it for longer
News
Space
Planet Nine hunters enlist big bang telescopes and Saturn probe
News
Space
Summer on Titan may make its lakes ripple with waves
News
Environment
Super-fast evolving fish splitting into two species in same lake
News
Physics
Volcanic mount spun Mars around and rearranged its rivers
News
Environment
Whale algorithm could unlock secrets of their many dialects
News
Environment
Male sand martin birds filmed having sex with a dead male
News
Physics
When will the universe end? Not for at least 2.8 billion years
News
Health
Anti-inflammatory drugs can fix some signs of depression in mice
News
Environment
Squid filmed using their ink clouds as smokescreen to catch prey
News
Health
Artificial tail-less sperm is the best test-tube sex cell yet
News
Life
Wild gorillas compose happy songs that they hum during meals
News
Humans
People will follow a robot in an emergency 鈥� even if it鈥檚 wrong
News
Technology
Building aircraft in augmented reality is quicker and safer
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Environment
Glow-in-the-dark bacterial lights could illuminate shop windows
News
Opinion
Humans
Garry Kasparov weighs up AI challenge to world’s best Go player
Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who famously beat and lost to supercomputer Deep Blue two decades ago, assesses the arrival of AI for Go's top competitors
Opinion
Health
Doctors must be ready to defy harmful asylum laws
Opinion
Humans
I鈥檓 creating telepathy technology to get brains talking
Opinion
Features
Physics
Bigger than the Higgs, bigger even than gravitational waves…
It looks like the LHC may have found a surprise massive particle that gives a glimpse into a better 鈥� and entirely unexpected 鈥� theory of reality
Features
Health
Cancer鈥檚 penicillin moment: Drugs that unleash the immune system
Features
Life
Microbe CSI: How to read the air for clues at crime scenes
Features
Culture
Environment
The Persuaders: How we let the PR industry control our minds
Reason and argument are dead, replaced by conspiracy theories and optional realities 鈥� and the PR industry is to blame, argues James Garvey in his latest book
Culture
Health
Visible thoughts at the fringes of consciousness
Culture
Regulars
Physics
Feedback: Quantum theory and the science of queueing
Loose screws and the uncertainty principle, one weird travel trick to drop a dress size, Sting sings to wine barrels, and more
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