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Health

Just say maybe: Is the world ready to abandon the war on drugs?

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Humans

Migration: Do we want to go forwards or backwards?

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Humans

The truth about migration: How we lived without passports

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Humans

The truth about migration: How it will reshape our world

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Humans

The truth about migration: Rich countries need immigrants

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Health

The truth about migration: We’re a stay-at-home species

Humans

The truth about migration: How evolution made us xenophobes

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Physics

Physics adventures down the superfluid supersonic black hole

Table of contents

Leaders

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Humans

Migration: Do we want to go forwards or backwards?

Only a new international body can cut through the bluster on the emotive but much misunderstood migration "crisis"

News

Health

Calls for pharma to follow GSK and make drugs more accessible

Pharma giant GSK has said it will not file patents for its medicines in poor countries, putting pressure on others to follow suit

Earth

Anger as coal mine that could damage Great Barrier Reef approved

Physics

Inflatable space hotel to be tested by space station crew

Health

Explore how global obesity crisis has exploded in past 40 years

60 Seconds

Earth

Aviation and shipping firms edge towards pledging emissions cuts

Life

SETI looks at red dwarf stars in its search for ancient aliens

Space

Same Blue Origin rocket reaches space and lands for third time

Space

Planet Nine might be an exoplanet stolen by the sun

Humans

Has ritual human sacrifice shaped societies and class systems?

Health

People who never forget their past could have unique kind of OCD

Environment

The hands-on breeding effort saving the world’s weirdest parrot

Health

Insomnia could be caused by loose connections in the brain

Space

Dust devils on Mars may be boosted by their own shadows

Earth

The birds that are winning and losing thanks to climate change

Health

Giving mosquitoes chemical weapons helps keep them under control

Health

Toxic form of tau protein foils memory formation in Alzheimer’s

Environment

Wolves or bears? Threatened caribou mothers’ catch-22 dilemma

Earth

Cloud atlas uses satellite data to predict where species live

Space

Bubbling ocean on Saturn鈥檚 moon could explain vanishing island

Technology

Lifelogging and fiction can teach computers to see how we see

Technology

One Per Cent

Life

Bio coding language makes it easier to hack living cells

Environment

Robots infiltrate insect world to learn their ways

Health

Dear Google, please help us use our data to beat dengue and Zika

Opinion

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic sits in the courtroom for the reading of his verdict at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, on 24 March, 2016

Humans

How DNA profiling helped unravel the horror of Bosnia’s genocide

Bringing Radovan Karadzic to book for his part in war crimes in the former Yugoslavia included groundbreaking use of mass DNA evidence, says Thomas Parsons

Earth

I’m creating supercharged corals to beat climate change

Analysis

Armed soldier stands guard with rectangular packs ablaze in the background

Health

Just say maybe: Is the world ready to abandon the war on drugs?

Worldwide drug prohibition has developed some cracks as countries go their own way. New 杏吧原创 explores how likely the UN is to relinquish the status quo

Earth

Hidden cost of climate change is unwanted carbs in your food

Health

No excuse for doctors who refuse to treat transgender people

Aperture

Fox Talbot

Technology

William Henry Fox Talbot and the birth of the photograph

We showcase Talbot's photos from as early as the 1830s and 40s, part of a new exhibition in London entitled The Dawn of Photography

Features

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Humans

The truth about migration: How it will reshape our world

Arguments rage, but what does immigration really mean for jobs, economies and cultures? The evidence suggests we could turn a crisis into an opportunity

Humans

The truth about migration: How evolution made us xenophobes

Health

The truth about migration: We’re a stay-at-home species

Humans

The truth about migration: How we lived without passports

Humans

The truth about migration: Rich countries need immigrants

Physics

Physics adventures down the superfluid supersonic black hole

Culture

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Humans

Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?

Andy Clark鈥檚 masterly book overturns traditional views about our brains, arguing they make internal models of reality which they then compare with incoming data

Humans

The ‘three hares’ motif is an ancient mystery for our times

Life

Savagely malled: Why ‘smart’ cities aren’t so smart

More

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Gene therapy gets approval for 鈥榖ubble kids鈥� in world first

A genetic therapy that lasts for years has been approved to treat a potentially fatal immune disorder that makes children need to be isolated from infection

Regulars

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Humans

Feedback: The sun is hollow, and other empty claims

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

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Under pressure

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27 February 2016