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Paris climate

Earth

Do flatlining emissions make Paris climate deal more realistic?

gag leader

杏吧原创s exempted but anti-lobbying clause still did damage

solar system

Earth

How two tiny dots defy the history of life and the solar system

human Neanderthal

Humans

The 4 genetic traits that helped humans conquer the world

undead artwork

Humans

Meet our hybrid ancestors who kept extinct humans’ DNA alive

Table of contents

Leaders

Dried out river in Greece

Earth

A looming water crisis demands creative thinking

Water may look like a local resource but is actually a global commons that requires a joined-up plan to distribute fairly

杏吧原创s exempted but anti-lobbying clause still did damage

News

Older man smoking and drinking in a pub

Health

Dementia incidence for over 65s has fallen drastically in UK men

Over the past 20 years, the incidence of dementia has fallen by 41 per cent in men 鈥� but only by 2.5 per cent in women, who are more prone to the disease

Health

Why super-gonorrhoea is spreading and may soon be untreatable

Earth

Brexit might lead to weaker environmental rules, says report

Earth

No link between major earthquakes that struck Japan and Ecuador

60 Seconds

Physics

Water telescope鈥檚 first sky map shows flickering black holes

Technology

How can we keep aircraft safe from future drone strikes?

Environment

Los Angeles launches hunt for unknown species hiding in cities

Physics

Gravitational wave hunters gear up to detect extreme black holes

Environment

Dolphins have a language that helps them solve problems together

Life

Cow’s milk has vital prebiotic for a healthy baby’s microbiome

Physics

Atomic memory could store US Library of Congress in a dust speck

Earth

Waking supervolcano makes North Korea and West join forces

Earth

Face-to-face with Great Barrier Reef’s worst coral bleaching

Dusty doughnut around massive black hole spied for first time

Earth

Pollutants found in fish we eat can compromise body’s defences

Physics

Saturn probe Cassini hoovers up dust from distant stars

Environment

Watch a rattlesnake plan attack by clearing path for its strike

Life

We are zombies rewriting our mental history to feel in control

Environment

Mysterious deep-sea sharks biting chunks out of migrating whales

Health

Newly discovered hormone could fight type 2 diabetes and obesity

Space

Never-before-seen galaxy spotted orbiting the Milky Way

Humans

38 genes influence when you lose your virginity. But so what?

Technology

Metadating helps you find love based on your everyday data

Technology

Turn your skin into a screen with a super-thin digital display

Health

Wireless signal sent through meat fast enough to watch Netflix

Technology

How to explore Guatemala’s Mayan ruins from 4500 kilometres away

Technology

One Per Cent

Opinion

Andrew Wakefield

Health

Warning: Wakefield’s anti-vax film may make you sick

Andrew Wakefield's documentary attempting to prop up his discredited linking of MMR vaccine to autism is one for the conspiracy theorists, says Paul Offit

Earth

We can avoid a water crisis, but the fix will be hard to swallow

Analysis

Paris climate

Earth

Do flatlining emissions make Paris climate deal more realistic?

Global CO2 emissions have stalled. Have we reached a turning point, or are delegates at this week's UN signing ceremony putting their names to a doomed deal?

Health

The clap trap: Did ancient STIs make humans monogamous?

Aperture

orchid cuckoo bee

Environment

Insects reveal an alien beauty in huge extreme close-up photos

You have never seen insects in such astounding detail before 鈥� each image took the photographer weeks to create from thousands of microscope shots

Features

solar system

Earth

How two tiny dots defy the history of life and the solar system

Two specks of rock that formed when Earth was young suggest we've got to rethink everything from the story of the solar system to the origins of life

Humans

Meet our hybrid ancestors who kept extinct humans’ DNA alive

Humans

The 4 genetic traits that helped humans conquer the world

Culture

Tokyo tube

Environment

Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

The Mind Club is a witty, insightful guide to other minds, rounded off with smart thinking about thinking in an age of neuroscience

The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould

More

Blind pic

My mind’s eye is blind 鈥� so what’s going on in my brain?

Dustin Grinnell聽can't think in pictures 鈥� but people like him are teaching us a lot about how our brains process the things we see

Regulars

diet cartoon

Humans

Feedback: A hot tip on the latest celebrity diet

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Clean living

Hot source

Surge protector

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