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Speak & Spell machine

Technology

Will AI’s bubble pop? Deep learning’s hype machine in overdrive

Health

Optimism over cancer treatments should always be cautious

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Physics

Collapse: Has quantum theory’s greatest mystery been solved?

Pan Pantziarka

Health

I help repurpose everyday drugs like aspirin to fight cancer

jellyfish

Environment

Jellymageddon: Can we stop the rise of the jellyfish?

Life

Darwin’s discovery: The remarkable history of evolution

Table of contents

Leaders

Humans

May’s force be with her

Will new UK prime minister Theresa May's penchant for scientifically impossible laws put her in good stead for Brexit?

Health

Optimism over cancer treatments should always be cautious

News

Satellite pic of giant algal bloom

Environment

Toxic algal bloom triggers state of emergency in Florida

The 85-square-kilometre bloom of blue-green algae is putting people and wildlife at risk, and Florida鈥檚 governor has asked for it to be declared a federal emergency

Earth

Next PM Theresa May often demands the scientifically impossible

Technology

Pok茅mon Go is massive data-gathering, augmented reality hit

Physics

Time for more 2016: leap second will be added to year’s end

60 Seconds

Environment

Never-before-seen sea creatures filmed in world鈥檚 deepest abyss

Health

Setbacks force HIV researchers to focus on remission, not cures

Earth

UK will struggle to meet climate target if fracking goes ahead

Humans

Mystery of what sleep does to our brains may finally be solved

Health

Founders of Western civilisation were prehistoric dope dealers

Physics

Our universe could be reborn as a bouncing baby cosmos

Health

Cochlear implants boosted by gene therapy plus tiny LEDs

Physics

Water waves travel back in time to retrace their ripples

Health

Mystery of 101-year-old master pianist who has dementia

Space

Baby star illuminates icy wall between rocky planets and giants

Life

Secret sexual liaisons explain mystery of night-singing birds

Health

Antibiotic resistance discovered in the guts of ancient mummies

Health

Memories of favourite locations have a special place in brain

Space

Milky Way鈥檚 bulge may have been formed by the galaxy buckling

Environment

Watch the first ever footage of wild coral kissing and fighting

Health

Pomegranate by-product boosts muscles and may fight ageing

Health

Women鈥檚 heavy periods could be explained by missing protein

Technology

Trick or tweet, or both? How social media is messing up politics

Technology

Watch a cyborg stingray made of rat heart cells swim using light

One Per Cent

Health

Google鈥檚 new NHS deal is start of machine learning marketplace

Space

Tim Peake: Robots won鈥檛 replace me for 100 years

Analysis

Speak & Spell machine

Technology

Will AI’s bubble pop? Deep learning’s hype machine in overdrive

The hype around artificial intelligence is building 鈥� but we don't yet know if it will fulfil its potential

Humans

Donald Trump is bending reality to get into the American psyche

Health

Put the butter knife down and step away from the ‘sat fat’

Technology

Computer says no? Europeans can now challenge that decision

Aperture

hornbill

Life

The exotic animals that bankrolled the forgotten evolutionist

A Sulawesi hornbill is just one of 100,000 myriad animals that Alfred Russell Wallace collected to fund his research into the origin of species

Features

jellyfish

Environment

Jellymageddon: Can we stop the rise of the jellyfish?

Acoustic shocks, electrocution, and robot shredders 鈥� extreme measures are being considered to tackle the increasing numbers of jellyfish in the oceans

Physics

Collapse: Has quantum theory’s greatest mystery been solved?

Life

Darwin’s discovery: The remarkable history of evolution

Health

I help repurpose everyday drugs like aspirin to fight cancer

Culture

Dilapidated sofa in wasteland with tall city buildings in background

Humans

How inequality is poisoning the world 鈥� and how to end it

From spending habits, to notions about hard work, and even who should end up in jail, inequality infests our world 鈥� so argue three new books

Environment

Listen to secrets of a honeybee hive in Kew鈥檚 latest sculpture

Regulars

Gove

Feedback: Things can only get better, claim UK politicians

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Memory test

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