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Our water is full of drugs and we don’t know their effects
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This week's magazine
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Humans
Utopia is unobtainable, but worth pursuing for all our sakes
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Humans
The real utopia: This ancient civilisation thrived without war
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Health
Why women are more at risk of PTSD 鈥� and how to prevent it
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Earth
Near death on a nuclear sub didn’t stop my work on Arctic ice
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Physics
Cold fusion: Science’s most controversial technology is back
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Space
Rosetta set for a grand finale by diving into cometary cave
ESA鈥檚 Rosetta spacecraft will end its two-year mission orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by crashing into a once-active pit named Deir el-Medina
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Earth
Oil pipeline construction halted after Native American protests
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Space
Blue Origin unveils big new rocket that will put humans in orbit
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Health
Fear of vaccine safety is higher in Europe than in the US
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Health
Deaths from 9/11-related illness are set to exceed initial toll
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Earth
Oceans given boost as nations agree to protect a third worldwide
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Earth
North Korea鈥檚 largest nuclear test still lacks missile capacity
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Health
Bacteria lurking in blood could be culprit in countless diseases
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Physics
First glimpse of a black hole being born from a star鈥檚 remains
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Earth
Full and new moons linked to timing of largest, deadliest quakes
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Space
Star arrangement that hid for a decade spotted at galaxy鈥檚 heart
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Health
Human sperm grown in a lab for the first time, claims study
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Environment
How forensic science can stop slaughter of endangered wildlife
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Environment
New Horizons discovery raises solar wind riddle around Pluto
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Space
Tiny lightning bolt explosions can vaporise the moon鈥檚 thin soil
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Earth
White gulls dependent on ice are disappearing from the Arctic
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Health
Doing exercise may counteract some of alcohol鈥檚 deadly effects
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Space
CSI Eta Carinae: Clouds suggest odd star’s history of violence
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Environment
White killer whales were a legend 鈥� now they are everywhere
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Humans
Your distinctive hairprint can identify you even when DNA fails
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Environment
This fish has a love song and it sounds like a windshield wiper
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Technology
Living a perfect Facebook life isn’t worth the real-world stress
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Technology
One Per Cent
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Technology
Drones get first anti-laser lasers to stop being shot down
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Trash bots are learning how to pull treasure from our junk
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Health
Stressed? We’re teaching computers to help handle our feelings
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Analysis
Environment
Our water is full of drugs and we don’t know their effects
Water reuse means we are all consuming a cocktail of other people's leftover medicines, but measuring their impact is almost impossible. It's time we clean up our act
News
Humans
Kuwait’s mass DNA database is a huge attack on genetic privacy
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Humans
Reform damaging prisons, or risk losing the fight against crime
News
Health
Think gluten-free is just a fad? The science isn’t settled yet
News
Features
Humans
The real utopia: This ancient civilisation thrived without war
The Indus civilisation seems to have flourished for 700 years without armour, weapons, inequality or royalty. Here鈥檚 how to build a paradise on Earth
Features
Physics
Cold fusion: Science’s most controversial technology is back
Features
Health
Why women are more at risk of PTSD 鈥� and how to prevent it
Features
Earth
Near death on a nuclear sub didn’t stop my work on Arctic ice
Features
