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Earth

Revealed: The renewable energy scam making global warming worse

X-ray of a broken neck

Health

It鈥檚 time for a serious debate about head transplants

A black hole swallowing a star

Physics

Reality guide: Six problems physics can’t explain

Physics

Reality guide: A poster of how everything fits together

A stream of information flowing down a screen

Physics

Reality guide: Six radical ideas to change physics

Ripples

Physics

Reality guide: The essential laws of quantum physics

A simulation of the structure of the galaxy

Physics

Reality guide: The essential laws of cosmology

Tejada

Health

I slice up human brains for a living

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Humans

Wistful thinking: Why we are wired to dwell on the past

evolution artwork

Environment

Evolution evolves: Beyond the selfish gene

Table of contents

Leaders

X-ray of a broken neck

Health

It鈥檚 time for a serious debate about head transplants

Many are reluctant to engage with the claims of head transplant pioneers, fearing that any comment will be seen as an endorsement. The time for silence is over

News

Earth

Oil pipeline leak threatens Alabama river rich in unique species

South-eastern US faces price hikes as hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel spill into a pond in Alabama, upstream of an ecologically important river

Environment

China鈥檚 fancy for 鈥榓quatic cocaine鈥� could wipe out rare porpoise

Space

China launches a space station and wants an even bigger one

Health

Travellers warned of fatal tick-borne disease in Western Europe

Health

60 Seconds

Space

New NASA budget could put asteroid-grabbing mission in jeopardy

Health

Grand project to unify global efforts to understand the brain

Space

Gaia鈥檚 map of 1 billion stars is the clearest view of our galaxy

Health

Head transplant team’s new animal tests fail to convince critics

Space

鈥楢lien megastructure鈥� star may be explained by interstellar junk

Life

World’s hardiest animal has evolved radiation shield for its DNA

Physics

Quantum teleportation over 7 kilometres of cables smashes record

Earth

Arctic ice melt is killing birds and will leave caribou stranded

Humans

Blind people use brain’s visual cortex to help do maths

Environment

Snub-nosed monkeys are so inbred they may struggle to survive

Space

Kamikaze galaxy explodes after diving into the Milky Way聽

Earth

Asteroid assault on early planets was more like a gentle massage

Environment

Rattlesnakes silently shook their tails before evolving rattles

Space

Saturn鈥檚 rings may be from the whirl of a passing icy rock

Humans

Building blocks of memories seen in brains for the first time

Environment

Hawaiian crows can use sticks as tools but are nearly extinct

Health

Gene-reading software to cut TB diagnosis from months to minutes

Physics

Send secret messages hidden in the DNA of bacterial spores

One Per Cent

Technology

Germany to create world’s first highway code for driverless cars

Opinion

3 people napping outside on the grass

Health

Don’t lose sleep over the claim that long naps may make you ill

Despite the suggestion that longer naps may raise the risk of diabetes, we are probably seeing the impact of obesity-related sleep disorders instead, says Jim Horne

Analysis

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Earth

Revealed: The renewable energy scam making global warming worse

The largest source of "clean" energy is not reducing carbon emissions by as much as official figures claim 鈥� and it is causing immense harm to the poor and to wildlife

Space

Farewell to Rosetta, the comet mission that captivated the world

Technology

The US isn鈥檛 giving away the internet 鈥� it never had control

Aperture

brain slicing

Humans

Immortalising human brains at the world’s largest brain bank

Donated brains are crucial for medical research, but they need to be preserved to stop them disintegrating. See how it鈥檚 done at the Harvard brain bank

Features

Physics

Reality guide: A poster of how everything fits together

Our ultimate user鈥檚 guide to fundamental physics 鈥� all on one spectacular poster for you to download for free

Physics

Reality guide: The essential laws of cosmology

Physics

Reality guide: The essential laws of quantum physics

Physics

Reality guide: Six problems physics can’t explain

Physics

Reality guide: Six radical ideas to change physics

Humans

Wistful thinking: Why we are wired to dwell on the past

Environment

Evolution evolves: Beyond the selfish gene

Health

I slice up human brains for a living

Culture

Optic Cloak

Technology

The Optic Cloak: Meet the chimney that isn’t there

Artist Conrad Shawcross's moir茅-surfaced flues on the Greenwich Peninsula are a shimmering mirage that delights the eye and turns an eyesore into a work of art

Life

The paradox of play: Real fun should be terrifying

Regulars

cartoon shower

Feedback: Power shower is a nutri-shake you don’t have to drink

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Power ballads

Convection conventions

Theoretically speaking

Crocked croci

Solar panel supernova

Sugar, sugar

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