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Technology
We should embrace our ability to harness plant genes
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Earth
Of presidents and planets: Neil deGrasse Tyson looks ahead
Features
Health
Dishing the dirt: How clean does your home really need to be?
Features
Earth
The paradox powering Earth’s magnetic field
Features
Health
Attack of the household products: Hygiene鈥檚 hidden risks
Features
Health
How to target tumours by messing with their metabolism
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Leaders
News
China plans telescope to hunt for primordial gravitational waves
Located at 5250 metres above sea level in Tibet, Ngari-1 will hunt for gravitational waves that should have been thrown out by the big bang
News
Health
Space travel’s mental health toll could endanger long missions
News
Technology
Norway is first country to turn off FM radio and go digital-only
News
Environment
London road has broken annual legal pollution limits already
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Thousands of birds to be culled in France to stop bird flu
News
Space
Metal asteroid and Trojans selected for next NASA missions
News
Technology
DeepMind鈥檚 AlphaGo is secretly beating human players online
News
Environment
Gene-silencing spray lets us modify plants without changing DNA
News
Technology
Home robot to nudge older people to stay social and active
News
Environment
Why mums and babies prefer to keep to one side of each other
News
Physics
鈥楢lien megastructure鈥� signal may be due to star eating a planet
News
Health
Massive drop in London HIV rates may be due to internet drugs
News
Environment
Baboons recorded making key sounds found in human speech
News
Health
Mini-brains made from teeth help reveal what makes us sociable
News
Health
Miniature brain and skull found inside 16-year-old girl鈥檚 ovary
News
Technology
Computer vision algorithms pick out petty crime in CCTV footage
News
Earth
Carbon seen bonding with six other atoms for the first time
News
Health
Zapping the brain really does seem to improve depression
News
Life
The trunk trick that lets elephants pick up almost anything
News
Environment
Oxytocin surge before a fight helps chimps bond with their group
News
Health
Brain’s face recognition area grows much bigger as we get older
News
Health
Brain shrinks less in older people who eat Mediterranean diet
News
Environment
Extinct giant goose used its wings to fight rather than fly
News
Space
Milky Way’s core could be spewing out planet-sized star chunks
News
Technology
Transistor stretchier than skin for ultra-flexible wearable tech
News
Physics
Cosmic radio bursts tracked to home galaxy for first time
News
Analysis
Health
Preventing Big Cannabis: How to nip marijuana lobby in the bud
A powerful lobby could be an unintended consequence of legalising the drug. Could Canada's regulatory approach ensure public health comes before profit?
News
Environment
China’s ivory ban is great, now for shark fins and tiger bone
News
Health
Battle to see all data behind drug trial tragedy must go on
News
Earth
US Congress just made it easier to ditch science for politics
News
Features
Health
Attack of the household products: Hygiene鈥檚 hidden risks
Want floors clean enough to eat off? Resist the temptation. The logic behind housework and cleanliness isn't always as clear-cut as you might think
Features
Health
Dishing the dirt: How clean does your home really need to be?
Features
Earth
The paradox powering Earth’s magnetic field
Features
Health
How to target tumours by messing with their metabolism
Features
Earth
Of presidents and planets: Neil deGrasse Tyson looks ahead
Features
Culture
Earth
Down with data! Sagas are more likely to save Earth
Forget cold environmental facts. A new book, The Myth Gap, argues that stirring tales of redemption, atonement and renewal should spur us to action
Culture
Life
We know we are 鈥� but what else is conscious too?
Culture
Humans
Make your own meat with open-source cells 鈥� no animals necessary
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Put a hex on cheap wine to make it taste good
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