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What game should artificial intelligence take on next?
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Life
The enigmatic whale we can hear – but have never seen
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Life
Just how are we related to our chimp cousins?
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Life
How are baby eels made? We still don't know
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Space
Listening for gravitational waves from the birth of the universe
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Life
Animal superpowers: How we're homing in on their magnetic satnav
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Physics
'Glueballs' of pure force must exist – will we ever find them?
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Humans
What makes you conscious – and where is it in your brain?
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Space
The Oort cloud surrounds our solar system – why can't we see it?
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Life
Ultimate family tree: Tracing the oldest ancestor of all life
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Space
How we'll catch a huge black hole on camera
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Physics
Mathematicians play whack-a-mole in the endless infinity hunt
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Table of contents
Leaders
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Earth
Wildlife heaven or nuclear hell: Chernobyl’s future up for grabs
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Health
Gene test can tell people with breast cancer if they need chemo
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Life
Could three gun laws cut US firearm deaths by 90 per cent?
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Health
'Shaken baby' expert witness found guilty of misleading courts
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Technology
Humans strike back: How Lee Sedol won a game against AlphaGo
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Earth
Sea-level rise may displace 13 million people in the US by 2100
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Earth
February 2016's temperature spike is yet another record
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Humans
Oldest ever human genome sequence may rewrite human history
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Life
Skull of mini T. rex shows it gained intelligence before size
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Mathematics
Mathematicians shocked to find pattern in 'random' prime numbers
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Earth
Mysterious fairy circles now discovered in Australia's desert
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Health
Drug may have hit wrong brain target in French clinical trial
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Technology
Rats learn to sense infrared in hours thanks to brain implants
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Technology
One Per Cent
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Physics
Fermat's last theorem mathematician Andrew Wiles wins Abel prize
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Humans
Graphene origami produced by world's thinnest folds
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Earth
Take a detour to improve traffic for everyone else
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Technology
How victory for Google’s Go AI is stoking fear in South Korea
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Health
Florida one step closer to genetically modified mosquito trial
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60 Seconds
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Health
Cancer reversed in frogs by hacking cells' electricity with light
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Health
Evolution acting on older dads is protecting our genetic health
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Technology
Machines are teaching themselves to grapple with the real world
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Opinion
Aperture
Features
Physics
Mathematicians play whack-a-mole in the endless infinity hunt
Features
Life
Ultimate family tree: Tracing the oldest ancestor of all life
Features
Space
The Oort cloud surrounds our solar system – why can't we see it?
Features
Humans
What makes you conscious – and where is it in your brain?
Features
Physics
'Glueballs' of pure force must exist – will we ever find them?
Features
Life
Animal superpowers: How we're homing in on their magnetic satnav
Features
Space
Listening for gravitational waves from the birth of the universe
Features
Life
The enigmatic whale we can hear – but have never seen
Features
Life
How are baby eels made? We still don't know
Features
Life
Just how are we related to our chimp cousins?
Features
Space
How we'll catch a huge black hole on camera
Features
