Health
The Alzheimer's problem: Why we are struggling to find a cure
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This week's magazine
On the cover
Editor's picks
Space
No room for complacency over threats from space
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Health
A meaning to life: How a sense of purpose can keep you healthy
Features
Technology
Encryption wars: The privacy debate raging in your smartphone
Features
Humans
I could speak a different language every week for a year
Features
Life
Embryonic education: How learning begins long before birth
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
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Life
Foxes may confuse predators by rubbing themselves in puma scent
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Health
Abortion rate halves if women have to go extra 100 miles
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Technology
Recycled eggshells can be used for next-gen data storage
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Technology
Smart buildings predict when critical systems are about to fail
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Technology
Robot skin senses warm bodies like a snake locating nearby prey
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Health
Real-life psychopaths actually have below-average intelligence
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Health
Are potatoes now a cancer risk? Here's what you need to know
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Life
Spitting archerfish shoot at prey above and beneath the water
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Technology
Light-speed camera snaps light's "sonic boom" for the first time
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Space
Intergalactic collision birthed a sparkling ring of young stars
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Technology
Samsung blames battery flaws for Galaxy Note 7 smartphone fires
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Earth
Big cities warm up during the week as commuters flock in
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Humans
A no-strike list may shield Yemen’s ancient treasures from war
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Life
Bird is evolving to be less flashy in response to global warming
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Physics
Exotic black holes caught turning into a superfluid
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Earth
Trump ditched Obama's climate and water policies on first day
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Earth
Earth’s water must have arrived here earlier than we thought
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Humans
Virtual out-of-body experience reduces your fear of death
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Stretchy robotic suit reduces energy used to walk by 23 per cent
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Earth
60 Seconds
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Health
Animals that grow designer organs for humans are a step closer
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Space
Hit threatening asteroids' bright spots to deflect them
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Life
Dried-up slime could help microbes survive briny waters on Mars
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