Technology
People without electricity could end up living the energy dream
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This week's magazine
On the cover
Culture
Editor's picks
Humans
Well-being will suffer if we don’t trump the anti-science trend
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Life
Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis
Features
Humans
Calendar synaesthesia: The people who can see time
Features
Life
Grapes of wrath: How a New World import destroyed French wine
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Technology
New blues: The quest to make the world’s rarest colour
Features
Humans
How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke
Features
Earth
Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun
Features
Life
Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane
Features
Earth
England's soggy place names could predict the climate future
Features
Humans
The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears
Features
Technology
The epic robot fails that say AI will never rule the world
Features
Physics
Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news
Features
51¶¯Âþ 2017 holiday quiz
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Humans
We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home
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Life
The holly hunters banking berries to save a species
Features
Earth
’Sno substitute: The ecological cost of fake flakes on the piste
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Life
Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat
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51¶¯Âþ 2017 holiday quiz - Answers
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Our work matters
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
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Space
Mysterious streaks seen on Saturn’s moons could be ancient rings
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Space
The tiny space rock New Horizons is headed for may have a moon
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Technology
Robot that's the width of a hair masters Pac-Man and cuts cheese
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Health
A family in Italy doesn’t feel pain because of a gene mutation
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Health
TB, or not TB? At last, a urine test can diagnose it quickly
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Life
This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era
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Humans
Venice may be almost 200 years older than anyone thought
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Space
NASA has discovered our solar system’s twin with 8 planets
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Earth
Young female monkeys use deer as 'outlet for sexual frustration'
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Life
Zombie fungus infects fruit flies and turns them into slaves
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Technology
Drone-controlled movie cameras catch stunts from every angle
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Health
Hijacked sperm carry chemo drugs to cervical cancer cells
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2017 review: The 12 best science and tech stories of the year
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Technology
Wound scanner shows bacteria glowing if your body is infected
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Humans
Six-year-olds will pay to see bad guys get their comeuppance
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Great tits avoid bad food after seeing grossed-out friends
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Space
2018 preview: Return to the moon as eight missions are planned
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Health
2018 preview: Bioelectricity tweak can regenerate missing limbs
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Humans
2018 preview: Get ready to meet your newest long-lost ancestor
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Health
2018 preview: Opioids will kill tens of thousands more people
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Life
2018 preview: Thousands of mystery lifeforms to be revealed
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Technology
2018 preview: Bitcoin and ICO bubbles are set to burst
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Health
2018 preview: Gene therapy treats disease while in the womb
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Physics
2018 preview: Last chance for new physics at the LHC for years
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Space
2018 preview: Epic mission to Mercury will unravel its mysteries
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Technology
2018 preview: Quantum computers to overtake ordinary machines
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Physics
Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world
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Health
Exclusive: Most premature baby ever to survive born at 22 weeks
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Space
Exclusive: NASA has begun plans for a 2069 interstellar mission
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Analysis
Aperture
Features
Life
Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane
Features
Technology
New blues: The quest to make the world’s rarest colour
Features
Technology
The epic robot fails that say AI will never rule the world
Features
Earth
England's soggy place names could predict the climate future
Features
Humans
How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke
Features
Life
The holly hunters banking berries to save a species
Features
Humans
We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home
Features
Life
Grapes of wrath: How a New World import destroyed French wine
Features
Earth
Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun
Features
Life
Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis
Features
Humans
The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears
Features
Life
Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat
Features
Earth
’Sno substitute: The ecological cost of fake flakes on the piste
Features
Humans
Calendar synaesthesia: The people who can see time
Features
Physics
Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news
Features
51¶¯Âþ 2017 holiday quiz
Features
51¶¯Âþ 2017 holiday quiz - Answers
Features
Our work matters
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