Space
Japan's Hayabusa 2 may finally kick-start the asteroid mining era
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This week's magazine
On the cover
Editor's picks
Technology
We don't know the real impact of fake news and other disinformation
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Environment
18 up-and-running projects that could save us from climate change
Features
Physics
The race to see the start of time in the first light of the universe
Features
Mind
How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
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Space
Opportunity Mars rover is officially dead after 15-year mission
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Life
Cassowaries’ strange headgear helps them stay cool in the heat
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Life
Chimp sign language and human communication follow the same rules
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Life
Slime-fighting slug can superglue enemy frogs to trees for days
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Technology
Smart skin sticker could detect asthma attacks before they happen
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Health
Breast pumps may introduce harmful bacteria to babies’ gut microbiome
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Technology
Robot mimics desert ants to find its way home without GPS
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Humans
Offspring from older sperm are fitter and age more slowly
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Humans
Find tonic water bitter? Part of your brain may be on the small side
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Health
A gut bacteria toxin that damages DNA may be involved in bowel cancer
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Health
CRISPR could help us protect ourselves from viruses like flu and HIV
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Space
Neptune’s smallest moon keeps getting smashed up and resurrected again
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Space
Interstellar ‘Oumuamua might be a fractal snowflake not an alien probe
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Technology
AI autotune makes your terrible karaoke singing more tolerable
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Life
This optical illusion breaks your brain for 15 milliseconds
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Life
Your phone and shoes are home to completely unknown life forms
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Humans
Stone Age Europe may have been home to no more than 1500 people
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Health
PTSD may one day be treated with a common blood pressure drug
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Environment
Nazi sub is being destroyed by bacteria due to Deepwater Horizon spill
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Environment
UK is failing to meet almost all of its climate action targets
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Health
Gene therapy for common cause of sight loss tested for first time
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Environment
Meat in a dish could be bad for the planet
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Technology
Smart and fluffy storytelling robot to be trialled in US classrooms
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Analysis
Health
Can teenagers get vaccinated without their parents’ permission?
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Comment
Russia’s plan to unplug from the internet shows cyberwar is escalating
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Comment
Smugglers are profiting from our failure to define endangered species
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Technology
Fears of OpenAI’s super-trolling artificial intelligence are overblown
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Space
Japan's Hayabusa 2 may finally kick-start the asteroid mining era
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