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100,000 AD: Living in the deep future

Life

Deep future: Why we’ll still be here

Deep future: What will we be like?

Deep future: How will our language evolve?

Deep future: Where will we live?

Deep future: Will there be any nature left?

Space

Deep future: Where will we explore?

Deep future: Will we run out of resources?

Earth

Deep future: What will our descendants know about us?

Table of contents

News

Vaccine for deadly sheep virus is on its way

A virus that causes sheep and goats to abort their fetuses is working its way around Europe but a fast-track vaccine could stop it taking hold

Health

Cancer deaths will drop in 2012

Space

Planetary scientists battle over NASA’s Mars budget

Health

Challenge of estimating victims in Syrian conflict

Earth

No-waste circular economy is good business – ask China

Health

US registry to clear up confusion over genetic tests

60 Seconds

Earth

Antarctic research base goes up in flames

Ovarian stem cells discovered in humans

Physics

Neutrino speed errors dash exotic physics dreams

Humans

Neanderthals were ancient mariners

Health

Ötzi the ice mummy’s secrets found in DNA

Earth

Melting sea ice could trigger colder winters

Earth

Rain sucks energy out of world’s wind

Health

New cancer drug sabotages tumour’s escape route

Physics

How do you make nanodiamonds? Merge carbon ‘onions’

Life

Fossil penguin may have been tallest ever

Environment

New male spells death for unborn monkeys

Health

Insulin produced by people with type 1 diabetes

Life

Earthshine holds clues to exoplanet aliens

Rolling stones could mean Mars still rocks

Health

New drug offers bigger window to treat stroke

Life

Giant fleas plagued feathered dinosaurs

Earth

Eyewitness videos reveal secrets of Japan’s tsunami

Technology

Thermal flashlight ‘paints’ cold rooms with colour

Technology

Shrink-wrap a bridge to make it stronger

Technology

Fingerprint photos to save Pinterest from Napster fate

Earth

Underwater ‘Seaview’ lets you explore coral reef

Opinion

The future is bright for humanity

The more optimistic we are about the future of our species the better we can focus on today's challenges

Earth

Let’s protect Earth’s unseen life

Technology

Why I want to give hackers a career break

What righteousness really means

Aperture

A giant among moths

The atlas moth dwarfs others of its kind, with a wingspan known to reach 25 centimetres, as Sandesh Kadur's spectacular image shows

Features

100,000 AD: Living in the deep future

Our species may endure for at least 100,000 years. So what’s in store? 91av tours the coming epoch, from new language to archaeological remains

Life

Deep future: Why we’ll still be here

Deep future: What will we be like?

Deep future: How will our language evolve?

Deep future: Where will we live?

Deep future: Will there be any nature left?

Space

Deep future: Where will we explore?

Deep future: Will we run out of resources?

Earth

Deep future: What will our descendants know about us?

Culture

Forget fittest, it’s survival of the most cultured

Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel enters tricky terrain to argue that social structures are key to human evolution in Wired for Culture

The man behind the hockey stick graph

Break bad habits by forming good new ones

Exploring the ancestry of your desktop PC

Protection efforts may not save endangered animals

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Enigma Number 1687

Regulars

Feedback: Highway exit with no return

It is probably best not to take some of the unusual road signs spotted by readers at face value… you have been warned

This Week’s Letters

Take your lumps

Top to toe

Die another day

Flash flood

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