Alan Turing: Computation
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Alan Turing: Life, Interrupted
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Alan Turing: Intelligence and life
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Alan Turing: Codebreaking and code-making
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Physics
Dark matter, dark energy, dark… magnetism?
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Health
Cheap drugs: Pharming finally bears fruit
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Space
Transit of a lifetime: Why all eyes are on Venus now
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Table of contents
News
Earth
Extra heatwaves could kill 150,000 Americans by 2099
By the end of the century, global warming could cause eight times as many days of extreme heat per year in US cities
News
Earth
Violent anti-science anarchists vow to strike again
News
Space
Square Kilometre Array contest ends in a draw
News
60 Seconds
News
Newton saved the UK economy £10 million
News
Environment
Tuna carry Fukushima radiation to California
News
Space
Vast hydrogen bridge connects two galaxies
News
Health
Platelets could hold key to cancer and arthritis therapy
News
Spectacular images show moment SpaceX Dragon docked
News
Health
Needle-free device could deliver powdered drugs
News
Earth
Climate change will create a toxic brew for herbivores
News
Environment
Birds got smart by becoming big babes
News
Humans
Time flows uphill for remote Papua New Guinea tribe
News
Health
Immune cells gobble up healthy but idle brain cells
News
Humans
Innocent blushes share same pattern as sexual flushes
News
Space
Astrophile: The outermost ocean in the solar system
News
Life
Drunk birds had one-too-many berries to blame
News
Life
Bottled carbon from Mars bodes well for ancient aliens
News
DNA suggests marine reserves boost commercial fishing
News
Life
DNA origami: synthetic tiles can make over 100 shapes
News
Health
Satellite images help doctors count people from space
News
Environment
Zoologger: Infrared-sensing beetles born in fire
News
Technology
Why Google will soon answer your questions directly
News
Technology
At sea with the pollution-sniffing robofish
News
Technology
Touchscreens learn your habits to help you type faster
News
Technology
US military malodorant missiles kick up a stink
News
Technology
Kinect system keeps track of household objects
News
Opinion
Transit of Venus and the changing nature of discovery
Globe-trotting astronomers have been watching Venus cross the face of the sun for centuries – but their aims have changed beyond all recognition
Opinion
Space
Can SpaceX build the pick-up trucks of space?
Opinion
Technology
Do internet companies have all the answers?
Opinion
Space
Who owns asteroids or the moon?
Opinion
Urban street lights are changing animal ecology
Opinion
Technology
Dangerous drop: Jumping from the stratosphere
Opinion
Life
Stone Age long barrows housed living as well as dead
Opinion
Features
Alan Turing: Computation
By solving a major conundrum vexing mathematicians at the time, Alan Turing came up with the model for all modern computers
Features
Alan Turing: Life, Interrupted
Features
Alan Turing: Intelligence and life
Features
Alan Turing: Codebreaking and code-making
Features
Physics
Dark matter, dark energy, dark… magnetism?
Features
Health
Cheap drugs: Pharming finally bears fruit
Features
Space
Transit of a lifetime: Why all eyes are on Venus now
Features
Culture
Adventures in the physics garden
Run on a giant hamster wheel for humans and learn about the principles of engineering at a new science garden in Birmingham
Culture
When scientists fight dirty
Culture
Crows are far from bird-brained
Culture
What does the internet’s physical structure look like?
Culture
The book is dead, long live the book
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: The elephant connection
Using elephants as measuring units, sodium sinking in bottled water, ear dye implants, and more
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