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Sports engineering: Is technology cheating?
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Humans
Sports engineering: How technology transformed sport
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Humans
Sports engineering: The physics of sport
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Humans
Sports engineering: The future
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Earth
How global warming is driving our weather wild
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Environment
The wonder-working bubbles that physics can’t explain
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Earth
Genetic detectives hunt the global amphibian killer
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News
Health
GlaxoSmithKline agrees $3 billion fraud payout
The pharmaceutical giant accepts that it sold misbranded drugs and withheld safety data, following a criminal investigation by the US Department of Justice
News
Earth
Protests greet reboot of Japanese nuclear reactor
News
Health
HIV tests offered at pharmacies under pilot initiative
News
Earth
Humans and nature turn American West into a tinderbox
News
Foot-and-mouth disease stalks Egypt
News
Technology
Computer composer honours Turing’s centenary
News
60 Seconds
News
Islamist threat to Timbuktu’s ancient scientific texts
News
Physics
Gotcha! Higgs find will kick off new era of knowledge
News
Health
Split personality crime: who is guilty?
News
Physics
Humble DNA could help decipher dark matter
News
Space
Vital eye for killer asteroids could shut imminently
News
Earth
Eco-activists want to torpedo a war game
News
Humans
Oldest pottery hints at cooking’s ice-age origins
News
Humans
Hungry and horny mantis hides in the wind
News
Physics
Dark matter underpinnings of cosmic web found
News
Health
Rusty memories rejuvenated in elderly mice
News
Health
‘Death carrot’ could hold the key to new cancer drugs
News
Health
Moisturiser modified to tackle skin cancer
News
Earth
Virus power harnessed to protect Red Sea coral
News
Humans
Lying cuttlefish tells rival males he’s a girl
News
Life
Titan’s tides reveal hidden ocean that could host life
News
Humans
Robot avatar body controlled by thought alone
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Graffiti battery lets you spray paint power supply
News
Health
Diagnosing Parkinson’s in a phone call with a computer
News
Technology
Computer watches you play a game, then beats you at it
News
Opinion
Earth
As freak weather becomes the norm, we need to adapt
Thanks to global warming, our weather is getting even more extreme than climate scientists predicted – and we're doing a lousy job of preparing for it
Opinion
Space
When it comes to defence, our priorities are wrong
Opinion
Terror tactics: Science in the anarchists’ cross hairs
Opinion
What compels people to give their money away?
Opinion
Humans
Power is the ultimate high
Opinion
Features
Humans
Sports engineering: Is technology cheating?
There's a difference between improving performance using technology and cheating – we need to keep the balance right
Features
Humans
Sports engineering: How technology transformed sport
Features
Humans
Sports engineering: The physics of sport
Features
Humans
Sports engineering: The future
Features
Earth
How global warming is driving our weather wild
Features
Environment
The wonder-working bubbles that physics can’t explain
Features
Earth
Genetic detectives hunt the global amphibian killer
Features
Culture
Chasing deadly viruses for a living
In his new autobiography, Peter Piot shares harrowing stories about a career spent pursuing the Ebola virus and HIV
Culture
The poster-child endangered seal
Culture
Mind
How much can you trust your own memory?
Culture
The evolutionary mysteries of religion and orgasms
Culture
The history of humanity in our genes
Culture
