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Physics

The algorithm that runs the world

Technology

Digital doppelgängers: Building an army of you

A bumblebee hovering over a flower

Environment

Plight of the bumblebee: Scruffy pollinator in peril

Space

Space fuel crisis: NASA confronts the plutonium pinch

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News

Earth

Manhattan project sites may become national parks

A draft bill in the US Congress could give former nuclear labs, as well as J. Robert Oppenheimer's house, a new lease of life

Earth

Gibson Guitar reaches agreement in ebony investigation

Humans

Drug tests catch Olympic athlete eight years late

Environment

Iran Space Agency to launch a monkey into space

60 Seconds

Environment

Missing Congolese gorillas found in rebel-held region

Earth

Greenland loses ice in fits and starts

Physics

Higgs certainty boosted by more complete analysis

Technology

The financial meltdown forecasters

Space

Where next? Curiosity’s scientific priorities on Mars

Life

Curiosity might prove we’ve already found life on Mars

Brain might not stand in the way of free will

Health

Fire, theft and jealousy: a Hollywood fertility saga

Synthetic ‘upgrade’ for fruit fly’s DNA

Environment

Chimeric birds could explain how brains get big

Health

Woman’s missing digits grow back in phantom form

Health

Liquid protein challenges importance of water

Earth

Salmon shortages leave grizzly bears stressed

Earth

Salmon sex delayed by global warming

Physics

Logic blooms with new 11-set Venn diagram

Space

Astrophile: The Most Cruel Death of Cupid and Belinda

Health

Natural immunity may protect Peruvians from rabies

Technology

Augmented reality kitchens keep novice chefs on track

Technology

Software reveals the most influential Victorian novelists

Humans

Buzzing clothes could teach you to be a better athlete

Health

Smartphone that feels your strain

Technology

Power struggle: How to keep India’s lights on

Opinion

Space

Curiosity: A Mars robot for our times

The popularity of the Mars Science Laboratory rover casts doubt on the idea that robotic explorers can't be as engaging as humans

Time for banks to show us the money

Humans

Can we live without free will?

Technology

New remote warfare: Smaller, better, deadlier?

Humans

Olympic blade runner challenges our view of humanity

Space

Mysterious Pioneer anomaly: ‘This is the answer’

Space

Asteroid miners want to turn rocks into spacecraft

Aperture

Flying off a Shetland cliff in search of offal

A seabird success story, fulmars breed in huge numbers in the UK – a smorgasbord of fish remains may be behind the boom

Features

Physics

The algorithm that runs the world

Its services are called upon thousands of times a second to ensure the world's business runs smoothly – but are its mathematics as dependable as we thought?

Technology

Digital doppelgängers: Building an army of you

Environment

Plight of the bumblebee: Scruffy pollinator in peril

Space

Space fuel crisis: NASA confronts the plutonium pinch

Culture

Cyborg makes art using seventh sense

Meet Neil Harbisson, the colour-blind man with a prosthetic eyepiece that allows him to "see" colours as sounds – and create unique artworks out of them

Stephen Hawking: man, icon and myth

The strange world of sleep

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Enigma Number 1710

Regulars

Feedback: No more snow on late night TV

Snorkelling outside water, goodbye to "snow" on TV screens, digitisation manuals in Ulster Scots, and more

This Week’s Letters

Scraping the bottom

Straight and narrow

Juiced up

Mountain climbing

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