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Biofuel that’s better than carbon neutral

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War of words: The language paradox explained

Technology

Welcome to the personal drone revolution

Earth

The last march of the emperor penguins

Table of contents

News

Humans

Gay ‘conversion therapy’ enters the courtroom

A widely condemned therapy which aims to help gay men change their sexuality is under legal scrutiny in a US trial

Environment

Kenyan elephant numbers plummet by 1000 in four years

Space

North Korean rocket launch will heighten missile fears

Health

Personality disorder revamp ends in ‘horrible waste’

Pressure mounts for retraction of GM crop-cancer study

60 Seconds

Health

When is a baby too premature to save?

Health

Screening athletes for heart problems much too pricey

Space

Mars rover ‘shake and bake’ cooks up a carbon mystery

Health

BSE infected cattle have prions in saliva

Life

Hagfish slime could slink to the height of fashion

Earth

Dying aspen trees sound alarm for world’s forests

Earth

Captured: the moment photosynthesis changed the world

Physics

Space-time waves may be hiding in dead star pulses

Environment

Female lemurs avoid the wrong love in the dark

Environment

Sweet scent doubles as repellent for flower eaters

Technology

Cork structure makes graphene super-elastic

Earth

Leech cocoon preserves 200-million-year-old fossil

Health

Gene switch found to help a heart heal itself

Space

Saturn’s rings may double up as a moon factory

Health

Risk of childhood obesity can be predicted at birth

Health

Zapping body and brain boosts movement in paralysed

Technology

Your next boss could be a computer

Technology

Commute to work on the roller coaster train

Technology

Storytelling software learns how to tell a good tale

Opinion

Health

Psychiatry is failing those with personality disorders

A workable diagnostic system is needed, because sticking with the status quo is not an option

Space

Space exploration for the history books

Humans

A deliberate language barrier

Technology

Why the world is arguing over who runs the internet

Life

‘Biology is a manufacturing capability’

Health

Looks like we’ve got allergies all wrong

Analysis

Earth

No sign of emissions letting up as climate talks begin

Temperatures and sea level are rising faster than predicted, but it's our ever increasing greenhouse gas emissions that are the real worry

Technology

Celebrities turn to encryption to keep phones private

Aperture

Dinosaurs might have once gazed into the Grand Canyon

It had been thought that the canyon formed 6 million years ago, but now two geologists say it is actually closer to 70 million years old

Features

Earth

Biofuel that’s better than carbon neutral

The race is on to create a biofuel that sucks carbon out of the sky and locks it away where it can't warm the planet

Humans

War of words: The language paradox explained

Technology

Welcome to the personal drone revolution

Earth

The last march of the emperor penguins

Culture

The end of race history? Not yet

See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog

Space

Finding dangerous asteroids, before they find us

MoMath: Manhattan’s Museum of Mathematics

More

Enigma Number 1727

Regulars

Feedback: Healthscare insurance

The palaeontological love of poo, healthscare insurance, a fat-free cream conundrum, and more

This Week’s Letters

Beach circles

Weight of expectation

Breathtaking pursuit

Sock it to me

Spreading the love

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