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Health

Gut instincts: The secrets of your second brain

Life

How an ancient Egyptian code unmasked a cannibal star

Technology

Fabricated future: The sceptic’s guide to 3D printing

Health

Fetal healing: Curing congenital diseases in the womb

Table of contents

News

Earth

First results from James Cameron’s trip to the abyss

It's not Pandora, but the Mariana trench holds life just as strange as that in James Cameron's film Avatar

Technology

Syria’s chemical weapons pose a grave dilemma

Space

Space bigwigs offer billion-dollar private moon trips

Space

NASA’s next Mars rover to launch in 2020

Health

UK government urged to consider relaxing drug rules

Technology

‘Robot ecosystem’ in sight as apps get a cash boost

60 Seconds

Space

Orbiting eye sees NASA rover’s impact scars on Mars

Earth

Doha summit launches climate damage aid

Humans

Search for aliens poses game theory dilemma

Life

Permian mass extinction triggered by humble microbe

Space

Mysterious star deaths are really mergers in disguise

Health

New drug lifts hard-to-treat depression in hours

Life

In search of the world’s oldest cave etching

Health

Parasite makes mice fearless by hijacking immune cells

Health

We all carry hundreds of rogue mutations

Health

Lose weight without eating less – just cut down on fat

Life

Human eye proteins detect red beyond red

Physics

Astrophile: A baby solar system with big ambitions

Life

Zebrafish made to grow pre-hands instead of fins

Life

Loneliest bug on Earth… has a friend

Physics

Einstein was first to dream up dark energy

Environment

Zoologger: The toughest eggs in the world

Technology

YouTube reorganises video with automated channels

Technology

Laser drills could relight geothermal energy dreams

Technology

All-seeing headset gives you 360-degree vision

Technology

Touchpad steering wheel keeps eyes on the road

Opinion

Earth

Another year wasted by climate negotiators

In agreeing to reach another agreement, delegates in Doha followed a well-worn and tiresome path of procrastination

Health

The pregnant promise of fetal medicine

Health

How human biology can prevent drug deaths

Physics

‘The idea we live in a simulation isn’t science fiction’

Humans

The link between devaluing animals and discrimination

Analysis

Health

Target faulty brain circuits to treat mental illness

Can we replace psychiatry's diagnostic labels with measurements of what's actually going wrong in the brain?

Technology

Satellite upgrade should let planes slash emissions

Aperture

Environment

Megacity China: the ultimate in urban migration

You would be forgiven for thinking that this "spreading pancake" of a city is the dream-limbo city featured in the movie Inception

Features

Health

Gut instincts: The secrets of your second brain

When it comes to your moods, decisions and behaviour, the brain in your head is not the only one doing the thinking

Life

How an ancient Egyptian code unmasked a cannibal star

Technology

Fabricated future: The sceptic’s guide to 3D printing

Health

Fetal healing: Curing congenital diseases in the womb

Culture

Is the obesity epidemic caused by too much sugar?

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

The top 10 science books of 2012

Our deep relationship with water

More

Enigma Number 1728

Going the extra mile during your PhD

Regulars

Feedback: Are wind turbines really fans?

A tale of "disease-spreading" wind farms, the trouble with quantifying "don't know", the death of parody in the UK, and more

This Week’s Letters

Getting scalped

Perchance to tweet

Play it again, brain

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