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Earth

Where melting ice means retreating seas

Humans

Hidden talent: What’s your superpower?

Health

Turning Star Trek’s medical tricorder into reality

Table of contents

News

Health

Gene therapy to repair failing hearts starts trial

A pioneering treatment to deliver a vital protein to damaged hearts could restore proper beating

Space

SpaceShipTwo goes supersonic on first powered flight

Earth

Prague gas explosion highlights ageing pipeline danger

60 Seconds

Obama says kids need to buck up their ideas

Space

Helium drought retires Herschel space telescope

Earth

China leads in climate change’s ‘critical decade’

Health

Age-defying: Master key of lifespan found in brain

Earth

Humans’ indelible stamp on Earth clear 5000 years ago

Health

Threatwatch: Did Syria use chemical weapons or not?

Physics

Black hole binge could test general relativity

Earth

Supervolcano eruptions may not be so deadly after all

Technology

Quantum clones let hackers hide in background noise

Earth

Plants help slow warming – but there’s a trade-off

Space

Ice-bound hunter sees first hint of cosmic neutrinos

Physics

Superconducting hose transmits magnetic field

Life

Stem-cell ‘symphony’ creates patterns in feathers

Environment

Zoologger: The rat with two faces

Health

Stress has unexpected health benefits – sometimes

Physics

Star-like cracks can reveal the speed of a bullet

Micro-ratchet spins pearls with perfect symmetry

Life

Lethal DNA tags could keep innocent people out of jail

Life

Earliest Mayan monuments unearthed in Guatemala

Humans

Need a shot of creative juices? Call the crowd

Technology

Fast digital forensics sniff out accomplices

Space

Astronauts to get helping hand from soccer ball robots

Technology

AI card game knows how to bend the rules

Technology

Eye-tracking gadget knows just what you’re longing for

Technology

Does online ‘slacktivism’ reduce charitable giving?

Technology

Ikea-bots build flat-pack furniture

Opinion

Technology

Is there more to slacktivism than gesture politics?

Just clicking "like" might not achieve much on its own, but savvy campaigners may be able to use it to real advantage

Life

To make your star quality real, you need a roadmap

Environment

The risk of a flu pandemic is very real

Earth

Bees need Europe’s pesticide ban, whatever the UK says

Environment

Why we are sitting ducks for China’s bird flu

Going high-tech to keep the world’s Muslims halal

Humans

Analogy: The vital talent that fuels our minds

Analysis

Environment

Where has H7N9 bird flu come from?

The hunt is on for the source of the new deadly strain of bird flu and new drugs to tackle it

Aperture

Environment

Falklands penguins return home through a sandstorm

Penguins usually conjure up images of snow blizzards or ice sheets but not Gentoo penguins – they set up colonies on sandy or shingle beaches

Features

Earth

Where melting ice means retreating seas

It sounds impossible but it’s true. The sea level around a melting ice cap will fall even as distant shores are inundated

Humans

Hidden talent: What’s your superpower?

Health

Turning Star Trek’s medical tricorder into reality

More

Enigma Number 1747

Earth

A new apocalypse now: Vietnam’s conservation tale

Life

You don’t need good mathematics to be a scientist

Humans

Brutal battles of animal sexes

Regulars

Feedback: Banana slicer saves marriage

A satisfied customer writes, take the stairs to make friends, designer animals, and more

This Week’s Letters

Unmeltable snowman

No pips to squeak

Trip tripping

Nose in front

Drug cocktail

From vineyard or farmyard

Sauce for thought

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