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bird flu patient in China

Health

A bird flu pandemic looms but the US is holding back the fight

Health

Why bird flu risk is like the Grenfell Tower tragedy

Ahearn

Humans

High-stakes hide and seek in the digital age

Health

Would you give one of your kidneys to a stranger?

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Earth

Living with climate change: Convincing the sceptics

plane contrail

Earth

Living with climate change: You can make a difference

house on stilts

Earth

Living with climate change: How to cope in a warmer world

solar panels

Earth

Living with climate change: Turning the corner

Eiffel Tower

Earth

Living with climate change: Can we limit global warming to 2°C?

Thwaites glacier

Earth

Living with climate change: What’s the worst that can happen?

city

Earth

Living with climate change: Welcome to the new normal

Table of contents

Leaders

solar panels

Earth

The death of King Coal hints we are at a climate turning point

Coal use is dying out and wind and solar energy are booming. This means the world is changing around you despite inaction by backward-looking politicians

Health

Why bird flu risk is like the Grenfell Tower tragedy

News

smoking

Health

Smoking is finally dying out among young people in the UK and US

Now only 15.5 per cent of people in the UK are smokers. The largest declines have been seen in the first generation to grow up among anti-smoking laws

Health

Babies are dying during childbirth in the UK due to poor care

Earth

Bizarre new deep-sea creatures discovered off Australian coast

Space

NASA eyes Neptune and Uranus for missions in the 2030s

60 Seconds

Health

Antibacterials in soap should be regulated globally, say experts

Space

Kepler finds 219 new exoplanets and 10 are rocky and Earth-like

Space

Weird orbits hint ‘Planet Ten’ might lurk at solar system edge

Health

DNA variants that are bad for health may also make you stupid

Earth

Strange ice lolly icicles seen floating in clouds above the UK

Physics

Footballers move around pitch like chaotic particles in a fluid

Technology

Maths website stops you being ripped off by your flatmates

Health

Best evidence yet that Parkinson’s could be autoimmune disease

Technology

Smart doll fitted with AI chip can read your child’s emotions

Physics

Chinese satellite beats distance record for quantum entanglement

Technology

DeepMind now learns from human preferences – just like a toddler

Environment

My patrol with armed guards to protect Burmese star tortoises

Earth

Billion-dollar dams are making water shortages, not solving them

Technology

Phone metadata reveals where city migrants go and who they call

Health

Anxiety drug may prevent common virus that causes birth defects

Life

Wise elk learn to outsmart hunters and tell apart their weapons

Health

5 kilograms of broccoli in a pill slashes diabetics’ blood sugar

Earth

Cool retreats are needed to save giant panda from warmer weather

Health

Mindfulness and meditation dampen down inflammation genes

Environment

Watch how spiders use sticky silk to win deadly wrestling match

Physics

Mistaken brown dwarf is actually two planets orbiting each other

Environment

Fish recognise friends and foes through their unique faces

Analysis

bird flu patient in China

Health

A bird flu pandemic looms but the US is holding back the fight

Just two mutations could turn H7N9 flu into a deadly airborne strain, but restrictions meant to protect us from a possible pandemic are making it harder to combat the next one

Physics

Time to embrace our odd place in the cosmos, inside a huge void?

Humans

To steal an advantage in the Brexit talks try a Superman pose

Space

The bandwidth black hole that will kill Elon Musk’s Mars dream

Aperture

frog 1

Environment

Gorgeous rainbow frogs come in different colours on every island

In Bocas del Toro in Panama, each island in the archipelago has a different-hued version of the strawberry poison frog (Oophaga pumilio)

Features

city

Earth

Living with climate change: Welcome to the new normal

The greenhouse gases we've been pumping into the atmosphere are already changing Earth's weather, ecosystems and even its tilt. Here's how

Earth

Living with climate change: What’s the worst that can happen?

Earth

Living with climate change: Can we limit global warming to 2°C?

Earth

Living with climate change: Turning the corner

Earth

Living with climate change: Convincing the sceptics

Earth

Living with climate change: How to cope in a warmer world

Earth

Living with climate change: You can make a difference

Health

Would you give one of your kidneys to a stranger?

Humans

High-stakes hide and seek in the digital age

Culture

empathy hugs

Health

Can heightened empathy be a bad thing?

The Boy Who Loved Too Much sheds new light on being human through the story of a boy with Williams syndrome, a rare genetic condition

Humans

Say it with feeling: The complex world of emojis

Space

This science fiction trip is delightful, confusing – and risky

More

lockbox artwork

Technology

Keep your stuff under lock and RFID

No one has to know about your embarrassing celebrity crush: stash the evidence in a box where the key can be anything from an orange to an umbrella

Regulars

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Feedback: The university offering a class on calling bullshit

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

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