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20 June 2015

Issue 3026

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Editor's picks

Chasing shadows: How long can we keep looking for dark matter?

Space

Chasing shadows: How long can we keep looking for dark matter?

Opinion
Coral comeback: Reefs have secret weapon against climate change

Earth

Coral comeback: Reefs have secret weapon against climate change

Features
Hubble at 25: The most inspirational images from space

Hubble at 25: The most inspirational images from space

Features
Self-confidence school: Can you really fake it to make it?

Life

Self-confidence school: Can you really fake it to make it?

Features
WIMPZILLAs: Monster particles from the dawn of time

Space

WIMPZILLAs: Monster particles from the dawn of time

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

Chasing shadows: How long can we keep looking for dark matter?

Space

Chasing shadows: How long can we keep looking for dark matter?

We've known we need dark matter since the 1930s, but still haven't found it. The search can't go on forever

Opinion

News

Silence of the drones: How to quiet that annoying aerial buzz

Technology

Silence of the drones: How to quiet that annoying aerial buzz

Quiet in the sky (Image: NASA Langley/David C. Bowman) Drones tend to live up to their name, emitting a low buzz that may be a problem when fleets of delivery drones start operating in urban airspace. But a team from NASA has now developed a way to silence that annoying noise. The GL-10 is the …

News

Technology

Cyber citizen tool shows which countries' laws cover our surfing

News

Health

Let them fidget! Squirming around helps children with ADHD focus

News

Health

Some people can resist the ravages of HIV – here's how

News

Physics

Antigravity pump lifts water upwards with no power source

News

Earth

Climate change causing a headache for Assam tea growers in India

News

Life

Voracious carnivores caught knocking back sugary flower nectar

News

Life

First circadian clock transplant allows E. coli to keep time

News

Technology

Tiny origami robot self-folds, walks and recycles itself

News

Space

Philae awakes: What next for probe after 7 month nap on comet?

News

Earth

Green awareness in US states linked to success in emissions cuts

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Voice recognition is so good I wrote this story without typing

News

Technology

Style software gives fashion tips after judging what you wear

News

Life

This single-celled bug has the world's most extraordinary eye

News

Earth

Pope's moral mission on global warming to shift US climate wars

News

Health

Death of the autopsy leaves us in the dark about misdiagnosis

News

Space

Einstein kills Schrödinger's cat: Relativity ruins quantum world

News

Earth

Dual asteroid strike hints at chaos in the inner solar system

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

NASA plans first interplanetary CubeSat mission for Mars lander

News

Life

Homosexuality 'not un-African': report undermines anti-gay laws

News

Life

Zoologger: Decorator crabs accessorise to avoid being eaten

News

Earth

UK fracking wells get thumbs up from planners

News

Health

Get stuffed: Super-filling food satisfies your hunger for longer

News

Opinion

I want to give you a thoughtful home, not just a smart one

Technology

I want to give you a thoughtful home, not just a smart one

After many false dawns, smart home technology is ready to start taking care of you – and maybe even your diary – says Tony Fadell, CEO of Nest Labs

Opinion

Earth

A green divide to keep us and nature apart would harm, not heal

Opinion

Earth

'Plant messiah' dodges crocodiles to save rare water lilies

Opinion

Aperture

If you go down to the rainforest today: The fungal realm

Earth

If you go down to the rainforest today: The fungal realm

(Image: Steve Axford / http://steveaxford.smugmug.com/) PHOTOGRAPHER Steve Axford found this Schizophyllum fungus growing in his backyard. And what's so special about his backyard? It's pretty big for a start. Axford owns more than 3 hectares of lowland subtropical rainforest close to Byron Bay in New South Wales, Australia. There's even a platypus living in the …

Regulars

Features

Coral comeback: Reefs have secret weapon against climate change

Earth

Coral comeback: Reefs have secret weapon against climate change

Far from being helpless against warming, acidifying seas, corals are actually plucky little fighters with a few tricks up their sleeves

Features

Hubble at 25: The most inspirational images from space

Features

Life

Self-confidence school: Can you really fake it to make it?

Features

Space

WIMPZILLAs: Monster particles from the dawn of time

Features

Culturelab

<i>How to see the world</i>: Understanding our visual culture

Earth

How to see the world: Understanding our visual culture

Earth is changing fast, and so is how we look at it. In a new book, Nicholas Mirzoeff traces the true impact of the images that surround us

CultureLab

Earth

Spirals in Time: Uncover the secrets in seashells

CultureLab

Earth

Conservation dilemmas: Is a shopping mall as alive as a wolf?

CultureLab

More

Polar bear caught eating dolphins and freezing the leftovers

Life

Polar bear caught eating dolphins and freezing the leftovers

(Image: © Samuel Blanc / www.sblanc.com) They're two of the world's most loved animals – but there's little love between them. Jon Aars of the Norwegian Polar Institute and his colleagues have made the first ever observations of polar bears eating white-beaked dolphins that had ventured too far north – in fact, they saw this …

Regulars

Regulars

Feedback: A mind-bending law looms

Feedback: A mind-bending law looms

(Image: Paul McDevitt) Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more A mind-bending law looms RECREATIONAL drugs have strange effects on people, most notably those trying to ban them. The UK government intends to outlaw "legal highs", the synthetic analogues designed to sidestep existing prohibition. Feedback has studied …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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