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Spiralling galaxy arms spread oxygen around for future planets

Immigrant protections have halved kids’ mental health problems

Blind children should be allowed to learn to echolocate like me
Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may have the right conditions for water

Your teenager’s biology demands later school starts and lie-ins

India floods: Apartment building collapses in Mumbai

Lizard-bot spins its coiled tail to move easily through sand

We’ve just seen 15 new mysterious cosmic radio bursts from space

Explosions heard at flooded Texas chemical plant after hurricane

Will psychedelics for depression be just another false dawn?

‘Mother’ coral reefs are breathing life into their neighbours

Lego-like vacuum robot climbs walls and sorts your Tupperware

Hidden pockets of turbulent gas fuel stars in far-off galaxies

Is donating your DNA to the NHS worth the privacy risks?

Human blood and skin cells used to treat Parkinson’s in monkeys

Weird ancient burst of light in the sky turns out to be a nova

Fatal AI mistakes could be prevented by having human teachers

Brazil rejects bid to drill for oil near unique Amazon reef

We’ve seen how our brains file away memories for the first time

Nobody knows how these baby stars got so close to our black hole

Snow leopards aren’t as rare as we thought – but aren’t safe yet Australia plans random drug tests for people receiving welfare

It only takes a few gene tweaks to make a human voice

One of Europa’s plumes may not exist, making hunt for life hard

Photos of skinny women affect people’s minds in just 15 minutes

Will Google’s targeted depression tests really help people?

Thorium could power the next generation of nuclear reactors

Medieval London was the most violent place in England

Texas may be just as vulnerable when next big hurricane hits

North Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan for first time

NASA insists it is going to Mars, but it really can’t afford to Your broadband provider can use your smart devices to spy on you

Make the military-industrial complex great again

Stainless steel sinks may up your risk of legionnaires’ disease

Low-ranked female monkeys band together against their leaders

China’s quantum submarine detector could seal South China Sea ‘Alien megastructure’ star may host Saturn-like exoplanet

Mummy autopsy reveals earliest known case of liver parasite

Large non-native species like donkeys can boost biodiversity

Eat a seasonal diet and your gut microbes may change in sync

Twisted carbon nanotubes harness waste energy and put it to work

AI uses bitcoin trail to find and help sex-trafficking victims

Male athletes with higher world rankings are better looking

Monkeys can see faces in inanimate things, just like us Wonky signals from distant stars could be sign of exocomets

Exclusive: We may have detected a new kind of gravitational wave

Secret lifestyle of the dodo revealed for the first time

Stressed out GCSE kids need more mental health help

Doing meth raises the risk of strokes in young people

Robot suit helps children with cerebral palsy to walk better

IBM to investigate role of microbiome in autoimmune disorders

Icy hard drives cram 5300 movies onto a postage stamp

Lithium in tap water seems to both raise and lower dementia risk

Elon Musk shows off first photo of SpaceX space suit

Magic mushroom chemical may be a hallucinogenic insect repellent

First underwater entanglement could lead to unhackable comms

Wiping out a population of animals might help the species

Why aren’t we testing whether planes can survive a drone crash?

Bacterial optical fibre helps shine lasers through murky waters

Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work

I watched the eclipse with scientists hunting the sun’s secrets

The push for UK fracking may be 55 million years too late

Can’t stop procrastinating? Try cognitive behaviour therapy

Scanning your brain can predict what will happen in the future

Atomic assembly lines are a small victory for chemists

Low-calorie pizza and burgers won’t fix our child obesity crisis

Antarctic mystery microbe could tell us where viruses came from

It could be snowing on Mars right now
Solving how fish swim so well may help design underwater robots

Inside the fighter jet of the future where AI is the pilot

Great American Eclipse: Everything you need to know to get ready

To tackle extremism, we need to know the enemy

Meet the turtles surviving an invasion of enormous tractors

Choosing alternative cancer treatment doubles your risk of death

Why adding a drop of water can make whisky taste even better

Why UK midwives are back-pedalling on natural childbirth

Can a crowdsourced mega-forest offset Trump’s climate chaos?

Netflix vegan hit What the Health serves up lots of bad science

Grown-up chimps are less likely to help distressed friends

Genetic test helps people avoid statins that may cause them pain

Solar eclipse will reveal the roiling fog of plasma we call home

Stem cell technique could reverse a major type of infertility

Speedy white dwarf may have survived a rare type of supernova

Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar

Culture not biology is behind many differences between the sexes

Vitamin C helps genes to kill off cells that would cause cancer

Shutting down neo-Nazi Daily Stormer sets a dangerous precedent

How menopause and Alzheimer’s change the brain in similar ways

Our greatest creation: Where maths comes from and what it’s for A honeybee struggles to escape the grip of a fearsome beewolf

All you need to know about the menopause (but nobody tells you)

Hellblade, a game route into the world of psychosis

Chemical controllers: How hormones influence your body and mind

How to extinguish the inflammation epidemic

Psychedelic medicine: the potential, the people, the politics

Awesome awe: The emotion that gives us superpowers

Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

7 ways that your dog is all too human

The man who reads dog minds and personalities in a brain scanner

‘Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

The porker paradox: A very human dilemma

Chris Hadfield: We should live on the moon before a trip to Mars

Solar eclipses: heaven-sent chance to mix art and science

Bringing the Royal Observatory at Greenwich back to life

America’s total eclipse: The best guides to how to prepare

Win lunch with an astronaut

Calming figures: The numbers that maintain harmony around us Authority figures: The numbers that rule them all Fraudulent figures: The numbers that say when things are fishy

Figures of fun: The quirkiest numbers we know

The geometry that could reveal the true nature of space-time

The brothers who went missing on a glacier for almost 90 years

We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how Why am I rubbish at maths? And other curious questions answered

Enter the Scopus Awards for Australia and New Zealand

Psychedelics pioneer keeps his inner hippy in check

Ingredient-swapping web browser is a recipe for disaster

New Scientist Live is back

Feedback: North American eclipse heralds arrival of doomsayers

Anatomy of terror: What makes normal people become extremists?

A play called Against doesn’t know what it’s for Gas-filled black balloons create eerie floating worlds

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