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20 February 2016

Issue 3061

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Life

Effects of being born prematurely shouldn't have to last forever

Opinion
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Premature birth: How its effects can stay with you for life

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Earth

The big carbon clean-up: 2 steps to stop global warming at 1.5 °C

Features
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Technology

Web of lies: Is the internet making a world without truth?

Features
Coral spawning

Life

Playing Cupid to get reluctant corals in the mood for love

Features

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Leaders

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Earth

Aircraft and ships must not be exempt from emissions cuts

The deal to limit global warming to 1.5 °C has no chance of success unless aviation and shipping pay for the pollution they cause

Opinion

Life

Effects of being born prematurely shouldn't have to last forever

Opinion

News

Famous pianist Glenn Gould looks at a piece of Bach's sheet music

Life

Mind-reading tech helps beginners quickly learn to play Bach

Even Glenn Gould was a beginner once Every potential virtuoso needs a mentor. It just so happens that this one is a computer. Called BACh - for Brain Automated Chorales – the system helps beginners learn to play Bach chorales on piano by measuring how hard their brains are working. It only offers a new …

News

Space

$19 billion NASA budget for 2017 still not enough to get to Mars

News

Life

Mammal brain frozen and thawed out perfectly for first time

News

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Use vaccines as a weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria

News

Life

White shark's diet may include biggest fish of all: whale shark

News

Technology

App tries to fetch medical help before cardiac arrest kills you

News

Earth

Earth's rarest minerals could hint at life on other planets

News

Earth

Beautiful amber fossil flower reveals plant history of New World

News

Life

Your immune system becomes like your partner's when you cohabit

News

Environment

Death of Justice Antonin Scalia may shift US climate change laws

News

Life

Bald ibis among wildlife driven to extinction in Syria and Libya

News

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Take exams early in the morning to get a higher score

News

NASA spacecraft could plumb depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

News

Technology

Brain scan for artificial intelligence shows how software thinks

News

Earth

Test-driving the hydrogen car that makes a little go a long way

News

Life

Diagnostic app can reveal cause of death without a doctor

News

Earth

One Per Cent

News

Life

Exercise slows growth of cancer in marathon mice

News

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UK task force hits out at mental health underspending

News

Technology

Tenth of AI money should go on discussing its dangers and impact

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'No evidence' women can pass on Zika virus via sex

News

The 'Pirate Bay' of research is back online

News

60 Seconds

News

What will gravitational waves tell us about the universe?

News

Humans

Our first sex with Neanderthals happened 100,000 years ago

News

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Sound wave therapy is first alternative to Viagra in 15 years

News

Life

How to prove controversial consciousness theory? Ask a physicist

News

Space

Long-lost stellar siblings probe the Milky Way's violent history

News

Opinion

The formula for carbon dioxide drawn on a chalkboard

Earth

Hey US science teachers, leave those climate myths alone

Accurate teaching needed Are US schools doing a good job teaching climate change ? That's a crucial question, given that children now in classrooms will be the ones dealing with the serious impacts of a warming world as adults. The answer, according to a report out today , is distressing. Based on a comprehensive survey …

Opinion

Humans

In science, is honesty really always the best policy?

Opinion

Technology

End of tough sanctions will mean the revival of Iranian science

Opinion

Aperture

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Earth

Giant mountains of green glass prepare to face the heat

THIS is no green and pleasant land. These gentle rolling hills are, in fact, shards of glass, piled up at a recycling centre in Yeruham, in the heart of Israel's Negev desert. They stand 15 metres high and span the length of a few football pitches. Phoenicia Glass Works is the only producer of glass …

Regulars

Features

Coral spawning

Life

Playing Cupid to get reluctant corals in the mood for love

A tropical sea, a sunset, a full moon – that’s what normally turns on exotic corals. So how do you get them spawning in a London aquarium?

Features

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Premature birth: How its effects can stay with you for life

Features

Technology

Web of lies: Is the internet making a world without truth?

Features

Earth

The big carbon clean-up: 2 steps to stop global warming at 1.5 °C

Features

Culturelab

Douglas Coupland’s Deep Face: one of the show’s more evocative works

Technology

Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966): Backwards to the future

Douglas Coupland’s Deep Face : one of the show’s more evocative works Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) , Whitechapel Gallery, London, to 15 May 2016 BACKWARDS. It’s an unusual way to lay out a retrospective, but that’s how the Whitechapel Gallery has arranged Electronic Superhighway, its new exhibition of art after the internet’s emergence. “We wanted to …

CultureLab

Life

Cheats and Deceits: The story of how to stay alive

CultureLab

Regulars

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Life

Feedback: Conspiracy theories about Zika are breeding like flies

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

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Letters

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