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16 July 2016

Issue 3082

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Darwin's discovery: The remarkable history of evolution

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Optimism over cancer treatments should always be cautious

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Optimism over cancer treatments should always be cautious

Efforts to turn everyday drugs into cancer treatments bring a glimmer of hope, but dangers of hype too

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Google’s new NHS deal is start of machine learning marketplace

Collecting valuable data DeepMind, Google’s London-based artificial intelligence company, has started training neural networks to recognise the signs of eye disease in medical images. A partnership with Moorfields Eye Hospital in London has given the company access to about a million anonymised retinal scans, which DeepMind will feed into its artificial intelligence software. The project …

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Women’s heavy periods could be explained by missing protein

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Earth

UK will struggle to meet climate target if fracking goes ahead

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Space

Time for more 2016: leap second will be added to year's end

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Life

Memories of favourite locations have a special place in brain

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Cochlear implants boosted by gene therapy plus tiny LEDs

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Founders of Western civilisation were prehistoric dope dealers

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Technology

Watch a cyborg stingray made of rat heart cells swim using light

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Antibiotic resistance discovered in the guts of ancient mummies

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Life

Secret sexual liaisons explain mystery of night-singing birds

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Mystery of 101-year-old master pianist who has dementia

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Life

Watch the first ever footage of wild coral kissing and fighting

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Physics

Water waves travel back in time to retrace their ripples

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Technology

Pokémon Go is massive data-gathering, augmented reality hit

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Space

Our universe could be reborn as a bouncing baby cosmos

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Earth

Next PM Theresa May often demands the scientifically impossible

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Pomegranate by-product boosts muscles and may fight ageing

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Technology

Trick or tweet, or both? How social media is messing up politics

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One Per Cent

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Setbacks force HIV researchers to focus on remission, not cures

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Humans

Mystery of what sleep does to our brains may finally be solved

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Life

Toxic algal bloom triggers state of emergency in Florida

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Life

Never-before-seen sea creatures filmed in world’s deepest abyss

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Space

Milky Way’s bulge may have been formed by the galaxy buckling

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Space

Baby star illuminates icy wall between rocky planets and giants

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Analysis

Put the butter knife down and step away from the 'sat fat'

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Put the butter knife down and step away from the 'sat fat'

A major US study has undermined the increasingly vocal claims that saturated fat in food poses no risk to health, says Ian Johnson

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Technology

Will AI's bubble pop? Deep learning's hype machine in overdrive

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Humans

Donald Trump is bending reality to get into the American psyche

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Technology

Computer says no? Europeans can now challenge that decision

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The exotic animals that bankrolled the forgotten evolutionist

These are three of more than 100,000 specimens collected by biologist Alfred Russel Wallace in what is now Malaysia and Indonesia. His main interest was insects but he collected and sold striking animals like this Sulawesi hornbill (above) to support his research. Specimens like the orangutan (below) would have been gold dust for Wallace, says …

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Collapse: Has quantum theory's greatest mystery been solved?

Our best theory of reality says things only become real when we look at them. Understanding how the universe came to be requires a better explanation

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Darwin's discovery: The remarkable history of evolution

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Life

Jellymageddon: Can we stop the rise of the jellyfish?

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Culture

Hive from outside

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Listen to secrets of a honeybee hive in Kew’s latest sculpture

Commune with the Hive I’m peering nervously into the hive: about 40,000 bees are clambering all over it. They are in a calm mood today, says Llyr Jones, a volunteer at London’s Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. You know you’re in for trouble, he says, when the hive gives off the smell of bananas, indicative …

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Humans

How inequality is poisoning the world – and how to end it

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Tim Peake: Robots won’t replace me for 100 years

Fresh from his mission on the International Space Station, British ESA astronaut Tim Peake will be at New Scientist Live to talk about his time in space. Here’s a taster

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