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12 November 2016

Issue 3099

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Forget Trump and Brexit, let’s all go live in the internet

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An excess of honour could help explain the appeal of Trump

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Danger and drama on mountains of lava: Tales of a volcano chaser

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Reputation is everything: Unearthing honour culture in America

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Reputation is everything: Unearthing honour culture in America

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Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing

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Beyond batteries: This technology could revolutionise energy

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We must take the poison out of the 'shaken baby syndrome' debate

WHAT'S worse: letting a baby-killer go free, or wrongly convicting a parent or carer of shaking a baby to death? That agonising question was first brought to our attention in 1997 when British au pair Louise Woodward was convicted of murder – later downgraded to involuntary manslaughter – in the US. The controversy over "shaken …

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Humans

An excess of honour could help explain the appeal of Trump

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Sword-slashing sailfish hint at origins of cooperative hunting

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Sword-slashing sailfish hint at origins of cooperative hunting

  Sailfish circle the school and break a small section off Cooperation makes it happen. Sailfish that work together in groups to hunt sardines can catch more fish than if they hunt alone, even without a real coordinated strategy. To catch their sardine dinner, a group of sailfish circle a school of sardines – known …

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Glasses make face recognition tech think you're Milla Jovovich

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Life

Bees collect honeydew from bugs before spring blossoms arrive

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Earth

Court orders UK to take urgent action to reduce air pollution

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Life

Desert lizard can sip water from sand through its feet and back

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Life

Pasta spirals link neutron stars and the machinery of your cells

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Life

Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier

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Space

China's Long March 5 heavy-lift rocket takes first flight

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Every 50 cigarettes smoked cause one DNA mutation per lung cell

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Technology

Binge-watching videos teaches computers to recognise sounds

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Technology

Face electrodes let you taste and chew in virtual reality

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Space

Mickey Mouse ears may explain universe’s biggest explosions

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Earth

Trials planned for GM superwheat that boosts harvest by 20%

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Technology

Robot surgeon can slice eyes finely enough to remove cataracts

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Earth

Huge lake discovered 15 kilometres under a volcano

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Life

Islands in the sky used as Noah's ark for threatened plants

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Laser probe lets brain surgeons identify cancer cells with sound

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Strict breastfeeding rules don't work and can hurt young babies

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Controversial India-Japan nuclear deal to be signed this week

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One Per Cent

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Hundreds choked in Iraq as toxic smoke sweeps across Mosul

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Space

Exoplanet hunters are missing 75 per cent of two-star worlds

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Speedy bat flies at 160km/h, smashing bird speed record

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60 Seconds

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Evidence of 'shaken baby' questioned by controversial study

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Implants hack reflexes to let paralysed monkeys move their legs

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Space

Dark energy could force the universe to gradually unzip itself

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Analysis

Don't let sugary science skew the battle to regulate junk food

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Don't let sugary science skew the battle to regulate junk food

Upbeat, industry-backed research that casts doubt on the health impact of sugary drinks should be treated as lobbying against regulation, says David Miller

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Could Facebook posts skew your life? It's already happening

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Time to end the damaging battle over chronic fatigue syndrome

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Forget Trump and Brexit, let’s all go live in the internet

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Dark waves tower during violent storm on Lake Erie

HOKUSAI, eat your heart out. Here, the iconic Japanese artist's woodcut waves are transformed into the real deal. In the North American autumn, Arctic air meets warmer air from the south, creating the perfect conditions for storms. Wind rages around all of the Great Lakes at this time of year, but Lake Erie, pictured here, …

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Technology

Beyond batteries: This technology could revolutionise energy

Forget lithium battery fires: a safe, turbo-charged alternative way to store power could boost everything from smartphones to smart grids

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Humans

Reputation is everything: Unearthing honour culture in America

Features

Humans

Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing

Features

Earth

Danger and drama on mountains of lava: Tales of a volcano chaser

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Culture

The Electric Kool-Aid language test

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The Electric Kool-Aid language test

Major figures in the world of linguistics get the Tom Wolfe treatment – but how will this story end?

Culture

Technology

What if we are victims of an AI's singularity?

Culture

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Feedback: Place a call for help from the defibrillating phonebox

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

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