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25 March 2017

Issue 3118

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Life

Can data save rhinos? How to attack wildlife crime at source

News
It's time new media companies admitted that that's what they are

Technology

It's time new media companies admitted that that's what they are

News
snow geese

Life

This bird has flown: Unravelling the mysteries of bird migration

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Beetroot for AIDS: Fighting denialism in Mbeki’s South Africa

Features
brain artwork

Humans

Mind the gaps: The holes in your brain that make you smart

Features
food artwork

Earth

Tomorrow's menu: Termites, grass and synthetic milk

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Table of contents

Leaders

It's time new media companies admitted that that's what they are

Technology

It's time new media companies admitted that that's what they are

Social media titans like Facebook claim to exercise no control over their content. It’s time they dropped the pretence and picked up their responsibilities

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The Andromeda galaxy

Space

Dark matter took its time to wrap around early galaxies

Andromeda's stars all orbit at similar speeds Darkness gathers – but it can take time. About 10 billion years ago, massive star-forming galaxies were dominated by normal matter, not the dark matter that’s so influential in galaxies today. If spiral galaxies were only made up of the matter that we can see, stars at the …

News

Life

O my! Paper strip test determines blood type in just 30 seconds

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Vision saved by first induced pluripotent stem cell treatment

News

Life

Chimp filmed cleaning a corpse’s teeth in a mortuary-like ritual

News

Life

These fish are evolving right now to become land-dwellers

News

Life

Recoded organism paves way to new genetic language of life

News

Technology

Robot eavesdrops on men and women to see how much they talk

News

Technology

UK government pulls ads from YouTube in extremist content row

News

Space

Cosmological ruler could help us get the measure of dark energy

News

Technology

E-tattoos turn knuckles and freckles into smartphone controls

News

Space

Gentle breeze may help Venus's atmosphere spin like crazy

News

Earth

On front line of climate change as Maldives fights rising seas

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Exposed: Soviet cover-up of nuclear fallout worse than Chernobyl

News

Technology

3D-printed bacteria could make bespoke graphene-like materials

News

Space

Mysterious water-like streaks on Mars might be sand flows instead

News

Life

Parrots find ‘laughter’ contagious and high-five in mid air

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Deadly, drug-resistant Candida yeast infection spreads in the US

News

Technology

Special glasses give people superhuman colour vision

News

Technology

Electronic devices banned on US-bound flights from 8 countries

News

Technology

Artificial lungs in a backpack may free people with lung failure

News

Space

ExoMars dips into the Martian atmosphere to sniff for life

News

Environment

US climate science in the firing line for Trump's first budget

News

Global warming worsened snowpack loss in California's drought

News

Weather and climate extremes continue to set new records

News

Earth

60 Seconds

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Old blood can be made young again and it might fight ageing

News

First dinosaurs may have been omnivores in the north hemisphere

News

Technology

Robots could help children give evidence in child abuse cases

News

Technology

Atomic clocks make best measurement yet of relativity of time

News

Analysis

A poster with Donals Trump as a child in Vladimir Putin's arms with the text

Earth

Scott Pruitt's climate denial may be Putin's real prize

Anti-Trump protesters often focus on his links with Russia Scott Pruitt, US Environmental Protection Agency chief, made headlines last week for his reply when asked whether carbon dioxide is the primary control knob for climate . His answer was slippery. "Measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do," he …

News

Humans

New autism blood test likely to join ranks of also-rans

News

Life

Can data save rhinos? How to attack wildlife crime at source

News

Space

A little less ET, a little more astrophysics, if you please

News

Aperture

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Life

The beautiful bird corpses left by illegal Maltese sharpshooters

IF IT flies, it dies. That seems to be the motto for hunters on the Mediterranean island of Malta, currently serving as a staging post for millions of migratory birds (see " This bird has flown: Unravelling the mysteries of bird migration "). Every spring, these travellers seek rest and recuperation in the island's fields …

Regulars

Features

brain artwork

Humans

Mind the gaps: The holes in your brain that make you smart

A map of the brain’s wiring reveals the spaces may be just as important as the connections – and you have the holes to thank for your most impressive mental feats

Features

Earth

Tomorrow's menu: Termites, grass and synthetic milk

Features

Life

This bird has flown: Unravelling the mysteries of bird migration

Features

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Beetroot for AIDS: Fighting denialism in Mbeki’s South Africa

Features

Culture

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Technology

War by any means: The story of DARPA

With the nature of war changing fast, what goes on in the Pentagon’s most secretive research agency, asks the first insider to lift the lid in The Imagineers of War

Culture

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Can a new history of vaccination silence doubters?

Culture

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Make cartoon

Technology

Thrills and spills: We built a sentry duck for our bath

Here’s a quacking idea for a stress-free soak in the tub. All you need is a rubber ducky, plastic tubing, an alarm system, a ball bearing, a hacksaw...

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Regulars

cartoon in a hospital

Feedback: Placenta pills promise new mums more Vitamin U

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

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