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10 June 2017

Issue 3129

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Celebrating the ratification of the Paris Agreement

Earth

Trump ditching Paris climate deal isn't the end of the world

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election

Technology

The quiet battle over science in the UK general election

News
big bang

Space

The Higgs bang: The particle that blew up the universe

Features
Midgley

Technology

Inventor hero was a one-man environmental disaster

Features
skyscrapers

Life

Life aloft: The unexplored ecosystem above your head

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Causing a stink: The truth about fragrances and your health

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Don't forget the lessons of deadly lead

Politicians who say environmental regulations are an unnecessary burden are ignorant of history and contemptuous of future generations

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Technology

The quiet battle over science in the UK general election

News

News

AI will be able to beat us at everything by 2060, say experts

Technology

AI will be able to beat us at everything by 2060, say experts

What will AI win at next? Enjoy beating robots while you still can. There is a 50 per cent chance that machines will outperform humans in all tasks within 45 years, according to a survey of more than 350 artificial intelligence researchers. AI will master many activities a lot sooner, though. Machines are predicted to …

News

Life

Brain switch in voles makes them fall in love at first sight

News

Life

Watch cuttlefish apparently pretending to walk just like crabs

News

Life

Ticks use sticky pads on their feet to cling on to our skin

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Human tests suggest young blood cuts cancer and Alzheimer's risk

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Humans

Photos of human faces reassembled from monkeys’ brain signals

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Space

LIGO’s third detection hints at how black hole binaries are born

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Unhealthy vagina microbiome can make HIV drugs less effective

News

Life

Mars rover sees signs of microbe-friendly layers in ancient lake

News

Life

Extinct species of Galapagos giant tortoise may be resurrected

News

Earth

Huge ice age methane blowout is ill omen for glacier retreat

News

Technology

Automatic sign language translators turn signing into text

News

Life

The strange Cook pine trees that always lean towards the equator

News

Space

The hottest planet yet is twice Jupiter’s size and hot as a star

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Drug that boosts confidence in your own actions may help OCD

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Drinking small amounts while pregnant may affect the baby’s face

News

Technology

Theresa May’s repeated calls to ban encryption still won’t work

News

Earth

Accelerating Antarctic crack will hasten calving of huge iceberg

News

Technology

Robots will be more useful if they are made to lack confidence

News

Space

SpaceX launches first reused Dragon capsule full of research

News

Humans

Our species may be 150,000 years older than we thought

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Promising results from new drugs for prostate and ovarian cancer

News

Technology

Google blocker to eliminate bad ads and let users go ad-free

News

Life

60 Seconds

News

Technology

Robot dog has an artificial woof that sounds like the real thing

News

Analysis

naturally occurring phytoplankton bloom

Earth

Geoengineering fears make scrutiny of ocean seeding test vital

Talk of dumping iron into the ocean off Chile to boost plankton is a return of a controversial idea that warrants questions, says Olive Heffernan

News

Technology

How to combat the dark Facebook ads aiming to swing UK voters

News

Earth

Trump ditching Paris climate deal isn't the end of the world

News

Space

NASA is right to pay homage to the living for the first time

News

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Humans

Brain images display the beauty and complexity of consciousness

THIS is what consciousness looks like – but these aren't brain scans. Neuroscientist-turned-artist Greg Dunn created the art, aided by artist and physicist Brian Edwards, largely by hand, and using a special etching technique. "The piece was designed to be an unprecedented image of the brain," says Dunn of his project, titled Self Reflected. The …

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Features

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Space

The Higgs bang: The particle that blew up the universe

It gives everything mass, and now some people think the Higgs boson sparked the stupendous split-second inflation that made the cosmos we see today

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Causing a stink: The truth about fragrances and your health

Features

Life

Life aloft: The unexplored ecosystem above your head

Features

Technology

Inventor hero was a one-man environmental disaster

Features

Culture

MetLife Tower

Space

Final demands: We explore sci-fi's unworldly money troubles

Humanity may struggle to meet the costs of the futures featured in our round-up of recent science fiction books by Abigail Nussbaum

Culture

Space

µþ°ù±ð³¦³ó³Ù’s Life of Galileo pumped up for the 21st century

Culture

Technology

The stories we tell have the power to shape our future

Culture

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Crossword #7

Our monthly invitation to scientific linguistic gymnastics

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UKIP spaceman cartoon

Feedback: UKIP candidate wants interstellar space mission

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

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Letters

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