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This week's magazine

18 November 2017

Issue 3152

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Josiah Zayner

Humans

Biohackers are using CRISPR on their DNA and we can't stop it

News
leader

Humans

Why the male infertility crisis could be good news for women

News
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Humans

Grand delusions: Why we all believe the weirdest things

Features
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Humans

Wrong division: How maths can save democracy from gerrymandering

Features
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We're heading for a male fertility crisis and we're not prepared

Features
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Life

The ingenious priest who discovered how bats 'see' in the dark

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

leader

Humans

Why the male infertility crisis could be good news for women

The steep decline in sperm counts is an opportunity to finally dispel the idea that fertility is primarily a women’s issue

News

News

Facebook can make your profile pic wink and scowl

Technology

Facebook can make your profile pic wink and scowl

Here's looking at you In Harry Potter's universe, people in portraits and pictures don't just sit there. They smile, gasp, wink, or get up to mischief. Facebook has been hard at work making this a reality for your profile pic as well. Their new tool only requires a single image of a face as input. …

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Daytime injuries heal twice as fast as wounds sustained at night

News

Life

Giant coconut crab sneaks up on a sleeping bird and kills it

News

Space

Giant star smash-up may have made the biggest neutron star ever

News

Physics

A 'magic number' of people walking across a bridge makes it sway

News

Space

Tracking the first interstellar asteroid back to its home star

News

Technology

Charge your phone using ambient light and printed solar cells

News

Life

Watch a monkey floss its teeth with a bird feather

News

Technology

Grow fake versions of rare delicacies like sea urchin at home

News

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Gluten-sensitive? It may actually be a carb making you ill

News

Space

Neptune’s other moons were normal until Triton crashed the party

News

Earth

Bad news: Carbon emissions have suddenly started rising again

News

Earth

Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

News

Technology

Why people ruin others’ lives by exposing all their data online

News

Technology

Tinfoil hat for your router stops bad guys snooping your Wi-Fi

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Brain implant boosts human memory by mimicking how we learn

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How social stress makes your brain vulnerable to depression

News

Space

Should we seed life through the cosmos using laser-driven ships?

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Coffee and plant-based diets linked to lower heart failure risk

News

Humans

Big aftershocks could well hit Iran and Iraq in next 48 hours

News

Space

The 'space nation' Asgardia just launched its first satellite

News

Humans

Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

News

Life

Prairie vole partners split up if one drinks more than the other

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NHS reforms have failed to boost community-based care in England

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Digital drug tells your doctor when you've taken your medicine

News

IBM has built two new quantum computers with 20 and 50 qubits

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Porpoises twist laws of physics to aim their focused sonar beams

News

Analysis

Donald Trump on his own

Earth

When it comes to climate, Donald Trump is in a club by himself

With pariah state Syria now backing the UN pact to curb global warming, the US stands against the other 195 nations of the world. What a disgrace, says Owen Gaffney

News

Humans

Power really can corrupt people. Here's what to do about it

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Medical cannabis vendors must stop making bogus health claims

News

Humans

Biohackers are using CRISPR on their DNA and we can't stop it

News

Aperture

marble

Earth

The exquisite marble that sculptor Michelangelo couldn't use

DON'T look down. This is the Cervaiole marble quarry on Mount Altissimo, high in Italy's Apuan Alps. Safely roped in, these workers are removing loose rocks that might fall when marble blocks weighing nearly 10,000 kilograms are removed. Despite being more than a kilometre above sea level, the marble here was discovered by the Renaissance …

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Features

man and baby

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We're heading for a male fertility crisis and we're not prepared

Fertility has been considered a woman's problem for so long, but sperm counts are dropping and men have a ticking clock too. It's time to redress the balance

Features

Humans

Wrong division: How maths can save democracy from gerrymandering

Features

Humans

Grand delusions: Why we all believe the weirdest things

Features

Life

The ingenious priest who discovered how bats 'see' in the dark

Features

Culture

Enigma machine

Technology

Cracking it: Enigma’s Alan Turing and Linear B’s Michael Ventris

A wide-ranging exhibition in Cambridge, UK, celebrates two geniuses: one broke Nazi codes, the other cracked an ancient script

Culture

Humans

What makes you a psychopath or an extreme altruist?

Culture

More

cheetah

Life

Put your best foot forward to help animal conservation

OUR planet's astonishing biodiversity is vanishing at a rate 1000 times faster than at any time in history. The populations of many of our most charismatic species, such as the black rhino and Amur tiger, are teetering on the edge. But to halt this catastrophe in its tracks and to protect these species more effectively, …

Regulars

Regulars

lion cartoon

Feedback: Kenya's chief censor has claws out for gay pride

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

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Regulars

Letters

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