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5 July 2014

Issue 2976

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Drop the eco-pessimism – you can make a greener world

Earth

Drop the eco-pessimism – you can make a greener world

Opinion
We can build a sustainable world – if you want it

Earth

We can build a sustainable world – if you want it

Features
Man up: Is testosterone an elixir of youth?

Health

Man up: Is testosterone an elixir of youth?

Features
How to kill knotweed: Let slip the bugs of war

Earth

How to kill knotweed: Let slip the bugs of war

Features
Solar flair: The wonder material shaking up sun power

Technology

Solar flair: The wonder material shaking up sun power

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

Drop the eco-pessimism – you can make a greener world

Earth

Drop the eco-pessimism – you can make a greener world

After six years cleaning up England's environment, the Environment Agency's outgoing chair is in no mood for surrender

Opinion

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Pillars of creation built by big stellar bubble

Space

Pillars of creation built by big stellar bubble

Video: Stellar bubble creates 'pillars of creation' Did bubbles from stars create the "pillars of creation"? Building a towering cosmic icon may be as easy as blowing bubbles. Simulations of the billowing wind from a massive star may reveal how the famous "pillars of creation" were created. The finger-like columns of interstellar gas and dust …

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Earth

Huge 'whirlpools' in the ocean are driving the weather

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Life

A vampire mite injected this bee with a deadly virus

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Technology

Make robots useful by teaching them to talk like us

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Earth

Melting ice puts emperor penguins on a slippery slope

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Life

Supercool livers to keep transplant window open

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Health

Threatwatch: Top malaria drug may lose punch in Africa

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Space

Swedish space rock may be piece of early life puzzle

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Space

Biggest X-ray eye in space to hunt hot cosmic objects

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Health

Diabetes drugs may sometimes do more harm than good

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Physics

Longest-running experiment gets a fast forward

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Space

'Flying saucer' airbag for Mars splashes down in Hawaii

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Humans

Facebook emotional manipulation experiment causes ire

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60 Seconds

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Earth

Ancient water cache may be pristine primordial soup

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Life

Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain

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Space

Biggest void in universe may explain cosmic cold spot

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Space

Magnetic bubble may give space probes a soft landing

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Technology

The AI boss that deploys Hong Kong's subway engineers

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Technology

Google and Apple battle for the key to your smart home

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Technology

One Per Cent

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Earth

El Niño will make Indonesia's deforestation even worse

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Health

Kill cattle not badgers to halt UK's TB epidemic

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Health

Designer red blood cells could move drugs around body

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Life

Tibetan altitude gene came from extinct human species

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Science ignored in US birth control ruling

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Opinion

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Life

How to curb the threat of homecoming jihadist fighters

Research has shed enough light on jihadist fighters and radicalisation to help us mitigate the ISIS threat

Opinion

Life

I'm modelling whale ways to keep them safe from ships

Opinion

Technology

We must prepare for superintelligent computers

Opinion

Aperture

The common crane and its violin cry

Life

The common crane and its violin cry

(Image: Dieter Damschen ) THIS common crane, preening itself at Lake Ganzen in Germany, has an extraordinary adaptation. Its windpipe, or trachea, is three or more times as long as would be expected for a bird of this size – even one with a long neck. Instead of going straight from the bill to the …

Regulars

Features

We can build a sustainable world – if you want it

Earth

We can build a sustainable world – if you want it

Would you want to live in the sustainable world? (Image: Adam Simpson) Healthy, happy and peaceful – that's what life will be like if we choose to tackle climate change and overconsumption. But will a green economy be any fun? THE system isn't working. Or, depending on your point of view, it's working too well. …

Features

Health

Man up: Is testosterone an elixir of youth?

Features

Earth

How to kill knotweed: Let slip the bugs of war

Features

Technology

Solar flair: The wonder material shaking up sun power

Features

Culturelab

How the moon lost its magic even before Apollo 11

Space

How the moon lost its magic even before Apollo 11

Because it's there? Motivation for the space race was conflicted (Image: Yvonne De Rosa/Millennium Images) In No Requiem for the Space Age , a new history of NASA's Apollo programme, Matthew D. Tribbe says the moon landings came too late for Americans tired of war "WE HAVE no need of other worlds," wrote Stanislaw Lem, …

CultureLab

Life

A film homage to a brain-damaged friend

CultureLab

Space

Curiosity piqued: The minds behind the Mars missions

CultureLab

Regulars

Feedback: Do solar cells suck sun?

Feedback: Do solar cells suck sun?

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Do solar cells suck sun? SOLAR energy is part of the mix we need to avert climate catastrophe (21 June, p 32) . Improved efficiency may be on the cards (page 42). But what of the risk that solar cells …

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Letters

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