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Life

Europe’s refugees: Making a drama out of a crisis

Health

Why music therapy is making a comeback

Environment

Magical morphing jumbo squid are taking over the eastern Pacific

Earth

Modern-day alchemy is putting the periodic table under pressure

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Leaders

Life

Europe’s refugees: Making a drama out of a crisis

Our response to the Syrian refugee crisis is driven by fiction, not facts. Only evidence-based policies have any hope of working

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Stonehenge mystery deepens with discovery of 30 new stones

Remote sensing surveys have revealed a vast monument near Stonehenge: it had up to 90 enormous stones in a horseshoe shape half a kilometre wide

Everyone in the US and Australia owes $12,000 in CO2 emissions

Alzheimer’s may have been transmitted via human growth hormone

Health

MERS warning as pilgrims prepare to visit Mecca during outbreak

Environment

Seal fur and Arctic bacteria leach toxic mercury into waters

60 Seconds

Earth

Climate change could submerge rocket launch sites, warns NASA

Earth

Armchair fossil hunters use drone photos to find ancient bones

Humans

New species of extinct human found in cave may rewrite history

Health

Why welcoming more refugees makes economic sense for Europe

Spider galaxies spotted eating gas caught in the cosmic web

Health

Cancer trap grabs wandering tumour cells to warn of early spread

Physics

Supernova simulator recreates elements that form when stars die

Health

Donated liposuction stem cells could heal difficult wounds

Health

HIV may kill most cells by a method overlooked for years

Environment

Hawk’s invisible force shield protects hummingbird from jays

Technology

Faster London trains could make your commute even longer

Health

Stone-age people were making porridge 32,000 years ago

Environment

Key enzyme helps country kids ward off allergies and asthma

Environment

Zoologger: A spider that looks and smells like bird droppings

Life

Blockchain startups promises a world where no one is in charge

Technology

One Per Cent

Health

Mental health apps let you access therapy from your smartphone

Opinion

Free brave blue-skies researchers to refuel economic growth

Economies grow because of scientific breakthroughs 鈥� but budget cuts, bureaucrats and overcautious research priorities are strangling them, warns Donald Braben

Technology

Guns locked to owners’ identities could stop needless deaths

Life

Can software suffer? Death and pain in digital brains

Aperture

Life

Corals glow in spectacular colours thanks to 鈥榝luo-dive’ lights

Seen with the naked eye, none of these sea creatures would be so colourful. But blasted with intense blue light they fluoresce, creating a beautiful light show

Features

Earth

Modern-day alchemy is putting the periodic table under pressure

Elements are transformed under the huge pressures far underground and within stars. Harnessing this extreme chemistry could yield astonishing new technologies

Environment

Magical morphing jumbo squid are taking over the eastern Pacific

Health

Why music therapy is making a comeback

Culture

Can big theatre successfully embrace big science?

Photograph 51 is the latest play to fall in love with the ideas of science 鈥� but can theatre really handle them, asks critic Stewart Pringle

Technology

Autumn’s science books weigh up humanity’s future options

Life

Evolution: The whole story proves no lifeform is dull

Regulars

Feedback: the political games in species names

Plus why paper titles should be short and sweet, redefining sex, and the soapy secret of a beauty bestseller

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Uncommon ancestor

Nutty question

Fishy hell

Chromatic quandary

Deckchair port

Ears tuned

Dung addicts

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5 September 2015