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21 May 2016

Issue 3074

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Editor's picks

Microscope image of helicobacter bacteria

Health

Microbiomania: The truth behind the hype about our bodily bugs

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Health gurus, show us the evidence for your diet advice

Health

Health gurus, show us the evidence for your diet advice

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superhabitable AW

Life

There might be a planet better than Earth 鈥 right next door

Features
Sadie Watson

Humans

Spectacular archaeology in the shadow of London's skyscrapers

Features
Juno probe

Life

Pinball planets: How life could start in a violent solar system

Features
free will

Physics

Physics killed free will and time's flow. We need them back

Features
Gigantopithicus AW

Life

Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

Health gurus, show us the evidence for your diet advice

Health

Health gurus, show us the evidence for your diet advice

Belle Gibson and her publisher have been held to account 鈥 so should all the other self-appointed lifestyle experts beloved of mass media

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round, grey blob on micrograph

Earth

Shooting stars show Earth had oxygen eons before we thought

A tiny, 2.7 billion-year-old space rock Few things seem more ephemeral than shooting stars streaking across the sky. Yet the scorched remains of 60 micrometeorites have survived 2.7 billion years in the limestone Tumbiana Formation of Western Australia. They are the oldest space rocks ever discovered on Earth. What's more, the fact that the meteorites …

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Humans

World War Zero brought down mystery civilisation of 'sea people'

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Life

Got dandruff? The bacteria living on your head might be to blame

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Earth

Earlier ice melt in the Arctic cuts survival of birds in Africa

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Health

Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins

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Space

Unnamed dwarf planet may be third largest in the solar system

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Life

Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

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Health

Embryo protein may warn before miscarriage and pre-eclampsia

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Humans

First Americans hunted big game in Florida 14,500 years ago

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Space

Cannibal stars explode violently 鈥 as predicted by Darwin's son

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Humans

White House stumps up millions to probe world's microbiomes

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Life

Synthetic wine made without grapes claims to mimic fine vintages

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Space

Time capsule galaxy can help probe conditions after the big bang

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Space

Identity-crisis comet may really be closest asteroid to the sun

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Technology

Artificial spider silk mimics how it acts as liquid and solid

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Technology

Scan your doodles to find the perfect matching photo online

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Technology

One Per Cent

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Health

Lethal injections under threat after US drug firm pulls plug

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Life

World's smallest porpoise, the vaquita, may be extinct by 2022

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Earth

La Ni帽a to give some relief from warming after hottest April yet

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Health

Magic mushroom ingredient tested as depression treatment

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Life

60 Seconds

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Technology

Pictures: Hyperloop gets a test run as first pod is unveiled

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Life

Why would scientists want to build human genomes from scratch?

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Analysis

Melissa and Jasmine Hemsley holding plates of food

Health

The Hemsley effect: why we fall for celebrity food advice

Faddish diets from insta-food stars like the Hemsley sisters thrive in a world that favours easy explanations over real science, says Anthony Warner

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Life

Fake mountains to make rain? It's last-gasp geoengineering

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Earth

Why cheap green energy could derail the renewable revolution

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Health

Microbiomania: The truth behind the hype about our bodily bugs

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Aperture

petrified rock

Earth

Petrified rocks sent back by visitors who stole them from park

GUILT can be a powerful thing. Over the years, these "rocks" 鈥 actually chunks of ancient petrified trees 鈥 have proved irresistible to many light-fingered visitors to the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. Eventually, often decades later, conscience prompts some to return their "souvenirs" anonymously, along with a little note of apology. It's easy …

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Features

free will

Physics

Physics killed free will and time's flow. We need them back

Modern science has taken a wrong turn 鈥 and it's all because real numbers aren't real at all, argues quantum physicist Nicolas Gisin

Features

Humans

Spectacular archaeology in the shadow of London's skyscrapers

Features

Life

Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

Features

Life

There might be a planet better than Earth 鈥 right next door

Features

Life

Pinball planets: How life could start in a violent solar system

Features

Culture

spring books

Life

Culture picks: Time to spring-clean your mind

From nerve dictators to pointy eggs, tune in to some of the most interesting book ideas around

Culture

Health

Cure: Can the power of our minds help us heal ourselves?

Culture

Life

Seven nature-writing books that capture the spirit of animals

Culture

Humans

Radical insights from The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom

Culture

Regulars

dog cartoony

Feedback: The delicious aroma of dogs' feet, and more odd smells

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

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Letters

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