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7 January 2017

Issue 3107

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Health

A cure for ageing is near but you probably can't afford it

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Moral dilemma: should we reshape society because we can?

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Life

My year on Mars: Frontier life of a space doctor

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Life

Grow with the flow: How electricity kicks life into shape

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Technology

Give your car a conscience: Why driverless cars need morals

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Physics

Antigravity: Discovering if antimatter falls upwards

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Table of contents

Leaders

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Health

Moral dilemma: should we reshape society because we can?

Traditional values will not serve us well when it comes to debating the ethics of novel technologies such as self-driving cars. We need a new moral code

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Nanocrystal night-vision specs will let you see in infrared

Technology

Nanocrystal night-vision specs will let you see in infrared

Nanocrystals could聽aid聽night vision Fancy some glasses that switch to night vision when the sun goes down? Nanocrystals that turn infrared radiation into visible light could be just what you need. Night-vision binoculars are currently used by soldiers to track enemies in the dark, but are large and cumbersome. These devices detect infrared waves emitted by …

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Life

Orcas seen hunting and killing rare whales for the first time

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Space

First test of rival to Einstein's gravity kills off dark matter

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Health

Becoming a mother may change the brain to read baby's mind

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Earth

Molten iron river discovered speeding beneath Russia and Canada

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Physics

Antimatter atom trapped and measured with a laser for first time

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Life

Invasive parakeets muscle in on native bird鈥檚 nests in Israel

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Earth

Baby turtles leave behind fleeting oases on beach dune deserts

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Life

There are five times more urban foxes in England than we thought

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Health

鈥楶sychedelic sanctuary鈥 will help drug users get over bad trips

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Life

Ants craft tiny sponges to dip into honey and carry it home

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Life

Sustainable tuna fishing is bad for climate 鈥 here's why

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Space

Mars should have loads more water 鈥 so where has it all gone?

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Technology

Racing robot cars will help AI learn to adapt to the real world

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Technology

Drones inspired by insects could keep flying even when damaged

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Technology

Your walk could be a password that connects devices on your body

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Technology

Tiny nanoelectrodes record brain's activity without damaging it

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Selfish black holes may be killing host galaxies by stealing gas

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Life

Woman hit by lightning loses synaesthesia 鈥 but then it returns

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Health

Australia bans non-prescription codeine to fight opioid crisis

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Earth

Largest lake in southern Europe under threat from 鈥渆co-resort鈥

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Technology

Amazon resists warrants for Echo data in Arkansas murder case

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Life

China pledges to shut ivory trade down by end of 2017

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Life

60 Seconds

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Health

Simple blood test can detect genetic diseases early in pregnancy

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Health

False memory helps us think but we can't do it when we're tired

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Technology

Computer uses facial cues to spot if people have autism

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Physics

Physicists can't agree on what the quantum world looks like

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Analysis

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Life

Canadians are angry about their national bird, but they鈥檙e wrong

Feathers flew when Canada's geographical society named the gray jay as its pick for national bird over the public choice, but it was spot on, says David Bird

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Health

A cure for ageing is near but you probably can't afford it

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Technology

If your smartphone is keeping you up at night, give it a rest

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Health

How to make even your toughest new year's resolutions stick

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Aperture

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Life

Headlight beetle's glowing path caught in time-lapse photo

IT'S like a message scrawled in light. This time-lapse image, taken over 30 seconds in a Costa Rican cloud forest, shows a headlight beetle's meandering path along a leaf. The insect's "headlights" 鈥 two bioluminescent spots just behind its actual head (see image below) 鈥 gleam steadily as it wanders undisturbed, as does a third, …

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Features

floating man

Physics

Antigravity: Discovering if antimatter falls upwards

If anything fell upwards, it would rewrite physics textbooks. Amazingly fiddly experiments to test whether antimatter can do just this are kicking off

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Life

Grow with the flow: How electricity kicks life into shape

Features

Technology

Give your car a conscience: Why driverless cars need morals

Features

Life

My year on Mars: Frontier life of a space doctor

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Culture

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Humans

The Turing Guide: Last words on an enigmatic codebreaker?

An enormous and probably definitive guide to the life, times and genius of Alan Turing captures his extraordinary diversity for the first time

Culture

Life

Science books we're keen to read in 2017

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快猫短视频 was swinging in 1966, hallucinating in 1976 and altogether more lucid in 1990

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Feedback: Cancer can be treated with herbal medicine, claims MP

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

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Letters

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