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30 September 2017

Issue 3145

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EU plan to erase digital borders will further isolate Brexit UK

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Life extension may prove to be a double-edged sword

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Life

The fossil finder extraordinaire who's rewriting human evolution

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Fighting fakery: How to make products immune to counterfeiting

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Health

Exclusive: Inside the clinic offering young blood to cure ageing

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Humans

The brain's 7D sandcastles could be the key to consciousness

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Life extension may prove to be a double-edged sword

Today's middle aged people could routinely live to 120 or more. That means we have time to prepare

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Hundreds of UK women are seeking illegal abortions online

More women are asking for abortion pills online Hundreds of UK women are seeking illegal abortions because of problems accessing legal services. More than 500 women approached a charity called Women on Web over a four-month period beginning last November seeking mail-order abortion pills, the organisation revealed today. The medications that the charity provides are …

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Health

Old fathers pass on more mutations to kids than old mothers

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Space

Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions

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Life

Robots can hitch-hike on sharks thanks to ultrastrong sucker

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Technology

3D-printed alloys could lead to lighter planes that fly further

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Earth

Hurricane Maria confirms dire warnings for 2017 hurricane season

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Life

Dinosaurs that seemed veggie also ate the odd bit of shellfish

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Space

Far-off galaxies are firing rare high-energy cosmic rays at us

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Space

Star nicknamed Kronos after eating its own planetary children

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Health

Walking to work or doing the vacuuming can extend your life

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Earth

There is no way to spot big earthquakes ahead of time

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Technology

Uber loses its licence to operate in London

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Life

Plan to save Great Barrier Reef from encroaching farm pollution

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Life

New Zealand鈥檚 iconic kiwi birds may be losing their sight

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Space

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooms by Earth on its way to an asteroid

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Technology

Two-colour pixels let you draw pair of images in the same space

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Technology

AI could put a stop to electricity theft and meter misreadings

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Health

Electric zap 鈥榳akes鈥 man after 15 years in a vegetative state

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Health

Health body warns many UK areas have high Lyme disease risk

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Earth

Huge space rocks could have helped start Earth鈥檚 plate tectonics

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Technology

It takes 30 seconds for your fingerprint to grip your smartphone

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Health

Kidney donors swap organs for transplant vouchers for loved ones

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Technology

A cheap pollution sensor will keep you off the dirtiest roads

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Earth

Super-Earths draw asteroids to other worlds, which may seed life

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Life

Thousands of Puerto Ricans evacuated as dam threatens to breach

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Humans

Genetically modified wheat used to make coeliac-friendly bread

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Technology

Blockchain-like ID may mean end of paper birth certificates

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Health

See-through brains reveal how stroke damages vital blood vessels

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Opinion

Drone pilots deserve medals even without risking their lives

Technology

Drone pilots deserve medals even without risking their lives

Drone operators see the gory results of their missile strikes close up Do military drone operators deserve medals for controlling remote aircraft over battlefields thousands of miles away? UK defence secretary Michael Fallon has said they do 鈥 a controversial suggestion that will spark heated debate. That debate is rooted in an age-old argument about …

Opinion

Analysis

Another lost tribe feared massacred - how can we save the rest?

Earth

Another lost tribe feared massacred - how can we save the rest?

Should we leave uncontacted tribes alone or try to usher them into the modern world to protect them from violence and disease, wonders Curtis Abraham

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Health

Why court ruling on ending life support is the right decision

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Technology

EU plan to erase digital borders will further isolate Brexit UK

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Life

Backyard critters get celeb treatment with glam photo shoots

THIS is how to give the bugs, birds and bees in your backyard a celebrity makeover. With glamorous photo shoots on brilliantly lit but plain white backdrops, the Meet Your Neighbours project plucks these beasts from obscurity and gives them the star treatment. This selection of A-listers was shot by local photographers in field studios …

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Features

Humans

The brain's 7D sandcastles could be the key to consciousness

We鈥檝e glimpsed mind-bending geometric structures that fleetingly encode our thoughts, memories and feelings 鈥 and could solve the greatest mystery of all

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Life

The fossil finder extraordinaire who's rewriting human evolution

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Health

Exclusive: Inside the clinic offering young blood to cure ageing

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Technology

Fighting fakery: How to make products immune to counterfeiting

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Culture

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Why do we have such a close relationship with animals?

We stroke, cuddle, cultivate and eat all manner of creatures. The Animals Among Us offers a fascinating if flawed account of our entangled relationship with non-human animals

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Space

Rocket man: Willy Ley's fervour helped put men on the moon

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Supersonic car project aims to carry kids to a scientific future

Engaging students' drive THE world land speed record for cars has seen its share of British success. The nation's latest such endeavour is encapsulated in the supersonic Bloodhound SSC, but it is about far more than building a fast car. It also aims to engage and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers by …

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Feedback: What is this mysterious 8-legged metal object?

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