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27 January 2018

Issue 3162

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Veganism should be an informed and evidence-based choice

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Veganism should be an informed and evidence-based choice

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Technology

Peril on the sea: Why are so many megaships sinking?

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Ella Al-Shamahi

Humans

The fossil finder who can't wait to return to war-torn Yemen

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Life

Living on the veg: Should we all go vegan?

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Life

Living on the veg: 10 things you thought were vegan but aren't

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Technology

Ghost ships: The autonomous vehicles making waves on the water

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Table of contents

Leaders

What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?

Life

What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?

The creation of monkey clones is a big breakthrough, but making a copy of an adult is still not possible and the ethics of cloning remain unchanged

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Health

Veganism should be an informed and evidence-based choice

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Woman and robot

Technology

Chit-chat makes humans and robots work together better

What a team Artificial intelligence can beat humans at games such as Jeopardy, chess and Go , but these much-celebrated achievements aren’t actually what we need. We want AI to work with us not against us – and the key may be a little banter. Jacob Crandall at Brigham Young University in Utah and his …

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Technology

Bitcoin's utopia has failed as big players hold all the power

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Health

Breathing in a nanoparticle spray could prevent heart damage

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Earth

Cute cats the size of kittens are seeing their homes destroyed

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Humans

Some people identify smells as easily as if they were colours

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Humans

The higher your testosterone levels, the more you love soft rock

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Space

Stars that devour their planets get brighter and faster

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Health

Hot yoga’s high temperature may not have any health benefits

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Space

Some exoplanets orbiting red giant stars may just be a mirage

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Earth

Good news: animals won't shrink as the climate gets warmer

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Health

New CRISPR method could take gene editing to the next level

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Health

Your boss not saying 'thank you' could be bad for your health

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Space

Deadly solar flares may have helped seed life on Mars and beyond

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Physics

Medieval gamblers turned their back on fate and made dice fair

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Space

Black holes are firing a triple-threat of speedy particles at us

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Technology

AI that cracked ancient secret code could help robot translation

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Life

¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵs have cloned monkeys and it could help treat cancer

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Earth

Ruptured Tibetan glaciers triggered massive speedy avalanches

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Earth

The origin of insect wings has been revealed by gene editing

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Earth

Spy balloons flying 40km up track drug smugglers on the ground

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Analysis

A person with an umbrella standing in the rain in front of an advert that says

Health

Johann Hari doesn't know depression's real causes – no one does

Depression is different for everyone Is it possible for a writer whose credibility has been questioned in the past to deliver a credible message now? This is the query at the heart of deep division over Johann Hari's new book, Lost Connections: Uncovering the real causes of depression – and the unexpected solutions. In it, Hari, …

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Humans

Trump, this 'shithole' continent pioneered heart swaps and more

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Earth

No, the worst-case climate change futures haven’t been ruled out

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Technology

YouTube's bots aren't protecting kids from all its nasty videos

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Aperture

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Life

Shy pangolin hides its face in Mozambique forest

THEY have been called the most hunted animal in the world , so perhaps you can't blame this pangolin for hiding its face. Temminck's ground pangolin ( Smutsia temminckii ) is found across a vast swathe of eastern and southern Africa. It has no teeth – pangolins are Africa's ecological answer to anteaters, tearing into …

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Features

Ella Al-Shamahi

Humans

The fossil finder who can't wait to return to war-torn Yemen

Secrets about our origins could be hiding in a cave in Yemen, says Ella Al-Shamahi – if only she could get there

Features

Life

Living on the veg: Should we all go vegan?

Features

Life

Living on the veg: 10 things you thought were vegan but aren't

Features

Technology

Peril on the sea: Why are so many megaships sinking?

Features

Technology

Ghost ships: The autonomous vehicles making waves on the water

Features

Culture

genome model

Humans

A new book says the pace of genomic innovation is problematic

In The Postgenomic Condition, Jenny Reardon lays bare what went wrong with the most promising medicine of the millennium – and greed is only part of her story

Culture

Technology

Powerful or powerless: The backdoor to our cyberfuture

Culture

More

Cycle for your supper on a gyro-spiraliser

Health

Cycle for your supper on a gyro-spiraliser

Struggling to stay on top of your New Year's resolutions? Shred veg with this pedal-powered contraption

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Feedback: Getting starry-eyed over old school astrology

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

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Letters

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