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5 May 2018

Issue 3176

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Earth

The real palm oil problem: it's not just in your food

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Bowl of food

Health

Meat substitutes aren't perfect but they are worth a try

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marijuana

Life

High times: The Victorian doctor who promoted medical marijuana

Features
moon artwork

Earth

Moon鈥檚 weird pull could help predict deadly volcanic eruptions

Features
burger

Life

The fake burger test: Could meat made of plants ever fool you?

Features
Dino head

Life

Identity crisis: When is a dinosaur not a dinosaur?

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

Bowl of food

Health

Meat substitutes aren't perfect but they are worth a try

Our taste for meat is disastrous from an environmental point of view. We should celebrate those developing ever-meatier plant-based alternatives

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Stoner app lets cannabis users keep track of how high they are

Health

Stoner app lets cannabis users keep track of how high they are

How high are you? Dude, am I stoned? An app that tests memory, attention and reaction 鈥 traits that are often impaired by cannabis use 鈥 aims to answer that question by giving people a measurement of how well (or badly) they performed. Cannabis is now legal in a small but growing number of countries. …

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Humans

How an Amazonian people convey their entire language by drumbeat

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Space

Gamma rays from the sun are acting weird and nobody knows why

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Humans

Ancient Swedish massacre hints at chaos after the fall of Rome

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Health

Blood cell and bacteria stuck together to deliver cancer drugs

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Health

G-spot surgery given to three women to boost sexual pleasure

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Life

Horses remember if you smiled or frowned when they last saw you

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Technology

The world's biggest hacking market has just been busted

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Health

Gross alert: You can get a urinary tract infection from your dog

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Physics

Entangled clouds of atoms are quantum record-breakers

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Earth

Humans may be to blame for a big earthquake in South Korea

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Earth

Cute but dim quolls have been taught to stop eating toxic toads

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Health

Huge haul of 鈥榙epression genes鈥 shows it鈥檚 a complex condition

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Earth

The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides

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Technology

Paint a touchpad on your wall to control lights with a swipe

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Technology

Serial killer suspect identified using DNA family tree website

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Space

Our understanding of the universe's expansion is really wrong

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Technology

3000 missing children identified with face recognition in India

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Health

How some resistant bacteria can even eat antibiotics as food

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Health

Lightning hit a woman's home and switched off her brain implant

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Health

Smart people literally have bigger brain cells than the rest

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Technology

This mind-reading hearing aid knows who you're listening to

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Superlight aerogel made by mimicking a baby dragonfly's wings

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Analysis

Mike Pence, US vice president (left) and Jim Bridenstine

Space

What to expect from the controversial new choice as NASA boss

Republican politician Jim Bridenstine has taken the reins at NASA after a long battle. What will his appointment mean for the space agency, asks聽Samantha Murphy

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Life

Why growing human brain tissue in a dish is an ethical minefield

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Health

Could a tax on chocolate make us healthy? Let鈥檚 not be too hasty

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Humans

North Korea's nuclear-free pledge comes with a massive catch

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Earth

The real palm oil problem: it's not just in your food

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Aperture

Swirling wall of moving patterns represents our thoughts

Humans

Swirling wall of moving patterns represents our thoughts

Video credit: Engram: Data Sculpture for Melting Memories from Refik Anadol WHAT resembles the wall of an exotic underground grotto is actually a work of art representing the circuitry of the brain in action. Engram / Remember is an incredible moving spectacle, forged from algorithms that convert data about brainwave activity into captivating imagery 鈥 …

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Features

moon artwork

Earth

Moon鈥檚 weird pull could help predict deadly volcanic eruptions

The strange influence of the lunar cycle on Earth could warn us when volcanoes are about to blow and might even help us spot impending earthquakes

Features

Life

Identity crisis: When is a dinosaur not a dinosaur?

Features

Life

High times: The Victorian doctor who promoted medical marijuana

Features

Life

The fake burger test: Could meat made of plants ever fool you?

Features

Culture

Video-game players

Humans

Now Play This! A festival that's game for anything

Ideas held centre stage, and technology was kept in its place, over a weekend of games at London's Somerset House

Culture

Humans

Elements of surprise: What fiction plots tell us about our minds

Culture

Technology

Bombhead and Bombs Away: when remembering is an art

Culture

More

The company investing its way to zero emission transport

The company investing its way to zero emission transport

It's time to accelerate the transition to pollution-free roads, says Simon Pickett of Octopus Group

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Life

Old 快猫短视频: Animal experiments in the bad old days

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Feedback: Crafty baboons channel MacGyver to escape research lab

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

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Letters

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