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How best to talk to your science-denying relatives this Christmas
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This week's magazine
22 December 2018
Issue 3209
On the cover
Editor's picks
Environment
Despite all the grim news, the world is becoming a better place for us
News
Humans
Toys are us: How childhood objects may have shaped human history
Features
Life
How busting some moves on the dance floor is good for your brain
Features
Mind
Cheers! Saying thanks is good for you and those around you
Features
Environment
Six spectacular ice phenomena to look out for this winter
Features
Life
The mummified penguins that hold the secrets of Antarctica’s past
Features
Life
The animal economists that can wheel and deal as well as any human
Features
Technology
Death rays: How the dream of an ultimate weapon became a dark farce
Features
Life
The mysterious demise of Europe’s massive cave bears
Features
Physics
The quantum trick that can help you live a better life 鈥� probably
Features
Technology
Quiz: What were these six bamboozling inventions designed to do?
Features
Technology
Answers: What were these six bamboozling inventions designed to do?
Features
Mind
Palaeontologists behaving badly, and other bitter feuds in science
Features
Life
Why do wombats poo cubes and turkeys spirals? One woman is finding out
Features
Seeking the perfect cocktail? Let science be your bartender
Features
Colour me scientific: Two free fun colour-me-in downloads
Features
Table of contents
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Humans
Our primate ancestors may have originated in Europe or North America
It was thought that the ancestor we share with lemurs, monkeys and apes evolved in Asia, but fossil analysis suggests this may not have been the case
News
Technology
Computer chip will sniff your armpits and tell you when you have BO
News
Health
We’ve been using CRISPR for years – now we know how it really works
News
Health
Stem cells implanted into the brain stop epilepsy seizures in rats
News
Life
Stunning fossils show pterosaurs had primitive feathers like dinosaurs
News
Environment
The secret site in England where beavers control the landscape
News
Health
Childhood hormone treatments may have spread Alzheimer鈥檚 proteins
News
Life
Bizarre fossil that baffled us for years is early starfish ancestor
News
Health
Breathing in moon dust could release toxins in astronauts’ lungs
News
Physics
Quantum network joins four people together for encrypted messaging
News
Technology
Incredible shrinking 3D printer can make really tiny objects
News
Life
Australia’s ‘marsupial lion’ was a meat-ripping, tree-climbing terror
News
Health
Acne study reveals genes for hair follicles are partly to blame
News
Life
Monkeys chill out just from seeing their friends being groomed
News
Health
First direct evidence that later school day really does help teenagers
News
Environment
When humans are wiped from Earth, the chicken bones will remain
News
Life
Coral likes to make its ocean home in places with noisy neighbours
News
Space
First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world
News
Environment
2019 Preview: Renewable energy race to ramp up as oil use skyrockets
News
Technology
2019 Preview: 30 cold cases to be solved using DNA ancestry websites
News
Health
2019 Preview: DNA testing will lead to a decline in genetic disorders
News
Health
2019 Preview: People will receive transfusions of artificial blood
News
Technology
2019 Preview: Electric cars of all shapes and sizes will hit the road
News
Humans
2019 Preview: Teeth will reveal our species鈥� deep evolutionary past
News
Technology
2019 Preview: AI to best humans at one of world’s most complex games
News
Space
2019 Preview: We will see the first ever picture of a black hole
News
Physics
2019 Preview: Gravitational waves will be discovered every few weeks
News
Health
2019 Preview: Experimental vaccine could let coeliacs eat gluten
News
Life
The most eye-catching science and tech news stories of 2018
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Analysis
Mind
How best to talk to your science-denying relatives this Christmas
Trying to change someone's mind is no easy task, but researchers have studied the various pitfalls when it comes to correcting scientific myths
News
Comment
Snake-oil sellers must no longer be able to hide behind charity status
News
Comment
Who do we trust when human and machine intelligence disagree
News
Environment
Can a Green New Deal boost the US economy and save the planet?
News
Features
Physics
The quantum trick that can help you live a better life 鈥� probably
Quantum theory suggests everything that can happen, does. Now a phone app gives us a way to exploit this weirdness聽鈥� and enjoy the best of all possible worlds
Features
Life
How busting some moves on the dance floor is good for your brain
Features
Life
The animal economists that can wheel and deal as well as any human
Features
Environment
Six spectacular ice phenomena to look out for this winter
Features
Life
The mummified penguins that hold the secrets of Antarctica’s past
Features
Technology
Death rays: How the dream of an ultimate weapon became a dark farce
Features
Life
The mysterious demise of Europe’s massive cave bears
Features
Technology
Quiz: What were these six bamboozling inventions designed to do?
Features
Technology
Answers: What were these six bamboozling inventions designed to do?
Features
Humans
Toys are us: How childhood objects may have shaped human history
Features
Mind
Cheers! Saying thanks is good for you and those around you
Features
Mind
Palaeontologists behaving badly, and other bitter feuds in science
Features
Life
Why do wombats poo cubes and turkeys spirals? One woman is finding out
Features
Seeking the perfect cocktail? Let science be your bartender
Features
Colour me scientific: Two free fun colour-me-in downloads
Features
Culture
Life
Christmas story: Unauthorized Bread by Cory Doctorow
In our exclusive extract, dripping with human kindness (well, butter) our heroine Salima receives her daily bread 鈥� eventually
Culture
Life
Plight of the Living Dead review 鈥� The making of real zombies
Culture
Space
The world’s great nations are revisiting the moon. But where’s Europe?
Culture
Technology
Inside the dark web: why it’s odder than you can imagine
Culture
Life
Don’t miss: Rebuilding the past, Xmas orbiting the moon and AI art
Culture
