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20 April 2019

Issue 3226

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Health

Measles has made a shocking return to the US. Can it be stopped?

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Space

Black hole breakthrough: a lot done, much more to do

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What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

Physics

What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

Features
Protein mania: The problem with the West鈥檚 latest diet obsession

Health

Protein mania: The problem with the West鈥檚 latest diet obsession

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Earth

Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society

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Table of contents

Leaders

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Space

Black hole breakthrough: a lot done, much more to do

The first direct image of a black hole is another triumph for Einstein's general relativity 鈥 but to make further progress we must look for even better theories

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P = NP?

Mathematics

We could solve the biggest problem in maths in the next decade

P is not NP? That is the question One of the biggest open problems in mathematics may be solved within the next decade, according to a poll of computer scientists. A solution to the so-called P versus NP problem is worth $1 million and could have a profound effect on computing, and perhaps even the …

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Physics

Hot rubble from volcanoes races over land on a carpet of air bubbles

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Space

SpaceX鈥檚 Falcon Heavy rocket has flown its first commercial flight

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Space

LIGO has spotted another gravitational wave just after turning back on

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Technology

Flying cars could be greener than electric ones in some circumstances

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Life

Salmonella can hijack immune cells to spread around the body

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Space

You can help name the largest unnamed world in the solar system

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Space

Largest dust storm on Mars ever recorded may reveal why it's so dry

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Technology

How hackers use tricks to make money from your clicks

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Space

What happened when one twin went to space and the other stayed home?

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Environment

Even remote mountain glaciers are contaminated with microplastics

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Humans

A gene linked to alcohol habits may influence who you choose to marry

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Health

First 3-parent baby born in clinical trial to treat infertility

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Space

First black hole picture: The big mysteries we still need to solve

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Environment

Pristine mountains are being littered with microplastics from the air

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Life

Pollinators may have evolved 40 million years before flowers existed

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Mind

A touchy-feely part of the brain helps you enjoy a gentle caress

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Space

Israel's Beresheet lunar lander has crashed on the moon

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Space

NASA traced a meteorite back to its original home in deep space

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Environment

The 2018 heatwave may not have been possible without climate change

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Comment

快猫短视频s must worry in public about the dangers of their creations

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Health

Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity

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Humans

Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa?

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Analysis

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Environment

David Attenborough finally talks climate change in prime time BBC slot

The BBC has a renewed drive to tell climate change stories Global warming will enjoy a rare moment in TV鈥檚 spotlight when the BBC airs an hour-long film on the subject on 18 April, presented by David聽Attenborough (pictured above). 鈥淩ight now, we鈥檙e facing our gravest threat in thousands of years: climate change,鈥 says Attenborough at …

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Health

Prescriptions for UTIs may be making antibiotic resistance even worse

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Health

Measles has made a shocking return to the US. Can it be stopped?

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Aperture

Puma in snow

Life

Magnificent pumas photographed in snowstorms and whilst catching prey

THIS puma is used to the cold. It lives in Chile's Torres del Paine National Park, where it rains and snows year-round, with winds from Antarctica reaching speeds of up to 150 kilometres per hour. An adult female at night The park spans more than 180,000 hectares of Patagonia, at the southern tip of South …

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Features

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Earth

Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society

From the development of our remarkable brains to the geographic divides in the way we vote, our shape-shifting planet has guided the path of humanity

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Health

Protein mania: The problem with the West鈥檚 latest diet obsession

Features

Physics

What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

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Culture

Ian McEwan

Technology

Why Ian McEwan doesn鈥檛 see his latest novel as being science fiction

What would the 1980s have been like if Alan Turing had lived? Ian McEwan talks about his exploration of a speculative past for AI in his novel Machines Like Me

Culture

Technology

Don't miss: Kubrick's genius, Haida mythology and the power of emotion

Culture

Physics

Must we topple Einstein to let physics leap forward again?

Culture

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Technology

From the archives 20 years ago: the great phone cancer scare

" FOR anyone who uses a mobile , these are worrying times." So began our cover story on 10 April 1999. By then, 500 million people worldwide were using mobile phones and hysteria around their effects on health was reaching a climax. There were claims that radiation from handsets cooked your brain, scrambled your thoughts …

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Feedback: Why replicate an experiment when you can flip a coin?

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

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Letters

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