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What are the ethics of CGI actors 鈥� and will they replace real ones?
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This week's magazine
18 January 2020
Issue 3265
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Editor's picks
Environment
The wildfires and melting ice that science warned us about are here
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Environment
Antarctica’s doomsday glacier is melting. Can we save it in time?
Features
Physics
In the quantum realm, cause doesn鈥檛 necessarily come before effect
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Health
Trypophobia: Why a fear of holes is real 鈥� and may be on the rise
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Table of contents
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Half a million at risk from Taal volcano eruption
Thousands of people have been urged to evacuate after one of the Philippines鈥� most violent volcanoes erupts
News
Health
Mysterious illness outbreak in China seems to be caused by a new virus
News
Health
Your microbiome reveals more about your health than your genes do
News
Physics
Strange particles found in Antarctica cannot be explained by physics
News
Health
Majority of women who have an abortion don鈥檛 regret it five years on
News
Technology
Captured carbon dioxide could be used to help recycle batteries
News
Health
Analysis of CRISPR baby documents reveals more ethical violations
News
Space
A single star has let us put a date on our galaxy鈥檚 last cosmic meal
News
Humans
We can’t use genetics to predict how well children will do at school
News
Space
Mercury鈥檚 outer layers may have been stripped off by a young Venus
News
Life
Mummified skin suggests duck-billed dinosaurs were grey like elephants
News
Life
Stinky flower is more than a metre wide and the largest ever found
News
Humans
Humans are cooling down so average body temperature is no longer 37掳C
News
Space
SpaceX Starlink satellites could be 鈥榚xistential threat鈥� to astronomy
News
Technology
US Army has built a device to keep your hands warm without gloves
News
Health
Ancient Romans may have used Chinese medicine to treat coeliac disease
News
Environment
Area of Amazon affected by wildfires predicted to grow by 2050
News
Life
African grey parrots are smart enough to help a bird in need
News
Life
Cuttlefish wearing 3D glasses prove they sense depth just like us
News
Humans
Ancient humans were weirdly slow to cross from mainland Asia to Java
News
Mind
Illusion involving fake poo and rubber hand tested on people with OCD
News
Health
One bad night鈥檚 sleep may increase Alzheimer鈥檚 protein in your body
News
Analysis
Environment
Can we really save the planet by making food ‘from air’ without farms?
A TV documentary claims we can save the world鈥檚 wildlife by turning solar energy directly into food and rewilding farms
News
Technology
What are the ethics of CGI actors 鈥� and will they replace real ones?
News
Health
Forget exercise and diet fads 鈥� this is the secret of a healthy life
News
Humans
Uploading your brain will leave you exposed to software glitches
News
Features
Physics
In the quantum realm, cause doesn鈥檛 necessarily come before effect
In everyday life, causes always precede effects. But new experiments suggests that no such restriction applies in the quantum world
Features
Health
Trypophobia: Why a fear of holes is real 鈥� and may be on the rise
Features
Environment
Antarctica’s doomsday glacier is melting. Can we save it in time?
Features
Culture
Space
A Scheme of Heaven reveals what scientists can learn from astrology
Astrology is bunk, but a new book exploring its ancient history argues that it has crucial lessons for today's data science with its seemingly opaque algorithms
Culture
Life
Here’s how we can learn from other animals to create a better Earth
Culture
Don’t Miss: Craft power, killer brain cells and fostered chimps
Culture
Environment
Aquarela documentary reveals water’s raw power in terrifying detail
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Tom Gauld on how to build the coolest lab on campus
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Technology
Did a massive nuclear antenna make Michigan鈥檚 trees grow taller?
Regulars
Humans
How to cook perfect chips: Learn the science of crispiness
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on Earth’s race around the sun
Regulars
Space
NASA astronaut Kathryn Sullivan on zero G dreams and fixing Hubble
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Regulars
Mars bars: Why it鈥檚 time to write a national anthem for the Red Planet
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