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Getting Brexit done: Six huge science issues the UK must resolve
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This week's magazine
1 February 2020
Issue 3267
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
Fast action will be key to containing new coronavirus from China
News
Life
The mysterious microbes shifting humanity’s place in the tree of life
Features
Physics
What you experience may not exist. Inside the strange truth of reality
Features
Physics
What is reality? Why we still don’t understand the world’s true nature
Features
Table of contents
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Technology
UK government approves Huawei 5G deal despite security fears
Chinese telecomms firm Huawei will be allowed to provide technology for key parts of the UK's super-fast 5G infrastructure, prime minister Boris Johnson has said, despite opposition from the US
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Environment
Australia鈥檚 fires may accelerate a jump in CO2 forecasted in 2020
News
Health
New coronavirus may be much more contagious than initially thought
News
Technology
UK nuclear fusion reactor will fire up for the first time in 23 years
News
Technology
Deepfake software translates videos from one language to another
News
Health
Human genes have been added to pigs to create skin for transplants
News
Humans
A skull suggests humans have been getting piercings for 12,000 years
News
Environment
Problems in social science are being used to discredit climate science
News
Health
NHS may use people’s phone data to predict mental health issues
News
Health
Taking Viagra in early labour reduces the need for emergency caesarean
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Humans
Neanderthals may have climbed an active volcano soon after it erupted
News
Environment
Smoke from Canadian wildfires caused pollution spikes in New York City
News
Life
Animal DNA is full of viral invaders and now we’ve caught them at it
News
Life
Dinosaur tracks seem to show giant sauropods wading on two front legs
News
Health
Snake cells grown in the lab produce venom we could use as medicine
News
Life
The oldest fungi fossils have been identified in a Belgian museum
News
Health
Pregnancy and breastfeeding linked to lower risk of early menopause
News
Health
Antibiotic resistance genes can be passed around by bacteria in dust
News
Space
Mysteriously bright supernova may have smashed up a huge gas cloud
News
Physics
Maths says you need coarser coffee grounds to make a perfect espresso
News
Analysis
Environment
Make airlines and oil firms pay for tree-planting boom, says UK report
North Sea oil firms and airlines should fund a colossal tree-planting drive to fight climate change as soon as next year, the UK government鈥檚 climate advisers have urged
News
Society
Getting Brexit done: Six huge science issues the UK must resolve
News
Technology
It’s too late to ban face recognition 鈥� here’s what we need instead
News
Space
Figuring out what the Milky Way looks like is akin to a murder mystery
News
Features
Physics
What is reality? Why we still don’t understand the world’s true nature
It鈥檚 the ultimate scientific quest 鈥� to understand everything that there is. But the closer we get, the further away it seems. Can we ever get to grips with the true nature of reality?
Features
Physics
What you experience may not exist. Inside the strange truth of reality
Features
Life
The mysterious microbes shifting humanity’s place in the tree of life
Features
Culture
Technology
Ironbark: Did two spies really prevent all-out nuclear war?
Ironbark is one of 2020鈥檚 anticipated movies. Benedict Cumberbatch plays the MI6 handler of a Russian spy who may have helped prevent nuclear war
Culture
Mind
Don’t Miss: Escape the deep, explore mind and body and meet van Gogh
Culture
Life
Man raised alongside chimps says it should never happen again
Culture
Humans
Avenue 5: Hugh Laurie discovers how space tourism can go badly wrong
Culture
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Tom Gauld on being a small mammal in the large reptiles department
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
Regulars
Humans
The life of Veronique Le Guen, record-breaking caver
Regulars
Humans
Use the science of curing to turn salmon into gravlax at home
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on a surprising group of human mutants
Regulars
Environment
California has huge environmental inequality 鈥� here’s how to fix it
Regulars
Regulars
Spotify tackles doggy distress with its latest podcast
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