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This week's magazine
22 August 2020
Issue 3296
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Health
Return of covid-19 to New Zealand shows that no one can relax
New Zealand has acted swiftly to contain a new outbreak of covid-19 after going 102 days virus-free, but it鈥檚 still unclear whether it can stamp it out again
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Is Sweden’s coronavirus strategy a cautionary tale or a success story?
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Health
Are pets at risk of getting covid-19 and can they spread it to people?
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Health
Covid-19 lockdown means 115 million Indian children risk malnutrition
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Health
Has herd immunity really been achieved in some places?
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Health
Everything you need to know about Russia’s coronavirus vaccine claims
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Health
Covid-19: How can we travel abroad safely during the pandemic?
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Technology
Hundreds of UK ambulances rely on software vulnerable to cyberattack
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Health
Magnetic levitation can be used to separate the living from the dead
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Life
Rare plant may prevent the first lithium quarry in the US from opening
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Space
The fastest star in our galaxy moves at 8 per cent the speed of light
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Life
Borneo鈥檚 鈥榗arnivorous鈥� squirrel actually mainly eats one kind of seed
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Health
Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety
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Life
Treats are better than electric shocks for training badly behaved dogs
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Space
Snapped cable slashes a devastating hole in Arecibo radio telescope
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Technology
Virtual assistant will screen your phone calls to block spammers
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Life
Plant protein responds to radio waves by making seedlings grow faster
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Health
Fast food consumption is on the rise among US children and adolescents
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Physics
Blue whirl that consumes all fuel it encounters is three flames in one
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Life
Grey reef sharks hang out with the same friends year after year
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Humans
Earliest known beds are 227,000-year-old piles of grass and ash
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Life
Trilobites living 429 million years ago had eyes like modern insects
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Life
A chemical that encourages locusts to swarm could also help stop them
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Analysis
Health
We now have the technology to develop vaccines that spread themselves
Prevention is better than cure, so we should start using genetic techniques to stop dangerous animal diseases jumping to humans, say Scott Nuismer and James Bull
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Environment
We should rewild the sky to restore the atmosphere to its former glory
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Features
Physics
Inside the incredibly slow race to reinvent time
The latest atomic clocks are so staggeringly precise that they are going to redefine the second. The only question now is when
Features
Health
Prone to motion sickness? Your sex, diet and shoe size may be to blame
Features
Humans
Stuart Ritchie interview: A deep rot is turning science into fiction
Features
Culture
Humans
We are in the midst of rewriting our understanding of Neanderthals
Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes explains how modern techniques are helping us to better understand Neanderthals, as well as where we fit in to the family tree
Culture
Humans
Tesla review: A weird and imaginative biopic of a scientific great
Culture
Humans
Don’t Miss: Invisibilia’s sumptuous tales of scientific wonder
Culture
Humans
The World Engines series reveals the high cost of conquering space
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Humans
Frustration with Excel has caused geneticists to rename some genes
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