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Let’s not trash recycling technologies that could end plastic waste
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This week's magazine
27 April 2024
Issue 3488
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
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Humans
Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,000 years ago
A site in Siberia has evidence of human presence 417,000 years ago, raising the possibility that hominins could have reached North America much earlier than we thought
News
Space
Knot theory could help spacecraft navigate crowded solar systems
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Mind
Your genes may influence how much you enjoy listening to music
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Health
Cocaine seems to hijack brain pathways that prioritise food and water
News
Life
Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain how embryos evolved
News
Chemistry
Drug residue can be detected in fingerprints left at crime scenes
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Environment
Geoengineering could save the ice sheets 鈥� but only if we start soon
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Physics
Single atoms captured morphing into quantum waves in startling image
News
Humans
Ancient Maya burned their dead rulers to mark a new dynasty
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Earth
Extreme heat in 2023 linked to drastic slump in growth of marine life
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Health
Skin-deep wounds can damage gut health in mice
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Technology
Ships smuggling Russian oil spotted in satellite images by AI
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Life
Nocturnal ants use polarised moonlight to find their way home
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Environment
What is cloud seeding and did it cause the floods in Dubai?
News
Environment
Wind turbines based on condor wings could capture more energy
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Mathematics
Particles move in beautiful patterns when they have 鈥榮patial memory鈥�
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Humans
Ancient humans lived inside a lava tube in the Arabian desert
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Technology
Intel reveals world’s biggest ‘brain-inspired’ neuromorphic computer
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Health
Dietary changes relieve irritable bowel syndrome better than medicine
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Life
Ancient marine reptile found on UK beach may be the largest ever
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Life
Sleeping bumblebees can survive underwater for a week
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Analysis
Technology
Will Amazon’s robotic revolution spark a new wave of job losses?
Amazon says it will create new jobs to replace roles taken over by machines, but it isn鈥檛 clear whether this will happen quickly enough
News
Health
Why we need to modernise our emotional relationship with cancer
News
Technology
Why curbing chatbots’ worst exploits is a game of whack-a-mole
News
Features
Physics
A new kind of experiment at the LHC could unravel quantum reality
The Large Hadron Collider is testing entanglement in a whole new energy range, probing the meaning of quantum theory 鈥� and the possibility that an even stranger reality lies beneath
Features
Environment
The incredible new tech that can recycle all plastics, forever
Features
Health
How to get the right balance of omega-3s and omega-6s in your diet
Features
Culture
Comment
A radical new book sets out to hunt for ‘pure consciousness’
Thomas Metzinger's The Elephant and the Blind explores deep meditation, which can take us to states where the sense of self vanishes, arguing that this may be crucial in cracking consciousness
Culture
Comment
This one-room sci-fi thriller should take its MacGuffin more seriously
Culture
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Mathematics
Vindication for maths teachers: Pythagoras’s theorem seen in the wild
For all the students wondering why they would ever need to use the Pythagorean theorem, Katie Steckles is delighted to report on a real-world encounter
Regulars
Tom Gauld on Atlas bearing the weight of the heavens on his shoulders
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on Gen Z slang for the lab
Regulars
Regulars
The next frontier of forensic science: blood splatter in microgravity?
Feedback is pleased to see that researchers are looking into the urgent issue of which angle blood might travel at following a violent act in space
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
Is there a maximum possible acceleration?
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Does having four legs aid dogs with climbing?
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