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9 November 2013

Issue 2942

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Ancient afflictions: Mummies got heart disease too

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Ancient afflictions: Mummies got heart disease too

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Saving Elmo: Why we fought to protect one urban tree

Earth

Saving Elmo: Why we fought to protect one urban tree

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Forgotten force: The other great cosmic attractor

Space

Forgotten force: The other great cosmic attractor

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Run yourself smarter: How exercise boosts your brain

Life

Run yourself smarter: How exercise boosts your brain

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Table of contents

News

Target hub markets to halt new H7N9 flu wave in China

Health

Target hub markets to halt new H7N9 flu wave in China

Disease control measures at certain markets, not blanket closures, may be key Bird flu is back. The H7N9 strain of bird flu that emerged in China in February had stopped infecting humans, partly because summer weather stopped it spreading. It has now reappeared in Zhejiang province – near Shanghai, the epicentre of the spring outbreak …

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Earth

Unprecedented warming uncovered in Pacific depths

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Life

Skeletal chains could help algae deliver drugs

News

Earth

Little bugs on the prairie: the key to happy grassland

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Life

Zoologger: Baby vampire aphids drink parents' blood

News

Forbidden City builders chose ice sledge over wheels

News

Space

Fake planets reveal distance to Earth's nearest twin

News

Life

King Kong platypus was an ancient bone cruncher

News

Space

Will India get to Mars? A guide to the dangers ahead

News

Earth

UK fracking should not threaten public health

News

Earth

Leaked climate report: food shortages and poverty rise

News

DNA barcoding reveals herbal pill contamination

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

First sign that humanity is slowing its carbon surge

News

Life

Drop air pressure to give chickens a stress-free death

News

Health

Obese women's stem cells make cancer grow faster

News

Health

Call in fetal blood cells to cure sickle cell anaemia

News

Life

Data trackers monitor your life so they can nudge you

News

Technology

Spider-drones weave high-rise structures out of cables

News

Technology

Pop music makes solar cells produce more electricity

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Kinect security cameras know when you swing a punch

News

Technology

Going hypersonic: spyplane could jump to Mach 6

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Health

Doctors given duty to report female genital mutilation

News

Technology

Bitcoin flaw could threaten booming virtual currency

News

Life

Learn another language to delay three dementias

News

Space

Eavesdropping on dark sound shrinks the shadow universe

News

Health

Africa's war on cancer kicks off with vaccine trials

News

Opinion

A stronger 'online eraser' law would be a mistake

Technology

A stronger 'online eraser' law would be a mistake

The modest protection offered by California’s internet “eraser” bill for teens isn’t a flaw; it’s a necessary feature, says a privacy researcher

Opinion

Space

Chris Hadfield: Social media started with Apollo

Opinion

Technology

4D printing will mean the future makes itself

Opinion

Earth

We can cut emissions without a global deal

Opinion

Life

We'll have the tools to spot nearby aliens by 2030

Opinion

Analysis

NSA snoops tech companies' fibre-optic networks

Technology

NSA snoops tech companies' fibre-optic networks

Even though they cooperate with the US spy agency on court-ordered surveillance, firms like Google and Yahoo are subject to additional surveillance they never agreed to

News

Life

Should young children have the right to die?

News

Aperture

Chance of clouds: Gigantic cave has its own weather

Earth

Chance of clouds: Gigantic cave has its own weather

(Image: Robbie Shone) A GIGANTIC cave that has never seen the light of day is a tough photography target under clear conditions. But this one posed an extra challenge: it's so large and isolated that it has its own weather – including clouds. "Weather makes its way in, but it can't make its way out," …

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Features

Ancient afflictions: Mummies got heart disease too

Health

Ancient afflictions: Mummies got heart disease too

Cancer, depression, ADHD, autism – we blame them on the stresses and strains of modern life, but these diseases could have much older origins

Features

Earth

Saving Elmo: Why we fought to protect one urban tree

Features

Space

Forgotten force: The other great cosmic attractor

Features

Life

Run yourself smarter: How exercise boosts your brain

Features

Culturelab

Alfred Russel Wallace: A very rare specimen

Life

Alfred Russel Wallace: A very rare specimen

Wallace survived 12 years in the tropics collecting specimens (Image: Evstafieff/Down House, Downe, Kent, UK/English Heritage Photo Library/Bridgeman) A hundred years after his death, it is high time to put this evolutionary pioneer in his proper place – as Charles Darwin's equal, argues Stephanie Pain YESTERDAY I met someone who had never heard of Alfred …

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Enigma Number 1774

March of the ants A vertical piece of string is attached to a flat horizontal sheet of chicken wire, which forms a lattice of regular hexagons with 1-centimetre-long sides. The string is attached at one of the joints between three hexagons. Six ants marched down the string and along the wire, always moving further from …

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Forging our fuel future

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: Runaway expansion

Feedback: Runaway expansion

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Runaway expansion A FLURRY of puzzlement greeted reports last month about the observation of the oldest galaxy spotted so far. The snappily titled z8_GND_5296 formed 700 million years after the origin of the universe 13.8 billion years ago and is …

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