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14 June 2014

Issue 2973

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Editor's picks

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Technology

Why the Turing test needs updating

Opinion
The father enigma: Why do nature's devoted dads care?

Life

The father enigma: Why do nature's devoted dads care?

Features
Isn't it ironic? The value of sarcasm

Life

Isn't it ironic? The value of sarcasm

Features
Goodbye big bang, hello big silence

Space

Goodbye big bang, hello big silence

Features
Kill shot: Pushing diseases to the edge of eradication

Health

Kill shot: Pushing diseases to the edge of eradication

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Technology

Doctors must go digital to deliver local care

Most people would rather see a doctor close to home – but mega-hospitals concentrate skills and equipment. Telemedicine can bridge the gap

Opinion

Humans

Science, not soccer, will boost Brazil

Opinion

Technology

Why the Turing test needs updating

Opinion

News

Zoologger: Acid for breath helps catfish find food

Life

Zoologger: Acid for breath helps catfish find food

Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals – and occasionally other organisms – from around the world

News

Health

Sleep may help memories form by promoting new synapses

News

Life

Lose weight by tricking body into thinking it's cold

News

Health

Fingertips and forehead are most sensitive to pain

News

Space

NASA 'dream fund' selects submarine for Saturn moon

News

Earth

Island-hopping odyssey brought civilisation to Europe

News

Health

Gene editing tool can write HIV out of the picture

News

Earth

Vermont is first US state to create long-term climate plan

News

Space

Part of infant Earth survived moon's shocking birth

News

Earth

Butterflies near salted roads grow larger eyes and muscles

News

Technology

Mind-controlled exoskeleton to kick off World Cup

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Brazilian science bids for world glory

News

Technology

Elastic battery yarn could power smart clothes

News

Technology

Windows bug-testing software cracks stem cell programs

News

Technology

Doctors with iPads could transform hospital care

News

Technology

Blood minerals are electronics industry's dirty secret

News

Technology

Listen to sounds inside the body to monitor health

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

The Bitcoin spin-off currency that's also an archive

News

Earth

Chimera enzyme may make better biofuels from waste

News

Earth

Oil drillers promise to withdraw from Africa's Eden

News

Health

US brain-map project could dwarf its European rival

News

Technology

Does a new particle lurk in data from sleeping LHC?

News

Space

Two giant planets may cruise unseen beyond Pluto

News

Life

Zoologger: The Michael Phelps of the ant world

News

Health

Wild bird flu could mutate into deadly human pandemic

News

Extreme checklist to look for odd life on other worlds

News

Opinion

Is the UK being too hasty over three-parent babies?

Health

Is the UK being too hasty over three-parent babies?

The rush to permit controversial methods to avoid mitochondrial disease in babies raises questions, say two bioethicists

Opinion

Earth

My dive into the blighted future of acidified oceans

Opinion

Technology

Dobby, Pikachu and Kermit are my robots' role models

Opinion

Health

When an anthropologist tackles Alzheimer's disease

Opinion

Analysis

China battles to be first ecological civilisation

Earth

China battles to be first ecological civilisation

Smog gets in your eyes SO YOU want to live in a country that is guided by a philosophy of "ecological civilisation", run by people with the vision to implement policies that will benefit their children even if it costs more in the short term? Move to China. Not convinced? Last week, news circulated that …

News

Technology

Law by algorithm: Are computers fairer than humans?

News

Aperture

21st century nomads: Photos on the road less travelled

Earth

21st century nomads: Photos on the road less travelled

(Images: Jeroen Toirkens/Lux Photo Gallery/nomadslife.com) THE world, we're often told, is getting smaller. You know that's true when, north of the Arctic Circle, you erect your traditional nomadic tent, or lavvu, under a lamp post and in front of a row of ski jumps (main image). This is Murmansk, in the far north-west of Russia. …

Regulars

Features

The father enigma: Why do nature's devoted dads care?

Life

The father enigma: Why do nature's devoted dads care?

From male pipefish pregnancies to single-father frogs, evolution has produced some truly doting dads – and made the job surprisingly rewarding

Features

Life

Isn't it ironic? The value of sarcasm

Features

Space

Goodbye big bang, hello big silence

Features

Health

Kill shot: Pushing diseases to the edge of eradication

Features

Culturelab

Baby mammoth wonder will unleash your inner child

Life

Baby mammoth wonder will unleash your inner child

(Image: Guy Bell/Rex) Staying scientifically sensible is tough going when you come face-to-face with one of the cutest babies on Earth. Especially when that baby is a 1-month-old who died so quickly when she fell into Siberian muds that her feet are still suspended in the motion of struggle, her trunk still clogged up with …

CultureLab

Space

A straight-talking woman's guide to dark matter

CultureLab

The war on pain and why we can't win it

CultureLab

More

Too much information: Better health from big data

Health

Too much information: Better health from big data

What can you do with 9.8 million DVDs'-worth of data? Anything from treating cancer to stifling the spread of drug-resistant malaria

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: All dogs go to gate 97, please

Feedback: All dogs go to gate 97, please

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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