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25 October 2014

Issue 2992

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Editor's picks

Cutting off the Ebola zone would be a mistake

Health

Cutting off the Ebola zone would be a mistake

Opinion
The comeback cubs: The great sea otter invasion

Life

The comeback cubs: The great sea otter invasion

Features
Transformers: Humanity's next 1000 years

Technology

Transformers: Humanity's next 1000 years

Features
The future's flat: The wondrous world of 2D materials

Technology

The future's flat: The wondrous world of 2D materials

Features
Transformers: 10 revolutions that made us human

Life

Transformers: 10 revolutions that made us human

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

Cutting off the Ebola zone would be a mistake

Health

Cutting off the Ebola zone would be a mistake

Travel bans aren’t the answer: distancing ourselves from countries and people afflicted with Ebola could prove tragic for the world

Opinion

News

Why closing borders won't stop Ebola's rampage

Health

Why closing borders won't stop Ebola's rampage

Read our complete guide to the Ebola outbreak

News

Space

Sleepy sun could make Mars trips deadly

News

Ban of vulture-killing drug in India is working

News

China set to launch probe on round trip to the moon

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

'Missing' disaster led to all-time worst extinction

News

Thoroughly modern humans interbred with Neanderthals

News

Fetus's arthritis genes can affect the mother

News

Locked-in people's awareness revealed by rainbow hair

News

Environment

Oldest genitals found. Went out of fashion for eons

News

Powering up the poor shouldn't hurt the climate

News

Dark matter signal points to exotic black-hole origins

News

Number of eggs a woman has predicts heart attack risk

News

Diet fast or diet slow, the same weight piles back on

News

Chaotic cosmic wombs may birth backwards planets

News

Environment

Shy lemurs communicate using toilet trees

News

Saturn's moon Mimas might have its own subsurface sea

News

Environment

Spanish amphibians struck down by virus attack

News

Quantum internet could cross seas by container ship

News

Technology

Personal helicopter will be as easy to drive as a car

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Health

This is what brain cell conversations look like

News

Technology

Slumdog mapmakers fill in the urban blanks

News

Opinion

Enlist our microbiomes in the fight against cancer

Life

Enlist our microbiomes in the fight against cancer

Changes in our gut flora may encourage or battle cancer, so we need to get a few trillion of our foot soldiers on side, says a professor of medicine

Opinion

Health

Global agency needed for battling infectious diseases

Opinion

Technology

Legalise online protests to safeguard democracy

Opinion

Analysis

Can Google Express deliver on same-day shopping?

Technology

Can Google Express deliver on same-day shopping?

I want it, and I want it now... On Wednesday morning, I realised I was out of nail polish. Five hours later, I had a bottle of Scarlett O'Hara red delivered to my apartment. It was ferried to me in a car in an individual Ziploc bag emblazoned with a picture of a parachute and …

News

Aperture

Coming face to face with a shy thresher shark

Life

Coming face to face with a shy thresher shark

(Image: Jean-Marie Ghislain/ghislainjm.com) IT'S looking at you, with its mouth slightly open. For Jean-Marie Ghislain , meeting this thresher shark was a moving experience, because it is a timid and distant animal. Not, perhaps, the impression that most of us would form if we came face to face with a 3-metre shark. Especially one that …

Regulars

Features

The comeback cubs: The great sea otter invasion

Life

The comeback cubs: The great sea otter invasion

Video: Sea otters surface from brink of extinction After being nearly wiped out a century ago, the sea otter population in Canada is booming. But not everyone is glad to welcome them back IT'S shortly after dawn on Canada's west coast. We're standing on a rocky islet, and below us are the animals we have …

Features

Technology

Transformers: Humanity's next 1000 years

Features

Technology

The future's flat: The wondrous world of 2D materials

Features

Life

Transformers: 10 revolutions that made us human

Features

Culturelab

What one Amazonian tribe teaches us

Life

What one Amazonian tribe teaches us

Awajún wives use the threat of suicide to make men behave better (Image: Victor Rojas) From female suicide to the nature of being civilised, probing tribal life in the 21st century needs an unflinching, critical eye ON 26 January 1987, Time magazine ran an article in which US presidential candidate George H. W. Bush, replying …

CultureLab

Breaking point: Storming the barriers of unreason

CultureLab

More

Shelf appeal: Making packaged food more alluring

Shelf appeal: Making packaged food more alluring

Coffee-scented packets, edible wrappers and biodegradable containers: it's up to inventive scientists to develop food packaging that is smart, clean and appealing to the senses

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: Trial by water

Feedback: Trial by water

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Trial by water AS THE nights draw in in the northern hemisphere, we return to the subject of unconventional sunscreen. At the height of the London summer we mentioned claims by the Colorado company Osmosis that it had produced a …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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