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11 April 2015

Issue 3016

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Editor's picks

We must take baby steps into newborn genome sequencing

Life

We must take baby steps into newborn genome sequencing

Opinion
Hay fever: Why it's not to be sneezed at

Health

Hay fever: Why it's not to be sneezed at

Features
Hay fever: What happens when an allergy kicks in?

Health

Hay fever: What happens when an allergy kicks in?

Features
Hay fever: What makes the immune system go haywire?

Health

Hay fever: What makes the immune system go haywire?

Features
Hay fever: Are allergy seasons getting worse?

Health

Hay fever: Are allergy seasons getting worse?

Features
Hay fever: Do allergies change over time?

Health

Hay fever: Do allergies change over time?

Features
Hay fever: Can airborne allergies be cured?

Health

Hay fever: Can airborne allergies be cured?

Features
Quantum purity: How the big picture banishes weirdness

Physics

Quantum purity: How the big picture banishes weirdness

Features
Ocean commotion: Protecting sea life from our noise

Earth

Ocean commotion: Protecting sea life from our noise

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

We must take baby steps into newborn genome sequencing

Life

We must take baby steps into newborn genome sequencing

Genome sequencing at birth could be the start of a medical revolution that could save lives and slash healthcare costs. But we need to proceed with caution

Opinion

News

Werewolf plant waits for the light of the full moon

Life

Werewolf plant waits for the light of the full moon

Lunar love It's the only known plant species that relies on the lunar cycle for survival – and we found out by complete accident. At night, Ephedra foeminea , a non-flowering relative of conifers and cycads, secretes small translucent globules of sugary liquid to attract nocturnal pollinating insects. The globules are like tiny beads oozing …

News

Technology

When will live-streaming apps like Periscope get interesting?

News

Earth

Drought prompts 25 per cent water cut in California

News

Space

Baby star before-and-after shows how it gets massive

News

Life

Brain compass implant gives blind rats psychic GPS

News

Technology

Human cruise control app steers people on their way

News

Life

'Reversible' abortions: how sound is the science?

News

Earth

How can we be sure Iran sticks to historic nuke deal?

News

Technology

Large Hadron Collider beam is back in action

News

Fabric fights fire and water at the same time

News

Technology

Wine and glue tape ideal for post-surgery patch-ups

News

Earth

Plague hits prairie dogs and changes US ecosystems

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

ISIS tweets reveal how the group rules its territories

News

Earth

Emissions pledges trickle in for UN climate deal

News

Megabucks pouring into global brain science projects

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Baby genes to be mapped at birth in medical first

News

Life

Would I have the genome of my baby sequenced?

News

Life

Sparks of consciousness mapped in most detail yet

News

Space

Looking into the voids could help explain dark energy

News

Life

Did neurons evolve more than once on Earth?

News

Technology

Why Obama's cyber sanctions won't deter digital crime

News

Life

Life below Antarctic ice survives on ancient forests

News

Life

Sexy men make others take bigger risks with money

News

Opinion

Radicalisation: A mental health issue, not a religious one

Health

Radicalisation: A mental health issue, not a religious one

To understand the appeal of extremist ideologies we need to look beyond the usual explanations, says a professor of epidemiology

Opinion

Earth

Soon every summer will be too hot for corals

Opinion

Technology

A cybercrime wave is coming – brace yourself

Opinion

Analysis

Changing China's tastes could save world's wildlife

Earth

Changing China's tastes could save world's wildlife

Efforts to curb China’s insatiable demand for luxury wildlife products are vital for driving down the incentives for illegal poaching worldwide

News

Aperture

Record-breaking winds sculpt mountaintop ice

Earth

Record-breaking winds sculpt mountaintop ice

IT CAN get pretty cold on the summit of Mount Washington, or Agiocochook as Native Americans call it. The New Hampshire peak stands at 1917 metres and is the highest in north-eastern US. It also has the distinction of hosting the Mount Washington Observatory , which was the world's first mountaintop weather station. Meteorological data …

Regulars

Features

Hay fever: Why it's not to be sneezed at

Health

Hay fever: Why it's not to be sneezed at

With hay fever going epidemic thanks to pollution and invasive super-pollens, we may have to turn to novel treatments to control our immune systems

Features

Health

Hay fever: What happens when an allergy kicks in?

Features

Health

Hay fever: What makes the immune system go haywire?

Features

Health

Hay fever: Are allergy seasons getting worse?

Features

Health

Hay fever: Do allergies change over time?

Features

Health

Hay fever: Can airborne allergies be cured?

Features

Physics

Quantum purity: How the big picture banishes weirdness

Features

Earth

Ocean commotion: Protecting sea life from our noise

Features

Culturelab

<i>Future Arctic</i>: Why it's time for action, not resignation

Earth

Future Arctic: Why it's time for action, not resignation

From the fate of the caribou to the oil sands industry, Edward Struzik's book paints troubling pictures of an unseen Arctic and explores options to save it

CultureLab

Science in Wonderland: Educated by fairy tales

CultureLab

Earth

Thank You, Madagascar: Diary of a life among lemurs

CultureLab

Regulars

Feedback: Striving to name polyfailure

Feedback: Striving to name polyfailure

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Striving to name polyfailure WHAT should we call the phenomenon exemplified by Feedback's perception that "anyone who suspects the probability of a set of independent failures occurring together to be vanishingly small should urgently make plans to cope with them …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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