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9 May 2015

Issue 3020

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Editor's picks

Ebola experience is a wake-up call for the WHO

Health

Ebola experience is a wake-up call for the WHO

Opinion
The next plague: How many mutations are we away from disaster?

Health

The next plague: How many mutations are we away from disaster?

Features
Rosetta's wrong water could be right after all

Space

Rosetta's wrong water could be right after all

Features
Rosetta's real revolution is right here on Earth

Space

Rosetta's real revolution is right here on Earth

Features
Au revoir, terroir? The science of what makes great wines tick

Earth

Au revoir, terroir? The science of what makes great wines tick

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

Ebola experience is a wake-up call for the WHO

Health

Ebola experience is a wake-up call for the WHO

The World Health Organization is in need of both reform and money to give it the best chance of dealing with potential global health threats in future

Opinion

News

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos just launched a secret rocket to space

Space

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos just launched a secret rocket to space

Video: Blue Origin's New Shepard on its first flight The secret's out In a move that will garner begrudging respect from Bond villains around the world, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos secretly launched an uncrewed rocket to space yesterday from his private launch facility in the Texas desert. Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, has been working …

News

Space

Land ho: NASA spacecraft may have seen polar ice cap on Pluto

News

Life

Capuchin monkeys rival chimps as highly skilled nut-crackers

News

Health

Teleporting trick shows how the brain helps us know our own body

News

Life

Could these giant dinosaurs have lifted up their pictured prey?

News

Life

Black lives matter: premature deaths skew US election results

News

Earth

Severe heat costs the Australian economy US$6.2 billion a year

News

Life

Hungry, in pain or content? Adults can't tell what a baby wants

News

Life

3D printed horns may put rhinos at greater risk of extinction

News

Life

Deadly skin-eating fungus threatens UK's great crested newt

News

Life

Womb milk nourishes human embryo during first weeks of pregnancy

News

Technology

No empathy? Fake it with an app that perfects your online self

News

Technology

Human vs machine as top poker pros take on AI

News

Technology

US army calls for ideas on invisible uniforms for soldiers

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Life

Spiders sprayed with graphene or carbon nanotubes spin super silk

News

Space

Galactic smash-ups turn on the lights around black holes

News

Health

Cholera vaccine stocks could save millions of refugees in Nepal

News

Dutch researchers feared dead after disappearing in the Arctic

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Microbes found at bottom of ocean are our long-lost relatives

News

Life

Human bat uses echoes and sounds to see the world

News

Life

Rock-forming microbes may be suited for life on other planets

News

Technology

Syrian war helps shape seismic map of explosions

News

Health

Withdrawal drug could help cannabis addicts kick the habit

News

Life

Zoologger: The mammal with the stretchiest nerves on the planet

News

Opinion

Nepal earthquake: Can we make nations more disaster resilient?

Nepal earthquake: Can we make nations more disaster resilient?

Keeping people aware is key to quake resilience Earthquakes cannot be predicted, beyond saying that where they have happened in the past, they will, someday, happen again. And those places are often home to people with few resources. After Saturday's devastating earthquake in Nepal – and facing scenes that are depressingly reminiscent of equally destructive …

Opinion

Can we do without animal research? Not yet

Opinion

Life

I've won a day in court for two chimps

Opinion

Life

It hurts to be human: Why pain is fundamentally different for us

Opinion

Aperture

Worst drought in 1200 years drains America's biggest reservoir

Earth

Worst drought in 1200 years drains America's biggest reservoir

(Image: Rex_Shutterstock) IF CALIFORNIA'S prolonged dry spell is eventually recognised as a megadrought, no one can say we weren't warned. Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the US, has hit its lowest level ever. Feeding California, Nevada and Arizona, it can hold a mind-boggling 35 cubic kilometres of water. But it has been many years …

Regulars

Features

The next plague: How many mutations are we away from disaster?

Health

The next plague: How many mutations are we away from disaster?

Dangerous viruses lurk all around us. Discover whether one could turn into an unstoppable killer that could wipe out half the human race

Features

Space

Rosetta's wrong water could be right after all

Features

Space

Rosetta's real revolution is right here on Earth

Features

Earth

Au revoir, terroir? The science of what makes great wines tick

Features

Culturelab

Could ancient laws help us sue the internet?

Technology

Could ancient laws help us sue the internet?

A medieval law could help us bring to book all those responsible for algorithms that run – and ruin – our lives…

CultureLab

Technology

Blame the enlightened self for the distractions in our lives

CultureLab

Life

Men (Dis)connected: Philip Zimbardo's lament on the male

CultureLab

More

Predatory cockroach from dinosaur era found trapped in amber

Life

Predatory cockroach from dinosaur era found trapped in amber

(Image: Peter Vršanský) This exotic, praying-mantis-like cockroach that lived at the same time as dinosaurs was caught in amber about 100 million years ago. It is part of a new family of extinct predatory cockroaches that hunted at night. Peter Vršanský from the Geological Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia, and Günter Bechly from the State Museum …

Regulars

Regulars

Feedback: A song for a satellite gone

Feedback: A song for a satellite gone

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more A song for a satellite gone PLUCKY little Philae's epic and lonely struggle against the absence of gravity ensures that at least some of us are gripped by its stalled quest (6 December 2014) . Will it wake? The most …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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