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12 September 2015

Issue 3038

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Editor's picks

Europe's refugees: Making a drama out of a crisis

Life

Europe's refugees: Making a drama out of a crisis

Opinion
Why music therapy is making a comeback

Health

Why music therapy is making a comeback

Features
Magical morphing jumbo squid are taking over the eastern Pacific

Life

Magical morphing jumbo squid are taking over the eastern Pacific

Features
Modern-day alchemy is putting the periodic table under pressure

Earth

Modern-day alchemy is putting the periodic table under pressure

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

Europe's refugees: Making a drama out of a crisis

Life

Europe's refugees: Making a drama out of a crisis

Our response to the Syrian refugee crisis is driven by fiction, not facts. Only evidence-based policies have any hope of working

Opinion

News

Zoologger: A spider that looks and smells like bird droppings

Life

Zoologger: A spider that looks and smells like bird droppings

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

News

Life

Key enzyme helps country kids ward off allergies and asthma

News

Technology

Mental health apps let you access therapy from your smartphone

News

Life

Hawk's invisible force shield protects hummingbird from jays

News

Life

Stone-age people were making porridge 32,000 years ago

News

Health

HIV may kill most cells by a method overlooked for years

News

Health

Cancer trap grabs wandering tumour cells to warn of early spread

News

Earth

Armchair fossil hunters use drone photos to find ancient bones

News

Life

Why welcoming more refugees makes economic sense for Europe

News

Health

MERS warning as pilgrims prepare to visit Mecca during outbreak

News

Humans

New species of extinct human found in cave may rewrite history

News

Life

Blockchain startups promises a world where no one is in charge

News

Technology

Faster London trains could make your commute even longer

News

Space

Supernova simulator recreates elements that form when stars die

News

Health

Donated liposuction stem cells could heal difficult wounds

News

60 Seconds

News

Spider galaxies spotted eating gas caught in the cosmic web

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Environment

Seal fur and Arctic bacteria leach toxic mercury into waters

News

Earth

Climate change could submerge rocket launch sites, warns NASA

News

Stonehenge mystery deepens with discovery of 30 new stones

News

Everyone in the US and Australia owes $12,000 in CO2 emissions

News

Alzheimer's may have been transmitted via human growth hormone

News

Opinion

Free brave blue-skies researchers to refuel economic growth

Free brave blue-skies researchers to refuel economic growth

Economies grow because of scientific breakthroughs – but budget cuts, bureaucrats and overcautious research priorities are strangling them, warns Donald Braben

Opinion

Technology

Guns locked to owners' identities could stop needless deaths

Opinion

Life

Can software suffer? Death and pain in digital brains

Opinion

Aperture

Corals glow in spectacular colours thanks to ‘fluo-dive' lights

Life

Corals glow in spectacular colours thanks to ‘fluo-dive' lights

(All images: Oliver Meckes/SPL) LIGHTS, camera, fluorescence! The combination of all three allowed German underwater photographer Oliver Meckes to produce these vibrantly colourful shots of corals, anemones and other Red Sea creatures in the dead of night. When viewed with the naked eye, the organisms barely appear to have any colours at all. But when …

Regulars

Features

Modern-day alchemy is putting the periodic table under pressure

Earth

Modern-day alchemy is putting the periodic table under pressure

Elements are transformed under the huge pressures far underground and within stars. Harnessing this extreme chemistry could yield astonishing new technologies

Features

Life

Magical morphing jumbo squid are taking over the eastern Pacific

Features

Health

Why music therapy is making a comeback

Features

Culturelab

<i>Evolution: The whole story</i> proves no lifeform is dull

Life

Evolution: The whole story proves no lifeform is dull

Devour a wildly ambitious guide to all of life in this accessible and fascinating book that journeys back through millions of years of Earth’s history

CultureLab

Technology

Autumn's science books weigh up humanity's future options

CultureLab

Can big theatre successfully embrace big science?

CultureLab

Regulars

Feedback: the political games in species names

Feedback: the political games in species names

(Image: Paul McDevitt) Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Naming in vain A ROSE by any other name would smell as sweet – except to officials in South Korea, who have marked 70 years of independence by renaming thousands of native flora species that referenced the …

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Regulars

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