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19 September 2015

Issue 3039

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Editor's picks

Only full disclosure of drug trial results will maintain trust

Health

Only full disclosure of drug trial results will maintain trust

Opinion
5 alien worlds weirder than any we have found so far

Space

5 alien worlds weirder than any we have found so far

Features
Buzz words: How language creates your emotions

Humans

Buzz words: How language creates your emotions

Features
Secret to old-age health could lie in purging worn-out cells

Life

Secret to old-age health could lie in purging worn-out cells

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

Only full disclosure of drug trial results will maintain trust

Health

Only full disclosure of drug trial results will maintain trust

Pharmaceutical firms have a history of suppressing unfavourable results from drug trials. It’s time to compel them to publish data in full

Opinion

News

Volunteers ate 6000 calories a day to probe cause of diabetes

Health

Volunteers ate 6000 calories a day to probe cause of diabetes

Supersize me: a recipe for diabetes (Image: ArtMarie/Getty) Eating two and a half times more than you should will leave you overweight and prone to type 2 diabetes , although no one is entirely sure why. Now a team that fed volunteers a whopping 6000 calories a day have found some clues. Obesity is only …

News

Life

Great tits and blue tits battle by laying eggs in enemy nests

News

Space

Pluto dazzles in first new images downloaded since July’s flyby

News

Health

Exoskeleton reveals lengths we go to save energy when walking



News

Earth

Crops farmed by leafcutter ants show signs of domestication

News

Space

Black holes may be brick walls that bounce information back out

News

Space

Moonquakes unearthed in data from 1970s Apollo mission

News

Health

Can red wine and chocolate really stave off Alzheimer's disease?

News

Earth

Global warming slowdown could be over as temperatures soar

News

Earth

Did global warming play a role in Japan's devastating floods?

News

Earth

Sierra Nevada's 500-year snowpack low deepens California drought

News

Earth

Jeremy Corbyn: Where he stands on science and medicine

News

Earth

Bees win as US court rules against neonicotinoid pesticide

News

Life

Speed dating shows arranged bird marriages lead to bad parenting

News

Space

Earth's composition might be unusual for a planet with life

News

Technology

Gaption, the social network where it can literally pay to post

News

Life

ISIS could be using decades-old mustard gas in Syria

News

Life

Have we turned dogs into lazy thinkers through domestication?

News

Earth

Key moments in human evolution were shaped by changing climate

News

Life

Brain-controlled smart home lets you turn the TV on by thinking

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Life

Face analysis can tell what you'll buy after watching ads

News

Technology

Unhackable kernel could keep all computers safe from cyberattack

News

Life

Crowdsourcing a solution works best if some don't help

News

Space

NASA reveals best pictures of bright spots on Ceres

News

Health

Patent for first method to create human sperm, but does it work?

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

US-Cuba thaw could bring important gains for cancer research

News

Opinion

Refugee crisis: Why one boy's tragedy created a wave of empathy

Humans

Refugee crisis: Why one boy's tragedy created a wave of empathy

It took the story of a drowned child to end apathy to mass refugee deaths on Europe's shores. It doesn't have to be this way, says morality researcher Daryl Cameron

Opinion

Space

I drive monster trucks for the stars

Opinion

Earth

Palm oil: How this eco villain is mending its ways

Opinion

Life

Why did sex evolve? Blame an ancient hook-up

Opinion

Analysis

New look at antidepressant suicide risks from infamous trial

Health

New look at antidepressant suicide risks from infamous trial

So popular, it's in our water (Image: Steven Taylor/Getty) YOU may never have heard of it, but Study 329 changed medicine. It was the first trial to highlight serious problems with a common class of antidepressants, but only now have the full results been opened up to independent scrutiny. They show that one drug is …

News

Aperture

Living fossil nautilus re-emerges after 30 years of hiding

Life

Living fossil nautilus re-emerges after 30 years of hiding

(Image: Peter Ward) ALMOST 30 years had passed since the last sighting of Allonautilus scrobiculatus when this creature swam in front of Peter Ward's camera last month, deep below the sea off Papua New Guinea. Nautiluses, distant relatives of squid and cuttlefish, are sometimes called "living fossils" because they appear almost unchanged from 500-million-year-old preserved …

Regulars

Features

Buzz words: How language creates your emotions

Humans

Buzz words: How language creates your emotions

Some societies don't have a word for worry. Others have 15 words for fear. Does it change the way they feel?

Features

Space

5 alien worlds weirder than any we have found so far

Features

Life

Secret to old-age health could lie in purging worn-out cells

Features

Culturelab

The sick truth behind worries on migrant health

Life

The sick truth behind worries on migrant health

The prejudice and fear that dogged the arrival of mid-20th century migrants is fascinatingly captured in Contagious Communities. We should learn the lessons

CultureLab

Earth

How to Thrive In the Next Economy: Is a better way possible?

CultureLab

Regulars

Feedback: Addressing STEM's gender imbalance is child's play...

Feedback: Addressing STEM's gender imbalance is child's play...

(Image: Paul McDevitt) Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Brushing up on science THE new president of the British Science Association, Athene Donald, has spoken out ahead of her inauguration to condemn early influences that drive women away from careers in science, technology, engineering and maths …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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