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28 November 2015

Issue 3049

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Editor's picks

We can't afford a triumph of mediocrity at Paris climate talks

Earth

We can't afford a triumph of mediocrity at Paris climate talks

Opinion
China's climate comeback: How the top polluter is cleaning up

Earth

China's climate comeback: How the top polluter is cleaning up

Features
What does a memory in my brain look like?

Humans

What does a memory in my brain look like?

Features
How wily wild turkeys struck it lucky in America

Earth

How wily wild turkeys struck it lucky in America

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

We can't afford a triumph of mediocrity at Paris climate talks

Earth

We can't afford a triumph of mediocrity at Paris climate talks

Hopes are high for a deal at the Paris climate summit. But not just any deal will do

Opinion

News

Human vocal cords built from scratch in world first

Health

Human vocal cords built from scratch in world first

Say what? Doctors have grown the world's first vocal cords from scratch. The breakthrough could one day restore speech to people who have lost their own vocal cords through surgery or disease. Doctors built the vocal cords using cells from human donors. The cells were coaxed into forming tissue that mimics vocal fold mucosa – …

News

Life

African finch sings and performs superfast Happy Feet tap dance

News

Space

Thieving Milky Way stole distant star cluster from neighbour

News

Health

Different parasitic worms can raise or lower female fertility

News

Life

Mollusc sees the world through hundreds of eyes made out of rock

News

Life

Capuchin monkeys use sticks as shovels to dig out caiman eggs

News

Life

Engineered fillets on sale in two years as US approves GM salmon

News

Earth

Cyborg rose has electric circuits running through polymer veins

News

Space

Black hole batteries could power mysterious radio bursts

News

Earth

African grey parrot numbers plummet by 99 per cent in Ghana

News

Health

Diabetic pancreas cells made to produce insulin by bone protein

News

Technology

Watch Blue Origin's surprise rocket launch and safe landing

News

Life

Koalas' love of sex with neighbours protects against inbreeding

News

Health

How high-fat ketogenic diet acts on the brain to help epilepsy

News

Health

Do babies born at the weekend have higher risk of complications?

News

Whales make mysterious visits to underwater mountains

News

Earth

Paris climate summit: Hope versus reality at last ditch meeting

News

Space

Flying gold knocked the moon off course and ruined eclipses

News

Life

17th century plot to use plague hats as bioweapons revealed

News

Life

First images of live blood vessels in unprecedented clarity

News

Technology

Privacy apps to help fight back against companies that track you

News

Life

Mission space food: Sugar-growing bacteria go into orbit

News

Technology

Hands full? Shoe computer lets you kick to answer your phone

News

Life

Robot language tutors to get kids up to speed before school

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

60 Seconds

News

Spacecraft that will put Einstein to the test ready for lift-off

News

Gene drive method could rapidly halt malaria transmission

News

Opinion

Putty bullets – new weapons could ease police gun toll

Putty bullets – new weapons could ease police gun toll

After a string of fatal shootings by US law enforcers, the contentious development of fresh alternatives to deadly force has merit, says David Hambling

Opinion

Life

ISIS chemical terror threat sounds alarming but is unlikely

Opinion

XKCD comic creator: Explaining complex things in simple words

Opinion

Earth

Why I'm asking surfers to help monitor the oceans

Opinion

Features

How wily wild turkeys struck it lucky in America

Earth

How wily wild turkeys struck it lucky in America

Delicious and nutritious, wild turkeys were heading for extinction in the US a century ago – but now the tables have turned for the iconic gobbler

Features

Humans

What does a memory in my brain look like?

Features

Earth

China's climate comeback: How the top polluter is cleaning up

Features

Culturelab

Best books, films and art of 2015 – as chosen by <em>New Scientist</em>

Best books, films and art of 2015 – as chosen by New Scientist

The future of AI, Russia’s glorious space past, undercover golfers, and the man who’s so famous we can’t remember why, New Scientist’s staff loved it all

CultureLab

More

Nut-cracking capuchin and tadpoles among photo competition picks

Earth

Nut-cracking capuchin and tadpoles among photo competition picks

This is a selection of our favourite images from the Royal Society Publishing photography competition. Cracking this nut will take strength, skill and a grasp of physics – and the capuchin is equal to the task. The monkeys choose nuts that are easiest to crack. An individual finds a groove in a log where one …

Regulars

A year in books: See CultureLab's best reads from 2015

Regulars

Feedback: Victoria's Secret perfume doubles as repellent

Environment

Feedback: Victoria's Secret perfume doubles as repellent

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Air deterrent EAU de deterrent, anyone? Fears about chemical nasties have consumers turning their noses up at mosquito repellents containing DEET in favour of "natural" alternatives such as citronella and vitamin B patches. Stacy Rodriguez and her colleagues decided to …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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