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2 January 2016

Issue 3054

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Editor's picks

Keep antibiotics useful: A new year's resolution for all of us

Health

Keep antibiotics useful: A new year's resolution for all of us

Opinion
Self-mastery can be yours with three pillars of emotional wisdom

Humans

Self-mastery can be yours with three pillars of emotional wisdom

Features
Mining the hidden treasure of the world's unknown bacteria

Life

Mining the hidden treasure of the world's unknown bacteria

Features
Can burping black holes reveal the true fabric of the universe?

Space

Can burping black holes reveal the true fabric of the universe?

Features

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Health

Taboo shouldn't stop us from postponing the menopause

SHOULD we get rid of the menopause? Experience with women who have received frozen ovaries for medical reasons make this a real possibility – one that some are keen to take up. Many women might jump at the chance. A 2005 survey found that 63 per cent of European women had severe symptoms from the …

Opinion

Health

Keep antibiotics useful: A new year's resolution for all of us

Opinion

News

Physicists struggle to squeeze new particles from the LHC

Physics

Physicists struggle to squeeze new particles from the LHC

It's a fairly silent night as the Large Hadron Collider shuts down for the holidays. Particle physicists at CERN today presented the first results since the LHC was switched back on for its second run, but had no discoveries to report. Instead, early hints of new physics from the end of the LHC's first run …

News

Life

Two missions face off to seek life in icy seas of Enceladus

News

Life

Penguins filmed in epic underwater fight stealing a large squid

News

Life

3 billion-year-old fossils show early microbes lived in cavities

News

Life

Sharks seen hunting and killing a whale for the first time

News

Life

Fences put up to stop refugees in Europe are killing animals

News

Humans

New species of human may have shared our caves – and beds

News

Life

Four genes discovered that will help you live beyond 100

News

Health

Controversial sleeping pill helps mice recover from strokes

News

Earth

Europe's oldest lake faces destruction to make way for tourists

News

Space

SpaceX rocket is first to put satellites in orbit and land again

News

Health

US drops lifetime ban on gay men donating blood

News

Humans

Eating when we should be sleeping may play havoc with our brains

News

Space

Dark matter's true face could be unmasked by pairs of dead stars

News

Technology

How 2016's war on encryption will change your way of life

News

Earth

Polar wildlife under threat as ice melts and makes seas brighter

News

New quantum record as ball of atoms ends up in two spots at once

News

Earth

El Niño and a polar vortex behind deadly US tornadoes

News

Earth

Learning to live with floods will be key to UK policy review

News

Health

Halting march of Zika virus is health priority for 2016

News

Health

Ovary freezing offers a drug-free way to tame menopause

News

Earthquake detectors pick up wartime explosions and helicopters

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Hate exams? Now a computer can grade you by watching you learn

News

60 Seconds

News

Opinion

Paris is a pragmatic climate deal, even if it is 25 years late

Earth

Paris is a pragmatic climate deal, even if it is 25 years late

As the summit in France wrapped up, climate politics veteran Michael Jacobs gave his verdict on the deal to curb global warming

Opinion

Health

Show me you're there: Ethical dilemmas of minimal consciousness

Opinion

Health

New vaping rules shouldn't drag down the whole industry

Opinion

Technology

The 'caring' robots that are only fit for termination

Opinion

Aperture

Italy's fertile Fucino valley, imaged from space

Italy's fertile Fucino valley, imaged from space

GUSTAV KLIMT would like it. This mosaic of scarlet, beige and grey looks like a detail from one of the Austrian artist's studies in shape, colour and geometry. But on closer inspection, the solitary cloud floating across the picture gives the game away. This is a satellite image of one of Italy's most fertile regions, …

Regulars

Features

Can burping black holes reveal the true fabric of the universe?

Space

Can burping black holes reveal the true fabric of the universe?

If mysterious radio bursts from space are hints from exploding black holes, we could be seeing the quantum source of gravity for the first time

Features

Life

Mining the hidden treasure of the world's unknown bacteria

Features

Humans

Self-mastery can be yours with three pillars of emotional wisdom

Features

Culturelab

<em>Here Be Dragons</em>: Hostile aliens, tall people and black holes

Earth

Here Be Dragons: Hostile aliens, tall people and black holes

To anticipate even some of the risks that come from our research, we must vigorously debate the future, urges a provocative book by Olle Häggström

CultureLab

Next year in books: CultureLab's choicest reads for 2016

CultureLab

Regulars

Feedback: IBM feels the heat over hairdryer hacking campaign

Feedback: IBM feels the heat over hairdryer hacking campaign

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

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