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26 March 2016

Issue 3066

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Editor's picks

brain

Life

Darwin's beautiful theory must itself be allowed to evolve

Opinion
toast

Health

Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?

Features
Elliot crater

Space

Pluto: A whole new world in 5 strange photos

Features
Nature’s brain: A radical new view of evolution

Life

Nature’s brain: A radical new view of evolution

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

brain

Life

Darwin's beautiful theory must itself be allowed to evolve

Evolution is true, but that doesn't mean it is dogma. Each new addition to the canon, such as the idea that evolution can "learn", must be considered carefully

Opinion

News

Snapping shrimps make less noise in acidifying oceans

Life

Snapping shrimps make less noise in acidifying oceans

Ready to snap? Snap, crackle, hush. Snapping shrimps – which produce ubiquitous crackles that guide fish larvae to reefs – may become quieter by the end of the century. This is a likely outcome of ocean acidification, according to the first lab experiments to look at its effects on ocean soundscapes. Natural sound is particularly …

News

Technology

Material that can grow when stretched is inspired by Islamic art

News

Life

Human stem cell with half a genome could help infertile couples

News

Earth

Oil tax breaks in UK's budget criticised by climate campaigners

News

Life

Aquatic plant that feeds like a Venus flytrap faces extinction

News

Earth

Why Obama's Supreme Court nomination is good for the climate

News

Health

Artificial DNA folds into parcels that can survive inside us

News

Earth

Pluto gives up its icy secrets as New Horizons data pours in

News

Health

Women live longer than men but suffer more years of poor health

News

Health

Right-leg prostheses give sprint para-athletes an edge on bends

News

Space

NASA is sending a 3D printer and a fire starter to the ISS

News

Technology

New alloys could lead to next generation of nuke plant metals

News

Life

Frozen rabbit kidneys could solve organ shortage for transplants

News

Life

On the trail of some of the world's rarest monkeys

News

Life

Manta rays are first fish to recognise themselves in a mirror

News

Technology

Helpful ghost hands teach beginners how to build new things

News

Technology

Visions of the singularity: how smart can AI get?

News

Technology

Graphene smart patch for monitoring diabetes could save lives

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Earth

Weather records broken as world faces alarming levels of change

News

Life

Fish with rainbow skin shows how cells move when skin regrows

News

Technology

iPhone app tracks 600 patients in biggest ever Parkinson’s study

News

Earth

Invasive Soviet water flea cuts US lake’s visibility by a metre

News

Health

US introduces measures to tackle opioid painkiller epidemic

News

Health

Blind woman is first person to receive optogenetics therapy

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Reviving Europe's long-lost beasts through mass rewilding

News

Space

LIGO could catch dark matter made of black holes

News

Life

Never-before-seen life spotted by Hawaiian deep-sea expedition

News

Opinion

A child drinking a fizzy drink

Health

UK's sugary drink tax signals welcome stand against industry

A levy on sugary drinks will raise cash to boost school sports but the true test of success will be its impact on consumption, says Tam Fry

Opinion

Health

Europe must ease the impact of trauma on refugees, not worsen it

Opinion

Health

Meningitis B row shows flaws in how vaccine decisions are made

Opinion

Health

I’m finding new ways to beat antibiotic resistance

Opinion

Aperture

octopus

Life

Glass invertebrates reveal the plight of modern oceans

Octopus vulgaris OVER a century and a half ago, two glass flower artists from Bohemia, Leopold Blaschka and his son Rudolph, began making exquisite models of animals and plants. By 1888 they had 700 pieces to offer museums and universities all over the world, study models that, according to Leopold, were "universally acknowledged as being …

Regulars

Features

Nature’s brain: A radical new view of evolution

Life

Nature’s brain: A radical new view of evolution

How does natural selection create so much complexity so fast? A bold new theory says it learns and remembers past solutions just as our brains do

Features

Space

Pluto: A whole new world in 5 strange photos

Features

Health

Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?

Features

Culturelab

Bed Down Location, showing time-lapse video projections of night skies in Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan

Technology

How Astro Noise show interrogates the world of surveillance

Bed Down Location , showing time-lapse video projections of night skies in Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan Laura Poitras: Astro Noise  runs at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City from 5 February to 1 May 2016. Images taken from hacked Israeli drones line the entrance at Astro Noise, the first solo exhibition …

CultureLab

Humans

Racism, photography and DNA: can we right past wrongs?

CultureLab

Humans

Eugenic America: How to exclude almost everyone

CultureLab

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Land of fire and ice

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Regulars

Cartoon of man in suit holding a gavel, sweating, with his hand over his moutn, with a bottle of milk in front of him

Space

Feedback: Lawmakers’ raw milk celebrations hit a sour note

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

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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