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11 June 2016

Issue 3077

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Sculpture of human figure covered in letters

Health

Artificial genome could create a 'blank slate' human template

News
butter

Health

Let's revisit the consensus on fat, carbs and health

News
Warning symbol made of a sausage with a rice background

Health

Fat vs carbs: What's really worse for your health?

Features
aliens

Space

How the sun abducted dwarf planets from an alien solar system

Features
Charles Beeker

Humans

Shipwreck archaeologist versus treasure hunters of the Caribbean

Features
rainforest

Life

Life on the edge: Saving the world's hotbeds of evolution

Features

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Leaders

butter

Health

Let's revisit the consensus on fat, carbs and health

The row over dietary fat exposes deeper problems. If science doesn't come clean when the facts aren't clear, we may give up trying to lead a healthy life

News

News

The giraffe has a very pale neck

Life

Giraffe has same skin-lightening condition as Michael Jackson

A whiter shade of pale: I'm sad, me Michael Jackson may have had something in common with a giraffe discovered in Kenya. The two seem to be linked by a rare skin condition called vitiligo, where the skin gradually loses its pigment. Now Zoe Muller from the Rothschild's Giraffe Project and the University of Bristol, …

News

Technology

Metamaterial lens is thinner than the light it bends and focuses

News

Life

Domestic dogs may have evolved separately in Europe and Asia

News

Health

Stem cell brain injections let people walk again after stroke

News

Life

Hipster chicken beards caused by a single gene mutation

News

Health

Failing livers transformed into healthy organs by virus therapy

News

Earth

What's causing the devastating floods in France and Germany?

News

Earth

UK closer to banning cosmetic microbeads that clog up its seas

News

Earth

US and India set to join UN climate deal and agree on renewables

News

Life

Desert plant seen drinking fog and mist with its leaves

News

Humans

End-of-day brain drain impairs decision-making

News

Space

Flamingo stars turn pink when they gobble iron-rich planets

News

Life

Electric eels seen leaping out of water to attack land predators

News

Space

Supersmart satellites reveal crops and fields like never before

News

Technology

Silicon fingerprint on chips could make any gadget unhackable

News

One Per Cent

News

Space

Gravity probe LISA Pathfinder achieves best ever free fall

News

Health

Genetic test predicts your success in life, but not happiness

News

Earth

Australia hit by storms worsened by king tides and low pressure

News

Tiny satellite tests sending first quantum messages in space

News

Breast cancer drug trial success prompts calls for UK approval

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

Ghostly neutrino could be behind cosmic expansion mystery

News

Mystery human hobbits ruled tiny Asian island 700,000 years ago

News

Life

Spongy minerals could explain why Mars gives off methane burps

News

Analysis

Trump on a podium, with his hilarious hair

Earth

Trump would deliver fatal blow to fight against climate change

A Donald Trump presidency would disrupt the fight against climate change in a way that threatens to snuff out all hope, warns Matthew Nisbet

News

Health

Face it, the Olympics won't be axed. We need to Zika-proof them

News

Technology

Is Elon Musk right, are we really living in a simulated cosmos?

News

Health

Artificial genome could create a 'blank slate' human template

News

Aperture

robot prototype

Technology

The bizarre beauty of the objects that might save your life

THEY'RE objects that have stood between us and death. After photographer Reiner Riedler's newborn son spent two weeks in a neonatal unit, he began paying closer attention to the fantastic forms of the tools that keep patients alive. Riedler spent five years photographing medical equipment around Europe, from historic prototypes that never saw a hospital …

Regulars

Features

rainforest

Life

Life on the edge: Saving the world's hotbeds of evolution

It's a radical new approach to saving nature: don't obsess about individual species, safeguard the places on the bleeding edge of evolutionary change instead

Features

Space

How the sun abducted dwarf planets from an alien solar system

Features

Humans

Shipwreck archaeologist versus treasure hunters of the Caribbean

Features

Health

Fat vs carbs: What's really worse for your health?

Features

Culture

chimp

Life

Making squirrels count and other dumb animal intelligence tests

What happens when you test animal thinking and sense of self on their own terms? Two books show the very different picture that emerges

Culture

Technology

How future-proof are the ideas of Buckminster Fuller?

Culture

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