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13 August 2016

Issue 3086

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Editor's picks

drought in California

Earth

We have to recycle water on a massive scale – this is how we can

News
Calculations on blackboard

Physics

More haste, less speed: Don't rush to publish premature theory

News
Mongolian herders

Humans

The kindness paradox: Why be generous?

Features
New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Life

Ocean worlds: Searching for life in the solar system's seas

Features
Emmanuel de Merode

Life

We risk our lives daily to safeguard Virunga National Park

Features
fungus

Life

Killer fungi: The health threat that’s creeping up on us

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

eco-warriers

Life

It's time we all became eco-warriors for water

We're cleaning up our act when it comes to water – now a small shift in attitudes could go a long way

News

Physics

More haste, less speed: Don't rush to publish premature theory

News

News

Blood spatter model to help crime scene investigation

Technology

Blood spatter model to help crime scene investigation

Spatter tracked to two areas RECONSTRUCTING the sequence of events leading up to a murder could become easier and more precise thanks to a new system for producing a high-resolution 3D map of a crime scene. A post-mortem can shed some light on the circumstances surrounding a murder, and vital clues can also be gleaned …

News

Technology

Could sex robots and virtual reality treat paedophilia?

News

Health

There could already be 40,000 people carrying Zika in the US

News

Life

Giant honeybees may act like a collective lung to beat the heat

News

Technology

Crystal mimics brain cell to sift through giant piles of data

News

Health

Being fat in middle age may shrink your brain’s white matter

News

Life

Baby monkeys smile in their sleep - more so than human babies

News

Technology

AI reads your tweets and spots when you’re being sarcastic

News

Earth

First evidence of legendary flood reveals China's origin story

News

Health

Counting genetic mutations predicts how soon you’ll get cancer

News

Life

Mystery of why some sunflowers track the sun across skies solved

News

Technology

Libraries of plastic molecules could store huge amounts of data

News

Life

Elusive Arabian sand cat spotted after 10 years' disappearance

News

Space

Venus could have been habitable while life evolved on Earth

News

Technology

How Tesla's batteries can change the solar power game

News

One Per Cent

News

Health

Obamacare has already improved health of low-income Americans

News

Humans

Ice age fashion showdown: Neanderthal capes versus human hoodies

News

Health

Just a few hours’ exercise a week makes your heart grow bigger

News

Earth

World’s longest lake is being depleted of life as waters warm

News

Quantum computing race heats up as trapped ions rival microchips

News

Space

IceCube telescope in Antarctica rules out sterile neutrinos

News

Earth

Plan to replant millions of trees in central England slows down

News

US ban on some types of human-animal embryos could be lifted

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Parents giving unproven IQ-boosting drugs to kids with Down's

News

Health

Best look yet at how our brain's sewage system flushes out waste

News

Physics

Physicists look to the future as new particle dream dies

News

Analysis

A group of young Chinese people, most of whom appear to be overweight

Health

Beyond drugs: the war on lifestyle disease needs new tactics

If we rely solely on medical sciences to get us out of a global epidemic of "lifestyle" disease, we will fail, warns Luke Allen

News

Humans

School field trips to creationist Ark? Sink that idea right now

News

Health

Gene doping in sport could make the Olympics fairer and safer

News

Humans

Cast into limbo, UK science is confronting Brexit uncertainty

News

Earth

We have to recycle water on a massive scale – this is how we can

News

Aperture

rainbow mountains

Earth

Rainbow cake mountains show stunning slices of colour

YES, this is a real place. Yes, it's on this planet. The vibrant colours of the mountains dotting China's Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in Gansu Province lend the peaks their nickname: the rainbow mountains. The strata were originally laid down horizontally, one on top of another, like the layers of a cake. The mountains' …

Regulars

Features

Mongolian herders

Humans

The kindness paradox: Why be generous?

Humans are one of the rare animals to be altruistic. An ancient form of giving holds secrets about why we help one another without any promise of reward

Features

Life

Ocean worlds: Searching for life in the solar system's seas

Features

Life

Killer fungi: The health threat that’s creeping up on us

Features

Life

We risk our lives daily to safeguard Virunga National Park

Features

Culture

The long scientific voyage of Tudor warship the Mary Rose

Technology

The long scientific voyage of Tudor warship the Mary Rose

Henry VIII’s favourite warship is on view again, and it’s been a long battle to get it to a point at which people can breathe the same air as the ship’s ancient timbers

Culture

Technology

Marconi forged today's interconnected world of communication

Culture

Regulars

Trump

Feedback: Putin in his place

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

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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