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Introducing this week’s new-look New Scientist magazine
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Life
Blood amber: The exquisite trove of fossils fuelling war in Myanmar
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Space
The race to build a space internet available to anyone, anywhere
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Humans
The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry
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Battery-free pacemaker harvests energy from pig hearts in first tests
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Space
NASA’s InSight lander on Mars has felt its first marsquakes
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Health
21 million children miss first dose of measles vaccine every year
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Humans
Over 400 languages spoken today may have originated in northern China
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Technology
Mind-reading device uses AI to turn brainwaves into audible speech
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Environment
China’s efforts to cut pollution in Beijing may make it worse overall
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Mathematics
Google has created a maths AI that has already proved 1200 theorems
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Technology
Robotic tube for surgery autonomously navigates inside a beating heart
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Life
‘Rule-breaking’ crab fossils have weird shrimp and lobster features
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Health
Peanut allergy immunotherapy may actually do more harm than good
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Environment
The science behind Extinction Rebellion’s three climate change demands
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Technology
AI learns to paint in the styles of Van Gogh, Turner and Vermeer
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Humans
Neanderthals may have prized golden eagle claws for symbolic value
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Environment
Have people in the UK really been banned from shooting wood pigeons?
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Space
The moon may be made of magma that once covered Earth’s entire surface
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Technology
Sensors made from gummy bears could monitor how children chew
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Space
Titan has a belt of ice 6300 kilometres long that shouldn't be there
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Health
A bad sense of smell predicts early death but we don’t know why
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Humans
An Indian village has many more twins than can be explained
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Space
Wonky black hole spotted rapidly eating a doughnut made from a star
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Health
Sales of opioid painkiller codeine have halved in Australia
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Life
Two species of colourful stick insects discovered in Madagascar
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Life
Working hypothesis: From slow ramblers to asteroid Ryugu
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Earth
Extreme flooding leads to deaths in Indonesia and Mozambique
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Humans
Major discovery suggests Denisovans lived in Tibet 160,000 years ago
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Environment
Signs of human climate change influence on drought traced back to 1900
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