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19 October 2019

Issue 3252

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These evidence-based strategies may turn the tide on domestic violence

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These evidence-based strategies may turn the tide on domestic violence

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There is an answer to the world's deadliest human-elephant conflict

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Worried about the future? The science behind coping with uncertainty

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Worried about the future? The science behind coping with uncertainty

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In the age of fake news and manipulation, you are the new battlefield

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In the age of fake news and manipulation, you are the new battlefield

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Health

We live in uncertain times, but we can all take back control

Not knowing what's going on affects us all differently "THE only certainty is that nothing is certain", wrote Pliny the Elder with classical authority in his Natural History . Later, more waggish sources added death and taxes to the list, but the passage of time has done little to diminish the original sentiment. Indeed, modern …

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NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics

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NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics

Rocket engines that don't need propellant have been proposed before: this is an illustration of the EM-drive For every action, there is a reaction: that is the principle on which all space rockets operate, blasting propellant in one direction to travel in the other. But one NASA engineer believes he could take us to the …

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Space

Quantum weirdness could allow a person-sized wormhole to last forever

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Health

Mini organs grown from tumour cells can help us choose the best chemo

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Environment

Real time badger tracking shows culling could increase spread of TB

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Technology

UK launched passport photo checker it knew would fail with dark skin

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Life

Bees are better at counting if they are penalised for their mistakes

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Health

Takeaway food packaging may be source of synthetic chemicals in blood

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Space

We've discovered 20 more moons of Saturn – and you can help name them

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Life

Deep-sea anglerfish may shed luminous bacteria into the ocean water

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Humans

Ancient humans planned ahead and stored bones to eat the marrow later

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Space

Plans for UK's first moon rover announced at New Scientist Live

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Life

Cold-blooded mammals roamed Earth for tens of millions of years

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Health

Depression may reduce the amount of white matter in the brain

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Health

Chronic Lyme disease may be a misdiagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome

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Life

Life may have begun with simple genes made out of urine

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Humans

You probably score worse than monkeys on questions about the world

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Health

High levels of air pollution seem to be linked to early miscarriages

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Environment

Crabs are being found in the Thames with stomachs full of plastic

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Technology

These New Scientist-inspired Twitter bots are surrealist art

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Humans

Lee Berger: We have made another major discovery about early humans

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Health

Cannabis extract may work as a treatment for cannabis addiction

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Humans

Eliud Kipchoge's sub-2 hour marathon may herald even faster times

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Environment

US green economy has 10 times more jobs than the fossil fuel industry

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Life

The best of the 2019 Wildlife Photographer of the Year winning photos

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Analysis

Extinction Rebellion protests should be embraced, not banned

Environment

Extinction Rebellion protests should be embraced, not banned

The move to haul climate change protesters off London’s streets reflects a scientifically and economically illiterate political and media elite in denial about the issue

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Technology

Technology’s future isn’t gleaming, it’s dirty and biological

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Humans

These evidence-based strategies may turn the tide on domestic violence

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Aperture

Jet suits, giant moons and new science – this was New Scientist Live

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Jet suits, giant moons and new science – this was New Scientist Live

Photographers Jonny Donovan, David Stock, James Winspear THERE were jellyfish, there were robots, there was a banana piano – plus astronaut Tim Peake. This was New Scientist Live 2019, which welcomed more than 40,000 science enthusiasts of all ages to ExCeL London for a four-day celebration of ideas and discovery. The festival opened on 10 …

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Life

There is an answer to the world's deadliest human-elephant conflict

Sri Lanka has the world's highest rate of human-elephant conflict – last year alone, it killed 70 people and 300 elephants. A simple solution can make all the difference, if people are willing to try it

Features

Technology

In the age of fake news and manipulation, you are the new battlefield

Features

Mind

Worried about the future? The science behind coping with uncertainty

Features

Culture

Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage

Life

Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage

New book Ahab's Rolling Sea highlights our destructiveness as it teases fact from fiction in Moby-Dick, the obsessive hunt for a great white whale

Culture

Humans

Stunning Tutankhamun show brings pharaoh's golden afterlife to London

Culture

Life

Don't miss: a bright mind, a dark future and crowd-sourced science

Culture

Technology

Why do Borderlands 3's treasure chests make me feel a dopamine rush?

Culture

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UK space academy boss Anu Ojha on what finding aliens might mean

Space

UK space academy boss Anu Ojha on what finding aliens might mean

As a child, what did you want to do when you grew up? I grew up fascinated by space science and the world around me. As I grew older, this extended to a desire to understand societal and human issues, but I never really knew what I wanted to be apart from something that let me keep learning. …

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Health

Will the planet ever be free from the scourge of polio?

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Space

How to use the Orion constellation to find Sirius the dog star

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Quick crossword #43: the constellation Antlia (3,4)

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New Scientist puzzle #26: Evening out

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