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2 July 2022

Issue 3393

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DNA helix 3D illustration. Mutations under microscope. Decoding genome. Virtual modeling of chemical processes. Hi-tech in medicine; Shutterstock ID 1811660503; purchase_order: 020722; job: NS; client: NS; other:

Health

What's next for the gene-edited children from CRISPR trial in China?

News
M5J5BX Woman having a healthy meal in a cafe

Health

How readily should we swallow the idea of diets that delay ageing?

News
A longevity diet that hacks cell ageing could add years to your life

Health

A longevity diet that hacks cell ageing could add years to your life

Features
Ten years after the Higgs discovery, what now for particle physics?

Physics

Ten years after the Higgs discovery, what now for particle physics?

Features
Can we beat climate change by geoengineering the oceans?

Environment

Can we beat climate change by geoengineering the oceans?

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

M5J5BX Woman having a healthy meal in a cafe

Health

How readily should we swallow the idea of diets that delay ageing?

The promise of a new diet that can add as much as a decade to your life is certainly tempting – and might well be proven to work – but for now should be swallowed with a pinch of salt

News

News

A selection of flint artefacts excavated at the site

Humans

UK’s earliest hand axes were made by ancient humans 560,000 years ago

Stone tools found in Fordwich in Canterbury may have been made by an early human called Homo heidelbergensis

News

Space

Light delayed by seven years as it is bent around a galaxy cluster

News

Health

Protein from plant-based 'meat' may be less well absorbed by the body

News

Environment

We must accept we won’t meet 1.5°C climate target, says report

News

Health

Breast cancer is more likely to spread during sleep

News

Physics

Elusive exotic matter called a tetraneutron possibly seen in the lab

News

Life

Parasitic wasps released in orchards to control crop-eating stink bug

News

Health

Amazon reviews saying candles are scentless may signal covid-19 cases

News

Environment

UK's largest carbon capture project will turn CO2 into baking soda

News

Technology

75 per cent of the world's top websites allow bad passwords

News

Life

Largest known bacteria in the world are visible to the naked eye

News

Humans

Was warfare responsible for the origin of complex civilisation?

News

Health

Glycaemic index is a poor predictor of how foods raise blood sugar

News

Society

UK minister says EU is ‘weaponising science’ in Brexit deal row

News

Health

How can the global monkeypox outbreak be controlled?

News

Life

Hummingbirds may be the world’s most colourful birds

News

Life

Chimpanzees hunt for fruit in video game to test navigation skills

News

Space

Rogue planets with weird atmospheres and no star could host life

News

Health

26 US states are likely to ban abortion to the fullest extent possible

News

Technology

Artificially intelligent robot perpetuates racist and sexist prejudice

News

Analysis

African couple owner fresh grocery organic shop; Shutterstock ID 615928364; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Society

We should celebrate the diversity and knowledge of farmers' markets

Farmers' markets sell more diverse fruit and veg than big stores. They are also a repository of knowledge, and serve as plant conservation hubs, says Beronda L. Montgomery

Comment

Health

What's next for the gene-edited children from CRISPR trial in China?

News

Health

Advising alcohol abstinence in pregnancy may do more harm than good

News

Aperture

This young green turtle was eagerly snacking on a lion?s mane jellyfish at Julian Rocks like a child eating candy floss. She took such a large mouthful that the jelly morsel wrapped around her face like a veil as she kept swimming blindly towards the surface.

Life

Like a child eating candyfloss: see a green turtle tuck into jellyfish

This photo of a young green turtle is shortlisted for the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2022 competition, one of several stunning images showing off the region's wildlife and landscape

Regulars

Features

A longevity diet that hacks cell ageing could add years to your life

Health

A longevity diet that hacks cell ageing could add years to your life

A new diet based on research into the body's ageing process suggests you can increase your life expectancy by up to 20 years by changing what, when and how much you eat

Features

Physics

Ten years after the Higgs discovery, what now for particle physics?

Features

Environment

Can we beat climate change by geoengineering the oceans?

Features

Culture

Elusive review: The story of the Higgs boson defies normal narratives

Humans

Elusive review: The story of the Higgs boson defies normal narratives

Finding the Higgs boson is the compelling story behind Elusive: How Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass. But Frank Close's book lives up to its title as both the man and his particle ultimately slip through the net

Culture

Humans

Don't Miss: 1960s' Dr Who double bill makes a return to the big screen

Culture

Humans

The Men review: Gender dystopia in a world where men have vanished

Culture

Society

How Minds Change review: The science of persuasion in a divided world

Culture

More

Twisteddoodles on Science Unicorn's latest experiment

Twisteddoodles on Science Unicorn's latest experiment

  Other cartoons by Twisteddoodles can be found here

Regulars

Tom Gauld's proposed scale for defining scientific envy

Regulars

Society

Count the bugs "splatted" on your car to help track insect decline

Regulars

Puzzle #174: Can you solve the riddle of the digital alarm clock?

Regulars

Regulars

Put down the coffee: Study finds caffeine drives impulse purchases

Humans

Put down the coffee: Study finds caffeine drives impulse purchases

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

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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