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Letter: For the record – 1 February 2020

Published 29 January 2020

 

• The eruption of the Taal volcano in the Philippines isn’t yet large enough to produce measurable global cooling (18 January, p 5).

• Braden Tierney and colleagues looked at 13 conditions and found that a person’s microbiome was a better predictor of 12 of them than their genetics (18 January, p 6).

• Silkworms will apparently eat most mulberries (11 January, p 31).

Issue no. 3267 published 1 February 2020

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