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20 December 2014

Issue 3000

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'This is our policy': <i>51¶¯Âþ</i> after 3000 issues

'This is our policy': 51¶¯Âþ after 3000 issues

Opinion
Man vs sherry trifle: Can I eat myself drunk?

Humans

Man vs sherry trifle: Can I eat myself drunk?

Features
Is the answer to life, the universe and everything 37?

Life

Is the answer to life, the universe and everything 37?

Features
Born to dance: The animals with natural rhythm

Life

Born to dance: The animals with natural rhythm

Features
Racing refraction: Who reached the North Pole first?

Earth

Racing refraction: Who reached the North Pole first?

Features
Rhyme and reason: Writing poems in computer code

Technology

Rhyme and reason: Writing poems in computer code

Features
The real Oompa-Loompas: Microbes that make chocolate

Life

The real Oompa-Loompas: Microbes that make chocolate

Features
The piste at the end of the universe

Space

The piste at the end of the universe

Features
Reverb: Why we dig messy sound

Life

Reverb: Why we dig messy sound

Features
Spider Santa: Nicer gift-wrap, better sex

Life

Spider Santa: Nicer gift-wrap, better sex

Features
Storm warning: Can crystal-gazing predict the weather?

Earth

Storm warning: Can crystal-gazing predict the weather?

Features
Pearls of wisdom: The truth behind common sayings

Pearls of wisdom: The truth behind common sayings

Features
Try the hardest crossword ever set by a computer

Technology

Try the hardest crossword ever set by a computer

Features
How to make an origami universe

Space

How to make an origami universe

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

'This is our policy': <i>51¶¯Âþ</i> after 3000 issues

'This is our policy': 51¶¯Âþ after 3000 issues

A lot has changed in science, and science journalism, over the past 58 years – but our responsibilities remain the same

Opinion

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Zoologger: The bird that mimics a toxic caterpillar

Life

Zoologger: The bird that mimics a toxic caterpillar

Video: Baby bird mimics a toxic caterpillar Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals – and occasionally other organisms – from around the world Species : Laniocera hypopyrra Habitat : Lowland Amazonian rainforests in South America In the warm, humid tropical forests of the Peruvian Amazon, a rather drab grey bird makes its way …

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Technology

Optical illusions fool computers into seeing things

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Life

Humans and birds share the same singing genes

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Bacterial waste makes you feel fuller for longer

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Technology

Table-top 'mini-LHC' ramps up to record energy

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Loops and folds of our DNA to shed light on disease

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Physics

DIY device to define the kilogram – using Lego

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Earth

Glacial buzz saw takes mountains out at the knees

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Technology

Machine assistants learn to run your schedule

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Technology

Smart shoes with lasers make strides in mobility

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Space

2015 preview: Pluto gets ready for its first close-up

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Technology

2015 preview: Rebooting the particle smasher

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Earth

2015 preview: Paris summit breeds climate of optimism

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Humans

2015 preview: Meet more of your long-lost cousins

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Technology

2015 preview: Rescue robots go head-to-head

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2015 preview: Prepare for immersion in virtual reality

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2015 preview: Ebola fight remains on a knife-edge

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2015 preview: First human trials to cure blindness

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2015 preview: Cheating death using suspended animation

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2015 preview: Ready to start body hacking?

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2014 review: The most awesome stories of the year

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Technology

Radio-controlled mouse hints at new diabetes treatment

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Life

Asteroid soil could fertilise farms in space

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Health

Not again! First ever case of anxiety-induced déjà vu

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Earth

Mangrove forest planted as tsunami shield

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Earth

Climate change will leave Christmas trees in hot water

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Opinion

The mystery of yawning: We all do it, but why?

Health

The mystery of yawning: We all do it, but why?

Hot, tired brains and an excess of stress hormones. Could these be the reasons why we yawn?

Opinion

Life

Why are we so eager to embrace conspiracy theories?

Opinion

Space

Fancy naming a world after someone this Christmas?

Opinion

Alcohol archaeology: I recreate beverages with heritage

Opinion

QI elves: Our magpie minds and favourite facts

Opinion

Aperture

Go with the flow: See all 250,000 rivers in the US

Earth

Go with the flow: See all 250,000 rivers in the US

(Image: Andrew Hill/USGS) See more: Click here for the interactive version of this image TWO hundred and fifty thousand rivers run through it. Usually when we run photos like this they depict the wiring of the brain , but this, while bigger in absolute terms and smaller in complexity, is no less beautiful: it shows …

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Features

Born to dance: The animals with natural rhythm

Life

Born to dance: The animals with natural rhythm

Dogs and ducks are duds on the dance floor. So how come cockatoos and sea lions can move to a beat, and what does that tell us about our own musicality? THE Remo drum company has provided kits for the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. But the rock-and-roll antics of a recent group …

Features

Earth

Racing refraction: Who reached the North Pole first?

Features

Technology

Rhyme and reason: Writing poems in computer code

Features

Life

The real Oompa-Loompas: Microbes that make chocolate

Features

Space

The piste at the end of the universe

Features

Life

Is the answer to life, the universe and everything 37?

Features

Life

Reverb: Why we dig messy sound

Features

Life

Spider Santa: Nicer gift-wrap, better sex

Features

Earth

Storm warning: Can crystal-gazing predict the weather?

Features

Pearls of wisdom: The truth behind common sayings

Features

Humans

Man vs sherry trifle: Can I eat myself drunk?

Features

Technology

Try the hardest crossword ever set by a computer

Features

Space

How to make an origami universe

Features

Culturelab

Pitch us a movie and win an invite to our writing room

Pitch us a movie and win an invite to our writing room

No game: Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing (Image: Rex Features) Send us an elevator pitch and you could find yourself developing your best screenplay idea in the company of a hand-picked crew of writing professionals SCIENCE has been swallowing the film world of late. No sooner did Alfonso Cuarón's 2013 thriller Gravity strip space …

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Life

Y(ou)r q(ua)ntifi(e)d s(el)f, a short story

CultureLab

Life

On the pain of others: The case for animal rights

CultureLab

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New Scientist 2014 holiday quiz

51¶¯Âþ 2014 holiday quiz

See question 10 (below) (Image: Keystone/Getty) For this year's quiz, 51¶¯Âþ has teamed up with the QI Elves, the researchers behind the brilliant BBC panel show QI and its many spin-offs (see " QI elves: Our magpie minds and favourite facts "). The Elves read 51¶¯Âþ every week, plucking out the juiciest and …

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Feedback: Particle softly vanishes away

Feedback: Particle softly vanishes away

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Particle softly vanishes away SNARKS: what kind of particle would they be? Confronted with a piece of fruitloopery defining "quarky behaviour" as emitting "small, negative message clouds", our sense of lexical symmetry demanded a particle of that name (8 November) …

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