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10 October 2015

Issue 3042

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Editor's picks

We can't let a discredited psychotherapy return to wreck lives

Health

We can't let a discredited psychotherapy return to wreck lives

Opinion
General relativity at 100: The missing piece of the jigsaw

Physics

General relativity at 100: The missing piece of the jigsaw

Features
Explore 100 years of general relativity

Physics

Explore 100 years of general relativity

Features
General relativity at 100: Still no theory of everything

Physics

General relativity at 100: Still no theory of everything

Features
How I'm going to photograph a black hole

Technology

How I'm going to photograph a black hole

Features
General relativity at 100: The paradox of black holes

Space

General relativity at 100: The paradox of black holes

Features
Endangered earth: The secret battle to save our soils

Earth

Endangered earth: The secret battle to save our soils

Features
General relativity at 100: Einstein's witness in the sky

Space

General relativity at 100: Einstein's witness in the sky

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

We can't let a discredited psychotherapy return to wreck lives

Health

We can't let a discredited psychotherapy return to wreck lives

Recovering suppressed memories has been discredited as a therapy, but it could rear its ugly head again because of recent abuse scandals

Opinion

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Zoologger: DJ frogs sing like birds, remixing tunes on the hop

Life

Zoologger: DJ frogs sing like birds, remixing tunes on the hop

Male Gracixalus treefrogs woo females with their original compositions (Image: Jodi Rowley/Australian Museum) Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals – and occasionally other organisms – from around the world Species: Gracixalus treefrogs Habitat: Evergreen forests in the mountains of north and central Vietnam Deep in the evergreen forests of Vietnam, curious little green-blooded …

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Humans

Musicians' brains fire symmetrically when they listen to music

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Technology

Foam heart could pump inside you just like the real thing

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Space

Budget NASA missions will head for asteroids or hellish Venus

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Life

Slow cyclists gain advantage from schooling like fish

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Life

Volcanoes plus asteroid might have finished off dinosaurs

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Health

Rebooted pancreas cells could ease type 1 diabetes

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Technology

Neutrino detectors could keep discreet tabs on nuclear reactors

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Earth

Megatsunami 170 metres high once smashed into Cape Verde

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Technology

Undersea robot learns to ferret out the unusual and interesting

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Earth

More than half of EU officially bans genetically modified crops

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Health

Nobel Prize for medicine for drugs that have benefited billions

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Life

Plant tricks dung beetles by making its seeds look like dung

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Earth

Wildlife is thriving around Chernobyl since the people left

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Google Lunar X Prize gets 2017 extension after rocket contract

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Earth

South Carolina floods are a 'once in a millennium' event

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Earth

As monster El Niño looms, the world rushes to get ready

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Life

Invisibility cloak for heat could help mice vanish from snakes

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Life

How to save our digital knowledge for future generations to read

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Earth

UK government could face lawsuit over climate failures

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Life

Why resurgence of therapy that unearths ‘lost’ memories is risky

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Life

Speech recognition AI identifies you by voice wherever you are

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Technology

One Per Cent

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Earthquake algorithm picks up the brain's vibrations

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Health

Drug could kill harmful bacteria but leave benign ones untouched

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60 Seconds

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Expert witness on 'shaken baby syndrome' faces misconduct charge

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Opinion

VW scandal: Corporate green claims need a new kind of scrutiny

Earth

VW scandal: Corporate green claims need a new kind of scrutiny

Time to clean up? (Image: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images) All sorts of companies increasingly make a great play of their green credentials, largely in a bid to attract environmentally friendly consumers. Much is promised, but how much is delivered? Volkswagen is a case in point. Its 2013 report on corporate responsibility , which talked up sustainability …

Opinion

Life

Go beyond your five senses with my extrasensory jacket

Opinion

Space

I want to update the Golden Record message on Voyager probes

Opinion

Earth

If Paris climate change talks fail, there's always Plan C

Opinion

Aperture

Jet's shock waves captured against the sun's brightness

Space

Jet's shock waves captured against the sun's brightness

(Image: NASA) IT'S like threading a needle while travelling faster than the speed of sound. Pilots at the US air force test pilot school flew this supersonic T-38C jet to the right place at the right time so that NASA could capture this photograph of the jet's shock waves. When the waves are forced together, …

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Features

Explore 100 years of general relativity

Physics

Explore 100 years of general relativity

In a century, Einstein’s theory has revolutionised our picture of the universe. We take a look at the pivotal moments in general relativity since Einstein presented his theory in 1915

Features

Space

General relativity at 100: Einstein's witness in the sky

Features

Space

General relativity at 100: The paradox of black holes

Features

Technology

How I'm going to photograph a black hole

Features

Physics

General relativity at 100: Still no theory of everything

Features

Physics

General relativity at 100: The missing piece of the jigsaw

Features

Earth

Endangered earth: The secret battle to save our soils

Features

Culturelab

How fish dodged extinction's bullet

Earth

How fish dodged extinction's bullet

The Worst of Times explores the baffling story of animals that breezed through the worst climate catastrophe Earth has ever known

CultureLab

Life

Strange Tools: What can art tell us about who we are?

CultureLab

Life

NeuroTribes: How autism has been badly misunderstood

CultureLab

Regulars

Feedback: Dutch ships' quantum manifests

Life

Feedback: Dutch ships' quantum manifests

(Image: Paul McDevitt) Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Dutch ships' quantum manifest QUANTUM uncertainty plagues the rivers, canals and harbours of the Netherlands. Henk Rijneveld reports confusion among those working with a government system to monitor ship movements. The system aims to record details of …

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