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9 April 2016

Issue 3068

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Health

Just say maybe: Is the world ready to abandon the war on drugs?

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Woman in headscarf waits in front of police bearing riot shields

Humans

Migration: Do we want to go forwards or backwards?

Opinion
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Humans

The truth about migration: How we lived without passports

Features
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Humans

The truth about migration: How it will reshape our world

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The truth about migration: Rich countries need immigrants

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Health

The truth about migration: We're a stay-at-home species

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The truth about migration: How evolution made us xenophobes

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Physics adventures down the superfluid supersonic black hole

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Table of contents

Leaders

Woman in headscarf waits in front of police bearing riot shields

Humans

Migration: Do we want to go forwards or backwards?

VOWING to tighten borders has become a vote-winner around the world. With memories still fresh of the murderous attacks in Paris and Brussels , calls to clamp down on migration have struck a popular chord across Europe. Hostility to migration is an animating force for many who want the UK to leave the European Union. …

Opinion

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Titan

Space

Bubbling ocean on Saturn’s moon could explain vanishing island

Lakes like a fizzy drink The oceans and lakes on Saturn's moon Titan might be fizzy – a suggestion that could explain a mysterious disappearing island recently seen on the surface. Titan is the only place in the solar system besides Earth with open bodies of liquid on its surface. But since the temperature is …

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Life

Giving mosquitoes chemical weapons helps keep them under control

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Life

Dear Google, please help us use our data to beat dengue and Zika

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Earth

Cloud atlas uses satellite data to predict where species live

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Earth

The birds that are winning and losing thanks to climate change

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Life

Bio coding language makes it easier to hack living cells

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Health

Explore how global obesity crisis has exploded in past 40 years

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Health

People who never forget their past could have unique kind of OCD

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Technology

Robots infiltrate insect world to learn their ways

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Life

Wolves or bears? Threatened caribou mothers' catch-22 dilemma

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Health

Toxic form of tau protein foils memory formation in Alzheimer's

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Space

Dust devils on Mars may be boosted by their own shadows

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Technology

Lifelogging and fiction can teach computers to see how we see

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Technology

One Per Cent

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Life

The hands-on breeding effort saving the world's weirdest parrot

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Space

Same Blue Origin rocket reaches space and lands for third time

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Space

Planet Nine might be an exoplanet stolen by the sun

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Health

Insomnia could be caused by loose connections in the brain

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Life

Has ritual human sacrifice shaped societies and class systems?

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Life

SETI looks at red dwarf stars in its search for ancient aliens

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Space

Inflatable space hotel to be tested by space station crew

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Earth

Anger as coal mine that could damage Great Barrier Reef approved

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Earth

Aviation and shipping firms edge towards pledging emissions cuts

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Health

Calls for pharma to follow GSK and make drugs more accessible

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60 Seconds

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Opinion

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic sits in the courtroom for the reading of his verdict at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, on 24 March, 2016

Humans

How DNA profiling helped unravel the horror of Bosnia's genocide

Guilty as charged Radovan Karadzic, former leader of the Bosnian Serbs is beginning a 40-year sentence after being found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. It marks the end of a trial that began in 2010 at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Prominent among …

Opinion

Earth

I'm creating supercharged corals to beat climate change

Opinion

Analysis

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Earth

Hidden cost of climate change is unwanted carbs in your food

Foods are becoming richer in carbohydrates and poorer in some essential nutrients - the result of pumping carbon dioxide into the air, warns Irakli Loladze

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Health

No excuse for doctors who refuse to treat transgender people

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Health

Just say maybe: Is the world ready to abandon the war on drugs?

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Aperture

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Technology

William Henry Fox Talbot and the birth of the photograph

William Henry Fox Talbot and Nicolaas Henneman at the Reading establishment, 1846 HE WAS a man of some accomplishments, but drawing eluded him. So while on honeymoon in Italy in 1833, William Henry Fox Talbot adopted the camera lucida, a tracing device, to help him sketch scenes. "The idea occurred to me," he later wrote, …

Regulars

Features

Truth about migration image

Humans

The truth about migration: How it will reshape our world

Arguments rage, but what does immigration really mean for jobs, economies and cultures? The evidence suggests we could turn a crisis into an opportunity

Features

Humans

The truth about migration: How evolution made us xenophobes

Features

Health

The truth about migration: We're a stay-at-home species

Features

Humans

The truth about migration: How we lived without passports

Features

Humans

The truth about migration: Rich countries need immigrants

Features

Space

Physics adventures down the superfluid supersonic black hole

Features

Culturelab

Three hares image on medieval roof boss, South Tawton, Devon, UK

Humans

The 'three hares' motif is an ancient mystery for our times

A warning against sin? Or a way to advertise good fortune? A fascinating book ranges from Devon to China in its search for the origin of an enigmatic image

CultureLab

Humans

Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?

CultureLab

Life

Savagely malled: Why 'smart' cities aren't so smart

CultureLab

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Gene therapy gets approval for ‘bubble kids’ in world first

A genetic therapy that lasts for years has been approved to treat a potentially fatal immune disorder that makes children need to be isolated from infection

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Feedback: The sun is hollow, and other empty claims

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

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Letters

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