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Table of contents

News

Turkey earthquake reveals a new active fault zone

Recent earthquakes in Turkey have occurred along one or other of the country's two main faults. Yesterday's quake struck near their meeting point

Physics

Faster-than-light neutrino result to get extra checks

Physics

Agreement to tie kilogram and friends to fundamentals

Earth

Sceptical climate scientists concede Earth has warmed

60 Seconds

Health

Sanatoriums could battle drug-resistant TB boom

Earth

UK’s carbon-capture failure is part of a global trend

Life

Libyan plan to trace mass graves and missing people

Health

The Israeli children who are suing for being born

Physics

Quantum upgrade removes need for spooky observer

Life

Dinosaur teeth hold first clues to migration

Earth

Dust bowl looms if US Southwest drought plans fail

Space

First icy star-disc hints at source of Earth’s water

Flood-fearing parrots commit ‘gendercide’ for survival

Humans

Fish and birds gave Neanderthals fine dining

Space

Astrophile: The sticky star cluster that’s mostly black hole

Humans

Zoologger: Female monkeys indulge in synchronised sex

Health

Sunbathe in the morning for a safer tan

Life

Mosquito vs raindrop match video settles urban myths

Life

Harness viruses to make dazzling colours without dye

Health

Chronic fatigue syndrome eased by cancer drug

Technology

Inside Facebook’s massive cyber-security system

Technology

Screen-spy program can read texts and emails

Technology

Quantum keys let submarines talk securely

Technology

Video ‘radar’ to stop drone mid-air collisions

Technology

How innovative is Apple’s new voice assistant, Siri?

Opinion

Why America should put its trust in reason

More than ever before, the world depends on US creativity and innovation

Let’s dare to question quantum magic

Earth

Britain should welcome climate refugee species

Humans

We must ask big brain questions, says neuroscientist

Contagion’s virus adviser tracking the next pandemic

Aperture

Balloons snapped popping

To capture the way a balloon deforms as it bursts, a trio of photographers spent hours working in darkness with a lot of milk and a knife on a stick

Features

Science in America: Decline and fall

The US is the most powerful scientific nation on Earth and yet the status of science in public life has never been so low. Why?

Science in America: Selling the truth

Earth

Oil spill X Prize: Winning inventors clean up

The real you: Say goodbye to online anonymity

Culture

How we travelled beyond infinity

Frank Close tells the human story of how we solved The Infinity Puzzle – once the bane of physics

Pacific Ocean chokes on plastic pollution

Behind the scenes of 15 great discoveries

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Enigma Number 1670

Regulars

Feedback: Bigger than Ben-Hur

Things bigger than Ben-Hur, restructured water, intelligent shampoo with meteorite extract, and more

This Week’s Letters

A wee dram

Weighty concern

Fear of height

Penalty tricks

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