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Most forecasts published between 1970 and 2007 did a good job of predicting global warming. Plus: NASA’s daring solar probe discovers the secrets of the solar wind and cell biologists visualize a world of a thousand dimensions.
Get rid of ‘ergodicity’ and a bunch of puzzling economic phenomena suddenly make sense. Plus, gene therapy tackles sickle-cell disease and doubts about whether tame animals necessarily get cuter.
Several climate tipping points are dangerously close. Plus: E. coli that eats carbon dioxide and why getting scooped doesn’t mean losing all the credit.
Documents say that, in just one week in 2017, more than 15,000 people flagged by algorithm were interned. Plus: lion-cub mummies discovered in Egypt and how hardy corals could help save the world’s reefs.
Case has prompted an outcry from the international community. Plus: promising antibiotic discovered in the guts of nematode worms and a global view of collaboration.
Holography reveals a possible escape hatch for information to get out. Plus: the origins of the sense of direction and how China caught US science agencies off guard.
Science funders gamble on good ideas, researchers sequence a “complete butterfly continent” and how the first two objects from interstellar space are upending astronomy.
So “short and simple, it should have been in textbooks already”. Plus: Hayabusa2 is heading home with an asteroid sample, and engineers unveil a sound-powered 3D display.
Larval fish are eating tiny pieces of plastic in the waters off Hawaii, briefcase-sized labs could transform drug development and regulators have approved the first vaccine against Ebola.
Once thought lost to science, the silver-backed chevrotain has been spotted again. Plus, explore the gender gap in chemistry publishing and hear from the astronauts who crewed the first all-female spacewalk.