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Scientists in Belgium, Japan and the United States are submitting when the rest of us are kipping. Plus: Finally! A solution (of sorts) to the three-body problem, and the conference that brings all the fun of science Twitter into the real world.
Stunning images from the year in science, the world’s largest neutrino detector is a go and the US government is to fund gun-violence research for the first time in more than 20 years.
Prominent stem-cell researcher Masoud Soleimani returns to Iran and history graduate student Xiyue Wang goes home to the United States. Plus: the first mission designed to study exoplanets and psychology’s embattled field of social priming.
Object contains DNA instructions to make a copy of itself, ‘big history’ puts an end to the Axial Age and a gene-based hack detangles correlation from causation in epidemiology.
Piped-in sounds of a healthy reef tempt young fish to re-colonize degraded areas. Plus: The San Andreas and Cascadia earthquake faults might be linked and how to build a better malaria vaccine.
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.