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No.3141
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Leaders
Online hate victims must speak out if the law is to stop the mob
We need a more grown-up conversation about the menopause
NEWS
UPFRONT
Texas may be just as vulnerable when next big hurricane hits
Lethal injection contained a chemical never tried before
Exclusive: We may have detected a new kind of gravitational wave
North Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan for first time
Australia plans random drug tests for people receiving welfare
Snow leopards aren’t as rare as we thought – but aren’t safe yet
Steampunk rover design eliminates electronics to survive Venus
60 Seconds
NEWS & TECHNOLOGY
It only takes a few gene tweaks to make a human voice
Human blood and skin cells used to treat Parkinson’s in monkeys
AI uses bitcoin trail to find and help sex-trafficking victims
Photos of skinny women affect people’s minds in just 15 minutes
Your broadband provider can use your smart devices to spy on you
We’ve seen how our brains file away memories for the first time
Nobody knows how these baby stars got so close to our black hole
Monkeys can see faces in inanimate things, just like us
Large non-native species like donkeys can boost biodiversity
Mummy autopsy reveals earliest known case of liver parasite
Wonky signals from distant stars could be sign of exocomets
Secret lifestyle of the dodo revealed for the first time
First underwater entanglement could lead to unhackable comms
IN BRIEF
Low-ranked female monkeys band together against their leaders
Robot suit helps children with cerebral palsy to walk better
Doing meth raises the risk of strokes in young people
Medieval London was the most violent place in England
Eat a seasonal diet and your gut microbes may change in sync
Twisted carbon nanotubes harness waste energy and put it to work
Lithium in tap water seems to both raise and lower dementia risk
Icy hard drives cram 5300 movies onto a postage stamp
ANALYSIS
Is donating your DNA to the NHS worth the privacy risks?
Culture not biology is behind many differences between the sexes
Why aren’t we testing whether planes can survive a drone crash?
Will Google’s targeted depression tests really help people?
APERTURE
A honeybee struggles to escape the grip of a fearsome beewolf
FEATURES
How much is your science capital worth?
Our greatest creation: Where maths comes from and what it’s for
How menopause and Alzheimer’s change the brain in similar ways
Taking Earth’s pulse: How to predict eruptions from space
PEOPLE
I survived a tsunami of online hate and now fight to help others
CULTURE
The Darkening Web: Misinformation is the strongest cyberweapon
The day Hope the whale stole the show
‘Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate
More
Old Scientist: Goodbye Daedalus, our resident implausible genius
Regulars
LETTERS, FEEDBACK, THE LAST WORD