Editor's note
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In recent years, researchers have discovered that the one or two kilograms of bacteria and fungi that live in our guts have a massive influence on our physical and mental health. The problem with modern life – with its bland diets, antibiotics and obsessive hygiene – is that it has decimated the diversity of this “microbiome”, putting our health at risk. But can we “re-wild” it by abandoning our modern ways? Tim Spector spent three days living with Hadza hunter-gatherers in Tanzania to find out.
Visual artist and sculptor Hannah Imlach sought inspiration from scientists at Heriot-Watt University for an installation. Physicist Paul Dalgarno was amazed to discover the overlap between the artist’s creative process and the way he conducted his own experiments. He concluded that science had much more in common with art than he had expected.
The newly-launched NICER x-ray space telescope will study neutron stars, the unimaginably dense remnants left behind by collapsed stars. And with some neutron stars giving off huge radio wave bursts that can be detected across the galaxy, they could be used as a GPS to navigate in deep space.
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Clint Witchalls
Health + Medicine Editor
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Top story
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Jeff Leach
Tim Spector, King's College London
Here's what happened to a professor of genetic epidemiology's 'microbiome' when he lived with the Hadza.
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Science + Technology
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Paul Dalgarno, Heriot-Watt University
Working with an embedded artist for a year helped one physicist realise that art and science share a lot of common ground
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Wynn Ho, University of Southampton
Studying mysterious neutron stars could uncover the secrets of exotic physics – and a way to navigate the stars.
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Politics + Society
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Marie Fox, University of Liverpool; Sheelagh McGuinness, University of Bristol
A depressing ruling from a Court of Appeal and a triumph in Westminster all at once.
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Anthony Pereira, King's College London
One of the world's most spectacularly unpopular president might yet make it through.
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Business + Economy
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David Arnott, Bangor University
Subsidies aren't working but there are other options.
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Małgorzata Jakimów, University of Sheffield
European countries are competing against Brussels and each other for China's affections. And that is undermining the EU.
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Health + Medicine
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Emma Milne, University of Essex
The killing of a newborn baby by its mother is the most shocking of crimes - but more needs to be done to understand the mental condition of the women that do it.
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Arts + Culture
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Eleanor Byrne, Manchester Metropolitan University
The children's author Michael Bond left a literary legacy of inclusion and tolerance.
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Christina Riggs, University of East Anglia
Tut-mania reigned in the 1920s – and keeps returning to haunt us.
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Environment + Energy
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Vibhor Saxena, University of St Andrews
People from the lowest castes and 'scheduled tribes' are less likely to have electricity and clean gas, even compared to equally poor people from other castes.
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