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cover10 Girl with half a brain
Teen thriving despite
missing left hemisphere16 Cosmic pattern
Repeating signal sheds light
on mystery radio bursts44 Fake smiles
How facial expressions
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11 Quantum cheat
Photons bend the rules
of quantum mechanics15 Consumer genetics
Testing kit sales slump could
see a DNA data boom20 Global positioning
The geopolitical battle
to control satellite
navigation systems23 Comment
The COP26 talks are getting
political, says Adam Vaughan24 The columnist
Annalee Newitz on the main
tech threat to US democracy26 Letters
What we choose to call climate
change can help fight it28 Aperture
Curious fungi-inspired art
and design on show30 Culture
Drugs that could revolutionise
our love lives51 Science of cooking
Umami: A taste sensation52 Puzzles
A quick crossword, a triangular
problem and the quiz53 Feedback
A date to the moon and fart
detectors: the week in weird54 Almost the last word
Second wind and gloves on wet
hands: readers respond56 The Q&A
Elizabeth Sandel on the
long-term effects of concussion34 Why the laws of the
universe explain everything...
except you
Can physics ever make sense of
our ability to make decisions?40 Dino-swan
The poached Mongolian fossil
that seemed too good to be true44 Fake smiles
Our facial expressions may
be tools of manipulationThe back pages
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Cover image: Sam Chivers34 Why the laws of the
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World prepares for
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