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17 December 2005

Issue 2530

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Busted! A crisis in cryptography

Technology

Busted! A crisis in cryptography

Features
There's gold in them there oceans!

Earth

There's gold in them there oceans!

Features
How brainpower can help you cheat old age

Health

How brainpower can help you cheat old age

Features
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Life

The demolition drug: trashing faulty proteins

Features

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News

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Health

Power of the mind can lessen chronic pain

PATIENTS could suppress chronic pain by learning to control the activity of certain areas of their brains. Christopher deCharms of imaging technology firm Omneuron in California and his colleagues at Stanford University showed eight patients suffering from chronic pain feedback from real-time functional magnetic resonance images of the rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC), one of …

News

Earth

It's better to green your diet than your car

News

Technology

The double helix becomes a pyramid

News

Technology

Neural network sorts the blockbusters from the flops

News

Life

Tropical shrub is a master gene thief

News

Life

Elephants cleared of going on drunken rampages

News

Life

Colour pattern on insect's wings preserved in fossil

News

Life

Did humans colonise north Europe earlier than thought?

News

Life

Flaws revealed in on-the-spot coke test

News

Life

Spring-loaded microbe inspires nanomachines

News

Health

Stem-cell therapies make a comeback

News

Earth

Illegal CFCs imperil the ozone layer

News

Technology

Secret of blowing square bubbles discovered

News

Health

How to prevent cocaine addicts from relapsing

News

Health

Dietary fibre may not prevent bowel cancer after all

News

Health

Drug company's defence in Vioxx case suffers setback

News

Space

Japanese asteroid probe failed to collect sample

News

Earth

Greenpeace claims nuclear industry has a dirty secret

News

Earth

Report estimates huge cost of cleaning up Great Lakes

News

Earth

Bangladesh's arsenic woes are here to stay

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Researchers cast doubt on stem-cell pioneer's findings

News

Earth

Lucky escape after fuel depot explodes

News

Life

Badger culls don't solve TB problem

News

Life

Human stem cells go native in mouse brains

News

Soundbites

News

Earth

US get-out clause tempers euphoria after climate talks

News

Technology

Fighter jets shadow-box with invisible opponents

News

Technology

Why a robot is better with one eye than two

News

Technology

Software decodes Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile

News

Technology

Diamond-studded cells could shed light on immunity

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Scanners reveal our bodies as we have never seen them before

News

Opinion

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Life

Safety-testing of non-lethal weapons must be tightened

IT SOUNDS like the screenplay for a tawdry horror flick – corpses shot with plastic bullets, people zapped with microwave beams and others knocked out with volatile narcotic gels. But this is not Hollywood fiction. This is the reality of non-lethal weapons research. At first glance, developing weapons that incapacitate without killing seems a worthy …

Opinion

Earth

Climate meeting may turn out to be a pyrrhic victory

Opinion

Space

Is string theory in trouble?

Opinion

Features

Busted! A crisis in cryptography

Technology

Busted! A crisis in cryptography

"LAST year, I walked away saying thank God she didn't get a break in SHA-1," says William Burr. "Well, now she has." Burr, a cryptographer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is talking about Xiaoyun Wang, a Chinese cryptographer with a formidable knack for breaking things. Last year Wang, now …

Features

Earth

There's gold in them there oceans!

Features

Health

How brainpower can help you cheat old age

Features

Life

The demolition drug: trashing faulty proteins

Features

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Earth story

MARTIN RUDWICK offers unusual advice in his introduction: the picture captions in Bursting the Limits of Time effectively summarise this superb account of the debate over the history of the Earth. It would be a pity to take him at his word, though, because this is a vigorous tale of the gradual realisation and proof …

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Books & Arts

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The Word: Ol Doinyo Lengai

Regulars

Life

A glimpse of our paranoid future

Books & Arts

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Feedback

Vibrating algae BET you didn't know this about algae. Gillian McKeith in her book Miracle Superfood: Wild blue-green algae tells us: "Some algae enthusiasts believe that if you eat blue-green algae on a regular basis, you will connect with something essential and ancient. Richard France, a macrobiotic counselor, states it is not inconceivable that on …

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