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20 January 2007

Issue 2587

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Tackling depression with ketamine

Life

Tackling depression with ketamine

Features
Sending Einstein into a spin

Space

Sending Einstein into a spin

Features
Feeding hungry genes

Health

Feeding hungry genes

Features
Instant gold, and where to find it

Earth

Instant gold, and where to find it

Features

Table of contents

News

Dose of crystals could make Moon base self-sufficient

Technology

Dose of crystals could make Moon base self-sufficient

When NASA sets up its permanent base on the moon, how will the colonists keep themselves going? How will they get oxygen to breathe, and where will they find building materials, not to mention silicon for all the solar panels they will need? Easy, says Geoffrey Landis of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. …

News

Technology

Infrared can test for fresh frying

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Start of the hologram wars?

News

Life

It takes a certain special feeling to click with robots

News

Earth

Carbon tax turns into a health risk

News

Life

Online daters: Tall, dark and dishonest

News

Health

It's not so bad to be fat

News

Life

Blue-eyed men prefer blue-eyed women

News

Health

How brain protein turns toxic in Alzheimer's disease

News

Life

Chemical trigger for reproduction

News

Earth

Did the new moon lose its iron heart?

News

Health

Hybrid flu virus in near-miss escape

News

Life

Test for infection could spare babies hidden danger

News

Life

Aliens need a lot more time to find us

News

Health

Genetic erosion may put heart at risk

News

Health

A diet of worms could keep MS at bay

News

Life

Why childhood trauma brings ill health later on

News

Soundbites

News

Life

Why giants don't eat meat

News

Space

Dark matter gets its own dark force

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Earth

A conservation tale of two forests

News

Life

Shamed cloner's collaborator faked research elsewhere

News

Earth

Plastics chemical's toxic effects skip generation

News

Space

Software failure may have caused loss of Mars probe

News

Frozen funds mean looming disaster for US science

News

Space

Loner stakes claim to gravity prize

News

Life

Canada starts vaccinating cattle against E. coli

News

Earth

Promoting the survival of the weirdest

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

2100: A world of wild weather

News

Health

Cheap, 'safe' drug kills most cancers

News

Opinion

Over-egging the clones

Life

Over-egging the clones

UNTIL the end of last year, fusing human cells with animal eggs to create "hybrid" cloned embryos was considered an obscure area of reproductive science, not key to the future of stem cell science. That all changed, it seems, with the publication of the UK government's white paper on embryo research, which prompted politicians, Nobel …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: No patent? No cancer drug development

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Dietary advice best taken with a pinch of salt

Opinion

Life

The pursuit of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

Opinion

Life

Interview: Over the internet border

Opinion

Features

Tackling depression with ketamine

Life

Tackling depression with ketamine

"FOR MANY, it was a huge, obvious effect," says psychiatrist John Krystal. "One of the patients said, 'Don't give me those old medications, I want this again'." Krystal, a professor at Yale University, is talking about the time he gave seven severely depressed patients ketamine, a mind-blowing drug developed as an anaesthetic but better known …

Features

Space

Sending Einstein into a spin

Features

Health

Feeding hungry genes

Features

Earth

Instant gold, and where to find it

Features

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Space

Nightwatch (4th edition), by Terence Dickinson

ONCE, curious readers wanting to learn about the night sky were confronted with tomes full of baffling numbers, jargon, and star charts that seemed to bear no resemblance to the real thing. Then came Nightwatch, a clear, concise manual for backyard stargazing that also managed to convey the excitement of astronomy. This fantastically revised edition …

Books & Arts

Health

Vaccine, by Arthur Allen

Books & Arts

Technology

Review: Next, by Michael Crichton

Books & Arts

Physics

The word: The monster

Regulars

Health

Review: Mind wars, by Jonathan Moreno

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Bigfoot's love slave no more IT HAS to be one of the greatest losses of all time to journalism, to history, to human culture. One of the buildings hit with anthrax spores in 2001, by a bioterrorist who is still at large, was the headquarters of The National Enquirer and its sister paper, the Weekly …

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