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13 October 2007

Issue 2625

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Time gains an extra dimension

Physics

Time gains an extra dimension

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News

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Life

Game software could boost airport security

Playing games with airport security guards sounds like a bad idea, but Praveen Paruchuri of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles is trying to thwart criminals by doing just that. Guards are usually told to patrol in a random fashion but, being human, they tend to form habits that patient criminals can exploit. …

News

Space

Forget rockets – go to Mars in a cosmic fruit bowl

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

P2P growth creates battle for bandwidth

News

Technology

Hackers' dirty tricks threaten to distort elections

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Earth

Penguins take fishing trips with their buddies

News

Life

Super-Earths will have plate tectonics

News

Health

Chromosome caps may explain cell immortality

News

Life

Possum breaks record with year-long snooze

News

Life

Meditation really does reduce stress

News

Life

Lap dancers 'in heat' are the ones to watch

News

Technology

17th-century physicist's secrets go online

News

Life

Microbes can survive deep freeze for 100,000 years

News

Health

Cancer drugs could fight autoimmune disease

News

Life

Tree sap makes a formidable underwater insect trap

News

Space

Saturn's satellites reveal their secrets

News

Health

Banked blood turns fatally stale

News

Life

Ants have a sense of their own mortality

News

Health

Speeding up fat metabolism may prevent diabetes

News

Space

Supernova shift may distort dark-energy readings

News

Soundbites

News

Life

Ebola evolves deadly new tricks

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Social networking may determine political success

News

Technology

Physics Nobel for discovery that led to iPods

News

Earth

Go nuclear for a third industrial revolution, says EC

News

Health

Inventors of 'knockout' mice scoop Nobel prize

News

Life

Buzzing bees scare trespassing elephants

News

Health

Suspect health products debunked

News

Health

US beaches harbour dangerous diseases

News

Life

UK changes position on animal-human hybrids

News

Opinion

Comment: Down with schizophrenia

Health

Comment: Down with schizophrenia

IN 2011, schizophrenia will be 100 years old. This also happens to be the year in which the main classification systems for psychiatric disorders are due to be revised. The question is: does the term "schizophrenia" deserve to survive into its second century? Most patients would say no. In my work I find the diagnosis …

Opinion

Technology

Editorial: Politicians losing out online

Opinion

Editorial: Bluetongue virus springs nasty surprise

Opinion

Humans

Death special: Ashes to art

Opinion

Humans

Death special: A Maori farewell

Opinion

Humans

Death special: The funeral director

Opinion

Humans

Death special: How does it feel to die?

Opinion

Humans

Death special: The skydiver's worst fear

Opinion

Humans

Death special: Back from the brink

Opinion

Humans

Death special: Watching dad die

Opinion

Humans

Death special: The problems of living longer

Opinion

Health

Death special: The great taboo

Opinion

Health

Death special: Turning the dead

Opinion

Health

Death special: Vital signs

Opinion

Technology

Death special: The plan for eternal life

Opinion

Health

Death special: The bitter end

Opinion

Life

Special report: Cheating death

Opinion

Features

Time gains an extra dimension

Physics

Time gains an extra dimension

TIME ain't what it used to be. A hundred years or so ago, we thought that the seconds ticked away predictably. Tick followed tock, followed tick. And clocks ran... well, like clockwork. Then along came Einstein and everything changed. His theories of relativity dealt a blow to our naive ideas about time. Hitch a ride …

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How Ireland is building its research capital

The foundation head The cornerstone of Irish research funding is Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), where an affable biologist called Frank Gannon has just taken charge. He took up the post in July, moving from Heidelberg in Germany where he was executive director of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) and a senior scientist at the …

Careers

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Feedback

Ig Nobel prizes 2007 FEEDBACK's favourite prizes, the Ig Nobels, were presented last week to their worthy recipients in a ceremony at Harvard University. Organised by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research , the awards celebrate research that makes you laugh, then think. This year's Ig Nobel peace prize went to unnamed researchers …

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