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17 November 2007

Issue 2630

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Editor's picks

Histories: Einstein's convenient untruths

Life

Histories: Einstein's convenient untruths

Features
Fantastic voyage: Travel in the nanoworld

Technology

Fantastic voyage: Travel in the nanoworld

Features
Your body, the high speed data cable

Technology

Your body, the high speed data cable

Features
Smells rank: Solving a stinker of a problem

Life

Smells rank: Solving a stinker of a problem

Features
Why bother going green?

Earth

Why bother going green?

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

'Poor man's broadband' has a turn of speed

It's not often that you get to go faster by avoiding the superhighway, but soon students in Pakistan will be able to download big files faster by avoiding the internet. Instead of using expensive broadband or slow, unreliable dial-up connections, students at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) will try out a new system, dubbed …

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Life

Road-bots prepare to take the wheel

News

Technology

Prosthetics to move at the speed of thought

News

Life

When ancient Egyptians first tamed the cat

News

Life

Spotless starlings know how they like their eggs

News

Space

Was brightest supernova fuelled by stellar collision?

News

Earth

Bursts of gas make earthquakes fizz

News

Life

Why I and O are dull for synaesthetes

News

Life

Mating toads leap the species barrier

News

Health

Type 1 diabetes genes identified

News

Life

Computer programs can help make sense of life

News

Technology

Low-strength MRI takes first scan of human brain

News

Technology

Google cellphone software poses privacy risk

News

Health

'Tree man' finds virus at the root of his condition

News

Technology

Mapping brain could translate thoughts into speech

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Health

HIV vaccine trial backfires

News

Space

Cosmic revelation heralds new way to view the stars

News

Health

Drug giant Merck settles painkiller lawsuits

News

Space

Deflected asteroids may keep coming back

News

Life

Evolution wars take a bizarre twist

News

Earth

Shipping pollution kills 60,000 every year

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

Is mathematical pattern the theory of everything?

News

Health

Bird flu deal hangs in the balance

News

Earth

Black Sea faces environmental disaster

News

Life

Harsher measures needed to curb binge drinking

News

Opinion

Comment: Climate apocalypse when?

Earth

Comment: Climate apocalypse when?

DISASTROUS images of climate change are everywhere. An alarming graphic recently appeared in the UK media showing the British Isles reduced to a scattered archipelago by a 60-metre rise in sea level. Evocative scenes of melting glaciers, all-at-sea polar bears and forest fires are routinely attributed to global warming. And of course Al Gore has …

Opinion

Technology

Editorial: Time to let robots into the driving seat?

Opinion

Life

Don't call stressed out soldiers crazy

Opinion

Earth

Interview: 100 days on thin ice

Opinion

Features

Histories: Einstein's convenient untruths

Life

Histories: Einstein's convenient untruths

In the 1920s German physicist Emil Rupp was widely considered the pre-eminent experimentalist of his time. By 1935, he had been exposed as a fraud and his reputation lay in tatters. The discovery of Rupp's faked data threatened other reputations, too, most notably that of Albert Einstein. Keen to see experiments that confirmed his theories …

Features

Technology

Fantastic voyage: Travel in the nanoworld

Features

Technology

Your body, the high speed data cable

Features

Life

Smells rank: Solving a stinker of a problem

Features

Earth

Why bother going green?

Features

More

German biotech opportunities are growing fast

German biotech opportunities are growing fast

FOR A scientist like Simon Moroney, hoping to swap academia for industry, moving to Germany in the early 1990s was a risky move. With strict laws hindering drug research and strong public opposition to genetic engineering, German biotechnology seemed dead before it even started. Fifteen years later and it's not just the beer and bratwurst …

Careers

Thinking about Godel and Turing by Gregory Chaitin

Books & Arts

The Second Life Herald by Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Recency illusion

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Feedback

Flirt with science: the Feedback competition 2007 ROMANCE. SEDUCTION. SCIENCE. These are the themes of this year's Feedback end-of-the-year competition. Imagine meeting the person of your dreams at a festive season party. Your eyes meet across the crowded room. It is your moment to seduce with science. What would your science-related chat-up line be? You …

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