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24 November 2007

Issue 2631

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Cash incentives: Worth every penny

Life

Cash incentives: Worth every penny

Features
Plugging into the Sun

Space

Plugging into the Sun

Features
How trees changed the world

Life

How trees changed the world

Features
The void: Imprint of another universe?

Space

The void: Imprint of another universe?

Features

Table of contents

News

3D scan reveals 'borrowed' painting

Life

3D scan reveals 'borrowed' painting

The tricky-to-paint armour was probably executed by a second artist THE 17th-century Flemish oil painter David Teniers hit upon a cunning plan to overcome the difficulty of capturing the metallic highlights in a collection of armour. He took a painting of armour by his talented brother-in-law Jan Brueghel, fixed boards around it, and created his …

News

Technology

DNA amplifier gives biocomputing a boost

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Life

'Trolls' targeted by controversial patent reforms

News

Earth

Electricity keeps flying sand grains aloft

News

Life

'Happy' worms live longer on antidepressants

News

Life

Adult stem cells found in menstrual blood

News

Earth

Termite tummies give scientists something to digest

News

Technology

Nanotech crystal produces 'diamond lite'

News

Technology

Monkey brains use web link to control robot legs

News

Health

Migraines are more than bad headaches

News

Space

Earth keeps Moonwalkers from harm

News

Earth

Snowflakes may be guiding force for hurricanes

News

Life

Shaving may boost milk production in mums

News

Earth

China surges ahead on clean energy spending

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Evolution of humour could make computers laugh

News

Health

Cold virus turns nasty

News

Life

Breakthrough on tailor-made human stem cells

News

Earth

Were 'healthy' GM maize trials suppressed?

News

Health

Killer pet food ingredients identified

News

Earth

Nuclear industry may be running out of steam

News

Scientific misconduct report still under wraps

News

Physics

Fundamental constant seems anything but

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Earth

Analysis: IPCC issues dire climate change warning

News

Life

Extremist views explained by aligning atoms

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Fine-tuned immune system could control cancer

News

Space

Has observing the universe hastened its end?

News

Earth

Midwest agrees climate action plan

News

Opinion

Perspectives: When is an expert not an expert?

Life

Perspectives: When is an expert not an expert?

TODAY, many people value their own judgement on everything from climate change to mass vaccination more highly than that of specialists. A reaction to the reverence for science that typified much of the 20th century was, perhaps, inevitable: the idea of an infallible science is dangerous – like glass, one chip and it cracks. And …

Opinion

Uncertainty rules

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Don't be fooled by stem cell hype

Opinion

Health

Editorial: World bickers as bird flu evolves

Opinion

Interview: Parallel lives can never touch

Opinion

Features

Cash incentives: Worth every penny

Life

Cash incentives: Worth every penny

"ANGER over NHS plan to give addicts iPods," ran the headline. The UK's National Health Service is notoriously hard up, so news that government advisers were suggesting doctors offer drug addicts prizes as an incentive to stay clean was certain to raise some hackles. Why should "these people" with "self-inflicted" problems get priority, a patients' …

Features

Space

Plugging into the Sun

Features

Life

How trees changed the world

Features

Space

The void: Imprint of another universe?

Features

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Life

On Deep History and the Brain by Daniel Lord Smail

DANIEL SMAIL is a relatively new history professor at Harvard University. So it is appropriate that his On Deep History and the Brain was inspired by a bothersome question for historians: when exactly does history begin? For scholars embedded in what he calls "western civ", the answer was simple for nearly 2000 years: begin with …

Books & Arts

Review: Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer

Books & Arts

View from the top: Searching out success

Careers

Review: Discovery! edited by Brian Fagan

Books & Arts

Review: The Jinn from Hyperspace by Martin Gardner

Books & Arts

The Word: Antarctic stare

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Feedback

Interactive water SURPRISING scientific claim of the week: Thaddaeus Frogley draws our attention to H 2 Om water, "the world's first vibrationally charged, interactive water". Each bottle of this water, we are told at www.h2omwater.com , promotes "positive thinking and positive energy for people and the planet". How so? Well, it works like this: "Once …

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