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15 March 2008

Issue 2647

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Web 3.0: Playing it safe with our data

Technology

Web 3.0: Playing it safe with our data

Features
How 'citizen journalists' are transforming the news

Technology

How 'citizen journalists' are transforming the news

Features
The future of television is online

Technology

The future of television is online

Features
Next generation of video games will be mental

Technology

Next generation of video games will be mental

Features
Do we read too much into our need for sleep?

Life

Do we read too much into our need for sleep?

Features

Table of contents

News

The right vibe gives planes a longer life

Technology

The right vibe gives planes a longer life

VIBRATION is the enemy of all aircraft, as the fatigue it induces in crucial components eventually consigns them to the scrapyard. Now a "smart" material which damps that vibration could preserve airframes – and even make planes less noisy. The vibrations are generated when vortices resulting from the plane's motion through the air pass over …

News

Technology

Long-range Wi-Fi threat to satellite communications

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Life

Can conflict forecasts predict violence hotspots?

News

Technology

Supermarket sensor warns of pre-packed bugs

News

Technology

Robotic arm keeps wannabe drummers on track

News

Technology

Wiretapping moves into the wireless world

News

Health

Every week counts for premature babies

News

Life

Drivers need a break every 80 minutes

News

Space

Saturn moon's rings puzzle astronomers

News

Life

Football fans and stadiums do not affect home wins

News

Life

Killer wheat fungus threatens starvation for millions

News

Space

Artificial event horizon generates Hawking radiation

News

Earth

Mediterranean's 'horror' tsunami may strike again

News

Life

How wild asses became donkeys of the pharaohs

News

Life

Could we hear alien physics experiments?

News

Life

Your height dictates how jealousy strikes

News

Life

Tropical ants use magnetic compass to get home

News

Life

Bluetongue may infect fetuses to survive winter

News

Technology

Physicists slam publishers over Wikipedia ban

News

Life

Disease forecasts may be bad for your health

News

Life

Discovery of tiny humans stirs 'hobbit' debate

News

Health

GSK escapes prosecution over drug trial data

News

Life

Space station gets an art studio

News

Health

Gulf War syndrome linked to nerve gas

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Reprogrammed immune cells could fight disease

News

Space

Dark matter theories vie to explain odd radiation

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Hijacked fetal enzyme helps cancers grow

News

Opinion

Perspectives: The flip side to multiple personalities

Life

Perspectives: The flip side to multiple personalities

IN 1791, a German doctor called Eberhardt Gmelin reported a bizarre case: one of his patients regularly transformed from a middle-class German woman into a French aristocrat. She would suddenly "exchange" her personality for the manners and ways of a French-born lady, speaking French perfectly but German as a Frenchwoman might. As her French self, …

Opinion

Comment: Religious fund isn't corrupting science

Opinion

Editorial: Time for a new agricultural revolution

Opinion

Commentary: Work together, save the planet

Opinion

Interview: Into Antarctica's action zone

Opinion

Features

Web 3.0: Playing it safe with our data

Technology

Web 3.0: Playing it safe with our data

Web 2.0 is well established, and sites like YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and Digg have turned the internet from a static source of information into a huge, interactive digital playground. So where to next? What will the next stage of web culture – what some people call web 3.0 – be like? The overall message seems …

Features

Technology

How 'citizen journalists' are transforming the news

Features

Technology

The future of television is online

Features

Technology

Next generation of video games will be mental

Features

Life

Do we read too much into our need for sleep?

Features

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Review: Risk: The science and politics of fear by Dan Gardner

OF THE many decisions you have taken this week about your health, safety and general well-being, you probably think the vast majority were rational and well thought out. They almost certainly were not. As Dan Gardner shows in this compelling analysis of how we judge risk, most of our decision-making is governed by emotion. Occasionally …

Books & Arts

Review: The Great Warming: Climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations by Brian Fagan

Books & Arts

Review: The Oxford Companion to Cosmology by Andrew Liddle and Jon Loveday; Cosmology by Steven Weinberg

Books & Arts

Review: The Finger Book by John Manning

Books & Arts

Review: The Kingdom of Infinite Space by Raymond Tallis

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

From computer to compost THIS week's thought-provoking paper title, submitted by Martin Gardner, is "From computer to compost". It's not about new regulations on recycling dead electronics, or even about the thoughts that consumers have when their electronic devices keep crashing. It is published in the journal Theory & Psychology ( vol 17, p 611 …

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