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22 March 2008

Issue 2648

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Quantum randomness may not be random

Quantum randomness may not be random

Features
Histories: When the internet was made of paper

Technology

Histories: When the internet was made of paper

Features
Has the Riemann hypothesis finally been proven?

Physics

Has the Riemann hypothesis finally been proven?

Features
Save the climate by saving the forests

Earth

Save the climate by saving the forests

Features
Being self-centred is the key to empathy

Life

Being self-centred is the key to empathy

Features

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News

Mic based on fly ear can pinpoint sounds

Technology

Mic based on fly ear can pinpoint sounds

IT MAY be inspired by a humble fly, but a sensor just a couple of centimetres in diameter could turn out to be the best microphone yet for pinpointing the source of a sound. The device could be added to hearing aids or mounted on autonomous robotic vehicles to locate cries for help during disaster …

News

Health

Carbon monoxide could fight disease

News

Earth

'Drowning' dictates how Yellowstone terraces grow

News

Space

Conserve the moon for radio astronomy

News

Health

New drug to combat deadly parasite

News

Life

Local exoplanet revealed to be sizzling hot

News

Health

Stressed parents equals sick kids

News

Life

Recipes came about by evolution

News

Health

Yak cheese is the healthy option

News

Life

How mammals lost their egg yolks

News

Technology

Phones with feeling are more useful

News

Life

People prefer robots that do small talk

News

Technology

Pacemakers can be hijacked by radio

News

Space

Flipping particle could explain missing antimatter

News

Soundbites

News

Earth

Rising temperatures bring their own CO2

News

Space

All eyes on Europe's Jules Verne spacecraft

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Space

Departed dwarf planet left us two meteorites

News

Life

Love stops partners from sleeping around

News

Life

Treatment forced on the mentally ill

News

Health

Egyptian government accused of HIV witch-hunt

News

Earth

California desert omitted from conservation bill

News

Life

Prison-based rehab for addicts may not work

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Genome is a snip at $60,000

News

Health

Mystery food poisoning traced to salads

News

Earth

White House ignored air quality advice

News

Earth

Dumped chemical weapons missing at sea

News

Opinion

Commentary: Between male and female

Life

Commentary: Between male and female

TWO weeks ago in these pages Stephanie Pain told the extraordinary story of James Barry , the 19th-century "pint-sized, squeaky-voiced" British army surgeon who was discovered after death to be a woman – or so the charwoman who prepared the doctor's body for burial claimed (8 March, p 46). If the claim is true, Barry's …

Opinion

Comment: How to be happy

Opinion

Space

Editorial: What was the point of Star Wars?

Opinion

Interview: The dark world of disaster archaeology

Opinion

Features

Quantum randomness may not be random

Quantum randomness may not be random

AT ITS deepest level, nature is random and unpredictable. That, most physicists would say, is the unavoidable lesson of quantum theory. Try to track the location of an electron and you'll find only a probability that it is here or there. Measure the spin of an atom and all you get is a 50:50 chance …

Features

Technology

Histories: When the internet was made of paper

Features

Physics

Has the Riemann hypothesis finally been proven?

Features

Earth

Save the climate by saving the forests

Features

Life

Being self-centred is the key to empathy

Features

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Behind the scenes of clinical research

Behind the scenes of clinical research

JUST around the corner from Euston Square tube station in London is an organisation called the CTU. While those initials would make most people think of Jack Bauer fighting bloodthirsty terrorists, what reality delivers here is the Medical Research Council's Clinical Trials Unit, the venue for a very unusual clinical trial which began this year. …

Careers

Review: Group Theory in the Bedroom by Brian Hayes

Books & Arts

Review: The Dog Allusion by Martin Rowson

Books & Arts

Review: Bastard Tongues by Derek Bickerton

Books & Arts

Review: Cosmic Imagery by John Barrow

Books & Arts

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