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10 January 2009

Issue 2690

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Editor's picks

Can technology clear the air?

Earth

Can technology clear the air?

Features
Explaining the curse of work

Physics

Explaining the curse of work

Features
Ten extinct beasts that could walk the Earth again

Earth

Ten extinct beasts that could walk the Earth again

Features
Immoral advances: Is science out of control?

Earth

Immoral advances: Is science out of control?

Features
The rise and fall of the metal airship

Technology

The rise and fall of the metal airship

Features

Table of contents

News

Cool your brain, save your mind

Technology

Cool your brain, save your mind

Techniques that rapidly chill the brain could prevent damage and even aid resuscitation after a heart attack BRIDGET HARRIS lies on a hospital bed with a nylon hood covering her head. As cold air streams from the hood and over her scalp, her lips gradually turn blue and her speech slows. Within an hour, her …

News

Yellowstone rumbles spark fear of steam explosions

News

Space

Obama team to raise questions over Ares rocket

News

Health

Insulin grown in plants gets human tests

News

China's dinosaur 'graveyard' yields triceratops' cousin

News

Health

Climbers show record low blood oxygen levels

News

Earth

Whalers attempt to block refuelling of activists' ship

News

Health

Europe 'exporting' measles to poor countries

News

Pink iguanas, autism bank, heavy galaxy, confusing light and flu fatalities

News

Technology

Should nuclear fuels be taken out of national hands?

News

Earth

Medicinal plants on verge of extinction

News

Life

Mum's behaviour may make young rats more butch

News

Earth

Butterflies use penis to gauge sex competition

News

Technology

Artery highlighter could reveal heart attack risk

News

A good night out began at home in ancient Greece

News

Space

Danger ahead as the Sun goes quiet

News

Earth

Ground-based bacteria may be making it rain

News

Love cancels out the whiff of rival suitors

News

Health

Thyroid hormone might repair MS damage

News

Life

Secret to a beating heart revealed

News

Space

White dwarfs may hide a dark secret

News

Technology

Scanner paints a virtual crime scene

News

Technology

NASA to scrap space power experiments

News

Technology

Guide robot steers with a tender touch

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Liquid crystals could slash cost of X-rays

News

Technology

How bacterial warfare may lead to safer salami

News

Opinion

Obama is making the right choices for science

Earth

Obama is making the right choices for science

President-elect Barack Obama announces his new Environment and Natural Resources Team, Chicago, America on 15 December 2008 GIVEN the importance of energy policy in President-Elect Obama's plans to revitalise the US economy, some pundits are worried that his choice for energy secretary , Nobel laureate physicist Steve Chu, lacks direct political experience. They shouldn't. As …

Opinion

Editorial: How to fix the Earth

Opinion

Editorial: One nuclear law for all

Opinion

Editorial: Parkinson's Law is alive and well

Opinion

Earth

Move over, polar bear

Opinion

Humans

On the trail of early humans

Opinion

Features

Can technology clear the air?

Earth

Can technology clear the air?

Human emissions are accepted by most to be changing the climate THREE hundred and eighty-five parts per million: that's how much carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere now. Just 100 parts per million more than before we started mucking things up, yet the Arctic ice cap is already melting, weather patterns are changing, and …

Features

Physics

Explaining the curse of work

Features

Earth

Ten extinct beasts that could walk the Earth again

Features

Earth

Immoral advances: Is science out of control?

Features

Technology

The rise and fall of the metal airship

Features

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Enigma No. 1527

Square from primes HARRY, Tom and I were looking to find 5-digit perfect squares that consisted of a 2-digit prime followed by a 3-digit prime, neither prime starting with a zero. We each found a different example. My 2-digit prime was the same as Harry's and my 3-digit prime was the same as Tom's. Which …

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Review: The hidden life of Paul Dirac by Graham Farmelo

Books & Arts

Strange tales about Paul Dirac

Books & Arts

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Forgettable passwords

Forgettable passwords

Hard-to-believe security scam IT'S never too late to publicise threats to online security, so be warned that around this time last year Rusty Nash received an email appearing to come from the online payment service PayPal asking for account details. These were needed, it said, to implement a new security feature to protect the account …

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