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30 May 2009

Issue 2710

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Everything you always wanted to know about female ejaculation (but were afraid to ask)

Life

Everything you always wanted to know about female ejaculation (but were afraid to ask)

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What string theory is really good for

Space

What string theory is really good for

Features
Brain-scrambling bugs could tackle mosquito plagues

Life

Brain-scrambling bugs could tackle mosquito plagues

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Explorers, don't forget your inflatable cloak

Earth

Explorers, don't forget your inflatable cloak

Features
Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read

Life

Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read

Features

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Earth

Earth's 'hum' may reveal stormier climate

The world is abuzz with climate change – in more ways than one. Swelling waves and rising sea levels can be detected in the way the planet "hums", says an oceanographer. Peter Bromirski , of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, says that seismic listening stations provide a long-term …

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Earth

North Korea's nuke test could have positive outcome

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Life

Role of mirror neurons may need a rethink

News

Earth

Space storm caught slamming into Earth's atmosphere

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Health

Europe calls for earlier genetic tests on children

News

Health

Australia broadens testing for swine flu

News

Earth

Dirty secret of Vietnamese wildlife farms revealed

News

Life

Giant dinosaurs kept heads held high

News

Cancer drug makes fingerprints vanish

News

Reptiles in retreat, green monkeys, and more

News

Life

Virtual fossils reveal how ancient creatures lived

News

Earth

Human fishing spree goes back 1000 years

News

'Energy efficiency is not just low-hanging fruit; it is fruit that is lying on the ground'

News

Religions owe their success to suffering martyrs

News

Earth

Earth's protective shield is stealing our air

News

Life

Long odds on space viruses seeding life

News

Health

Health workers may flee in pandemic panic

News

Life

Sweet tooth drives tool use in chimpanzees

News

Earth

Temple timbers trace collapse of Mayan culture

News

Space

Yin-yang planet has phases like the moon

News

Earth

Falcon nest sites go back 2500 years

News

Earth

Starfish defy climate change gloom

News

Cancer drugs may help keep alcoholics on the wagon

News

Life

How fear makes some things clear

News

Life

Genes help us make sweet music together

News

Earth

Oak barrels leave geographical signature in wine

News

Technology

'Invisible phone' lets you email while you walk

News

Life

Artificial sun gives salad its colour back

News

Earth

Alcohol makes autos more climate-friendly

News

Life

Phonecams could boost hunt for Mars life

News

Opinion

Why Ida fossil is not the missing link

Life

Why Ida fossil is not the missing link

Ida's place in the primate family tree Close up of skull indicating Ida's youth (less than a year old). Her milk teeth are visible and she shows teeth visible in keeping with plant and fruit eaters Close up showing the lack of grooming claw familiar with other lemur primates Unbridled hoopla attended the unveiling of …

Opinion

Health

What you should know about chiropractic

Opinion

Thanks for the blast, North Korea

Opinion

Health

Will swine flu be like SARS?

Opinion

Overselling Ida

Opinion

Health

Comment: Swine flu spans the great divide

Opinion

Viewfinder: Opinions from around the world

Opinion

Features

Everything you always wanted to know about female ejaculation (but were afraid to ask)

Life

Everything you always wanted to know about female ejaculation (but were afraid to ask)

There's good evidence that women can ejaculate some kind of fluid during orgasm, but we're only just starting to understand how and why it happens See also Six things science has revealed about the female orgasm WHEN the British Board of Film Classification ordered 6 minutes and 12 seconds of material cut from British Cum …

Features

Space

What string theory is really good for

Features

Life

Brain-scrambling bugs could tackle mosquito plagues

Features

Earth

Explorers, don't forget your inflatable cloak

Features

Life

Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read

Features

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Enigma Number 1547

Square dates Writing 30 May 2009 in the order day's number.month.year , with just one digit for the month but the year in full, gives 30.5.2009. This is a perfect square date because 3052009 = 1747 2 . If two digits are allocated for the month, then 3 May 2009 (3.05.2009) was a perfect square …

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Review: Plastic Fantastic by Eugenie Samuel Reich

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Review: Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time

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Connecting vibrationally on the subspace level

FRUITLOOPERY alert! Fruitloopery alert! Yes, it's the q-word again, and it's popping up all over the place. Take the "quantum biofeedback" offered by a company called Vibrancy Inc. A reader who wishes to be known only as Woodrow recommends to us the correspondence between the author of the Found on Craig's List blog and a …

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