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22 August 2009

Issue 2722

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Appland: How smartphones are transforming our lives

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Appland: How smartphones are transforming our lives

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Mystery of the missing mini-galaxies

Space

Mystery of the missing mini-galaxies

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Triumph of the commons: Helping the world to share

Earth

Triumph of the commons: Helping the world to share

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Universal vaccine could put an end to all flu

Technology

Universal vaccine could put an end to all flu

Features

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News

Faster-growing flu vaccine could speed production

Health

Faster-growing flu vaccine could speed production

Speeding up vaccine production AS THE world awaits the next wave of the swine flu pandemic, delays plague vaccine production. Now new, faster-growing strains of the vaccine virus could speed up the process. The first batches of pandemic vaccine were made in early August. After testing is completed, the rate of vaccination will depend on …

News

Space

Small businesses defraud NASA

News

Methane menace

News

SETI telescope releases first results

News

Earth

Chinese emissions could peak in 20 years

News

Green energy is safer energy

News

DNA sample reveals family origins

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

How psychology can help the planet stay cool

News

Space

Rude awakening for NASA's human space-flight dream

News

Pterosaur footprints show they landed just like birds

News

Life

Expanding waistlines may cause shrinking brains

News

Life

Where does white skin come from?

News

Tempting treats are weight-watch reminder

News

Space

Landing sites on Europa identified

News

Earth

Survival in a post-apocalypse blackout

News

Space

Gravitational wave detectors home in on their quarry

News

Earth

Dawn and dusk dives help tuna find their way

News

Two extrasolar planets found to be moving backwards

News

CO2 makes crops less nutritious

News

Life

Tone-deaf people have fewer brain connections

News

Fire forged the oldest stone tools

News

Drug targets elusive cancer stem cells

News

Space

Mega black hole twice as big as we thought

News

It's true: all the best men are taken

News

Technology

Lasers keep submarines in touch through the big blue

News

Life

Robot with bones moves like you do

News

Technology

The spy in your pocket knows who your real friends are

News

Technology

Worldwide battle rages for control of the internet

News

Technology

Keyboard style could give early warning of dementia

News

Technology

Mobile messaging network counsels Cape Town drug users

News

Technology

Why large carbon-fibre planes are still grounded

News

Opinion

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Positive thinking for a cooler world

THE threat posed by climate change is all too real, but some of the solutions are all in the mind. That's the message from work in the field known as conservation psychology , which is beginning to show how people can be encouraged to change their lifestyles to cut greenhouse gas emissions (see "How psychology …

Opinion

Smarter than your average technology

Opinion

No more small steps, let alone giant leaps?

Opinion

Life

Your genome isn't that precious – give it away

Opinion

Earth

E. O. Wilson: We must save the living environment

Opinion

Life

Evolution 2.0: On the origin of technologies

Opinion

Features

Appland: How smartphones are transforming our lives

Technology

Appland: How smartphones are transforming our lives

Handy apps Animated graphic: Appsolutely everything Editorial: Smarter than your average technology Friday 7.43 am My wife is standing at the door to the bathroom, watching me time my toothbrush routine using an application downloaded to my iPhone. Thirty seconds on upper-right molars: done. "What are you doing?" she asks. "Nothing," I mumble through a …

Features

Space

Mystery of the missing mini-galaxies

Features

Earth

Triumph of the commons: Helping the world to share

Features

Technology

Universal vaccine could put an end to all flu

Features

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All at sea with National Rail

WANTING to travel from Great Britain to Ireland, Geoff Steedman looked up routes online. He was offered a route involving a ferry from Holyhead in Wales to "Dublin Ferry Port" – a location with which he was not familiar. Helpfully, the National Rail website he was using offers maps of the locations served. Geoff clicked. …

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