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12 December 2009

Issue 2738

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Dogs vs cats: The great pet showdown

Life

Dogs vs cats: The great pet showdown

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Psychiatry's civil war

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Psychiatry's civil war

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Rise and fall of a dinosaur hunter

Life

Rise and fall of a dinosaur hunter

Features
The perfect way to slice a pizza

Physics

The perfect way to slice a pizza

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Technology

Paper screens could provide depth to computer display

brightcove.createExperiences(); Video: Paper screens help displays go 3D An image is shown on a table-top screen. Lift a piece of paper over the table, however, and another, related image appears on it; move the paper and the image changes again. That's the intriguing essence of a low-cost system designed by Raimund Dachselt and Martin Spindler …

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Life

Avatar's gaze illuminates social brain

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Earth

Why there's no sign of a climate conspiracy in hacked emails

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Space

Large moon of Uranus may explain odd tilt

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Technology

Physicists race to publish first results from LHC

News

Health

Gene absence makes the kid grow rounder

News

Health

Eat protein to heal a damaged brain

News

Earth

California gives green light to space solar power

News

Life

Early birds may have dropped teeth to get airborne

News

Technology

Innovation: Making a map for everyone, by everyone

News

Environment

Anthrax study on baboons axed by university president

News

Space

Burt Rutan: Behind the scenes at SpaceShipTwo roll-out

News

Earth

Want fresh air? Give your house a nose job…

News

Life

Frog embryos listen for bad vibrations to avoid snakes

News

Mass poisoning to keep carp invaders from Great Lakes

News

Earth

Wind farms don't affect property prices

News

Technology

Diligent diabetes control increases crash risk

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60 Seconds

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Earth

The research that might save us after Copenhagen

News

Technology

Biological passport to catch sports cheats

News

Earth

Ancient Amazon civilisation laid bare by felled forest

News

Earth

Mega-flood filled the Mediterranean in months

News

Life

Trust firstborns to show their selfish side

News

Space

Higgs in space: Orbiting telescope could beat the LHC

News

Life

Pregnant women develop emotion-reading superpowers

News

Health

Dirty babies get healthier hearts

News

Life

How male bedbugs avoid getting shafted

News

Earth

Cave 'breathing' regulates growth of stalactites

News

Technology

Learning to love to hate robots

News

Earth

Battery lithium could come from geothermal waste water

News

Technology

Smart CCTV learns to spot suspicious types

News

Technology

Motion-sensing phones that predict your every move

News

Opinion

Cellphones and cancer: Interphone can't end the debate

Health

Cellphones and cancer: Interphone can't end the debate

Clean bill of health, but the study could be flawed Do cellphones cause cancer? That question is about to be revived with the publication of a long-awaited study called Interphone . Given the public health implications, we can expect it to get a lot of media attention. But you should treat what you read and …

Opinion

Space

Martin Rees: Getting to the right desks in government

Opinion

Physics

Stephen Wolfram: 'I'm an information pack rat'

Opinion

Time's up for psychiatry's bible

Opinion

Who is controlling the spy in your pocket?

Opinion

English libel law on trial

Opinion

Features

Dogs vs cats: The great pet showdown

Life

Dogs vs cats: The great pet showdown

Video: Cats versus dogs Fight! THE world is divided into "dog people" and "cat people", each passionately believing that their preferred pet is superior. Until a decade ago, there was very little scientific evidence either camp could muster to support its claims. Then animal behaviourists became interested in dogs and unleashed a pack of ingenious …

Features

Health

Psychiatry's civil war

Features

Life

Rise and fall of a dinosaur hunter

Features

Physics

The perfect way to slice a pizza

Features

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Enigma Number 1575

All our days I have written the days of the week with their ordinal numbers as shown on the right. Letters being consistently replaced by non-zero digits, each day is divisible by its own ordinal number (and by no higher digit). Please send in the FAMOUS number. WIN £15 will be awarded to the sender …

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The left-brain plot for world domination

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Will you stand up against climate disaster?

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How complexity rules our lives

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Naming a mind disease

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