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20 February 2010

Issue 2748

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The writing on the cave wall

Life

The writing on the cave wall

Features
For sustainable architecture, think bug

Earth

For sustainable architecture, think bug

Features
Smoke bomb: The other climate culprits

Earth

Smoke bomb: The other climate culprits

Features
Sight savers: New weapons trained on blindness

Health

Sight savers: New weapons trained on blindness

Features

Table of contents

News

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Life

Damaged brains escape the material world

Increased feelings of transcendence can follow brain damage, a study of people with brain cancer suggests. As feelings of transcending the physical world can be part of some religious experiences and other forms of spirituality, the finding may help explain why some people seem more prone to such experiences than others. The brain region in …

News

Life

'Backward' black holes spew super-powerful jets

News

Earth

Greenland's glaciers disappearing from the bottom up

News

Health

Anti-ageing cream as good as drug at reducing wrinkles

News

Space

Atom smasher shows vacuum of space in a twist

News

Life

Full steam ahead for elephants' unique gait

News

Health

Cut-price DNA test ignites genetic discrimination fears

News

Life

Superbugs blamed on shoddy repairs

News

Earth

Chagos marine protection plan condemned as unethical

News

Earth

Receding fog may leave redwoods in the lurch

News

Life

Drake wants off-world listening post for alien messages

News

'Climategate' scientist attacks bloggers

News

Life

Desmond Tutu leads way for southern African genomes

News

60 Seconds

News

Environment

Hey green spender: The truth about eco-friendly brands

News

Child psychiatric diagnosis on trial

News

Space

Sun's warmth blows comet's icy heart apart

News

Life

Solved: The mathematics of the Hollywood blockbuster

News

Life

Life's code rewritten in four-letter words

News

Life

A headbutt spells danger in bee talk

News

Space

Atomic fountain reveals 'gravitational red shift'

News

Health

Linchpin of immune system doubles as stroke protector

News

Technology

Robot film crew knows what sports fans like

News

Technology

Silicon wire forest makes wearable solar cells

News

Technology

Who needs banks if you have a mobile phone?

News

Technology

Latex could silence noisy neighbours

News

Life

Even in the virtual world, men judge women on looks

News

Technology

Good vibrations aid mind-controlled steering

News

Technology

Software muse helps bloggers score hits

News

Opinion

Jane Goodall: 'There is no problem in having empathy'

Earth

Jane Goodall: 'There is no problem in having empathy'

Video: Jane Goodall imitates chimp calls Showing no signs of slowing down Half a century after Jane Goodall began studying chimpanzees in Tanzania, she talks to her former student Charlotte Uhlenbroek about chimpanzee fire-dancing, the peril of bushmeat and the empowerment of local people "EVERYBODY studying animals in the wild today needs to be aware …

Opinion

Time for another green revolution

Opinion

The scary business of tinkering with life

Opinion

Dawn of neurocinematics

Opinion

Technology

CERN on trial: could a lawsuit shut the LHC down?

Opinion

Life

Atul Gawande: 'Lists have saved patients and saved me'

Opinion

Features

The writing on the cave wall

Life

The writing on the cave wall

Gallery: Messages from the Stone Age Time to look around the paintings THE first intrepid explorers to brave the 7-metre crawl through a perilously narrow tunnel leading to the Chauvet caves in southern France were rewarded with magnificent artwork to rival any modern composition. Stretching a full 3 metres in height, the paintings depict a …

Features

Earth

For sustainable architecture, think bug

Features

Earth

Smoke bomb: The other climate culprits

Features

Health

Sight savers: New weapons trained on blindness

Features

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Enigma Number 1583

Have a good day Some years ago I bought a car which had a digital display on its dashboard. The 10 digits displayed showed the date and time, such as 17:05:86 15:32 A "good day " was a day during which the 10 digits displayed were all different. In particular, I recall two good days, …

Regulars

Jon Adams: The robots' book club

Books & Arts

Requiem for a green, wooded land despoiled by mining

Books & Arts

The injustice of Henrietta's immortality

Books & Arts

The Hipparcos chronicles: Star-mapping survivor

Books & Arts

All abroad! How to be a globe-trotting PhD

Careers

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Turnips are so boring

Turnips are so boring FOUR years ago we noted that the web is a very dynamic place, with some sites changing content every few minutes (4 February, 2006) . But at the same time, some individual web pages stay put forever, no matter how inconsequential they may be. For example, David Viner wrote to us …

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