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13 March 2010

Issue 2751

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Better living through green chemistry: Electronics

Better living through green chemistry: Electronics

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Better living through green chemistry: Clothing

Better living through green chemistry: Clothing

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Better living through green chemistry: Cosmetics

Better living through green chemistry: Cosmetics

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Better living through green chemistry: Packaging

Better living through green chemistry: Packaging

Features
Better living through green chemistry: Food and drink

Better living through green chemistry: Food and drink

Features
Better living through green chemistry: Pharmaceuticals

Better living through green chemistry: Pharmaceuticals

Features
Accidental origins: Where species come from

Life

Accidental origins: Where species come from

Features
Better living through green chemistry

Better living through green chemistry

Features
Parasite lost: Exterminating Africa's horror worms

Health

Parasite lost: Exterminating Africa's horror worms

Features
We feel your pain: Extreme empaths

Life

We feel your pain: Extreme empaths

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Table of contents

News

Universe's high-energy haze gets murkier

Space

Universe's high-energy haze gets murkier

The source of most of the fog of gamma-ray light beyond the Milky Way is unknown The universe's most powerful particle accelerators are responsible for just a fraction of the fog of gamma-ray light beyond the Milky Way, a new study suggests. The source of the rest remains a mystery, but dark matter could be …

News

Earth

Methane bubbling out of Arctic Ocean – but is it new?

News

Earth

High-carbon ice age mystery solved

News

Life

Giant squid get radical plastic surgery

News

Earth

US still responsible for most CO2 emissions

News

Space

Martian moon's secrets to be revealed during fly-bys

News

Life

Eyeless hydra sheds light on evolution of the eye

News

Health

England has failed with dangerous, disturbed offenders

News

Obama to break his silence on NASA plan

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Obesity: Food kills, flab protects

News

Did 'midwife molecule' assemble first life on Earth?

News

Life

If mum is happy and you know it, wave your fetal arms

News

Earth

Battle over climate science spreads to US schoolrooms

News

Life

Evidence for life on Mars may be staring us in the face

News

Music and lyrics: How the brain splits songs

News

Grrr… what's 'Step away from the bone' in dog?

News

Why chameleons are the only lizards that have breakfast

News

Space

'Terminator' asteroids could re-form after nuke

News

Health

Turning tables on prostate cancer's drug resistance

News

Life

The luck of the Tasmanian devils is in their genes

News

Technology

Shape-shifting polymer pulls off amazing memory tricks

News

Earth

Electric cars jostle for position on the power grid

News

Technology

Electronics 'missing link' brings neural computing closer

News

Technology

Amputees could get a helping hand in the virtual world

News

Life

Mom and dad, stop stifling me – it's damaging my brain

News

Technology

Innovation: Sending botnets the way of smallpox

News

Health

Your partner has herpes – now the good news

News

Technology

Strung-out plastic performs heat feat

News

Technology

Human arm transmits broadband

News

Space

Are Venus and Earth in a long-distance relationship?

News

Opinion

Roger Penrose: Non-stop cosmos, non-stop career

Space

Roger Penrose: Non-stop cosmos, non-stop career

No strings attached YOU'D have thought that Roger Penrose would be pleased to have his work immortalised in an Oscar-nominated film. Apparently not. After friends told him about his book's cameo in Happy Go Lucky , Penrose sat down to watch it. He didn't have to wait long: his book appears in the opening sequence. …

Opinion

Learn to love your fat

Opinion

From disease eradication to accommodation

Opinion

We need to think precisely about vagueness

Opinion

Earth

Law enforcement: the elephant in the ivory room

Opinion

Technology

Frank Moss: Tech to help those who can't help themselves

Opinion

Features

Accidental origins: Where species come from

Life

Accidental origins: Where species come from

An accident of fate? ANTARCTIC fish deploy antifreeze proteins to survive in cold water. Tasty viceroy butterflies escape predators by looking like toxic monarchs. Disease-causing bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Everywhere you look in nature, you can see evidence of natural selection at work in the adaptation of species to their environment. Surprisingly though, natural …

Features

Better living through green chemistry

Features

Health

Parasite lost: Exterminating Africa's horror worms

Features

Life

We feel your pain: Extreme empaths

Features

Better living through green chemistry: Food and drink

Features

Better living through green chemistry: Pharmaceuticals

Features

Better living through green chemistry: Packaging

Features

Better living through green chemistry: Cosmetics

Features

Better living through green chemistry: Clothing

Features

Better living through green chemistry: Electronics

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Enigma Number 1586

So touching Joe has a special set of white counters numbered on one face 1, 2 or 3 and some of them have the other face coloured green. To test Penny's logic skills, he placed 36 of his special counters on the table to form a 6 by 6 grid (see right) . The number …

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The mysterious case of the frogs' legs

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Northern highlights: Careers in a cold climate

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Kees van Deemter: The importance of being vague

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A defuser's guide to the population explosion

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The blessing and curse of choice

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Feeling animals' pain

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Northern highlights: Careers in a cold climate

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Crossing the Atlantic ups fat content

Crossing the Atlantic ups fat content NUTRITION labelling on a packet of potato-chip snacks may seem pointless – nutrition having little to do with such products – and shipping them from the UK to the US even more so. But Perry Bebbington observes something still stranger. The 30-gram packet of Sweet Chilli and Red Pepper …

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