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20 March 2010

Issue 2752

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Cosmic clocks: Relativity's final test

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Cosmic clocks: Relativity's final test

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Bugs beware: we're gunning for your genes

Earth

Bugs beware: we're gunning for your genes

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Firing on all neurons: Where consciousness comes from

Life

Firing on all neurons: Where consciousness comes from

Features
The predictioneer: Using games to see the future

Physics

The predictioneer: Using games to see the future

Features

Table of contents

News

HDTV reveals brainy octopus has no personality

Life

HDTV reveals brainy octopus has no personality

brightcove.createExperiences(); Video: Tricked octopus I spurn your primitive human technology Octopuses make for discerning TV viewers: it seems they prefer high-definition to traditional cathode ray images (CRT). What's more, the first study using video to trick octopuses, finds that they may be the Jekyll and Hydes of the oceans: aggressive one day, shrinking violets the …

News

Technology

Metal mist clears for fusion power

News

Life

'Wasabi' gene gives snakes night vision

News

Life

Brain chemical is reward for psychopathic traits

News

Earth

Corruption raises doubts over ivory sales

News

Space

Hurtling star on a path to clip solar system

News

Life

'Bug' prints can put you at crime scene

News

Health

Levitate cancer cells for rapid 3D tissue

News

Earth

Mind-reading gorillas love a good game

News

Technology

Crystals + sound + water = clean hydrogen fuel

News

Space

Could moon rocket demise bring space shuttle reprieve?

News

Health

Anti-vaccine autism campaigners lose court battle

News

Health

Payout offered to 9/11 dust plume victims

News

Recipe for rarity: fish threatened by cookbooks

News

Earth

Energy-efficient homes make householders complacent

News

Earth

Boom time for Arctic animals

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Polluting ships have been doing the climate a favour

News

Life

Fingerprint evidence to harden up at last

News

Technology

What's the point of nuclear weapons on instant alert?

News

Space

Neptune may have eaten a planet and stolen its moon

News

Life

How to move the brain with a Japanese line drawing

News

Life

Bee hotel trains residents as bomb sniffers

News

Technology

Virtual ears help architects cut chatter confusion

News

Technology

'Credit card theft? There's an app for that'

News

Technology

Are machines ready to break down language barriers?

News

Technology

Motion sensors could track troops when GPS cuts out

News

Technology

Spy in the sky that sees round corners

News

Space

Fake dark matter could show what real stuff is like

News

Space

Moon marriage may have given Jupiter a ring

News

Opinion

Stewart Brand: From hippy icon to nuclear enthusiast

Earth

Stewart Brand: From hippy icon to nuclear enthusiast

"Thank goodness the world is chock-full of nuclear weapons" Environmentalist, thinker, mover, shaker. If it was "happening" in the sixties and seventies, Stewart Brand was there. Now he tells Liz Else why green ideology is flawed and nuclear power and slums are good IT IS a civilised plan: an afternoon with futurist, visionary thinker and …

Opinion

Fingerprints put forensics on trial

Opinion

Reasons to welcome gene-silencing pesticides

Opinion

Physics

Barefoot statistics: Data for the people

Opinion

Physics

Brian Cox: From pop music to pop physics

Opinion

Features

Cosmic clocks: Relativity's final test

Space

Cosmic clocks: Relativity's final test

Pulsars tick with absolute regularity. So if these stellar corpses' timekeeping is off, something must be warping space-time

Features

Earth

Bugs beware: we're gunning for your genes

Features

Life

Firing on all neurons: Where consciousness comes from

Features

Physics

The predictioneer: Using games to see the future

Features

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The universe is a quantum computer

WHAT is the universe made of? Matter or energy? Particles or strings? According to physicist Vlatko Vedral 's appealing new book, it is made, at bottom, of information. In other words, if you break the universe into smaller and smaller pieces, the smallest pieces are, in fact, bits. With this theme in mind, Vedral embarks …

Books & Arts

Life-as-web theory can't be woven from fieldwork yarns

Books & Arts

Power to the people: In praise of batteries

Books & Arts

Learning to use nature's GPS

Books & Arts

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Lies, damn lies and children's books

Lies, damn lies and children's books INITIALLY, Richard Mallett was excited to be told that there is a new magazine for children on sale in the UK, called How It Works . But then he read the sample article on the flyer, entitled "Eco bulbs, money saver?". This unexpectedly veers off into fundamental – and …

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