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26 June 2010

Issue 2766

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Schrödinger's kit: Tools that are in two places at once

Technology

Schrödinger's kit: Tools that are in two places at once

Features
Climate control: Is CO<SUB>2</SUB> really in charge?

Earth

Climate control: Is CO2 really in charge?

Features
Desperate measures: The lure of an autism cure

Health

Desperate measures: The lure of an autism cure

Features
Evolvability: How to cash in on the genetic lottery

Life

Evolvability: How to cash in on the genetic lottery

Features

Table of contents

News

Corals living on edge could escape climate change

Earth

Corals living on edge could escape climate change

Evolution at the edge The fringes of communities are hotbeds of creativity – even for corals. A new study shows that Caribbean corals living on the outskirts of a reef evolve novel traits much faster than those at its heart. The findings suggest that conservation efforts for endangered corals might be missing a trick. The …

News

Earth

Second well on the way to cap Deepwater Horizon

News

Physics

Free-falling atoms will put relativity to the test

News

Life

Chimpanzees kill to win new territory

News

Technology

Touchscreen made from biggest graphene sheet

News

Earth

Lose whaling loopholes, consider quotas

News

Space

Sterile neutrino back from the dead

News

Earth

Hollow victory for Monsanto in alfalfa court case

News

Health

For US healthcare, the only way is up

News

Earth

Ice shelf was kept intact by underwater ridge

News

Space

Asteroid hunters part-blinded by the military

News

Blinded eyes restored to sight by stem cells

News

Earth

Climate change is leaving us with extra space junk

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

Mystery glitch? Blame it on the sun

News

Life

Vital fruit and berry collection set for destruction

News

Life

Zoo plans to bring rare animals back from the dead

News

Life

The ups and downs of speech that we all understand

News

Health

Why losing a loved one can be lethal

News

Health

Faulty internal clock linked to diabetes

News

Life

Ovulation gives women's brains a boost

News

Flores 'hobbits' weren't malformed humans

News

Life

Brain origins of 'blindsight' revealed

News

Space

Stellar debris created the Honeycomb nebula

News

Physics

Frozen antiprotons bring antimatter within reach

News

Chicks count from left to right – just like us

News

Language skills enhance our ability to navigate

News

Technology

Wide-angle photos put in realistic perspective

News

Technology

Capacitors roll up for power on the nanoscale

News

Technology

Drone alone: how airliners may lose their pilots

News

Technology

Lizard-like robot can 'swim' through sand

News

Earth

Hot electrons could double solar cell efficiency

News

Opinion

Gorilla psychologists: Weird stuff in plain sight

Life

Gorilla psychologists: Weird stuff in plain sight

If I beat my chest, surely you'll notice Video: Monkey business illusion Book review: Six intuitions you shouldn't trust The "gorilla in our midst" psychology experiment is up there among the world's most famous. But as Liz Else found out from Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons , the psychologists who devised it, exactly how it …

Opinion

Health

Stop uncontrolled experiments on autistic children

Opinion

Don't be misled by chimps' warlike ways

Opinion

Massive implications of a ghostly little particle

Opinion

Life

Artificial life: let the people decide

Opinion

Technology

Robb Fraley: Monsanto is a champion of healthy eating

Opinion

Features

Schrödinger's kit: Tools that are in two places at once

Technology

Schrödinger's kit: Tools that are in two places at once

Probing the weird quantum world Quantum theory is our most successful theory of physics. There is not one shred of experimental evidence that doesn't fit with its predictions. So why, if it ain't broke, is a growing number of researchers expressing a desire to fix it? "Everything depends on whether you believe quantum mechanics is …

Features

Earth

Climate control: Is CO2 really in charge?

Features

Health

Desperate measures: The lure of an autism cure

Features

Life

Evolvability: How to cash in on the genetic lottery

Features

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Enigma Number 1601

Box of dates Each year Joe buys a simple calendar that just shows year, month, day and date. This year he realised that if he starts saving each year's calendar he will eventually have a full set of different calendars and will never need to buy one again. For which year will Joe buy his …

Regulars

Six intuitions you shouldn't trust

Books & Arts

Is Facebook taking over the world?

Books & Arts

How our species owes its success to religion

Books & Arts

When Egyptian plunder made Enlightenment propaganda

Books & Arts

How an angler's dream became an ecological nightmare

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Have you heard that pyridaben carbozole sound?

Have you heard that pyridaben carbozole sound? THE oddest things can send Feedback on quests of epic work-avoidance. Take Julian Parmegiani's attempt to buy a professional video light on eBay, which led him to the LED 5001 at bit.ly/daLLlW and the seller's "How to use" instructions: "Install the battery into the battery jar, when heard …

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