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10 July 2010

Issue 2768

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Alpha, beta, gamma: The language of brainwaves

Life

Alpha, beta, gamma: The language of brainwaves

Features
Crunching cancer with numbers

Health

Crunching cancer with numbers

Features
Why Facebook friends are worth keeping

Life

Why Facebook friends are worth keeping

Features

Table of contents

News

Tibetans adapted to high life at record-breaking rate

Life

Tibetans adapted to high life at record-breaking rate

Active at altitude Mountain-dwelling Tibetans have genetically adapted to life at altitude in the past 3000 years – the fastest genetic change known to have occurred in humans. Rasmus Nielsen at the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues looked at the DNA of people living in two villages at 4300 and 4600 metres above …

News

Technology

Casimir effect put to work as a nano-switch

News

Earth

How plants get by when pollinators vanish

News

Space

How the moon got its whiskers

News

Technology

Russian spy ring hid secret messages on the web

News

Earth

Rio hopes of conservation cash were never met

News

Life

Winning on home turf drives desire for future fights

News

Reclusive mathematician turns down $1 million prize

News

Space

US cellphone expansion could deafen radio astronomers

News

Microwave universe: Planck's first hi-res image

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

Star wars: a new hope for arms control in space

News

Health

Antibody cuts brain damage in strokes

News

Life

Gene switches sexual desires of female mice

News

Technology

Wanted: little levers to probe the quantum divide

News

Incredible shrinking proton raises eyebrows

News

Life

Can a gene test tell you whether you'll live to 100?

News

Life

Dolphins make their last stand in the Mediterranean

News

Life

Football results influence voters

News

Earth

Climate change could drive crocs out of the water

News

Physics

Glooped-up desk toy probes weird wet collisions

News

Earth

Oxygen therapy slows mouse wrinkles

News

Technology

Animated 3D models extracted from single-camera video

News

Technology

Ad system that can spot an online shopper

News

Technology

Invisible weapons to fight fake drugs

News

Earth

Stabilisers will let deep-sea wind turbines stand tall

News

Technology

Solid-state systems could sequence a genome for $100

News

Earth

Prehistoric humans may have pushed climate change

News

Health

Debate over gender disorder drug

News

Opinion

Pioneer aquanaut: How not to clean up an oil spill

Earth

Pioneer aquanaut: How not to clean up an oil spill

Sylvia Earle gets down to some underwater science Marine biologist, seabed explorer and former top US government scientist Sylvia Earle tells Phil McKenna how she helped to change George W. Bush's mind – and why she is angry about the methods being used to clean up the Gulf oil spill LEANING towards me so as …

Opinion

Peace must reign in space

Opinion

The joy of Facebook

Opinion

Rule out nothing in the investigation of cancer

Opinion

Life

You can't fight violence with violence

Opinion

Space

Pope's astronomer: 'Science helps me be a priest'

Opinion

Features

Alpha, beta, gamma: The language of brainwaves

Life

Alpha, beta, gamma: The language of brainwaves

She can feel the beat I'VE just had a brainwave. Oh, and there's another. And another! In fact, you will have had thousands of them since you started reading this sentence. These waves of electricity flow around our brains every second of the day, allowing neurons to communicate while we walk, talk, think and feel. …

Features

Health

Crunching cancer with numbers

Features

Life

Why Facebook friends are worth keeping

Features

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A backstage pass to the circus of super-long life

A backstage pass to the circus of super-long life

In the longevity circus, it takes all kinds of performers to make a show THE field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories …

Books & Arts

The madness and love that built the periodic table

Books & Arts

How artificial light transformed our world

Books & Arts

The waves you know and ones you've never noticed

Books & Arts

Protecting us from infection

Careers

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Very deep multiply nested acronyms SECS: no, this is not just a misspelling designed to get your attention, but one of a flock of responses to our request for nested acronyms or initialisms (5 June) . Dawn Bradford reports that it stands for SEMI (Semiconductor equipment manufacturing industries) equipment communication standard. Some machines she worked …

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