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14 August 2010

Issue 2773

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To infinity and beyond: The struggle to save arithmetic

Physics

To infinity and beyond: The struggle to save arithmetic

Features
Add salt as required: the recipe for fresh water

Earth

Add salt as required: the recipe for fresh water

Features
Sensory hijack: rewiring brains to see with sound

Health

Sensory hijack: rewiring brains to see with sound

Features
Darwinian medicine: Does intensive care kill or cure?

Health

Darwinian medicine: Does intensive care kill or cure?

Features

Table of contents

News

Chlorine study suggests moon is dry after all

Space

Chlorine study suggests moon is dry after all

Water has recently been found on the lunar surface, but researchers are divided about how much water lies inside the moon - a new study suggests the moon was very dry when it formed 4.5 billion years ago The moon's interior may not be that wet after all, despite some recent studies that have suggested …

News

Life

Slit pupils help snakes ambush their prey

News

Life

Prompting hearts to make their own beating muscle

News

Life

Thank your thalamus for a good night's sleep

News

Technology

Hiding files in Flickr pics will fool web censors

News

Space

NASA seeks secrets of commercial moon landers

News

Technology

P ≠ NP? It's bad news for the power of computing

News

Earth

Early puberty in girls doubles in a decade

News

Health

MRI scans could diagnose autism

News

Earth

Frozen jet stream links Pakistan floods, Russian fires

News

Earth

Kyoto targets are impossible to verify

News

Earth

Combination punch could fell rainforests

News

Health

After a miscarriage, no need to put off trying again

News

Health

Levels of controversial soap chemical rise

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Fallible DNA evidence can mean prison or freedom

News

Space

Jupiter swallowed a super-Earth

News

Technology

Fractals promise higher-temperature superconductors

News

Mind

Skull electrodes give memory a boost

News

Life

Elephants fear humans more than dynamite

News

Health

Fasting mothers raise potential risk for unborn babies

News

Life

Thieving parrots hatch a plan to unlock food

News

How to make a black hole that stands the test of time

News

Technology

Robot flyers get a bee's-eye view

News

Technology

Giant balloons could clear out space junk

News

Technology

X-ray security scans go interactive

News

Technology

Gesture-based computing takes a serious turn

News

Earth

Atomic Jenga could turn domestic refrigerators green

News

Opinion

Julian Assange: The end of secrets?

Technology

Julian Assange: The end of secrets?

Julian Assange at New Media Days 09 in Copenhagen Lifting the lid on the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and its enigmatic hacker-turned-activist founder Editorial: Will someone leak the leaker's secrets? "QUICK, you've got to come now or you'll miss him," says the press officer. I'm being ushered down a corridor in the back of the Randolph …

Opinion

Time to rethink DNA evidence

Opinion

Will someone leak the leaker's secrets?

Opinion

Earth

Stop wasting food, save the world's energy

Opinion

Technology

Nobel prizewinner: We are running out of helium

Opinion

Features

To infinity and beyond: The struggle to save arithmetic

Physics

To infinity and beyond: The struggle to save arithmetic

Something doesn't add up Mathematicians are facing a stark choice – embrace monstrous infinite entities or admit the basic rules of arithmetic are broken IF YOU were forced to learn long division at school, you might have had cause to curse whoever invented arithmetic. A wearisome whirl of divisors and dividends, of bringing the next …

Features

Earth

Add salt as required: the recipe for fresh water

Features

Health

Sensory hijack: rewiring brains to see with sound

Features

Health

Darwinian medicine: Does intensive care kill or cure?

Features

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Par hexcellence Joe asked Penny to find the honey in the honeycomb. The number in each cell indicates how many of the adjoining cells contain honey. Numbering the cells in the centre row 1 to 8 from left to right, which numbered cells contain honey? WIN £15 will be awarded to the sender of the …

Regulars

The descent of man

Books & Arts

The risky business of human trials

Books & Arts

Learning from the wisdom of herds

Books & Arts

Travels through the world of climate change

Books & Arts

Fish: between seafood and wildlife

Books & Arts

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New worlds of fractal weirdness

New worlds of fractal weirdness PONDERING the possible meanings of Clairol's claim that its hair care product is "40 per cent more dimensional", implying 4.2 dimensions in all, Feedback wondered whether the temporal extent of the dye might be fractal (3 October 2009) . Now Charles Pell tells us that we are not the first …

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