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21 August 2010

Issue 2774

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Is quantum theory weird enough for the real world?

Physics

Is quantum theory weird enough for the real world?

Features
Pee is for power: Your electrifying excretions

Earth

Pee is for power: Your electrifying excretions

Features
Start-up enterprise: Launching the new space race

Space

Start-up enterprise: Launching the new space race

Features

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News

NASA mulls sending part of space station to an asteroid

Space

NASA mulls sending part of space station to an asteroid

A crew compartment called Tranquility launched to the space station in February aboard space shuttle Endeavour Tranquility has docking ports that could attach to smaller craft, which could detach and inspect an asteroid at close range Two spacecraft could be tied together with a tether and set rotating, simulating gravity for crews inside The International …

News

Earth

The next best thing to oil

News

Technology

Laser sets quail embryos' hearts racing

News

Space

'Swiss-army knife' telescope tops astronomers' wish list

News

Health

Autism explosion half explained, half still a mystery

News

Health

Mystery of most common contact allergy solved

News

Earth

Deep blue oceans spawn fewer tropical storms

News

Earth

Horned turtles butchered to extinction

News

Earth

Green machine: Fighting the efficiency fallacies

News

Life

The genetical evolution of chimp culture

News

Space

Milky Way magnets solve cosmic ray conundrum

News

Earth

Race to save Pakistan's agriculture

News

Life

Found: World's oldest animal fossils

News

Space

Lasers could make virtual particles real

News

Alzheimer's test: the real benefits

News

Physics

Flawed proof ushers in era of wikimath

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

Closing in on the inflaton, mother of the universe

News

Life

How DNA evidence creates victims of chance

News

Technology

Atom images raise quantum computer hopes

News

Earth

Great Barrier Reef's great-grandmother is unearthed

News

Health

Killer T-cells, the fix for organ rejection?

News

Life

You don't need brothers or sisters to be sociable

News

Technology

Lung-style fuel cell needs less bling for more oomph

News

Technology

Online games are a gold mine for design ideas

News

Technology

First gold-iron alloy shows power of magnetic attraction

News

Life

Misconduct probe in Harvard animal morality lab

News

Physics

Hydrogen bonds are caught on camera

News

Technology

Acoustic archaeology: The secret sounds of Stonehenge

News

Opinion

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Harvard misconduct probe: the price of secrecy

Update on 20 August: Harvard confirms misconduct by morality researcher IN THE field of animal cognition there are few bigger names than Marc Hauser. This Harvard professor has not only produced exciting findings but has also successfully communicated his research through the media and popular books such as Wild Minds: What animals really think . …

Opinion

Introducing CultureLab

Opinion

Life

Don't stand in the way of genomes for all

Opinion

Life

Orang-utan psychologist: Watching the ape pantomime

Opinion

Features

Is quantum theory weird enough for the real world?

Physics

Is quantum theory weird enough for the real world?

A world with this degree of correlation would be weird indeed Our most successful theory of nature is bewilderingly remote from reality. But fixing that may require a weirder theory still PHYSICS, its practitioners will proudly tell you, is the most fundamental of sciences. Its theories and laws distil the workings of the real world …

Features

Earth

Pee is for power: Your electrifying excretions

Features

Space

Start-up enterprise: Launching the new space race

Features

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Enigma Number 1609

I remember it well I am a bit vague about my bank security number- It is a four figure number (or possibly five); It uses four different digits (or possibly five); The first digit is four (or possibly five); The second digit is four (or possibly five) and none of the other digits is smaller; …

Regulars

Artificial ape man: How technology created humans

Books & Arts

How astrocoders have mapped the universe

Books & Arts

The hokum and hubris of geoengineering our climate

Books & Arts

Rubella epidemic stories warn us why vaccines matter

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Will this wash?

Will this wash? EVER on the lookout for cutting-edge research, Feedback was impressed to read that the University of Bonn Institute of Agricultural Engineering in Germany is researching worldwide manual dishwashing habits. It was, therefore, "looking for test persons from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea and the Middle East who are interested in washing up …

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