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28 August 2010

Issue 2775

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The mind's eye: How the brain sorts out what you see

Life

The mind's eye: How the brain sorts out what you see

Features
Wonder conductors will spin up cooler computers

Technology

Wonder conductors will spin up cooler computers

Features
Is criminal profiling flawed and disorderly?

Life

Is criminal profiling flawed and disorderly?

Features

Table of contents

News

Wasps punish fake fighters

Life

Wasps punish fake fighters

War paint If you have the face of a fighter but can't handle yourself, you'll be made to suffer. And the same will happen if you really are tough but don't look the part. Yes – wasps don't like it when they meet a faker. When female paper wasps fight it out for nest dominance, …

News

Physics

Mathematics 'Nobel' rewards boundary-busting work

News

Life

Infrared chlorophyll could boost solar cells

News

Earth

Mystery of the Atlantic's missing plastic flotsam

News

Space

Shrinking moon may explain lunar quakes

News

Technology

Making light work of LED droop

News

Space

Solar system slips back in time

News

Earth

Gulf spill: Is the oil lurking underwater?

News

Life

Harvard confirms morality researcher's misconduct

News

Technology

Frog cells give artificial nose the power of super smell

News

Life

Cancer muscle loss might be reversible

News

Earth

Geoengineering won't undo sea level rises

News

Health

Anticipation of pain makes it hurt more, even days later

News

Technology

Shake to adjust your smartphone's privacy settings

News

To hear ET, tune in to alien intelligence

News

Health

Half a billion eggs recalled in US salmonella outbreak

News

60 Seconds

News

Physics

Infinite doppelgängers may explain quantum probabilities

News

Space

How to survive the long haul in space

News

Space

Black holes + dark matter = light

News

Earth

Sunspots squeeze and stretch the day

News

Health

How to feel full without pigging out

News

Earth

Time to blame climate change for extreme weather?

News

Life

Macabre details of suicide hangings revealed

News

Technology

Medical nanotech could find unconventional oil

News

Technology

Real invisibility threads would be fit for an emperor

News

Health

Whooping cough outbreak could be worst in 50 years

News

Technology

Hand-held detector aims to diagnose disease

News

Life

Success, not size 0, makes women want to eat less

News

Opinion

Scalpels and skulls point to Bronze Age brain surgery

Health

Scalpels and skulls point to Bronze Age brain surgery

Sophisticated skull surgery Önder Bilgi talks about his discovery of a razor-sharp 4000-year-old scalpel and what it was originally used for Where are you digging?            At an early Bronze Age settlement called Ikiztepe , in the Black Sea province of Samsun in Turkey. The village was home to about 300 people at its peak, …

Opinion

Earth

Slavoj Žižek: Wake up and smell the apocalypse

Opinion

NASA should pay more attention to astronauts' health

Opinion

Liability for climate change

Opinion

Overturn stem cell injunction

Opinion

Features

The mind's eye: How the brain sorts out what you see

Life

The mind's eye: How the brain sorts out what you see

Seeing isn't believing (Image: Brian Stauffer Can you tell a snake from a pretzel? Some can't – and their experiences are revealing how the brain builds up a coherent picture of the world AFTER her minor stroke, BP started to feel as if her eyes were playing tricks on her. TV shows became confusing: in …

Features

Technology

Wonder conductors will spin up cooler computers

Features

Life

Is criminal profiling flawed and disorderly?

Features

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Enigma Number 1610

Badminton progressions A game of badminton is won by the first player to win 21 points, except if the score reaches 20-20, in which case it continues until one player is two points ahead. A match is won by the first player to win two games. In this match each player won one of the …

Regulars

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Books & Arts

Nicholas Carr: Surfing our way to stupid

Books & Arts

Do artefacts belong in museums?

Books & Arts

How much would you pay to be happy?

Books & Arts

Smart solutions for the water crisis

Books & Arts

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Unhealthy health advice

Unhealthy health advice WORRIED that time spent in front of a computer screen is damaging your children's health? You may want to think twice, then, before encouraging them to join the latest wheeze from the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's "We can!" initiative. It aims to promote "healthy eating, increased physical activity, and …

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