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4 September 2010

Issue 2776

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What's in a name? The words behind thought

Life

What's in a name? The words behind thought

Features
Why wartime wrecks are slicking time bombs

Earth

Why wartime wrecks are slicking time bombs

Features
Junkie food: Tastes your brain can't resist

Life

Junkie food: Tastes your brain can't resist

Features
Unseen universe: Window on cosmic maternity wards

Unseen universe: Window on cosmic maternity wards

Features
Unseen universe: Tuning into the deep space channel

Unseen universe: Tuning into the deep space channel

Features
Unseen universe: Hot, violent, high-energy happenings

Unseen universe: Hot, violent, high-energy happenings

Features
Unseen universe: What bigger, better vision will see

Unseen universe: What bigger, better vision will see

Features

Table of contents

News

Collagen corneas restore damaged sight

Health

Collagen corneas restore damaged sight

Back to normal brightcove.createExperiences(); Video: Biosynthetic cornea People with damaged corneas have had their sight restored by implants made of collagen – which eventually anchor themselves into the recipient's eye. Corneal damage, which results in seriously blurred sight, is currently treated either by implanting corneas from a human donor – which are in short supply …

News

Life

Tobacco plants outsmart hungry caterpillars

News

Health

Oxytocin fails 'trust elixir' test

News

Life

Tortoise banquet: Remains of the oldest feast found

News

Earth

New Orleans: Are the new defences tough enough?

News

Earth

Climate panel must 'fundamentally reform' to survive

News

Space

Two Chinese satellites rendezvous in orbit

News

Health

Swine flu drug in narcolepsy probe

News

Health

Can US Congress overturn stem-cell funding freeze?

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Psychoactive drugs: From recreation to medication

News

Space

Void that is truly empty solves dark energy puzzle

News

Life

Why your brain flips over visual illusions

News

Space

Weird water lurking inside giant planets

News

Life

How animals evolved personalities

News

'Brain training' may just hide symptoms of dementia

News

Earth

Second super-fast flip of Earth's poles found

News

Space

Trojan asteroids make planetary scientist lose sleep

News

Space

Tilting stars may explain backwards planets

News

Technology

LED-studded skirt makes a bright fashion statement

News

Earth

Mobile chargers could keep electric cars juiced up

News

Technology

Tech heavyweights set to move music to the cloud

News

Technology

Smart USB speakers pump up the volume from laptops

News

Technology

Nano-engineered cotton promises to wipe out water bugs

News

Technology

Computer games may be spawning reckless drivers

News

Technology

Shape-shifting robot compensates for damaged limb

News

Opinion

What can deliver snakebite medicine where it's needed?

Health

What can deliver snakebite medicine where it's needed?

What happens if you get bitten? Snakebites kill hundreds of thousands, so the scarcity of proper treatment is a global tragedy. Time to bring in the law, say Nick Brown and Dev Kevat SNAKEBITE is one of the world's most neglected health issues. In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a "neglected tropical …

Opinion

Technology

Robot car passenger: On the road to China, no driver

Opinion

Life

The natural selection of leaders

Opinion

Defuse this oil time bomb

Opinion

Time for Rajendra Pachauri to go

Opinion

Features

What's in a name? The words behind thought

Life

What's in a name? The words behind thought

The voice of reason? (Image: Katherine Streeter You think more words than you speak – perhaps because language really does shape the way we navigate the world THERE I go again, talking to myself. Wherever I am, and whatever I'm doing, words bounce around my head in an incessant chatter. I am not alone in …

Features

Earth

Why wartime wrecks are slicking time bombs

Features

Life

Junkie food: Tastes your brain can't resist

Features

Unseen universe: Window on cosmic maternity wards

Features

Unseen universe: Tuning into the deep space channel

Features

Unseen universe: Hot, violent, high-energy happenings

Features

Unseen universe: What bigger, better vision will see

Features

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Enigma Number 1611

Three sisters I have three aunts whose ages on their birthdays this year will each be a different prime. I would not dare to call them elderly, but at least one of them will be in her fifties. They were reminiscing that the last time their ages on their birthdays had all been prime in …

Regulars

Fighting back against neurosexism

Books & Arts

Forgotten heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters

Books & Arts

The cloud-shaped future of life online

Books & Arts

How calculus will beat the zombies

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Whirling water forgets its nasty past

Whirling water forgets its nasty past ACCORDING to homeopathy, water can "remember" a substance that has been added to it, even when the mixture is diluted to the point that not a single molecule of the stuff remains. But how can we be sure that the same water isn't also remembering all sorts of other …

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Letters

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