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2 October 2010

Issue 2780

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Mental muscle: six ways to boost your brain

Life

Mental muscle: six ways to boost your brain

Features
Fossil secrets of the Leonardo da Vinci codex

Life

Fossil secrets of the Leonardo da Vinci codex

Features
Breaking the noise barrier: Enter the phonon computer

Technology

Breaking the noise barrier: Enter the phonon computer

Features
Extreme Weather: Driving forces

Extreme Weather: Driving forces

Features
Extreme Weather: Concentrated fury

Extreme Weather: Concentrated fury

Features
Extreme Weather: Heat engines

Extreme Weather: Heat engines

Features
Extreme Weather: Hurricane hunting

Extreme Weather: Hurricane hunting

Features

Table of contents

News

Meet Kosmoceratops, the horniest vegetarian dinosaur

Life

Meet Kosmoceratops, the horniest vegetarian dinosaur

Kosmo's head Bare bones of Kosmoceratops You could call it the world's horniest dinosaur. An almost complete skull of a dinosaur with two massive horns projecting from its brow and 13 bizarre horns around the head which fold back like waves, has been unearthed in the wilds of Utah. Bones from the rib cage and …

News

Technology

Titanium foam builds Wolverine bones

News

Space

Standing on a stepladder makes you age faster

News

Health

Leading cause of blindness identified

News

Life

Fungi generate their own mini wind to go the distance

News

Health

Antidepressants make people less likely to harm others

News

Technology

How did you get to work today? I took the Shweeb

News

Technology

Why the Stuxnet worm is like nothing seen before

News

Health

Pulses of light spark muscle movement

News

Space

Hawking radiation glimpsed in artificial black hole

News

Space

Countdown to oblivion: Why time itself could end

News

Earth

A fifth of all wild plant species face extinction

News

BP's head of safety admits human error over oil spill

News

Earth

Hawaii will face more frequent cyclones

News

Is this the start of the element wars?

News

Health

Modified contraceptive treats cancer of the uterus

News

Life

Artificial fertility treatments create a sex bias

News

Health

Ban all tobacco advertising, say US paediatricians

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Sparks fly over origin of altruism

News

Addicts to get no kick from cocaine

News

Physics

Sound can leap across a vacuum after all

News

Life

Large brains bust baggage allowance for migratory bats

News

Health

The slippery slope to obesity

News

Technology

Maker Faire: From icy love to electrical Play-Doh

News

Technology

Anyone can dupe biometric scanner

News

Technology

Ditch the glasses for lifelike 3D

News

Technology

Scratched glasses give perfect vision for any eyesight

News

Technology

Charge your phone with a beach towel

News

Physics

Levitating graphene is fastest-spinning object ever

News

Opinion

Oliver Sacks: Why I'm a resident alien

Life

Oliver Sacks: Why I'm a resident alien

Starting to fill in the blanks Oliver Sacks , the neurologist who brought us Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat , tells David Cohen about his "lost years" in California, his subsequent life as an alien and how cancer gave him the opportunity to experiment on himself for his latest …

Opinion

Time for teachers to take another look at neuroscience

Opinion

The value of asking 'What if?'

Opinion

Life

Should psychoanalysis be in the Science Museum?

Opinion

Earth

Jeffrey Sachs: Poverty is multidimensional

Opinion

Features

Mental muscle: six ways to boost your brain

Life

Mental muscle: six ways to boost your brain

Exercise some mental floss (Image Spencer Wilson ) Editorial: Time for teachers to take another look at neuroscience Brain training games won't make you smarter – but a dose of blue light or an electrical shock just might BREATHE in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out. I crack open an eye. Everyone else has theirs …

Features

Life

Fossil secrets of the Leonardo da Vinci codex

Features

Technology

Breaking the noise barrier: Enter the phonon computer

Features

Extreme Weather: Driving forces

Features

Extreme Weather: Concentrated fury

Features

Extreme Weather: Heat engines

Features

Extreme Weather: Hurricane hunting

Features

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Enigma Number 1615

Slide enlarger ENIGMA represents a six-digit number in which the digits are all different and non-zero. When EN slides from the front to the back, the resulting six-digit number, IGMAEN, is 20 per cent larger than ENIGMA. What is ENIGMA? WIN £15 will be awarded to the sender of the first correct answer opened on …

Regulars

Seven ways to make a new thing

Books & Arts

Art scaled up and down

Books & Arts

Deceitful numbers

Books & Arts

From neutrinos to neon lights

Books & Arts

Going for green at the Olympics

Careers

Regulars

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When sight and sound go out of sync

When sight and sound go out of sync SO MANY people have bought high-definition TVs that the manufacturers are now looking for a way to boost TV sales all over again. They see 3D as the answer. Last month's consumer electronics show in Berlin was knee-deep in 3D. Philips even promised a 3D shaver, which …

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