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30 October 2010

Issue 2784

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Snoop dogs: The rise of DNA pawprinting

Life

Snoop dogs: The rise of DNA pawprinting

Features
Putting your intelligence to the ultimate test

Life

Putting your intelligence to the ultimate test

Features
Traffic jam: the coming cellphone crunch

Technology

Traffic jam: the coming cellphone crunch

Features
Model citizens: Building SimEarth

Technology

Model citizens: Building SimEarth

Features

Table of contents

News

LCROSS mission may have struck silver on the moon

Space

LCROSS mission may have struck silver on the moon

Silver was found in small amounts in lunar rocks collected by the Apollo astronauts, and now its spectral signature may have been spotted by NASA's LCROSS mission The title of the 1909 hit song By the Light of the Silvery Moon was not just poetic, it was also prophetic. A NASA spacecraft that crashed into …

News

Space

Indian neutrino lab to boast world's biggest magnet

News

Technology

Robots could ditch fingers for beanbags

News

Earth

Ancient bugs reveal early link from India to Asia

News

Earth

Space tourism could have big impact on climate

News

Earth

Air of defeat at Japan's biodiversity summit

News

Earth

Suicide-by-pesticide study ranks compound toxicity

News

Technology

Device gives parents their child's eye view

News

Earth

Haiti capital braced for cholera

News

Earth

Almost a fifth of vertebrate species are endangered

News

Earth

Solar power could crash Germany's grid

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

All eyes on California for marijuana ballot

News

Life

Superhero suit to strengthen astronauts' bones

News

Technology

Brain link lets people choose images by thought alone

News

Earth

Will we cope if the rare earths live up to their name?

News

Life

Heavy hydrogen keeps yeast looking good

News

Life

Did life begin with a bolt from the deep blue?

News

Health

The tongue in your lung that fights asthma

News

Earth

Warm weather sets lowland skink sex

News

Physics

Coming soon: LHC for molecules

News

Life

Children really do see things differently

News

Life

Thank ancient fertiliser for complex life

News

Life

Blue light taps directly into your emotions

News

Technology

Captcha adverts capture your attention

News

Technology

Google cars nabbed email addresses and passwords

News

Technology

Machine intelligence put to test in alien world

News

Technology

Caught on video: Why BA 009 rose from the ashes

News

Technology

Smallest electric engine could power nanomachines

News

Opinion

Professional climate change deniers' crusade continues

Earth

Professional climate change deniers' crusade continues

atch out, deniers about In the media and the courts, the battle to undermine climate science and its researchers hasn't let up, warns climatologist Michael Mann I'D LIKE to say I was surprised when news broke a year ago that emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK, had been …

Opinion

Physics

UK's chief measurer: Units unite the world

Opinion

Earth

Why western science conquered the world

Opinion

Time to legalise marijuana

Opinion

Features

Snoop dogs: The rise of DNA pawprinting

Life

Snoop dogs: The rise of DNA pawprinting

Saliva is a good source of canine DNA, just remove it with care Man's best friend is turning into a witness for the prosecution, with canine evidence cracking crimes from dogfighting to murder IN APRIL 2009, 16-year-old Seyi Ogunyemi and a friend were walking in Larkhall park in south London when they were surrounded by …

Features

Life

Putting your intelligence to the ultimate test

Features

Technology

Traffic jam: the coming cellphone crunch

Features

Technology

Model citizens: Building SimEarth

Features

Culturelab

Machine needs: How technology is shaping humanity

Machine needs: How technology is shaping humanity

The Amish resist many forms of technology, but not GM maize In What Technology Wants , tech guru Kevin Kelly sees the "technium" as a seamless extension of complex biology, evolving by the same rules A FEW years after Desmond Morris laid bare our animal nature in The Naked Ape , Alvin Toffler's 1970 book …

CultureLab

Can the biology of being gay combat bigotry?

CultureLab

Yves Klein: artist or geoengineer ahead of his time?

CultureLab

The invention of race

CultureLab

Everyday life in moreish bite-sized science

CultureLab

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Enigma Number 1619

Stacks of marbles My nephew found a bag of identical marbles; it was labelled 250, but some were missing. If he laid out six of these to form an equilateral triangle, he could place one more in a "dimple" at the centre of the layer, and he noticed (as a little trigonometry would confirm), that …

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Feedback: Has your death affected your life?

Has your death affected your life? HAS your death affected your life in any way? This odd question is asked on the medical site WrongDiagnosis.com . Diana and Emily Lutz came across it when they were trying to find out whether bitter almonds really do contain cyanide. They went on to ask the site what …

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