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18 December 2010

Issue 2791

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Blue lions: The search for rogue planets

Space

Blue lions: The search for rogue planets

Features
Taboo transplant: How new poo defeats superbugs

Life

Taboo transplant: How new poo defeats superbugs

Features
3D TV: Beware the barfogenic zone

Life

3D TV: Beware the barfogenic zone

Features
Live wires: The electric superorganism under your feet

Life

Live wires: The electric superorganism under your feet

Features

Table of contents

News

Zoologger: Weaponised eggs turn predators' stomachs

Life

Zoologger: Weaponised eggs turn predators' stomachs

They hate your guts Species: Pomacea canaliculata Habitat: originally from the wetlands of South America , it has been introduced to south-east Asia and the US, where it is considered an invasive species How do you like your eggs? Improved by kisses, if you believe Dean Martin , eggs are good eating. They are full …

News

Life

Blue whale feeding methods are ultra-efficient

News

Earth

Lucky strike gave Earth its gold

News

Life

Stuffing yourself in imagination curbs stomach pangs

News

Earth

Cancún analysis: Dawn breaks on low-carbon world

News

Life

Sleepy bees slur their waggle dance moves

News

Technology

Cryptographers chosen to duke it out in final fight

News

Technology

Higgs hunt may delay LHC's planned shutdown

News

Earth

Lice found not guilty of salmon decline

News

Space

Commercial capsule succeeds where NASA failed

News

Health

Cancer cells dupe the body's immune system

News

Earth

No tipping point for polar bears' Arctic ice

News

Health

Change brain-death diagnosis to save organs

News

Technology

Money-spinning technologies lie stagnant in Africa

News

Health

World's first animal-to-human transplant approved

News

60 Seconds

News

Technology

WikiLeaks wars: Digital conflict spills into real life

News

Life

Creativity vies with language in brain

News

Life

Bereaved animals grieve – if their lifestyle allows it

News

Technology

Less is more when measuring fragile atomic bonds

News

Life

Liar, liar! Brain circuit predicts others' honesty

News

Health

Leukaemia's weak spot targeted and destroyed

News

Could we detect trees on other planets?

News

Health

Intestine grown from stem cells for the first time

News

Earth

Is night falling on classic solar panels?

News

Technology

Are states unleashing the dogs of cyber war?

News

Technology

Banknotes go electric to outwit counterfeiters

News

Technology

Virtual lunar robot proves pogoing beats moonwalking

News

Opinion

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Democracy 2.0: The world after WikiLeaks

WHEN weighing up the fallout of the WikiLeaks saga, both governments and citizens would be wise to remember the words of that advocate of peaceful democratic change, Mohandas Gandhi: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." The release of thousands of (frankly underwhelming) secret US diplomatic cables is so much …

Opinion

The legacy of Cancún

Opinion

Earth

We need an energy sixth sense to fight global warming

Opinion

Technology

Let's build Babbage's ultimate mechanical computer

Opinion

Physics

George Soros: Economics needs fixing

Opinion

Life

Psi investigator: On magic and being a maverick

Opinion

Features

Blue lions: The search for rogue planets

Space

Blue lions: The search for rogue planets

Neptune's moon Triton orbits in the opposite way from the others Alien worlds keep turning up that break the rules we've learned from our own solar system. Are we the real renegades? JOHN JOHNSON remembers the night he found his first blue lion. He was observing at the Subaru telescope on top of Mauna Kea …

Features

Life

Taboo transplant: How new poo defeats superbugs

Features

Life

3D TV: Beware the barfogenic zone

Features

Life

Live wires: The electric superorganism under your feet

Features

Culturelab

An advertisement for mad-dog brain modularity

An advertisement for mad-dog brain modularity

Robert Kurtzban believes that the mind is a colony of separate entities Why Everyone (else) is a Hypocrite by Robert Kurtzban is a manifesto for a good idea in neuropsychology taken to an absurd extreme, says Owen Flanagan The idea that the mind might be more like a termite colony, an army of specialists with …

CultureLab

Musical inventor: The robotic set of my opera emotes

CultureLab

What is it like to be Oliver Sacks?

CultureLab

Cuba's socialist go-it-alone medicine

CultureLab

How Pluto lost its planethood

CultureLab

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Enigma Number 1626

Pascal's pyramid This is Pascal's pyramid. Every stone has a positive number on it and, apart from the base stones, each stone's number is the sum of the numbers of the two stones on which it rests. The numbers of the six base stones are all different. What are A, B, C, D, E and …

Regulars

Keeping on the PhD path

Careers

Regulars

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Feedback: But is it worth its salt?

But is it worth its salt? BATTY product description of the week was found by Bill Tango on the wall of a restaurant on the freeway between Sydney and Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. It can also be seen on the website of the product's retailers, Oliver's Real Food . Himalayan salt – "The …

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