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12 March 2011

Issue 2803

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Pulsating planet: Superhot rocks make the Earth roll

Earth

Pulsating planet: Superhot rocks make the Earth roll

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Night life: This is your brain on dreams

Life

Night life: This is your brain on dreams

Features
Paranormal investigations: why you want to believe

Humans

Paranormal investigations: why you want to believe

Features
GPS chaos: How a $30 box can jam your life

Space

GPS chaos: How a $30 box can jam your life

Features

Table of contents

News

Trek-like tractor beam is possible

Technology

Trek-like tractor beam is possible

Tractor beams: not just science fiction In Star Trek , the starship Enterprise often dragged objects towards it with its glowing tractor beam. Now there's a way to do this in real life – at least for very small particles. When light falls on an opaque object, the surface reflects most of the photons back …

News

Life

Found: fine American fishing tackle, 12 millennia old

News

Health

Lab-grown neurons might repair Alzheimer's brains

News

Life

Hawass admits Egypt's ancient heritage is in danger

News

Life

Lack of sleep makes for a more reckless bet

News

Health

Mother's diet sows seeds of diabetes in the womb

News

Life

Elephants know when they need a helping trunk

News

Space

NASA should bring Mars rocks back to Earth, says panel

News

Claims of meteorite aliens taken with pinch of salt

News

Health

Doctors fail to report incompetent colleagues

News

WikiLeaks reveals endangered hardwood on sale in US

News

Glory climate satellite falls out of the sky

News

Health

Half of Germany's doctors prescribe placebos

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Key to humanity is in missing DNA

News

Space

Tourists spark era of space science

News

Life

Tumours could be the ancestors of animals

News

Health

One pill or two? The weather can help doctors decide

News

Life

Lost world hints at life in the Mesozoic

News

Technology

Graphene etching to usher in computing revolution

News

Space

Newly found brown dwarf is ultra-cool

News

Salmon hearts break biological 'law'

News

Life

AI lie detection could help crack terror cells

News

Technology

Shock wave puts hybrid engines in a spin

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Rubbery muscle motors to make robots more lifelike

News

Technology

Drama of Formula 1 receives technological boost

News

Opinion

Removing bodies from display is nonsense

Life

Removing bodies from display is nonsense

Remains on display The removal of long-dead human bodies from view in museums for reburial is based on a warped notion of respect WHEN I was 10 years old I saw the mummified body of the 4th Earl of Bothwell , husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, on display in a church in Fårevejle, Denmark, …

Opinion

Health

Obesity expert: A better fat measure than BMI

Opinion

Life

The self: why science is not enough

Opinion

We are the children of the lost DNA

Opinion

GPS jammers have us at their mercy

Opinion

Right now, science needs the right stuff

Opinion

Features

GPS chaos: How a $30 box can jam your life

Space

GPS chaos: How a $30 box can jam your life

Signals from GPS satellites now help you to call your mother, power your home, and even land your plane – but a cheap plastic box can scramble it all

Features

Life

Night life: This is your brain on dreams

Features

Earth

Pulsating planet: Superhot rocks make the Earth roll

Features

Humans

Paranormal investigations: why you want to believe

Features

Culturelab

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Didn't you notice Google's crown slipping?

The Googlization of Everything by Siva Vaidhyanathan is intelligent and provocative, but fails to see the challenge of the social internet TIMING, they say in Silicon Valley, is everything. Start-ups have a narrow window of opportunity that determines their success or failure. Google, the internet search engine company founded by Stanford University graduate students Sergey …

CultureLab

The strange tale of the Lebanese space race

CultureLab

Werner Herzog releases ancient paintings from history

CultureLab

Your quantum questions answered

CultureLab

Why futurologists always get it wrong

CultureLab

More

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Enigma Number 1637

In-laws Four pairs of siblings were great friends right through school and eventually the eight (all mentioned below) paired off in man-woman partnerships and got married. They had no other siblings. Alan has two brothers-in-law, Brian Long and Eleanor Short's husband. Fiona has no sisters-in-law. Mrs Tall's brother Colin states that his sister-in-law's sister's sister-in-law …

Regulars

Regulars

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Feedback: Amazing achievement of peak performer

Amazing achievement of peak performer READER Paul Buckingham draws our attention to the UK's forthcoming National Achievers Congress, promoted in exhaustingly upbeat prose at bit.ly/peakachiever . The congress, we are told, will be attended by millionaire entrepreneurs like Richard Branson along with "a potent combination of other celebrated niche money-making experts who ensure no matter …

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