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30 April 2011

Issue 2810

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Uncertainty entangled: The limits of quantum weirdness

Physics

Uncertainty entangled: The limits of quantum weirdness

Features
Unnatural selection: How humans are driving evolution

Life

Unnatural selection: How humans are driving evolution

Features
Unnatural selection: Hunting down elephants' tusks

Earth

Unnatural selection: Hunting down elephants' tusks

Features
Unnatural selection: The race against climate change

Earth

Unnatural selection: The race against climate change

Features
Unnatural selection: The arms race against pests

Life

Unnatural selection: The arms race against pests

Features
Unnatural selection: Introducing invaders

Earth

Unnatural selection: Introducing invaders

Features
Unnatural selection: Living with pollution

Life

Unnatural selection: Living with pollution

Features
Unnatural selection: Spreading sickness

Earth

Unnatural selection: Spreading sickness

Features
Beam them up: Launching spacecraft on a photon drive

Space

Beam them up: Launching spacecraft on a photon drive

Features
Infant recall: The birth of memory

Life

Infant recall: The birth of memory

Features

Table of contents

News

Zoologger: Sea anemones spawn mixed-up kids

Life

Zoologger: Sea anemones spawn mixed-up kids

Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals – and occasionally other organisms – from around the world

News

Health

Pesticide exposure in the womb may lower IQ

News

Health

Immortality of all cancer cells exposed as a myth

News

Earth

Europe was right to halt flights after volcano

News

Life

Bees' royal jelly secret revealed

News

Technology

Electronic medical records aid clinical studies

News

Health

Guantánamo doctors accused of complicity in torture

News

Has the LHC found a hint of the Higgs boson?

News

Deepwater Horizon: assessing the impact, one year on

News

Earth

World's largest freshwater fish gets life extension

News

Health

Cancer drug thwarts malaria

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Searching for the climate refugees

News

Physics

Quantum probes that won't kill Schrödinger's cat

News

Health

Magnets cut diagnosis time for infections by days

News

Push to define year sparks time war

News

Technology

Mind-controlled prosthetics to help amputees

News

Earth

The hunt is on for million-year-old ice core

News

Health

First partial transplant of a bioengineered larynx

News

Physics

Bubbles exhibit weird sandy behaviour

News

Geyser moon puts its mark on Saturn

News

Life

Deliberate inaction judged as immoral as wrong action

News

Life

Women who start periods early likelier to have girls

News

Technology

Freeze airframe: Targeting an icy killer in flight

News

Technology

Beating the traffic before it even exists

News

Technology

Corkscrew drive propels robot across tough terrain

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Automated umpire keeps cricket matches moving

News

Opinion

Ignore big tobacco's absurd fight against plain packs

Health

Ignore big tobacco's absurd fight against plain packs

Time to pack it in Australia's bold plan to remove all branding from cigarettes and their packaging is a triumph for public health EARLIER this month the Australian government released draft legislation that promises to be a landmark in the global fight against tobacco . If passed, from January 2012 cigarettes and hand-rolling tobacco will …

Opinion

Life

Telomere Nobelist: Selling a 'biological age' test

Opinion

Technology

Google's research chief: The power of big data

ocado

A question of climate refugees

Opinion

The new definition of the year should be welcomed

Opinion

Features

Uncertainty entangled: The limits of quantum weirdness

Physics

Uncertainty entangled: The limits of quantum weirdness

The end of quantum uncertainty? In a battle between the star principles of the quantum story, there can be only one winner. Or can there? SOME middle-aged men have trains in their attics. Niels Bohr had Werner Heisenberg. In the winter of 1926-1927, the brilliant young German was working as Bohr's chief assistant, billeted in …

Features

Life

Unnatural selection: How humans are driving evolution

Features

Earth

Unnatural selection: Hunting down elephants' tusks

Features

Earth

Unnatural selection: The race against climate change

Features

Life

Unnatural selection: The arms race against pests

Features

Earth

Unnatural selection: Introducing invaders

Features

Life

Unnatural selection: Living with pollution

Features

Earth

Unnatural selection: Spreading sickness

Features

Space

Beam them up: Launching spacecraft on a photon drive

Features

Life

Infant recall: The birth of memory

Features

Culturelab

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From stroke survivor to compulsive artist

In Shadows Bright as Glass , Amy Ellis Nutt explores creativity and neuroscience through the remarkable story of stroke survivor Jon Sarkin JON SARKIN was a successful chiropractor and dedicated husband before a tiny blood vessel shifted in his brain. The vessel swelled, pressing on his acoustic nerve, causing extreme tinnitus and an unbearable sensitivity …

CultureLab

Virtual architecture built in computer-cut cardboard

CultureLab

An artist who had a radioactive imagination

CultureLab

Funny findings: an exploration of why we laugh

CultureLab

More

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Enigma Number 1644

Same goal average Albion, Borough, City, Rangers and United have played in a soccer tournament in which each team played each of the others once. No two matches in the tournament had the same score, and no team scored more than three goals in any match. Albion drew against Borough; both of these teams won …

Regulars

Regulars

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Feedback: Grasshoppers play football with their poo

Grasshoppers play football with their poo STUCK for a subject to write a scientific paper on? Why not do something on how far grasshoppers can kick their poo? This is what Yosuke Tanaka and Eiiti Kasuya did. They published their study "Flying distance of frass kicked by the grasshopper Atractomorpha lata and factors affecting the …

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