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14 May 2011

Issue 2812

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2020 vision: Be nice to the telepresence robot

Technology

2020 vision: Be nice to the telepresence robot

Features
2020 vision: Stroll through data in the augmented city

Technology

2020 vision: Stroll through data in the augmented city

Features
2020 vision: Don't invent, evolve

Technology

2020 vision: Don't invent, evolve

Features
2020 vision: Eat a printed dinner in your printed home

Technology

2020 vision: Eat a printed dinner in your printed home

Features
2020 vision: Jacking into your brain

Life

2020 vision: Jacking into your brain

Features
2020 vision: The crystal ball internet

Technology

2020 vision: The crystal ball internet

Features
2020 vision: Digital wallets will empty faster

Technology

2020 vision: Digital wallets will empty faster

Features
The grand delusion: What you see is not what you get

Life

The grand delusion: What you see is not what you get

Features
The grand delusion: Blind to bias

Life

The grand delusion: Blind to bias

Features
The grand delusion: Head full of half-truths

Life

The grand delusion: Head full of half-truths

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The grand delusion: Egotist, moi?

Life

The grand delusion: Egotist, moi?

Features
The grand delusion: Who's in control?

Life

The grand delusion: Who's in control?

Features
Gut reactions: the microbes that make you

Life

Gut reactions: the microbes that make you

Features
No place like home: Our lonesome solar system

Space

No place like home: Our lonesome solar system

Features

Table of contents

News

Beleaguered mission measures swirling space-time at last

Space

Beleaguered mission measures swirling space-time at last

Gravity Probe B has finally measured an effect called frame dragging The beleaguered Gravity Probe B mission has finally measured a subtle effect of general relativity called frame dragging. The result comes nearly six years after it finished making measurements and years after other experiments measured the effect to greater precision. NASA launched the $750 …

News

Life

Teen survey reveals gene for happiness

News

Health

Easily distracted people may have too much brain

News

Space

Saturn moon's atmosphere forged by comet impacts

News

Life

Fear dulls our awareness of the nuances of sound

News

Life

NASA floats Titan boat concept

News

Life

First evidence that gorillas pass on traditions

News

Earth

Gas drilling contaminates drinking water

News

Life

Zoologger: The only fish that cries like a baby

News

Health

Childhood leukaemia linked to mosquito bites

News

Japan closes 'kamikaze' coastal nuclear plant

News

Byzantine perspective on climate justice

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Sex on the brain: Orgasms unlock altered consciousness

News

Health

Neurons with double DNA implicated in Alzheimer's

News

Earth

Alien life may huddle under hydrogen blankets

News

Health

New doubts over shaken-baby evidence

News

Earth

DNA chip test will track down illegal fish

News

Life

Fermenting fruit did not lead to alcohol gene

News

Technology

Beware Higgs impostors at the LHC

News

Physics

Graphene may reveal the grain of space-time

News

Good kids and happy care home residents – the devil is in the design

News

Saturn moon's atmosphere forged by comet impacts

News

Technology

Sailbots head for the high seas

News

Technology

Electric vehicles herald rise of the in-car app

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Taking control of your data into your own hands

News

Technology

Static charge provides clue to age of fingerprints

News

Earth

Renewables may supply 80 per cent of our energy by 2050

News

Life

Inaccurate IQs could be a matter of life and death

News

Opinion

Obama is right to withhold photos of bin Laden's corpse

Life

Obama is right to withhold photos of bin Laden's corpse

President Obama is updated during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden The US president is showing astute caution in refusing to release the photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse Despite many calls for him to do so, President Obama has so far ruled out releasing photographs taken of Osama bin Laden after he was …

Opinion

The endless possibilities of life in the cosmos

Opinion

Privacy in the age of Facebook

Opinion

Physics

CERN press chief: We'll never plug blockbuster leaks

Opinion

Technology

Out of control: How to live in an unfathomable world

Opinion

Features

2020 vision: Be nice to the telepresence robot

Technology

2020 vision: Be nice to the telepresence robot

Be nice to the boss Read more: " Seven technologies to disrupt the next decade " You wouldn't rest your feet on a colleague during a meeting. But what if your workmate was a robot controlled by a co-worker many kilometres away – would it still be rude? This is typical of the new etiquette …

Features

Technology

2020 vision: Stroll through data in the augmented city

Features

Technology

2020 vision: Don't invent, evolve

Features

Technology

2020 vision: Eat a printed dinner in your printed home

Features

Life

2020 vision: Jacking into your brain

Features

Technology

2020 vision: The crystal ball internet

Features

Technology

2020 vision: Digital wallets will empty faster

Features

Life

The grand delusion: What you see is not what you get

Features

Life

The grand delusion: Blind to bias

Features

Life

The grand delusion: Head full of half-truths

Features

Life

The grand delusion: Egotist, moi?

Features

Life

The grand delusion: Who's in control?

Features

Life

Gut reactions: the microbes that make you

Features

Space

No place like home: Our lonesome solar system

Features

Culturelab

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Research notes from the wild side

Field Notes on Science and Nature is an enthusiasm-filled tour through the indispensable scientific tool that is the field journal RETURNING from fieldwork in Tasmania, I was thrilled to find this book on my desk. Field Notes on Science and Nature celebrates the phenomenon that is the field journal, a fundamental tool for scientific research …

CultureLab

Animatronic dinosaurs set in their world

CultureLab

Has our neuro-obsession gone too far?

CultureLab

Weird and wild underwater creatures

CultureLab

Can science fiction still predict the future?

CultureLab

Animals – a design triumph

CultureLab

More

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Enigma Number 1646

All lined up In Joe's brother's orchard of 221 apple trees, the trees in the rows, and the rows of trees, are spaced 15 feet apart. One day, Joe was standing in line with the trees in one row on the edge of the orchard just 80 feet from the corner tree. Looking along the …

Regulars

Life

Crocodiles swam the Atlantic to reach America

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Regulars

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Feedback: Nano-sized signal sucker

Nano-sized signal sucker WHEN Graham Ranson was searching for ways to improve reception on his smartphone, he was puzzled to find "the Pinaki mobile broadband booster chip" on offer from Orbital Radio Research ( pinaki.webs.com ). This gadget is the "world's first table top echo friendly black hole broadband signal sucker" and the "world's first …

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