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30 July 2011

Issue 2823

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Ultimate logic: To infinity and beyond

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Ultimate logic: To infinity and beyond

Features
Patchwork people: Our hybrid origins

Life

Patchwork people: Our hybrid origins

Features
Don't get smart: The curse of knowledge

Life

Don't get smart: The curse of knowledge

Features
Smartphone surveillance: The cop in your pocket

Technology

Smartphone surveillance: The cop in your pocket

Features

Table of contents

News

Fourth moon discovered around Pluto

Space

Fourth moon discovered around Pluto

Pluto and friends Weigh in: What should the new moon be named? The cosmos loves irony. Five years after Pluto was stripped of its planet status , astronomers have discovered yet another moon in orbit around it, bringing its entourage to four. The tiny body may have been born in the same collision that gave …

News

Life

Male infertility linked to protein invisibility cloak

News

Life

Next Mars rover will climb a mountain

News

Physics

Archimedean molecule creates brand new compounds

News

Health

Anti-addiction drugs face more than medical issues

News

Life

Electric dolphins: cetaceans with a seventh sense

News

Health

Peanut butter to the rescue in Somalia famine?

News

Life

Dim polar light drove humans to evolve larger eyes

News

Life

Canadian cod make a comeback

News

Technology

Highs and lows in first year of data from the LHC

News

'Predict your death' longevity paper retracted

News

Earth

Warming Arctic releases frozen organic air pollutants

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Delirium in hospital can be a killer for the elderly

News

Earth

Earth's time bombs may have killed the dinosaurs

News

Life

Redefining hydrogen bonds, the givers of life

News

Space

Earth stalker found in eternal twilight

News

Health

IVF success rates boosted by a bed of nails

News

Life

Archaeopteryx knocked off its perch as first bird

News

Technology

'Fluid cloak' to help submarines leave no wake

News

Life

Meerkat-like tayras invest in fruit futures

News

Mind

Lost memory function reversed in old monkeys

News

Health

Bacterial bioshield could keep HIV at bay

News

Earth

Antarctica rising as ice caps melt

News

Technology

3D printing: A quick guide to the printable world

News

Technology

3D printing: Build your crazy robot ideas at home

News

Technology

3D printing: The technology that changes everything

News

Technology

3D printing: Game add-on makes Minecraft edifices real

News

Technology

3D printing: The world's first printed plane

News

Health

Daily drug restores sight to hereditary blind

News

Space

Water-scouting probe to take off for Jupiter

News

Opinion

Better mousetraps? Beware simple history

Life

Better mousetraps? Beware simple history

The introduction of horses transformed the social structures of the North American Plains Indians The greatest technological revolution ever – farming replacing foraging – was initially a step back for human productivity THE great upheavals of our human past, the demise of slavery, for example, or the end of Communist rule in the Soviet Union, …

Opinion

Technology to sniff out terrorists' work

Opinion

Welcome to the complicated human family

Opinion

Environment

We shouldn't mourn the demotion of Archaeopteryx

Opinion

Earth

The carbon cost of Germany's nuclear 'Nein danke!'

Opinion

Life

Susan Greenfield: Living online is changing our brains

Opinion

Aperture

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Treehoppers put obsolete genetics to fashionable use

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science THE designs of Philip Treacy, creator of the "fascinator" worn by Princess Beatrice at this year's royal wedding, pale in comparison with the efforts of tiny insects called treehoppers. The insects sport …

Regulars

Features

Ultimate logic: To infinity and beyond

Physics

Ultimate logic: To infinity and beyond

Many levels of infinity The mysteries of infinity could lead us to a fantastic structure above and beyond mathematics as we know it WHEN David Hilbert left the podium at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, on 8 August 1900, few of the assembled delegates seemed overly impressed. According to one contemporary report , the discussion …

Features

Life

Patchwork people: Our hybrid origins

Features

Life

Don't get smart: The curse of knowledge

Features

Technology

Smartphone surveillance: The cop in your pocket

Features

Culturelab

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Drowning in milk

In her new book, Milk , food historian Deborah Valenze gives an exhaustive and sometimes intriguing account of all things milky ROMAN myth has it that the Milky Way was created after a peculiar domestic dispute. As the goddess Juno slept, her husband Jupiter snuck up and planted his illegitimate son Hercules at her breast. …

CultureLab

How stamps got an astronaut fired

CultureLab

Playing God with the planet

CultureLab

Sculpting shapes that don't exist

CultureLab

Were the best world leaders mentally ill?

CultureLab

More

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Enigma Number 1657

Magically different The magic square shown is different. When complete, it contains all the numbers 1 to 36, and any six of them (no two in the same row or in the same column) add up to the same total. What are the numbers behind the letters ENIGMA? WIN £15 will be awarded to the …

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Regulars

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Feedback: Cars that go clippetty clop

Cars that go clippetty clop WE HAVE run several stories in recent months about signifiers that relate to obsolete concepts – either in the form of words, such as blueprints which were blue once but aren't any more (25 June) , or pictures, such as a sign showing a steam locomotive to warn of the …

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