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10 September 2011

Issue 2829

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Swarm troopers: Mutant armies waging war in the wild

Life

Swarm troopers: Mutant armies waging war in the wild

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Deep impact: The bad news about banging your head

Health

Deep impact: The bad news about banging your head

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Summer of lulz: The empire strikes back

Technology

Summer of lulz: The empire strikes back

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Universal intelligence: One test to rule them all

Life

Universal intelligence: One test to rule them all

Features

Table of contents

News

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Health

A youthful environment can rejuvenate old stem cells

Adult stem cells can be rejuvenated, simply by growing them in a youthful environment – at least in mice. The discovery boosts hopes that adult human stem cells could be used to grow replacement tissue without the need for embryonic stem cells or complicated cell reprogramming . Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are found in the …

News

Technology

Quantum computer chips pass key milestones

News

Earth

Giant Mars crater hints at steamy past

News

Physics

Test shows most efficient way to board a plane

News

Life

Stem cells may save rhinos from extinction

News

Technology

Single molecule is tiniest electric motor ever

News

Technology

Software tricks people into thinking it is human

News

Health

Psychiatric illness is biggest source of Europe's ill health

News

Life

Manhattan memory project: How 9/11 changed our brains

News

Life

Dolphins call each other by name

News

Earth

Giant red crabs invade the Antarctic abyss

News

Ozone climbdown: Is Obama giving up on environment?

News

Earth

Malaysia cracks down on illegal ivory trade

News

Signs of light dark matter show up in Munich

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Geoengineering trials get under way

News

Life

Scour Earth for traces of intelligent aliens

News

Earth

Meteorite storm showered planet in gold

News

Space

Mega space storm would kill satellites for a decade

News

Health

Near-death experiences may be triggered by serotonin

News

Life

Tree frogs avoid drying out with own water supply

News

African ancestry boosts peanut allergy risk

News

Kamikaze ants protect the colony

News

Technology

No end of fun: Make your own video games

News

Technology

Air traffic system vulnerable to cyber attack

News

Earth

Electrified roads could power cars from the ground up

News

Technology

Using Twitter to follow trends beats the stock market

News

Technology

Online 3D mannequins find a fit for everyone

News

Life

Massive DNA effort to name 1121 unknown dead of 9/11

News

Prize awarded for largest mathematical proof

News

Opinion

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Earth

Famine in the Horn of Africa: Never again?

East Africa is stalked by famine once more despite scientists' early warnings of disaster. Can the lessons be learned?

Opinion

Media presenter: Unshakeable stereotypes of science

Opinion

The dark side of altruism

Opinion

Give geo- and genetic engineering a fair trial

Opinion

Hacktivism and the long tradition of dissent

Opinion

Features

Swarm troopers: Mutant armies waging war in the wild

Life

Swarm troopers: Mutant armies waging war in the wild

We can now genetically modify animals to kill off their own kind, while leaving other species unharmed

Features

Health

Deep impact: The bad news about banging your head

Features

Technology

Summer of lulz: The empire strikes back

Features

Life

Universal intelligence: One test to rule them all

Features

Culturelab

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The species that evaded extinction

In Survivors , veteran palaeontologist Richard Fortey travels the globe to track the species that have persisted throughout the millennia IT IS five years since Richard Fortey retired from his post as senior palaeontologist at London's Natural History Museum. Yet that has hardly curbed his academic output or the enthusiasm that drove him to study …

CultureLab

Who was the first scientist?

CultureLab

Rewriting the stories we tell ourselves

CultureLab

Did research funding lead to the anthrax attacks?

CultureLab

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Enigma Number 1663

Flintoff's farewell Recently retired cricket all-rounder Andrew Flintoff was known as Freddie until a much-publicised incident with a pedalo gave rise to the new nickname Fredalo. In the sum shown, digits have been replaced by letters, different letters representing different digits. Since there are 11 different letters everything is in base 11. Use 0 to …

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Feedback: When the Earth was flat

How the Earth wasn't RESIDENTS of Winnipeg in Canada (and doubtless elsewhere) have recently been bombarded with a television advert for Infiniti, apparently a brand of luxury personal transport, that opens with the suggestion that: "If no one ever challenged the status quo, the Earth would still be flat." James Daun, clearly a believer in …

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