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11 February 2012

Issue 2851

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Dark side of the love hormone

Health

Dark side of the love hormone

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Uncharted waters: Probing aquifers to head off war

Earth

Uncharted waters: Probing aquifers to head off war

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Power plants: Grow your own electricity

Technology

Power plants: Grow your own electricity

Features
Seven equations that rule your world

Physics

Seven equations that rule your world

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Table of contents

News

I think we should let elephants loose in Australia

Earth

I think we should let elephants loose in Australia

Let's have more Ecologist David Bowman of the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia, argues that large herbivores including elephants should be introduced to Australia to bring balance to a country ravaged by uncontrolled wildfires and non-native animals that have gone feral. Fellow ecologists including George Wilson of Australian National University in Canberra and Peter …

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Life

Zoologger: The only males with more brain than females

News

Technology

Slow graphene down, speed computers up

News

Space

Tiny volcanic moon controls Jupiter's auroras

News

Life

Clint Eastwood helps reveal secrets of brain evolution

News

Earth

Patch of seagrass is world's oldest living organism

News

Life

Jurassic katydid sings out after 165 million years

News

Space

Private spacecraft move forward as Soyuz struggles

News

Earth

We have breached Lake Vostok, confirms Russian team

News

Forensic failure: Survey results

News

Life

Most fish in the sea evolved on land

News

Life

Entire genome of extinct human reconstructed

News

Life

The only primate to communicate in pure ultrasound

News

Life

Mind control could be future of warfare

News

Space

Astronaut dream lives on despite cash woes and crashes

News

Earth

First evidence that shipping noise stresses whales

News

3D printer provides woman with a brand new jaw

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

New surgery heals nerve damage in weeks

News

Humans

Forensic failure: 'Miscarriages of justice will occur'

News

Physics

Molecules from scratch without the fiendish physics

News

Earth

Ocean current slowdown made Earth spin faster

News

Falling in love makes you broody

News

Earth

Charging up an all-electric 320 km/h racing car

News

Technology

App's glowing arrows guide you around a new building

News

Technology

Should police and coastguards use laser dazzlers?

News

Technology

Your heartbeat could keep your data safe

News

Opinion

Why full disclosure is healthy

Health

Why full disclosure is healthy

Do British people know enough about the financial interests of those writing health articles? Time to toughen editorial codes

Opinion

Life

Time to give SETI a chance

Opinion

Technology

The internet shows the messy truth about knowledge

Opinion

The case for revamping forensic science remains unproven

Opinion

Water maps keep the peace

Opinion

Why it's worth collecting fish

Opinion

Analysis

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Health

New cystic fibrosis drug highlights approval dilemma

It is a landmark moment: 22 years after the cystic fibrosis gene was discovered, some patients are about to receive a drug called Kalydeco to treat the defect that causes their lungs to clog up with sticky mucus. But will approving the drug pave the way for all manner of pharmaceuticals to treat rare genetic …

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Aperture

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Domestic life of birds

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science I REMEMBER as a kid exploring a near-derelict building on a bit of land behind a row of shops and finding a bird's nest on a dusty shelf, complete with squawking, alien-like …

Regulars

Features

Dark side of the love hormone

Health

Dark side of the love hormone

The "cuddle chemical" oxytocin bonds mothers to their babies and sniffing it makes adults nicer – but can also foster gloating and racism

Features

Earth

Uncharted waters: Probing aquifers to head off war

Features

Technology

Power plants: Grow your own electricity

Features

Physics

Seven equations that rule your world

Features

Culturelab

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Splash dance: Water crisis choreography

Elixir , by Sadhana Dance premiered at The Point in Eastleigh, UK, and will tour until late May. Details can be found at sadhanadance.com/elixir "WATER, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink," lamented the ancient mariner in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem. He was trapped in a microcosm of humanity's struggle with water. We suffer deluges …

CultureLab

Searching the souls of dissidents

CultureLab

The insect survival guide

CultureLab

The dark side to personalised internet

CultureLab

A little bit of sin does you good

CultureLab

More

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Enigma Number 1684

In the fold I have taken a square piece of paper with an area equal to a two-figure number of square centimetres. The corners are labelled A, B, C and D clockwise around the square. I have folded the square with one straight fold so that the corner A lies midway between C and D. …

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Large Hadron Collider for sale SEARCHING New Scientist 's website newscientist.com for stories about the elusive Higgs particle , Trevor Dudley was startled to read an advert under the "Ads by Google" banner offering "The Large Hadron Collider" for sale. An added incentive was that you could "bid or buy on eBay with confidence" thanks …

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