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14 April 2012

Issue 2860

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New leaf: The promise of artificial photosynthesis

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New leaf: The promise of artificial photosynthesis

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Fat busters: Are diet pills an impossible dream?

Health

Fat busters: Are diet pills an impossible dream?

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Pocket decider: How your phone shapes your choices

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Pocket decider: How your phone shapes your choices

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Ovary banks: Freezing the biological clock

Health

Ovary banks: Freezing the biological clock

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Table of contents

News

Social media web snares 'criminals'

Technology

Social media web snares 'criminals'

Catch me if you can Five jewel thieves are on the run and seeking refuge in five different cities around the world. You have just 12 hours to find them, without knowing their names or what they look like. All you do know is what each will be wearing: a coloured T-shirt printed with a …

News

Technology

Censoring flu data could raise bioterror threat

News

Health

X-ray hazard for people with obesity

News

Technology

Drug-smuggling nanoparticles target tumours

News

Space

Early asteroids blinged up by meteorite impacts

News

Space

Launch will reveal North Korean rocket's purpose

News

Health

Drug-resistant malaria spreads across Thailand

News

Health

Arsenic double whammy for cancer

News

Earth

Fukushima birds may cope with radiation

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Babies are born dirty, with a gutful of bacteria

News

Physics

Dodge ban on quantum clones to trap Schrödinger's cat

News

Space

Supercomputer probes famous but messy particle split

News

Earth

Italy's 'triangle of death' linked to premature ageing

News

Life

Blind hydra relies on light to kill prey

News

Life

Chimp beds hint how early humans ditched tree-sleeping

News

Life

Other primates share human taste for plant oestrogens

News

Life

Ants inoculate themselves by licking sick nest-mates

News

Health

Shining infrared light on cancer speeds diagnosis

News

Space

Mysteriously dark Mars regions are made of glass

News

Wildfires roasted dinosaurs while flowers bloomed

News

Meet the amphibian with sexual kidneys

News

Technology

Secrets of App Store revealed by artificial life forms

News

Technology

Crunch commuter data to track changing communities

News

Technology

Software reveals what makes a catchy movie line

News

Technology

Will we ever be able to buy a fair-trade smartphone?

News

Earth

Are Chinese consumers greener than westerners?

News

Health

Illicit drug use on the rise in UK's over-50s

News

Opinion

No need to wait for the clean air dividend

Earth

No need to wait for the clean air dividend

Controlling smog and soot is the classic win-win situation, so it’s great that the world is finally waking up to the idea

Opinion

Hold the painkillers, says 'Darwinian' paediatrician

Opinion

Health

When the biological clock never ticks

Opinion

Technology

Unmasking hidden persuaders is a hard sell

Opinion

Technology

Train tracks of our tears put to good use

Opinion

Health

We're closing in on consciousness in the brain

Opinion

Aperture

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Shuttle engines in rocket custom shop

THEY may bring to mind the sinister cyborg race from the British TV series Doctor Who , but during their working life they belched fire into the flame trenches at the Kennedy Space Center near Orlando, Florida. Now a curious calm has fallen on these formidable beasts – the engines from the recently retired space …

Regulars

Features

New leaf: The promise of artificial photosynthesis

Technology

New leaf: The promise of artificial photosynthesis

It's chemistry's greatest challenge – inventing systems that turn water and sunshine efficiently into cheap, clean energy for all

Features

Health

Fat busters: Are diet pills an impossible dream?

Features

Technology

Pocket decider: How your phone shapes your choices

Features

Health

Ovary banks: Freezing the biological clock

Features

Culturelab

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A slice of life in finely furled paper

See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog

CultureLab

The noble pursuit of ignorance

CultureLab

My Sister Rosalind Franklin: A personal and lively memoir

CultureLab

Can biotech solve world hunger?

CultureLab

Mysteries of modern physics

CultureLab

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Enigma Number 1693

Inseparable Albion, Borough, City, Rangers and United have staged a tournament in which each team played each of the others once. No two matches had the same score, and no team scored more than three goals in any match. Each played two home and two away fixtures. Albion drew against Borough; both won their other …

Regulars

Regulars

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Feedback: Faith overcomes gravity

Faith overcomes gravity FEEDBACK's mind is boggled, though we should have seen this coming. Readers continually point us to the online outpourings of purveyors of perpetual motion – many entertaining, some sad. Meanwhile, mass emails, some of them actually in green ink, frequently ask us to consider religiously inspired messages. “Booking a flight with Easyjet, …

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