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28 April 2012

Issue 2862

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Neutrinos: messengers from the underworld

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Neutrinos: messengers from the underworld

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When humans attack: The fallout of the shark slaughter

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When humans attack: The fallout of the shark slaughter

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Mindreader: Facebook of revelations

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Mindreader: Facebook of revelations

Features
The curse of Generation Me

Life

The curse of Generation Me

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Table of contents

News

Neutrino no-show deepens cosmic ray mystery

Space

Neutrino no-show deepens cosmic ray mystery

The IceCube telescope in the South Pole found no neutrinos The failure of ghostly subatomic messengers called neutrinos to show up at an Antarctic telescope has knocked down a major astrophysical theory involving some of the most dramatic explosions in the universe. "I would have preferred to have seen neutrinos," says the IceCube telescope's principal …

News

Life

Move over DNA: Six new molecules can carry genes

News

Space

Nearby dark-matter-free zone poses cosmic conundrum

News

Earth

Arctic methane leaks threaten climate

News

Life

Male bowerbirds grow a garden to attract a mate

News

Life

Leeches help track down endangered species

News

Health

Yes… yes… no? G spot finding fails to convince

News

Earth

Mexico puts climate change action into law

News

Mining asteroids could boost space exploration

News

Health

Give treatment earlier to slow spread of HIV

News

Hypersonic plane ditched after speed ripped skin away

News

Earth

Japan's last operational nuclear reactor to go offline

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

China is taking control of Asia's water tower

News

Technology

Self-bending light boomerangs could help surgeons

News

Health

A dusty home may influence a baby's gut

News

Life

Epigenetic changes linked with ageing

News

Health

Gut-microbe swap changes eating habits

News

Physics

Move over graphene, silicene is the new star material

News

Technology

Robot sensing and smartphones help blind navigate

News

Earth

Clean up the cloud: making data storage greener

News

Technology

Cyberspace keeps the stars shining brighter

News

Technology

Laser pointers make super-fast 'optical Wi-Fi'

News

Space

Hunt is on for pieces of van-sized California meteor

News

Technology

'Bullet time' to stop cyber attacks on power grids

News

Opinion

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Earth

Waterway robbery

FRESH water is one of our most vital resources, but some nations have much greater access to it than others. That is partly down to the geographical good fortune of being sited upstream on a great river. But it is also because there is no functioning international treaty governing the sharing of transboundary waterways. In …

Opinion

Life

Awesome animals need protection too

Opinion

Are we selling our souls to social networks?

Opinion

Health

Guerilla enlightenment: Defending science online

Opinion

Health

Countering the drug industry's marketing machine

Opinion

Life

Is it a bird? Is it a dinosaur?

Opinion

Aperture

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Ancient burial chamber revealed

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science EVEN 5000 years ago, Britons were an understated bunch. About 250 years before work began on Egypt's ostentatious Great Pyramid of Giza, the early settlers of Orkney, off the north coast of …

Regulars

Features

Neutrinos: messengers from the underworld

Earth

Neutrinos: messengers from the underworld

The elusive particles could reveal Earth's origins and inner workings – if only we can catch enough of them

Features

Earth

When humans attack: The fallout of the shark slaughter

Features

Technology

Mindreader: Facebook of revelations

Features

Life

The curse of Generation Me

Features

Culturelab

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Street wise: Giant brains go on outdoor display

Neuroanatomist and stroke survivor Jill Bolte Taylor tells Kat Austen why she hopes her display of cerebral artwork will raise awareness of the brain

CultureLab

The secrets of your body clock

CultureLab

A species of picky eaters

CultureLab

Rock of all ages: From stardust to living planet

CultureLab

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Clues to aspirin's anti-cancer effects revealed

Health

Clues to aspirin's anti-cancer effects revealed

Aspirin activates AMPK, an enzyme involved in metabolism, which plays a role in cancer One of the world's oldest medicines may hold the secret to a very contemporary problem: preventing cancer. Exactly why salicylate shows such potential as an anti-cancer treatment remains unclear, but a new study in mice offers clues. Salicylate, found in willow …

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Enigma Number 1695

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Regulars

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Feedback: What's that in Brooklyn bridges?

What's that in Brooklyn bridges? SEVERAL readers have commented on a phrase used in various publications to describe James Cameron's journey into the Mariana trench. Robert Moore, for example, saw the phrase in an article in USA Today by Seth Borenstein of Associated Press, which said of the dive: "It's a mission to the deepest …

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