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28 July 2012

Issue 2875

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Only you: 11 things that make each of us a one-off

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Only you: 11 things that make each of us a one-off

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Ghosts in the atom: Unmasking the quantum phantom

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Ghosts in the atom: Unmasking the quantum phantom

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Table of contents

News

Neanderthal dental tartar reveals evidence of medicine

Life

Neanderthal dental tartar reveals evidence of medicine

Neanderthal remains found in El Sidrón Cave Neanderthal remains found in El Sidrón Cave Microscopic starch granules embedded in Neanderthal teeth Researchers working in El Sidrón Cave The tartar on Neanderthal teeth has a tale to tell. The chemicals and food fragments it contains reveal that our close relations huddled around fires to cook and …

News

Earth

No charges to be brought over climategate hack

News

Health

Sperm sequencing could help fight infertility

News

Space

Chemical bond discovered that only exists in space

News

Life

Monkey manoeuvres reveal how the brain spurs actions

News

Earth

Sumatran zig-zag earthquake answers seismology puzzle

News

Technology

Chirp lets you send a weblink with a tune

News

Life

Heart muscle helps cyborg jellyfish come alive

News

Earth

River diversion created new land in Mississippi Delta

News

Earth

Heatwave transformed Australian marine life

News

Health

Three-in-one drug wipes the floor with TB

News

Space

Kepler glitch may lower odds of finding Earth's twin

News

Health

Europe's first gene therapy approval anticipated

News

Health

Pakistan polio drive hit by murder of health worker

News

Tracking the most popular words in written English

News

Health

HIV pioneers unite to stamp out the virus for good

News

Earth

Human error blamed for Fukushima meltdown

News

60 Seconds

News

Technology

Chemical internet discovers new ways to make drugs

News

Earth

Fungus-powered superplants may beat the heat

News

Earth

Hardy polar bears have survived past global warming

News

Physics

Higgs-spotting is much easier in Flatland

News

Space

Tidy close-match star system holds planetary pinball clue

News

Health

Fat lab lock-in: Can spicy pills help you lose weight?

News

Health

Liposuction used to create blood vessels for bypass

News

Life

Chimps catch yawns from dominant males

News

Space

Flaring black holes may solve cosmic ray puzzle

News

Earth

Robots move into the mining business

News

Technology

Why Japan finally fell for Facebook

News

Technology

Syria acknowledges its chemical weapons

News

Opinion

Man sitting on pavement holding a cardboard sign with downcast head

Humans

Inequality: Why egalitarian societies died out

Sharing and cooperation was the rule for millennia – but the very instability of unequal societies caused them to spread

Opinion

Earth

'We need to maintain a human presence under the sea'

Opinion

Inequality: Who are the 1 per cent?

Opinion

Life

Inequality: The more money, the merrier?

Opinion

Health

Inequality: Of wealth and health

Opinion

An appeal for fairness in society

Opinion

Technology

The battle of freedom and control in a networked world

Opinion

Physics

Inequality: The physics of our finances

Opinion

Earth

Inequality: Why it helps the planet

Opinion

Aperture

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Gaia camera gears up to photograph the heavens

See more: to see the image this article refers to, see " Gaia spacecraft to be flung 1.5 million km from Earth " VISIT the semiconductor clean room at imaging sensor company e2v in Chelmsford, UK, and a full body bunny suit is mandatory. When I visited the lab back in 2005, the garment prevented …

Regulars

Features

Ghosts in the atom: Unmasking the quantum phantom

Physics

Ghosts in the atom: Unmasking the quantum phantom

The wave function of quantum theory has always been accepted as an abstract mathematical device – but could this cipher actually be real?

Features

Life

Only you: 11 things that make each of us a one-off

Features

Culturelab

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High-tech clothes let fashionistas bare all

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

CultureLab

Should we just let the Mississippi flood?

CultureLab

Tales of the first seafarers

CultureLab

The simple cells that came before everything

CultureLab

More

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Enigma Number 1708

Pentagon From a point on one side of a rectangular sheet of paper I drew two straight lines, one of them to a point on one adjacent side and the other to a point on the other adjacent side. My sheet of paper was now divided into two triangles and a pentagon. The lengths of …

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Regulars

Feedback: Isaac Newton, action and reaction hero

Feedback: Isaac Newton, action and reaction hero

Isaac Newton, action and reaction hero FEEDBACK feels the need to warn – or should that be "inform"? – you of plans by director Rob Cohen to write and direct a movie about the crime-stopping head of the Royal Mint three centuries ago, one Isaac Newton. Famed for such classics as The Fast and the …

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