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27 April 2013

Issue 2914

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Deep life: Strange creatures living far below our feet

Life

Deep life: Strange creatures living far below our feet

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Stealth drugs: Panacea pills make targeted kills

Health

Stealth drugs: Panacea pills make targeted kills

Features
The early turd: Our history is written in poo

Life

The early turd: Our history is written in poo

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Heart on fire: Our galaxy's black hole is set to blow

Space

Heart on fire: Our galaxy's black hole is set to blow

Features

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News

Emerging consciousness glimpsed in babies

Life

Emerging consciousness glimpsed in babies

Conscious awareness is an all-or-nothing brain response, and now we have seen how it develops in babies A glimpse of consciousness emerging in the brains of babies has been recorded for the first time. Insights gleaned from the work may aid the monitoring of babies under anaesthesia , and give a better understanding of awareness …

News

Earth

Antarctic freeze paved the way for baleen whales

News

Space

Astrophile: Void galaxy trio aligns with dark filament

News

Life

Zoologger: Picture-winged fly quenches thirst on sperm

News

Earth

Can big quakes trigger others far away?

News

Space

Antares rocket launch heats up private space race

News

Earth

Investigators seek trigger for Texas blast

News

Health

Radioactive bacteria nuke pancreatic cancer in mice

News

Life

Nano-sized protractor measures molecule movement

News

Earth

Sichuan quake highlights threat to China's dams

News

Space

'Big Brother' applicants wanted for one-way Mars trip

News

Technology

Nowhere to hide: The next manhunt will be crowdsourced

News

Earth

'Carbon bubble' threatens climate negotiations

News

Technology

Chemical weapons inspectors ready to enter Syria

News

Life

Three plus green equals four for synaesthetes

News

Earth

Bacteria churn out first ever petrol-like biofuel

News

Life

Not just athletes – now horses are on steroids

News

Life

Russian space zoo tests to boost astronaut performance

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Water worlds bring us closer to finding Earth's twin

News

Brazilian twist to tale of the first Americans

News

Earth

Rocks re-emerge after 2.5 billion years in mantle

News

Physics

Quantum effects get a weirdness scale

News

Earth

Ocean pump keeps northern hemisphere hot

News

Technology

Voice-based web access helps illiterate get online

News

Life

E-tattoo monitors brainwaves and baby bump

News

Technology

Happiness tracking software could gauge mood in photos

News

Technology

Kinect plus projector makes anything a remote control

News

Technology

Optical tweezers clear blocked blood vessels

News

Opinion

Psychiatry needs its Higgs boson moment

Health

Psychiatry needs its Higgs boson moment

Fighting the scourge of mental illness means giving psychiatry the kind of boost that physics got from the Higgs hunt

Opinion

Life

Hunting wildlife's illegal traders online

Opinion

Health

Living without smell or flavour

Opinion

Technology

Citizen cops: Don't write them off just yet

Opinion

Health

Losing your sense of smell. How bad can it be?

Opinion

Analysis

Social media made Boston's bad news bad for health too

Health

Social media made Boston's bad news bad for health too

Fear factor: caught up in the house-to-house search for the Boston bombers THE terrorist attack and subsequent manhunt across Boston last week left four innocent people dead and more than 170 injured. But the stress caused by these tragic events could adversely affect the health of a much wider population. The citywide shutdown, the unprecedented …

News

Technology

Smart dust computers are no bigger than a snowflake

News

Aperture

Making art from stripped-down dead animals

Life

Making art from stripped-down dead animals

(Images: Iori Tomita/2013 New World Transparent Specimens) "SOMETIMES I go to pet shops and ask whether I can receive dead creatures." And then 29-year-old Iori Tomita , from Yokohama, Japan, does incredible things to them. Taking up to a year, he gently rinses the animals with enzymes that break down soft tissue and protein. What …

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Features

Deep life: Strange creatures living far below our feet

Life

Deep life: Strange creatures living far below our feet

From Methuselah microbes to animals that eschew oxygen, strange underground organisms are redefining what it means to be alive – and where it will end

Features

Health

Stealth drugs: Panacea pills make targeted kills

Features

Life

The early turd: Our history is written in poo

Features

Space

Heart on fire: Our galaxy's black hole is set to blow

Features

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Enigma Number 1746

Square in common Harry and Tom each chose two four-digit perfect squares (with no leading zero) which used eight different digits. Each of them told me which two digits were not used in his squares, and that information enabled me to deduce with certainty which two squares each of them had chosen. They had not …

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Bringing major corporations to book for their crimes

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What outsiders can teach us about creativity

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Feedback: Read before you ride

Feedback: Read before you ride

Read before you ride WISHING to make use of a Transport for London (TfL) cycle hire docking station, Michael Berkson discovered that he was required to accept on-screen both the privacy rules and the terms and conditions before cycling away. "Fair enough," he comments, "except that the terms and conditions are 39 pages. I am …

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