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4 May 2013

Issue 2915

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Where melting ice means retreating seas

Earth

Where melting ice means retreating seas

Features
Hidden talent: What's your superpower?

Life

Hidden talent: What's your superpower?

Features
Turning Star Trek's medical tricorder into reality

Technology

Turning Star Trek's medical tricorder into reality

Features

Table of contents

News

Ice-bound hunter sees first hint of cosmic neutrinos

Space

Ice-bound hunter sees first hint of cosmic neutrinos

IceCube's vertical strings of optical sensors pick up on some strong neutrino-impact energy, later dubbed Ernie A pair of neutrinos detected in Antarctica may be the first of these ghostly particles seen coming from outside the solar system since 1987. If the finding is confirmed, it could lead to a new way of looking at …

News

Life

Stem-cell 'symphony' creates patterns in feathers

News

Health

Stress has unexpected health benefits – sometimes

News

Life

Zoologger: The rat with two faces

News

Life

Earliest Mayan monuments unearthed in Guatemala

News

Earth

Plants help slow warming – but there's a trade-off

News

Technology

Threatwatch: Did Syria use chemical weapons or not?

News

Earth

Prague gas explosion highlights ageing pipeline danger

News

Technology

Eye-tracking gadget knows just what you're longing for

News

Earth

Supervolcano eruptions may not be so deadly after all

News

Earth

Humans' indelible stamp on Earth clear 5000 years ago

News

Space

SpaceShipTwo goes supersonic on first powered flight

News

Health

Gene therapy to repair failing hearts starts trial

News

Earth

China leads in climate change's 'critical decade'

News

Health

Age-defying: Master key of lifespan found in brain

News

Space

Helium drought retires Herschel space telescope

News

Obama says kids need to buck up their ideas

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

Black hole binge could test general relativity

News

Technology

Quantum clones let hackers hide in background noise

News

Technology

Superconducting hose transmits magnetic field

News

Micro-ratchet spins pearls with perfect symmetry

News

Technology

Star-like cracks can reveal the speed of a bullet

News

Life

Lethal DNA tags could keep innocent people out of jail

News

Technology

Need a shot of creative juices? Call the crowd

News

Technology

Fast digital forensics sniff out accomplices

News

Space

Astronauts to get helping hand from soccer ball robots

News

Technology

Does online 'slacktivism' reduce charitable giving?

News

Technology

Ikea-bots build flat-pack furniture

News

Technology

AI card game knows how to bend the rules

News

Opinion

Why we are sitting ducks for China's bird flu

Health

Why we are sitting ducks for China's bird flu

If China's bird flu acquires the ability to spread between people, we don't have the drugs or vaccines to tackle a pandemic

Opinion

Going high-tech to keep the world's Muslims halal

Opinion

Life

Analogy: The vital talent that fuels our minds

Opinion

Earth

Bees need Europe's pesticide ban, whatever the UK says

Opinion

Health

The risk of a flu pandemic is very real

Opinion

Technology

Is there more to slacktivism than gesture politics?

Opinion

Life

To make your star quality real, you need a roadmap

Opinion

Analysis

Where has H7N9 bird flu come from?

Health

Where has H7N9 bird flu come from?

Bye-bye flu: recovering nicely Editorial: " The risk of a flu pandemic is very real " The new H7N9 bird flu strain continues to spread across China. Currently, more than 120 cases had been reported across 10 provinces, and 24 deaths. Yet no one knows where the virus started, which hampers efforts to contain it. …

News

Aperture

Falklands penguins return home through a sandstorm

Life

Falklands penguins return home through a sandstorm

(Image: Michael Lohmann/GDT) THE sand is still whipping through the air as the penguins come into view. The Gentoo penguins emerge from the haze, their red-orange beaks and peachy feet flaring against the dreary beach of Sea Lion Island in the Falklands. The birds are hurrying home after a long day feeding at sea. Penguins …

Regulars

Features

Where melting ice means retreating seas

Earth

Where melting ice means retreating seas

It sounds impossible but it’s true. The sea level around a melting ice cap will fall even as distant shores are inundated

Features

Life

Hidden talent: What's your superpower?

Features

Technology

Turning Star Trek's medical tricorder into reality

Features

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Enigma Number 1747

Mind your Ps and Qs I applied for a job and had two interviews. The two interviewers had to decide independently whether or not I was suitable. Only after both interviews were the two decisions announced and the approval of both was needed to get the job. Apparently the first interviewer approved one in every …

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Earth

A new apocalypse now: Vietnam's conservation tale

Books & Arts

Life

You don't need good mathematics to be a scientist

Books & Arts

Life

Brutal battles of animal sexes

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback: Banana slicer saves marriage

Feedback: Banana slicer saves marriage

Banana slicer saves marriage BACK in 2011 we noted the emerging art form of the Amazon customer review (29 January and 26 February 2011) . Certain products, we discovered, had garnered huge numbers of ironic customer reviews on Amazon: examples included "Tuscan Whole Milk", with 1242 reviews at that time, and "The Mountain Three Wolf …

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