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25 May 2013

Issue 2918

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Old schooled: You never stop learning like a child

Life

Old schooled: You never stop learning like a child

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South Pole scopes: Witnessing the universe's birth

Space

South Pole scopes: Witnessing the universe's birth

Features
Hands up! Do you speak digital body language?

Technology

Hands up! Do you speak digital body language?

Features
To green the deserts, just add... seawater?

Earth

To green the deserts, just add... seawater?

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Table of contents

News

Malaria bug may give mosquitoes a super sense of smell

Life

Malaria bug may give mosquitoes a super sense of smell

Malaria may turn them on to us even more Malaria parasites give mosquitoes a keener sense of smell, it seems. A small-scale study in the lab finds that mosquitoes infected by the parasite are three times as likely as uninfected mosquitoes to respond to human odours. If the same results are seen in malaria-carrying mosquitoes …

News

Earth

Climate change brings disease threat for polar bears

News

Technology

Google and NASA team up to use quantum computer

News

Life

New memories filmed in action for first time

News

Technology

Lifelogger reveals the day's emotional highs and lows

News

Life

Time-lapse spots faulty embryos before IVF

News

Health

Zap the brain with electricity to speed up mental maths

News

Technology

Ghostly pictures made in 3D – minus the camera

News

Health

Suicidal behaviour is a disease, psychiatrists argue

News

Health

Mental disorders affect 1 in 5 US children each year

News

Technology

'Self-aiming' rifle turns novices into expert snipers

News

Life

Why penguins dumped flight for flippers

News

Health

B vitamins may slow the advance of Alzheimer's

News

Earth

Timing made Oklahoma tornado toll worse

News

Earth

Climate change will push up New York's heatwave deaths

News

Health

As MERS spreads, frustration at lack of info grows

News

Technology

Play your way to work with interactive games

News

Earth

Swarm of drones to give early warning of flash floods

News

Technology

Google Glass apps show off what headset can really do

News

Earth

Earth's tides are shoving the moon away faster

News

Life

Early weaning suggests Neanderthals matured faster

News

Life

String theory may limit space brain threat

News

Earth

A second chance to save the climate

News

Life

Drake equation for alien life gets an upgrade

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Bees start to buck trend of decline in UK wildlife

News

Opinion

Sea level rise: Drowning in numbers

Earth

Sea level rise: Drowning in numbers

We urgently need to know how far and how fast the sea will rise, but the latest attempt to put figures on it is dangerously misleading

Opinion

Earth

We've reached a troubling carbon dioxide milestone

Opinion

Space

It's time to start mining the moon

Opinion

Technology

Like it or not, this is the age of ubiquitous computing

Opinion

Long may science continue to inspire poetry

Opinion

Analysis

Pioneering wave power farm renews green energy hope

Technology

Pioneering wave power farm renews green energy hope

After a series of false dawns, the world's first commercial wave farm is to open soon. Will this be a fresh start for the technology?

News

Aperture

Blue-eyed tiger cub is conservation's cry for help

Life

Blue-eyed tiger cub is conservation's cry for help

(Image: James Morgan/WWF-Canon) "LIFE. That's what's in this picture that's missing in pictures of ivory, or poached animals," says photographer James Morgan. This blue-eyed tiger cub changed the focus of Morgan's photography when he stumbled across a tiger rescue in Bangkok, Thailand. This cub and 15 others were found hidden in a fruit crate behind …

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Old schooled: You never stop learning like a child

Life

Old schooled: You never stop learning like a child

The adult brain is far more malleable that we thought, and so learning can be child's play if you know how.

Features

Space

South Pole scopes: Witnessing the universe's birth

Features

Technology

Hands up! Do you speak digital body language?

Features

Earth

To green the deserts, just add... seawater?

Features

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Enigma Number 1750

Navigating the grid Using the number grid shown (A) it is possible to generate nine-digit numbers in the following way: Start on any square and then move horizontally, vertically or diagonally to an adjacent square that hasn't already been visited. Repeat until all nine squares have been visited. For example, the path shown in diagram …

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How nature writing can make us care

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Feedback: Chill out with a drop of oxygen

Feedback: Chill out with a drop of oxygen

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Chill with a drop of oxygen WOODLAND Park, Colorado, is at an elevation of 2580 metres. Gary Branum told us this a while ago in a message that promptly got lost in our piling system but has now resurfaced. "So …

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