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8 June 2013

Issue 2920

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Mind readers: How we get inside other people's heads

Life

Mind readers: How we get inside other people's heads

Features
Binary babel: Fixing computing's coding bugs

Technology

Binary babel: Fixing computing's coding bugs

Features
Goodbye, Goldilocks? The untimely end of life on Earth

Life

Goodbye, Goldilocks? The untimely end of life on Earth

Features
Dawn of the water eaters: How Earth got its oxygen

Life

Dawn of the water eaters: How Earth got its oxygen

Features

Table of contents

News

Avatar helps schizophrenics stand up to voices in head

Technology

Avatar helps schizophrenics stand up to voices in head

Putting a face to the voice Putting a digital face to the abusive voices in their head could help people with schizophrenia. Results of a preliminary trial, announced today at the Wellcome Trust in London, demonstrated how people with schizophrenia could overcome their auditory hallucinations by conversing with an avatar representation of the voice in …

News

Life

Starfish sacrifice arms to beat the heat

News

Space

Asteroid miners unveil first crowdfunded space scope

News

Space

Return trips to Mars pose unacceptable radiation risk

News

Space

Fast-approaching asteroid has its own small moon

News

Life

Zoologger: The sea cow with super-sensing hairs

News

Physics

How to test Weinstein's provocative theory of everything

News

Health

Nasal spray could buy time in flu pandemic

News

Earth

Monsanto modified wheat mystery deepens in Oregon

News

Life

Turtle conservationist murdered in Costa Rica

News

Technology

Mind-controlled exoskeleton lets paralysed people walk

News

Earth

Mon dieu! French wine is from Italy

News

Earth

Battle Los Angeles: the fight to stop urban fracking

News

Health

Antibody wakes up T-cells to make cancer vanish

News

Technology

Fukushima radiation caused little damage to health

News

Earth

Central Europe floods portend a wet future

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Our earliest primate cousin discovered in Asia

News

Life

Hungry algae may explain how plants became green

News

Earth

Egypt's city of bean counters suffered flash floods

News

Earth

Carbon emissions helping to make Earth greener

News

Physics

Time cloak hides events by splicing them movie style

News

Life

Finding the players in the symphony of IQ genes

News

Space

Earliest galaxies were powered by 'obese' black holes

News

Earth

Old smartphones called in to save Indonesian forests

News

Technology

Photo of your face is all it takes to predict your BMI

News

Technology

Remembering objects lets computers learn like a child

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Graffiti codes let you surf with a wave of your phone

News

Space

Elderly suns rip their closest planets to shreds

News

Opinion

Fear of unemployment is rational, despite low figures

Fear of unemployment is rational, despite low figures

The British unemployment rate is better than expected – but persistent worries about job loss are understandable

Opinion

Life

'We will be amazed by the diversity of exoplanets'

Opinion

Life

A biological basis for free will

Opinion

Technology

Time we all learned how to program the world we want

Opinion

Earth

Is Earth's orbit scarily close to Venus's sultry zone?

Opinion

Analysis

Google Maps change to suit what you like best

Technology

Google Maps change to suit what you like best

Google will soon use social media to tailor the map it shows you. A useful addition in many respects, but will it risk narrowing your view of the world?

News

Aperture

Sunflower mirrors power California's desert farm

Earth

Sunflower mirrors power California's desert farm

(Image: Jamey Stillings ) Update, 13 February 2014 Ivanpah – the world's largest solar power plant – today started delivering power to the California grid IT TAKES a couple of seconds to work out what's going on in this photo. You're looking at a pair of heliostat mirrors – sunflower-like reflectors that turn to track …

Regulars

Features

Mind readers: How we get inside other people's heads

Life

Mind readers: How we get inside other people's heads

Humans have an impressive ability to take on other viewpoints – it's crucial for a social species like ours. So why are some of us better at it than others?

Features

Technology

Binary babel: Fixing computing's coding bugs

Features

Life

Goodbye, Goldilocks? The untimely end of life on Earth

Features

Life

Dawn of the water eaters: How Earth got its oxygen

Features

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Enigma Number 1752

Pentagon of squares I have drawn a circle, marked five points around its circumference, and joined each to the next by a straight line in order to make a pentagon. It turns out that the centre of the circle is outside this pentagon. I have then measured, in degrees, the five interior angles of the …

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Earth

How the cold war spawned the environmental movement

Books & Arts

Life

What gives the human mind its edge?

Books & Arts

Women in science: How can we plug the leaking pipeline?

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: Weight in dollars squared

Feedback: Weight in dollars squared

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Weight in dollars squared PROGRAMMERS at a Famous Web Search Engine are forever trying to find new ways to be helpful – and to keep us coming back. Clive Jones was recently looking up exchange rates between the British pound …

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