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3 August 2013

Issue 2928

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Editor's picks

Food vs you: How your dinner controls you

Health

Food vs you: How your dinner controls you

Features
Quantum weirdness: The battle for the basis of reality

Physics

Quantum weirdness: The battle for the basis of reality

Features
Hot stuff: Solving volcanic mysteries in the lava lab

Earth

Hot stuff: Solving volcanic mysteries in the lava lab

Features
Bird senses: Vision

Bird senses: Vision

Features
Bird senses: Touch and hearing

Bird senses: Touch and hearing

Features
Bird senses: Taste, smell and magnetism

Bird senses: Taste, smell and magnetism

Features
Bird senses: What next?

Bird senses: What next?

Features

Table of contents

News

Schrödinger's 'kittens' made in the lab from photons

Physics

Schrödinger's 'kittens' made in the lab from photons

A quantum object that meows? Erwin Schrödinger dreamed up the famous thought experiment about a cat that is both dead and alive to demonstrate the absurdity of applying quantum mechanics to ordinary objects. Now two teams have made the closest thing yet to a Schrödinger's cat in the lab – by connecting hundreds of millions …

News

Technology

Feather-light sensors are as comfy as a second skin

News

Health

Full moon could be to blame for a poor night's sleep

News

Life

Friction signals new role for superstar planet-hunter

News

Health

High-tech tattoo can stop athletes hitting the wall

News

Earth

Leaked IPCC report doesn't let us off the hook

News

Earth

Clouds save Earth from runaway greenhouse hell

News

Health

Mummified Inca child sacrifice gives up her secrets

News

Space

NASA rushes spacesuit repair kit to space station

News

Life

Shiny new teeth concocted from mice and human urine

News

Life

Crocodiles may need their fruity five-a-day

News

Life

Monogamy evolved to keep baby-killers away

News

Health

Natural chemical boosts organ regeneration

News

Health

Teen jabs to prevent cervical cancer stall in US

News

Technology

Morphing molecule may shine in high-resolution screens

News

Technology

Track change at heart of Spain train crash inquiry

News

Earth

Out-of-control oil leaks at Canadian tar sands site

News

Health

Was thalidomide cause of Brazil baby birth defects?

News

60 Seconds

News

Technology

US soldiers used in human experiments lose legal case

News

Technology

Gold-diamond duo takes temperature of single cell

News

Health

More girls born in Japan after quake skews sex ratio

News

Earth

Garden of Eden to become Iraqi national park

News

Technology

Steer me sideways: icebreaker attacks pack ice side-on

News

Technology

Hive-mind solves tasks using Google Glass ant game

News

Technology

Use a bus stop touchscreen to kill time – and help out

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Become the star of your own personalised manga comic

News

Space

Astrophile: How Saturn's tiger moon got its stripes

News

Technology

Online gamers harnessed to help disaster response

News

Health

Food stamps could help US trim obesity epidemic

News

Opinion

Apocalypse soon, if we keep on cutting science

Apocalypse soon, if we keep on cutting science

Radical budget cuts are threatening not just US science, but its way of life

Opinion

Health

Making medicine as ubiquitous as Coke in rural Africa

Opinion

Health

Placebos at large: the power of society's symbols

Opinion

Health

Beyond the call of duty

Opinion

Technology

Look to the past for the fuel of the future

Opinion

Analysis

Grab ammonia out of thin air for fuel of the future

Technology

Grab ammonia out of thin air for fuel of the future

Not a tiger in the tank… Editorial: " Look to the past for the fuel of the future " AS VITAL chemicals go, it's hard to beat ammonia. Industrial production began in the early 20th century, and it played a key role in the second world war and in two Nobel prizes. It brought about …

News

Aperture

'And how are we feeling today?' 'Squawk! Kiy-ee!'

Life

'And how are we feeling today?' 'Squawk! Kiy-ee!'

(Image: Lars Tunbjork/Agence Vu) ON SOME airlines in the Middle East, falcons are permitted in the main cabin of the aeroplane. They perch on the armrest and their owners pay heavily for the privilege. In a region where falconry permeates so deeply into public life, it is perhaps not a surprise that there is a …

Regulars

Features

Quantum weirdness: The battle for the basis of reality

Physics

Quantum weirdness: The battle for the basis of reality

Reality, relativity, causality or free will? Take quantum theory at face value and at least one of them is an illusion – but which, asks Michael Brooks

Features

Health

Food vs you: How your dinner controls you

Features

Earth

Hot stuff: Solving volcanic mysteries in the lava lab

Features

Bird senses: Vision

Features

Bird senses: Touch and hearing

Features

Bird senses: Taste, smell and magnetism

Features

Bird senses: What next?

Features

Culturelab

Art installation brings you face to face with fracking

Earth

Art installation brings you face to face with fracking

An assault on the senses Fracking hell or fracking bliss? Fracking Futures , an art installation at Liverpool's FACT gallery , gives visitors a chance to decide what they think of this controversial gas extraction technique. Its miniaturised fracking "rig" simulates the sounds, tremors and flames that a real one might produce, and appears to …

CultureLab

Life

Pterosaurs deserve a place in the sun

CultureLab

More

Postdoc salaries hold strong Down Under

Postdoc salaries hold strong Down Under

As research funding takes a hit the world over, Australian postdocs are weathering the economic storm

Careers

Enigma Number 1760

Regulars

Regulars

Feedback: But can the phone phone?

Feedback: But can the phone phone?

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more But can the phone phone? CHINESE electronics giant Huawei has ambitions to become the world's top smartphone maker. In June it launched the Ascend P6, touted as the slimmest smartphone ever, in London. A colleague who went along tells us …

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Regulars

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