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10 August 2013

Issue 2929

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Editor's picks

Not like us: Artificial minds we can't understand

Technology

Not like us: Artificial minds we can't understand

Features
Fight for the right to stem cells

Life

Fight for the right to stem cells

Features
Solar superflares: A new danger from the sun

Earth

Solar superflares: A new danger from the sun

Features
Frack on or frack off: Can shale gas save the planet?

Earth

Frack on or frack off: Can shale gas save the planet?

Features

Table of contents

News

After tweeted rape threats, Twitter promises change

Technology

After tweeted rape threats, Twitter promises change

Taking pride in fighting prejudice Editorial: " Technical tweaks won't stop online abuse " Twitter has turned nasty. Rape threats, death threats and bomb threats have been sent to high profile women in the UK over the past week. One of those who received rape threats was UK politician Stella Creasy . Creasy put herself …

News

Physics

Giant clouds of lead glimpsed on distant dwarf stars

News

Earth

Climate change may make civil wars much more common

News

Earth

Asteroid pinpointed as likely source of Russian meteor

News

Health

Cells that help you find your way identified in humans

News

Life

Uruguay vote moves the country towards legal cannabis

News

Life

Arabian flights: Early humans diverged in 150 years

News

Life

Zoologger: Quail whip up a lovely sperm meringue

News

Health

Maths quiz helps paralysed people talk with their eyes

News

Earth

Arctic ice grows darker and less reflective

News

Health

Genetic discovery links autism and schizophrenia

News

Earth

What's the beef? Cultured meat remains a distant dream

News

Health

Colombia first country to eliminate river blindness

News

Earth

Fukushima leaks will keep fisheries closed

News

Space

Astronaut twins could reveal genetics of space health

News

Health

Henrietta Lacks' genome to be open to all

News

60 Seconds

News

Technology

Ability to perceive minds of others emerges in robot

News

Life

Sense of smell has a genetic flavour

News

Technology

Keep tags on your stuff and never lose it again

News

Technology

Meshnet activists rebuilding the internet from scratch

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Health

Poor sleep makes food more appealing

News

Physics

Light makes crystals leap 1000 times their own length

News

Health

Tracking the viruses that cause the 'Hajj cough'

News

Life

Headbanging termite drummers sound the alarm

News

Space

Space station poised to launch open-source satellites

News

Life

Forget doggy paddle - apes prefer breaststroke

News

Technology

Robot face lets slime mould show its emotional side

News

Earth

Fracking could accelerate global warming

News

Opinion

Ban boxing – it's demeaning and dangerous

Health

Ban boxing – it's demeaning and dangerous

A sport whose sole aim is to cause brain damage to another person is not a "noble art". It has no place in a civilised society, says a leading neuroscientist

Opinion

Health

If it isn't life-threatening, don't call it cancer

Opinion

Earth

An unearthly answer to the lightning enigma

Opinion

Health

Whose stem cells are they anyway?

Opinion

Earth

The fracking debate needs more light, less heat

Opinion

Technology

Technical tweaks won't stop online abuse

Opinion

Aperture

Ballooning size of world's second-largest refugee camp

Earth

Ballooning size of world's second-largest refugee camp

(Image: Mandel Ngan/AP/Press Association Images) THIS is now Jordan's fourth-biggest city. In just one year, the population of Zaatari refugee camp has grown from almost nothing to more than 140,000 – and nearly all of the residents are refugees from neighbouring Syria. Since the uprising began in 2011, some 1.6 million Syrians have fled the …

Regulars

Features

Not like us: Artificial minds we can't understand

Technology

Not like us: Artificial minds we can't understand

We have created a completely new form of intelligence, though no human can fathom how it thinks and reasons

Features

Life

Fight for the right to stem cells

Features

Earth

Solar superflares: A new danger from the sun

Features

Earth

Frack on or frack off: Can shale gas save the planet?

Features

Culturelab

The making of Niels Bohr

Physics

The making of Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr motorcycling with his wife, Margrethe, in around 1930 (Image: Uhlenbeck Collection/American Institute Of Physics/Science Photo Library) Art's effect on science isn't always clear, shows Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom by Finn Aaserud and J. L. Heilbron NIELS BOHR was one of the most profound thinkers of the early quantum pioneers. He was the …

CultureLab

Physics

An elementary history lesson

CultureLab

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Enigma Number 1761

Clock work The clock in Simpson Mall has hour, minute and second hands. Little Esu climbs onto the hour hand at 12.01 pm, and stays on it until the minute and hour hands are aligned. At that instant, Esu jumps on to the minute hand and rides on it until the hour and minute hands …

Regulars

Regulars

Feedback: Pink quinine mystery solved

Feedback: Pink quinine mystery solved

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Pink quinine mystery solved MODERN information technology is a great boon – although Feedback sometimes suspects that its main function is settling pub arguments. We recently mentioned an extremely bored afternoon whiled away reading the UK Post Office Guide , …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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