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17 August 2013

Issue 2930

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Editor's picks

Infinity's end: Time to ditch the never-ending story?

Space

Infinity's end: Time to ditch the never-ending story?

Features
Parallel sparking: Many chips make light work

Technology

Parallel sparking: Many chips make light work

Features
Booster shots: The accidental advantages of vaccines

Health

Booster shots: The accidental advantages of vaccines

Features
Newmatics: antique tubular messaging returns

Technology

Newmatics: antique tubular messaging returns

Features

Table of contents

News

Super-accurate atomic clock doubles up as quantum sim

Physics

Super-accurate atomic clock doubles up as quantum sim

The most accurate timekeepers in the world just got a new use. It turns out they can double up as simulators to help us better understand the deepest mysteries of the quantum world. Many problems in physics are difficult to untangle because their underlying behaviour, governed by the intricate rules of quantum mechanics, is too …

News

Health

Camels charged with passing MERS virus to people

News

Life

Zoologger: How to persuade a giant panda to have sex

News

Earth

Ecosystems still feel the pain of ancient extinctions

News

Life

First bone tools suggest Neanderthals taught us skills

News

Space

Mars chefs ready to emerge from simulated mission

News

Physics

Play with antimatter from the comfort of your home

News

Technology

Hyperloop: Musk unveils high-speed pneumatic transport

News

Health

Autism may make brains of women but not men more male

News

Health

Genetic switch to guard against escaped 'superviruses'

News

Childhood obesity declines in US but rises in UK

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

War zones in A&E: The hospitals solving the crisis

News

Space

Milky Way galaxy is even lighter than thought

News

Health

Head hurts? Zap the wonder nerve in your neck

News

Life

World's oldest temple built to worship the dog star

News

Life

Green turtle youngsters roam far and wide

News

Earth

Earth's central heating is thinning Greenland

News

First images of DNA mix-ups linked to cancer

News

Technology

Micropayments now ready to slash price of online news

News

Technology

Beyond 3D printing: The all-in-one factory

News

Technology

Watch virtual people flee to plan escape routes

News

Technology

Foursquare check-ins tell stores where to set up shop

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Radar warns drivers when there's a moose on the loose

News

Space

Giant magnet makes Milky Way black hole a slow eater

News

Earth

Ancient climate change picked the crops we eat today

News

Space

Oddball space neutrinos may be spawn of dark matter

News

Opinion

Stand up for Turkey's jailed doctors and scientists

Stand up for Turkey's jailed doctors and scientists

Academics and medics being unjustly jailed in Turkey and elsewhere need the support of their peers around the world

Opinion

Space

Meet the NASA scientist devising a starship warp drive

Opinion

Physics

Time to turn cause and effect on their heads

Opinion

Health

Silence isn't golden when it comes to vaccines

Opinion

Technology

Breathing new life into the pneumatic dream

Opinion

Analysis

Sunbots aim to slash the cost of solar arrays

Earth

Sunbots aim to slash the cost of solar arrays

A booming solar industry could use a robotic helping hand if it's to compete with fossil fuels as a global energy provider

News

Aperture

Toxic sludge from polluted rivers turned into art

Earth

Toxic sludge from polluted rivers turned into art

(Image: John Sabraw/www.johnsabraw.com) NOT everything to do with pollution is ugly. This abstract art was created using paints made from the metallic run-off collected from polluted rivers in Ohio. The artwork is a collaboration between environmental engineer Guy Riefler and artist John Sabraw , both of Ohio University in Athens. When water from abandoned coal …

Regulars

Features

Infinity's end: Time to ditch the never-ending story?

Space

Infinity's end: Time to ditch the never-ending story?

We might have more success in explaining how the universe works if we abandoned the idea that some things go on for ever

Features

Technology

Newmatics: antique tubular messaging returns

Features

Technology

Parallel sparking: Many chips make light work

Features

Health

Booster shots: The accidental advantages of vaccines

Features

Culturelab

The future of fabrication is a tough picture to paint

Technology

The future of fabrication is a tough picture to paint

Reports of the future's arrival have been greatly exaggerated (Image: Alamy) The Future is Here: A New Industrial Revolution , Design Museum, London, until 3 November. An exhibition on manufacturing's future and an evangelical book on nanotechnology highlight that the directions we'll take are very much up for grabs See more in our gallery: " …

CultureLab

Technology

Nudges towards the online world beyond Facebook

CultureLab

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Enigma Number 1762

Quo Vadis?II On the grid shown on the right, place the remaining 11 cards on the unshaded squares so that when you move from card to card the number of squares in the direction shown on each, you complete a circuit visiting all 12 unshaded squares once. What are the numbers on the cards, from …

Regulars

Earth

South Korea bakes in extreme heat amid power cuts

Uncategorized

Regulars

Feedback: The science of not knowing

Feedback: The science of not knowing

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more The science of not knowing FEEDBACK is always pleased to extend, enlarge and engorge our vocabulary so we are particularly pleased to discover a paper by Rasmus Benestad and colleagues in Earth Systems Dynamics entitled "Agnotology: learning from mistakes" ( …

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