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24 August 2013

Issue 2931

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Health myths: Drink eight glasses of water per day

Health

Health myths: Drink eight glasses of water per day

Features
Health myths: Sugar makes children hyperactive

Health

Health myths: Sugar makes children hyperactive

Features
Health myths: Our bodies can and should be 'detoxed'

Earth

Health myths: Our bodies can and should be 'detoxed'

Features
Health myths: Antioxidant pills help you live longer

Health

Health myths: Antioxidant pills help you live longer

Features
Health myths: Being a bit overweight shortens life

Health

Health myths: Being a bit overweight shortens life

Features
Health myths: We should live and eat like cavemen

Life

Health myths: We should live and eat like cavemen

Features
Brown dwarfs: From zeroes to astronomical heroes

Space

Brown dwarfs: From zeroes to astronomical heroes

Features
Wiped out: The race to save our video heritage

Technology

Wiped out: The race to save our video heritage

Features
How to train a canine conservationist

Life

How to train a canine conservationist

Features

Table of contents

News

Mouse heart beats again thanks to human stem cells

Health

Mouse heart beats again thanks to human stem cells

Video: Mouse heart beats again with human stem cells Beating again A newly beating heart is part-mouse, part-human. For the first time, a mouse heart has been made to pulse again by stripping it of its own cells and rebuilding it with human ones (see video above). To create the hybrid heart, Lei Yang at …

News

Space

Dark energy could be the offspring of the Higgs boson

News

Space

Official planet namer listens to voice of the people

News

Life

Dangerous biofilm bacteria evolve to be easy to treat

News

Life

Zoologger: The rat that defies powerful carcinogens

News

Space

NASA's superstar planet-hunter can't be saved

News

Health

Brain scans could lead to consciousness 'gold standard'

News

Space

Astrophile: Elderly couple kicked out of the galaxy

News

Space

Galactic zoo took shape near the dawn of the universe

News

Health

States lead the US toward a new era in its war on drugs

News

Earth

Fracking operations triggered 100 quakes in a year

News

Earth

Gravity map reveals Earth's extremes

News

Health

Suicide risk could show up in a blood test

News

Earth

Secret clean-up secures weapons-grade plutonium dump

News

Life

Birds are aware of speed limits on roads

News

Health

China calls an end to harvesting organs from prisoners

News

Earth

How an ocean went into hiding in Australia

News

Life

Germany first EU country to assign third gender

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

Fresh interstellar travel plans inspire tech spin-offs

News

Life

Gene clues may explain why Brandt's bat lives so long

News

Life

Mind-altering drug could offer life free of heroin

News

Technology

Drones tag and track quarry using nanoparticle sprays

News

Technology

AI systems switch your energy bills to save you money

News

Technology

Basketball sleeve knows you've hit the perfect shot

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Listen to the music of the drones to forecast weather

News

Life

Early South Americans conquered the Atacama desert

News

Life

India plans to subsidise food for 800 million

News

Opinion

State of innovation: Busting the private-sector myth

Technology

State of innovation: Busting the private-sector myth

Forget Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. It is government that should be credited for backing wealth-creating technology

Opinion

Space

Can we make a national heritage site on the moon?

Opinion

Life

I could have sworn… Why you can't trust your memory

Opinion

Space

We should all be able to name objects in space

Opinion

Technology

Smashing up computers won't stop spying investigation

Opinion

Life

Can it be ethical to implant false memories?

Opinion

Analysis

Twitter hashtags predict rising tension in Egypt

Technology

Twitter hashtags predict rising tension in Egypt

Monitoring the rising polarisation between supporters of different parties on Twitter could tell us when violence is about to erupt

News

Aperture

Fish need no refrigeration in Earth's coldest city

Earth

Fish need no refrigeration in Earth's coldest city

(Image: Steeve Iuncker/Agence VU) NO REFRIGERATORS needed here. A fish market, and freezing fog that the sun struggles to pierce, bear witness to the ferocious chills of Yakutsk, Siberia's largest city – and the world's coldest. In January, when Swiss photographer Steeve Iuncker arrived in the Russian city, population 270,000, the temperature was -48 °C. …

Regulars

Features

Health myths: Drink eight glasses of water per day

Health

Health myths: Drink eight glasses of water per day

Too much of a good thing? It's the myth that just won't go away. Almost everyone thinks they don't drink enough water, but the idea that we all should drink lots of it – eight glasses per day – is based on no scientific data whatsoever. No one really knows where the eight-glasses idea comes …

Features

Health

Health myths: Sugar makes children hyperactive

Features

Earth

Health myths: Our bodies can and should be 'detoxed'

Features

Health

Health myths: Antioxidant pills help you live longer

Features

Health

Health myths: Being a bit overweight shortens life

Features

Life

Health myths: We should live and eat like cavemen

Features

Space

Brown dwarfs: From zeroes to astronomical heroes

Features

Technology

Wiped out: The race to save our video heritage

Features

Life

How to train a canine conservationist

Features

Culturelab

Exploring our love/hate relationship with Gaia

Earth

Exploring our love/hate relationship with Gaia

An Alaskan river system: easy to imagine Earth as being alive (Image: Paul Andrew Lawrence) Why did the public love James Lovelock's Gaia theory so much while scientists hated it? The Gaia Hypothesis by Michael Ruse gets to the heart of the question SOME four decades ago, when James Lovelock first suggested that Earth was …

CultureLab

Technology

Virtual reality resurrects a defunct exhibition

CultureLab

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Enigma Number 1763

Clever spells Eve said to me that she had in mind an even three-figure number that was divisible by 3. She also told me that she had spelled out the number in words and that she had counted the number of letters used. Knowing the number of letters would enable me to work out her …

Regulars

Tweet success: How to boost your online impact

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: Ghost in the latrine

Feedback: Ghost in the latrine

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Ghost in the latrine IS THE "Internet of Things" – the computerisation of our homes heralded by futurists – really such a good idea? What happens when essential household appliances are online and vulnerable to hackers? Imagine the consequences if …

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