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21 September 2013

Issue 2935

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Thoughts: The inside story

Life

Thoughts: The inside story

Features
Mind games: From Ancient Greece to Schrödinger's cat

Life

Mind games: From Ancient Greece to Schrödinger's cat

Features
Dan Dennett's handy tools for easier thinking

Life

Dan Dennett's handy tools for easier thinking

Features
What's brown and soggy and could save the world?

Earth

What's brown and soggy and could save the world?

Features
Gravity ripples: The race to catch the next wave

Space

Gravity ripples: The race to catch the next wave

Features

Table of contents

News

Portable lab could guzzle Syria's sarin stockpile

Technology

Portable lab could guzzle Syria's sarin stockpile

Just add chemical weapons Update, 10 October 2013: According to a Reuters report , the Pentagon is recommending the use in Syria of the mobile chemical-weapon destruction unit we describe below. Original article, published 11 September 2013 The prospect of imminent US air strikes on Syria receded this week, after Russia pressured embattled Syrian president …

News

Opera therapy and beetle astronomy win Ig Nobel prizes

News

Life

Zoologger: Transformer insect has gears in its legs

News

Technology

Touchscreen phones know it's you from taps and swipes

News

Health

Girl who feels no pain could inspire new painkillers

News

Life

Crack a comet to spawn the ingredients of life

News

Earth

Lost river guided early humans out of Africa

News

Earth

Whales record major life events in their earwax

News

Health

Healthy living can turn our cells' clock back

News

New Syria sarin deal will need speedy UN checks

News

Space

Astrophile: Cosmic poltergeist messed up Milky Way

News

Private space race takes off as new firm heads for ISS

News

Earth

Australia's new government dumps science minister post

News

Earth

Russia commences Arctic naval patrols

News

Earth

Halve emissions to avoid dangerous climate change

News

Health

CDC warns of future catastrophic antibiotic resistance

News

Earth

Heatwave and wildfires worsened Colorado flooding

News

Earth

Costa Concordia's rise to reveal seafloor legacy

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Mini drug factory churns out drugs from inside bone

News

Life

Flotilla of designer insects is new weapon in pest control

News

Life

Universe's baby pictures suggest a bubbly birth

News

Life

US dolphin deaths set to rise as migration begins

News

Health

Herpes virus cleared from blood for first time

News

Space

Where to next for interstellar pioneer Voyager 1?

News

Genes linked to left-handedness identified

News

First silicon paper gives bendy electronics a boost

News

Earth

Warblers begin migrating after interbreeding

News

Technology

Underwater robot gliders are the eyes of the storm

News

Technology

Forget premiums: A peer-to-peer network will cover you

News

Technology

Phones track firefighters when the heat is on

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Opinion

Manners maketh man: how disgust shaped human evolution

Life

Manners maketh man: how disgust shaped human evolution

A key factor in our evolution is so deeply ingrained in our lives that we barely notice it. Disgustologist Valerie Curtis lifts the lid on manners

Opinion

Humans

We think, therefore we are

Opinion

Environment

It's time to let GM insects fly free

Opinion

Space

Voyager 1: still looking forward after all these years

Opinion

Earth

Science for peace

Opinion

Earth

Studying supervolcanoes in North Korea

Opinion

Aperture

Grizzly cameraman snaps rare shots of swimming bears

Life

Grizzly cameraman snaps rare shots of swimming bears

(Images: Michel Roggo/naturepl.com) ON RUSSIA'S far eastern coastline, the wilderness of the Kamchatka peninsula sprawls across hundreds of thousands of square kilometres. Volcanoes and geysers rise out of the landscape. Untouched by humans, this is the kingdom of the grizzly bear. Alone in this wilderness, Michel Roggo took these photographs by the Ozernaya river, which …

Regulars

Features

Thoughts: The inside story

Life

Thoughts: The inside story

What are thoughts, and what exactly is thinking? Take a trip into the fantastic, ceaseless world our minds create

Features

Life

Mind games: From Ancient Greece to Schrödinger's cat

Features

Life

Dan Dennett's handy tools for easier thinking

Features

Earth

What's brown and soggy and could save the world?

Features

Space

Gravity ripples: The race to catch the next wave

Features

Culturelab

What has the Higgs boson done for us?

Physics

What has the Higgs boson done for us?

The Higgs generates mass, but only a minuscule part of it (Image: Naresh Singh/Millennium images) After all the excitement surrounding the discovery of the Higgs, a new book called Beyond the God Particle asks where we go next IN 2012 American Independence Day was a high-water mark for European science: it saw the announcement of …

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Enigma Number 1767

Not over easy Joe always likes his fried eggs sunny side up. During breakfast in a motel in North Carolina he was given 36 cards, printed on one side with the motel's name and address, and on the other with two eggs sunny side up. With the cards were instructions to place them on the …

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