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30 November 2013

Issue 2945

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The night: When lights go out, the sky comes alive

Space

The night: When lights go out, the sky comes alive

Features
The night: What happens at night, stays at night

Life

The night: What happens at night, stays at night

Features
The night: Your nocturnal transformation revealed

Life

The night: Your nocturnal transformation revealed

Features
The night: Why they call it the graveyard shift

Health

The night: Why they call it the graveyard shift

Features
The night: When sleep breaks and consciousness leaks

Life

The night: When sleep breaks and consciousness leaks

Features
The night: When darkness falls, fear rises

Life

The night: When darkness falls, fear rises

Features
The night: Things that go bump...

Life

The night: Things that go bump...

Features
The night: Full moon mayhem is for real

Life

The night: Full moon mayhem is for real

Features
The night: Blooms in the night garden

The night: Blooms in the night garden

Features
The night: The heat of the night is intensifying

Earth

The night: The heat of the night is intensifying

Features
The night: Hello darkness, my old friend

Space

The night: Hello darkness, my old friend

Features

Table of contents

News

Bitcoin moves beyond mere money

Technology

Bitcoin moves beyond mere money

Bitcoin accessories pictured at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, California, in October Editorial: " Cleaned-up Bitcoins could change commerce forever " Bitcoin is money – people can use it to buy anything from pizza to plastic surgery. The meteoric rise of the online currency has caused everyone from financial regulators to law …

News

Health

Gut bacteria may help combat cancer

News

Life

Only two genes maketh the man... or mouse

News

Space

Ambitious Mars joy-ride cannot succeed without NASA

News

Space

Brightest cosmic burst has record-breaking stamina

News

Health

Despite the deaths, cycling in London is getting safer

News

Life

Zoologger: The world's most skilful predator

News

Life

Waiting for pain can cause more dread than pain itself

News

Earth

Typhoon Haiyan: baby girl death toll will rise

News

Life

Earliest Buddhist shrine found at Buddha's birthplace

News

Earth

High US methane emissions blamed on leaks

News

Earth

First survey shows which grape bacteria improve wine

News

Earth

Who should pay for climate change disasters?

News

Life

Fire ants writhe to make unsinkable rafts

News

Life

Dwarf seahorses are stealth hunters of the oceans

News

Health

23andMe ordered to stop selling $99 genetic test

News

Space

China launches Jade Rabbit rover to the moon

News

Technology

Lunar thyme lords: can NASA bloom the moon?

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Are Alzheimer's and diabetes the same disease?

News

Humans

Inbreeding shaped the course of human evolution

News

Technology

Quantum lab is dazzling vision of computer chip future

News

Arctic storms speed up release of methane plumes

News

Technology

Smart software uses drones to plot disaster relief

News

Technology

'Soft' biometrics is the new way to monitor people

News

Technology

LED carpet turns the floor into a screen

News

Technology

Beer brewing could help make better bricks

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Health

UK sex survey highlights tolerance, diversity and abuse

News

Technology

Threatwatch: Iran deal allows first total uranium count

News

Space

Mathematical crime-fighter helps hunt for alien worlds

News

Opinion

The benefits of realising you're just a brain

Life

The benefits of realising you're just a brain

It can be hard to accept that our hopes and dreams are just functions of our brains, but it shouldn't scare us

Opinion

Health

If diabetes causes Alzheimer's, we can beat it

Opinion

Technology

Cleaned-up Bitcoins could change commerce forever

Opinion

The night: A surprisingly strange place to visit

Opinion

Life

Mega delusional: The curse of the megaproject

Opinion

Health

'We need to find ways to help more women breastfeed'

Opinion

Aperture

Life savers: A photo history of the artificial heart

Technology

Life savers: A photo history of the artificial heart

(Image: Smithsonian) DEAR Tin Man. If you really want a heart, forget the Wizard of Oz. Head instead to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington DC. There you will find a dazzling history of artificial hearts, some of which are now available to see online . It may resemble a tea …

Regulars

Features

The night: What happens at night, stays at night

Life

The night: What happens at night, stays at night

Night is more than a separate time, it's a separate place altogether, freed from the constraints of our daytime lives. Step with us into darkness

Features

Life

The night: Your nocturnal transformation revealed

Features

Health

The night: Why they call it the graveyard shift

Features

Life

The night: When sleep breaks and consciousness leaks

Features

Life

The night: When darkness falls, fear rises

Features

Life

The night: Things that go bump...

Features

Space

The night: When lights go out, the sky comes alive

Features

Life

The night: Full moon mayhem is for real

Features

The night: Blooms in the night garden

Features

Earth

The night: The heat of the night is intensifying

Features

Space

The night: Hello darkness, my old friend

Features

Culturelab

How we evolved to trade longevity for vitality

Life

How we evolved to trade longevity for vitality

The oldest parts of trees are dead, but the whole keeps on living (Image: Jim Brandenburg/Minden) Growing old is the price we pay for a vital and productive youth, says Jonathan Silvertown in The Long and Short of It IN THE Sequoia National Park in central California stands General Sherman , an 80-metre-tall redwood. By …

CultureLab

The best science books of 2013

CultureLab

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Enigma Number 1777

Powerful tombola A national charity is organising a tombola. It has printed tickets numbered 1, 2, 3,... and participants can pay a pound and choose one of the numbers at random. Just one per cent of the tickets earn the participant a prize. In fact, a ticket is a winning one precisely when its number …

Regulars

Women at work

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: Band on bankers

Feedback: Band on bankers

(Image: Paul McDevitt) Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Band on bankers THIS publication's influence seems wider than we thought. Two years ago we reported on research into the world's economic network, including a beautiful diagram depicting the 1318 transnational corporations at the core of the …

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Letters

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