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When antimatter attacks鈥�

Last of the great migrations

Health

It’s a jungle in there

Table of contents

News

DNA convicts justice system

Inventor beware

Iron no fix

Space station dream is go

60 Seconds

Titanic trouble

Deadly delicacy

Forest grump

Dawn of a new kind of parenthood

Soundbites

Bluetooth headsets vulnerable to hackers

Eat less and keep disease at bay

Repairing sight by night

Is empathy an animal quality?

The strange tale of the hurricane that wasn’t

Why oceans behave like water in the bathtub

‘Weird’ meteorite from Mars moon

Shells point to origin of the modern mind

Purple in a spin

Mine of data on human genome

Sky is not the limit for tallest giants of the plant world

Does ecstasy leave you sleepless?

Crows rival primates in ability to deceive

Slow, moonless Sedna baffles the skywatchers

Secrets of a starry lunch

Sugary start makes for a painless shot

Technology

The credit card that only works if you talk to it

Technology

Quantum TV rivals plasma displays

Technology

Cutting Edge

Technology

The lock with two keys

Technology

Hand-held poison meter

Technology

Life-saving chutes to rescue jet planes

Technology

Wrappers smarten up to protect food

Technology

Radio freedom

Opinion

Two parents, same sex

What does the mouse made from two eggs mean for humans?

Next ice age melts away

A bad case of not asking for consent

We hold these freedoms to be self-evident…

Humans

Washington diary

Features

When antimatter attacks鈥�

鈥nnihilation is the inevitable result. But something strange happens in the moments before particle and antiparticle vanish. Eugenie Samuel Reich investigates

Last of the great migrations

Health

It’s a jungle in there

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Building the republic of reality

Mike Holderness considers the construction of facts

Sophisticated circles

The word underwater wave

Pride and prejudice

Trout lilies and grackles

Mugs on jugs

The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and human knowledge by Jean-Pierre Changeux

Regulars

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The last word

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