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Physics

Hunting the mysterious monopole

Eight ways to boost your creativity

Embrace your inner grouch

Let your mind wander

Play the piano

Colour your world blue

Seek out creative company

Live abroad

Be more playful

Raise a glass

Earth

Paradise lost: Islanders prepare for the flood

Health

How brain chemicals can help soldiers keep their heads

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News

Health

Swine flu: Can science save us from the second wave?

The flu outbreak may be winding down in Mexico and causing fewer deaths than feared, but health officials now fear that a more virulent version will return to kill millions

Artificial blood rejected, seal product ban, and more…

Physics

Planck: The future of probing the past

Earth

Volcanic shutdown may have led to ‘snowball Earth’

Health

Artificial ovary matures human eggs

Life

Tracing Americans’ African roots is no mean feat

Humans

Huge gene study shines new light on African history

Katrina floods ‘were government’s fault’

‘It would empower men to make a decision which involves more than just a condom’

Earth

Brazil’s other big forest in dire straits

Health

Medieval-style ‘rack’ stretches skin grafts

Life

Prairie dogs issue warnings in glorious technicolour

Health

Morning sickness may be sign of a bright baby

Health

Cancer’s one-way ticket to the brain

Space

Mysterious spokes found in crater on Mercury

Health

Nanoscale origami folds DNA into ‘medicine cabinet’

Smog hung on for Beijing Olympics

Life

‘Brain-juggling’ lets dolphins avoid sleep deprivation

Life

First dino ‘blood’ extracted from ancient bone

Technology

Now tweeters can make some noise

Technology

Chemical translator could prevent name confusion

Technology

Jumping robot to bounce into military service

Technology

Ask Alpha: Quizzing the world’s first answer engine

Technology

‘Cone of silence’ keeps conversations secret

Space

Evolving autopilots could boost space slingshots

Technology

Cyber espionage reveals spammer strategies

Technology

Five futurist visionaries and what they got right

Opinion

Health

Still wide open to killer flu

We're in the same position we were before the 1918 pandemic: suffering a relatively mild outbreak of a novel H1N1 flu virus...

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Physics

Hunting the mysterious monopole

Imagine a magnet with a north pole, but no south pole. It sounds bizarre, but theory predicts that monopole particles should exist 鈥� and now we may have found them

Eight ways to boost your creativity

Embrace your inner grouch

Let your mind wander

Play the piano

Colour your world blue

Seek out creative company

Live abroad

Be more playful

Raise a glass

Earth

Paradise lost: Islanders prepare for the flood

Health

How brain chemicals can help soldiers keep their heads

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