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13 more things: MAGIC results

13 more things: The elusive monopole

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Health

Full without food: Can surgery cure obesity?

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Physics

Diamonds are for softies 鈥� boron is harder

Health

Secrets of the centenarians: Life begins at 100

Table of contents

News

No quick fix for America’s sickness

The debate over healthcare reform is returning to US Congress, but don't expect more health insurance coverage alone to improve Americans' health

Forest fire threatens historic California observatory

Earth

Climate will cost much more than UN thinks

Space

Egyptian temples followed heavenly plans

Earth

Circling turbines spell doom for vultures

Moon orbiter failure dashes hopes for ice search

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Life

Pain-free animals could take suffering out of farming

Top science body calls for geoengineering ‘plan B’

Life

Earth-sized planets are just right for life

Trick of the light made life’s molecules left-handed

Dark energy lit up by black-hole pairs

Fasting extends female fertility

Obama turns to science to clean up interrogations

Humans

Three human genes evolved from junk

Are girls predisposed to develop a fear of spiders?

Skin disorder lowers sensitivity to disgust

Testosterone can damage family life

Milk drinking began in the Balkans

Deer mice lightened up fast

Proteins alone cause prion diseases

Martian meteorite may have held life

Laughing gas set to deplete the ozone layer

Technology

Universal translator for web browsers

Life

Plasmobot: the slime mould robot

Technology

Software unearths stuff you never knew about yourself

Technology

Fly-by-wireless set for take-off

Technology

Incredible shrinking lasers hit the nano-spot

Technology

See atoms and molecules more clearly than ever

Opinion

Steam-powered cars should stay in the past

It's good to see steam cars making a comeback, but the new world record won't do much to get them back on the road for real

Pain-free animals would not be guilt-free

Gastric bypass blunts our appetite for self-destruction

Earth

Geoengineering is no longer unmentionable

Viewfinder: Opinions from around the world

Earth

Climate change: no Eden, no apocalypse

Features

13 more things: MAGIC results

High-energy radiation from a gamma-ray burst reached Earth 4 minutes later than the lower-energy rays. That's not how Einstein said it would be

13 more things: The elusive monopole

13 more things: Noise from the edge of the universe

13 more things: The nocebo effect

Health

Full without food: Can surgery cure obesity?

13 more things that don’t make sense

13 more things: The axis of evil

13 more things: Dark flow

13 more things: Prehistoric hothouse

13 more things: Fly-by anomalies

13 more things: Hybrid life

13 more things: Morgellons disease

13 more things: The Bloop

13 more things: Antimatter mystery

13 more things: The lithium problem

Physics

Diamonds are for softies 鈥� boron is harder

Health

Secrets of the centenarians: Life begins at 100

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