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Exolanguage: do you speak alien?
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This week's magazine
23 January 2010
Issue 2744
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Death tolls may loom too large in the fog of war
The much-publicised claim that 5.4聽million have died because of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may be twice the true number
News
Space shuttles for sale
News
Earth
Alaska faces Exxon Valdez clean-up conundrum
News
Earth
Caribbean at risk of more large earthquakes
News
Earth
America ‘imports’ pollution from Asia
News
60 Seconds
News
Space
Ares I is ‘safest choice’ to replace shuttle
News
Health
Drug-resistant HIV set for rapid upsurge
News
Physics
The entropy force: a new direction for gravity
News
Technology
‘Intelligent’ oil droplet navigates chemical maze
News
Earth
Engineered maize toxicity claims roundly rebuffed
News
Space
Hidden asteroids are stalking the Earth
News
Health
Analysis: Swine flu is not just a hoax by big pharma
News
Health
Stay young on red wine drugs? Think again
News
Humans
Brain asymmetry eases hypnotic trance
News
Earth
Major Antarctic glacier is ‘past its tipping point’
News
Physics
Approaching Earth makes asteroids go pale
News
Tentacled snakes feel their way to a midnight feast
News
Physics
Pebble splashes break the speed of sound
News
Alcohol during pregnancy chemically alters fetal DNA
News
Humans
Intense males have the best sperm
News
Humans
Brain-cell grid gives references for mental maps
News
Health
Zebrafish make good ‘guinea pigs’ for human drugs
News
Health
Anxious or sexually competitive? Try God
News
Earth
Smart mud could be the new plastic
News
Technology
Embedded electronics bring pop-up books to life
News
Environment
Deep-sea snail shell could inspire next-gen armour
News
Technology
Internet backbone breaks the 100-gigabit barrier
News
Technology
Quartz rods could provide instant bomb detector
News
Technology
To beat spam, turn its own weapons against it
News
Technology
Panic walking gets robot out of sticky situations
News
Opinion
Hello ET, we come in peace
The advantages of advertising our existence to the universe outweigh the risks
Opinion
Blob intelligence is not unlike our own
Opinion
Taking gravity out of Newton’s orchard
Opinion
Health
It’s lack of balance that makes skunk cannabis do harm
Opinion
Earth
Reality TV show puts contestants into the Sahara
Opinion
Health
How the US exports its mental illnesses
Opinion
Features
Life
Exolanguage: do you speak alien?
We've tried messaging extraterrestrials in geek speak 鈥� but we've had no replies. Maybe we should stop trying to make sense and just gabble
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The face of first contact: What aliens look like
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Horizontal and vertical: The evolution of evolution
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Physics
Spasers set to sum: A new dawn for optical computing
Features
Health
Zap that fat: Can lasers make you slimmer in minutes?
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