Picking our brains: Nine neural frontiers
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This week's magazine
3 April 2010
Issue 2754
Editor's picks
Humans
Picking our brains: What are memories made of?
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Humans
Picking our brains: What are mirror neurons?
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Health
Picking our brains: Can we regenerate the brain?
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Humans
Picking our brains: How many ways can we be conscious?
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Health
Picking our brains: How strong is the mind-body link?
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Humans
Picking our brains: Why are some people smarter?
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Health
Picking our brains: Can mental illness make you creative?
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Humans
Picking our brains: How powerful is the subconscious?
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Humans
Picking our brains: Can we make a conscious machine?
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Technology
Look, no hands: Cars that drive better than you
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Space
Liquid asset: The damp side of the moon
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Table of contents
News
Rankings cut guesswork in sustainable fish farming
A league table of sustainable fishmeal sources will help fish farms be eco-friendly, but questions remain over the environmental impact of aquaculture
News
Health
Animal drug trials keep mum about failures
News
Earth
Which is the greenest US city of all?
News
Space
Alien planet hunter develops a blind spot
News
Record LHC collisions mark new era for physics
News
60 Seconds
News
Nanosatellite sets sail to tackle space junk
News
Health
House and Grey’s Anatomy: Doctors gone bad?
News
Earth
Hacking the planet: who decides?
News
Space
Runaway star may have spawned the solar system
News
Earth
Ice plumbing is protecting Greenland from warm summers
News
Earth
Drilling deep under the US to dispose of nuclear waste
News
Health
Gene bandage rejuvenates wasted muscle
News
Earth
Monsoons send Asian pollution round the world
News
Health
Brain damage skews our moral compass
News
Health
Swine flu no big deal? Look at years of life lost
News
Life
Achilles tendon is key to evolution of human running
News
Humans
How your brain remembers the future
News
Strewth mate, T. rex has family down under
News
Microbes thrive in harsh, Mars-like lakes
News
Environment
Archaeopteryx may have hunted at night
News
Health
Fight cancer by picking off cells before they go rogue
News
Space
Lonely stars born on a bridge between galaxies
News
Junk-fed rats have ‘drug addict’ brains
News
Technology
Motion sensors could help tennis players serve an ace
News
Earth
Simulator gets to the bottom of trough-led tsunamis
News
Health
Making the most of a second look
News
Health
Paralysed limbs revived by hacking into nerves
News
Technology
Will Google’s help breach the great firewall of China?
News
Technology
Pointillist style could bring lifelike graphics to PCs
News
Earth
Texas oil companies will soon be locking away carbon
News
Opinion
Features
Picking our brains: Nine neural frontiers
The secrets of the human mind lie deep within our astonishingly intricate brains. Now neuroscientists are teasing them out
Features
Humans
Picking our brains: What are memories made of?
Features
Humans
Picking our brains: What are mirror neurons?
Features
Health
Picking our brains: Can we regenerate the brain?
Features
Humans
Picking our brains: How many ways can we be conscious?
Features
Health
Picking our brains: How strong is the mind-body link?
Features
Humans
Picking our brains: Why are some people smarter?
Features
Health
Picking our brains: Can mental illness make you creative?
Features
Humans
Picking our brains: How powerful is the subconscious?
Features
Humans
Picking our brains: Can we make a conscious machine?
Features
Technology
Look, no hands: Cars that drive better than you
Features
Space
Liquid asset: The damp side of the moon
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