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Physics

To infinity and beyond: The struggle to save arithmetic

Earth

Add salt as required: the recipe for fresh water

Health

Sensory hijack: rewiring brains to see with sound

Health

Darwinian medicine: Does intensive care kill or cure?

Table of contents

News

Earth

Kyoto targets are impossible to verify

In 2012 rich nations must prove that they have cut emissions in accordance with their targets 鈥� but that may be an impossible task

Earth

Combination punch could fell rainforests

Health

After a miscarriage, no need to put off trying again

Health

Levels of controversial soap chemical rise

60 Seconds

Health

MRI scans could diagnose autism

Physics

P 鈮� NP? It’s bad news for the power of computing

Space

NASA seeks secrets of commercial moon landers

Life

Fallible DNA evidence can mean prison or freedom

Space

Jupiter swallowed a super-Earth

Earth

Frozen jet stream links Pakistan floods, Russian fires

Physics

Fractals promise higher-temperature superconductors

Mind

Skull electrodes give memory a boost

Earth

Early puberty in girls doubles in a decade

Life

Elephants fear humans more than dynamite

Environment

Thieving parrots hatch a plan to unlock food

Health

Fasting mothers raise potential risk for unborn babies

Life

Slit pupils help snakes ambush their prey

How to make a black hole that stands the test of time

Life

Thank your thalamus for a good night’s sleep

Health

Prompting hearts to make their own beating muscle

Space

Chlorine study suggests moon is dry after all

Technology

Giant balloons could clear out space junk

Technology

Robot flyers get a bee’s-eye view

Technology

Hiding files in Flickr pics will fool web censors

Technology

X-ray security scans go interactive

Technology

Gesture-based computing takes a serious turn

Earth

Atomic Jenga could turn domestic refrigerators green

Opinion

Will someone leak the leaker’s secrets?

WikiLeaks demands that governments be transparent, but its own workings should be open to scrutiny too

Time to rethink DNA evidence

Earth

Stop wasting food, save the world’s energy

Physics

Nobel prizewinner: We are running out of helium

Technology

Julian Assange: The end of secrets?

Features

Physics

To infinity and beyond: The struggle to save arithmetic

Mathematicians are facing a stark choice 鈥� embrace monstrous infinite entities or admit the basic rules of arithmetic are broken

Earth

Add salt as required: the recipe for fresh water

Health

Sensory hijack: rewiring brains to see with sound

Health

Darwinian medicine: Does intensive care kill or cure?

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