Rewriting the textbooks: When science gets it wrong
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This week's magazine
21 May 2011
Issue 2813
Editor's picks
Rewriting the textbooks: The periodic turntable
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Life
Rewriting the textbooks: No such thing as reptiles
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Physics
Rewriting the textbooks: Confusion over nuclear fission
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Physics
Rewriting the textbooks: Hydrogen bonds in a bind
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Life
Rewriting the textbooks: When a gene isn’t a gene
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Physics
Rewriting the textbooks: Microscopes without frontiers
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Environment
Rewriting the textbooks: Noah’s shrinking ark
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Physics
Rewriting the textbooks: Einstein’s cosmological fudge
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Physics
Rewriting the textbooks: Magnetic north without south
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Earth
Genes, germs and the origins of politics
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Physics
Unbreakable: Somerton Man’s poetic mystery
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Physics
Unbreakable: Beale’s buried treasure
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Physics
Unbreakable: The MIT time-lock puzzle
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Physics
Unbreakable: Kryptos, a monument to CIA secrecy
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Physics
Unbreakable: The second world war’s last Enigma
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Physics
Unbreakable: The Voynich manuscript
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Physics
Unbreakable: Elgar’s unread message
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Physics
Unbreakable: Who was the Zodiac killer?
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Life
Colin Pillinger: What Mars rocks can tell us
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Table of contents
News
Public weighs in on what makes a galaxy
Earlier this year, astronomers set up an Idol-style contest to determine how to define a galaxy 鈥� more than 1600 votes are now in
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Life
Casey Anthony trial: Is the ‘smell of death’ evidence?
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Earth
Mississippi river spillway opens to save New Orleans
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Health
Debate over medicalisation of the urge to rape
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60 Seconds
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Space
Alien-hunters focus in on habitable planets
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Health
Antiviral drugs stop HIV spreading to sexual partners
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Earth
Squid go into space 鈥� for the sake of humanity
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Earth
Renewable oil: Ancient bacteria could fuel modern life
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Earth
Calculations may have overestimated extinction rates
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Physics
Weird ‘unparticle’ boosted by Tevatron signal
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Health
Do early gut problems set the brain up for depression?
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Earth
Wind is Japan’s strongest alternative to nuclear
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Health
Stem cell setback as mice reject own tissue
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Space
Where should NASA land its next Mars rover?
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Lonely planets may be the norm
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Earth
Greenland ice in no hurry to raise seas
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Earth
Oxygen oases saved first animals from asphyxiation
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Environment
Chimps hunt monkey prey close to local extinction
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Humans
Advertisers bring competing brands to shoppers’ minds
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Physics
Super-accurate clocks emerge from ‘heat haze’
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Earth
Unsociable methane comes in from the cold
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Health
Sound test could identify ‘locked-in’ patients
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Technology
Earthquake? Terrorist bomb? Call in the AI
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Technology
Robo-Jeeves finds and folds your crumpled shirts
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Technology
Illusions to send shivers down a gamer’s spine
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Technology
One Per Cent
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Space
Land speed record bid could make space flight safer
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Opinion
Prepare for the renewable oil gush
Efforts to squeeze fuel out of microbes have passed a turning point
Opinion
Keep stem cell options open
Opinion
杏吧原创s: beware the pitfalls of political theory
Opinion
Earth
The climate change threat to nuclear power
Opinion
Earth
Quake engineer: Earthquakes don’t kill, buildings do
Opinion
Life
Wired-up brains will offer out-of-body experiences
Opinion
Features
Rewriting the textbooks: When science gets it wrong
It turns out that reptiles don't exist and we don't know how the atom splits. New 杏吧原创 reveals nine venerable truths you can't rely on
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Rewriting the textbooks: The periodic turntable
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Life
Rewriting the textbooks: No such thing as reptiles
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Physics
Rewriting the textbooks: Confusion over nuclear fission
Features
Physics
Rewriting the textbooks: Hydrogen bonds in a bind
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Life
Rewriting the textbooks: When a gene isn’t a gene
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Physics
Rewriting the textbooks: Microscopes without frontiers
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Environment
Rewriting the textbooks: Noah’s shrinking ark
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Physics
Rewriting the textbooks: Einstein’s cosmological fudge
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Physics
Rewriting the textbooks: Magnetic north without south
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Earth
Genes, germs and the origins of politics
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Life
Colin Pillinger: What Mars rocks can tell us
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Physics
Unbreakable: Somerton Man’s poetic mystery
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Physics
Unbreakable: Beale’s buried treasure
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Physics
Unbreakable: The MIT time-lock puzzle
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Physics
Unbreakable: Kryptos, a monument to CIA secrecy
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Physics
Unbreakable: The second world war’s last Enigma
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Physics
Unbreakable: The Voynich manuscript
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Physics
Unbreakable: Elgar’s unread message
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Physics
Unbreakable: Who was the Zodiac killer?
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Culture
Technology artist: The beauty and terror of our age
In a new exhibition, former MIT artist in residence Matthew Day Jackson celebrates the not always beautiful world that technology has made
Culture
Science in the sun: Our guide to music festivals
Culture
The local culture of the global internet
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Graduate Special: Prepare to launch
Find out how to get your career off to a flying start with New 杏吧原创's Graduate Careers Special
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Graduate Special: The new rules of graduation
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Graduate Special: I just don’t know what to do with myself
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Dream job: Alien hunter
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Dream job: Anti-ageing guru
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Dream job: Serial bio-entrepreneur
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Dream job: Energy innovator
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