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Earth

13 exotic elements we can’t live without

Humans

Sex and asymmetry: How the camel got its penis

Technology

Rag-trade robots: From body scan to bespoke suit

A question of science 2011

Table of contents

News

Earth

Global warming not to blame for 2011 droughts

Droughts may be occurring from China to Texas, but climate change models suggest global warming is not responsible

Physics

Second team does not see Tevatron’s mystery signal

Health

Bean sprouts to blame for ‘decade-old’ E. coli

Physics

$500,000 for mathematician who laid Poincar茅 groundwork

Good news for vaccines against meningitis A and B

60 Seconds

Earth

‘Extinct’ frog was under our noses all the time

Earth

Recent warming trend is significant after all

Life

Tribal wars: DNA testing divides American Indians

Health

Breeding with Neanderthals helped humans go global

Health

Chronic ketamine use kills bladder cells

Life

It is human nature to cooperate with strangers

Earth

Are the wild horses of the American west native?

Humans

3D movie reveals how brain loses consciousness

First ‘living’ laser made from kidney cell

Health

Could a whiff of oxytocin help hypnosurgery?

Health

Ovarian cancer cells ‘bully’ their way to other organs

Environment

Scuba spider uses web as gill to breathe underwater

Physics

Shrink peas for designer wrinkles

Health

Early infection may shorten lifespan

Humans

Why female zebra finches cheat on their partners

Earth

Early Americans helped colonise Easter Island

Technology

Cracking the code of machine translation

Technology

Botclouds: a cyberattacker’s dream

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

Say cheese! Taking photos with a wave of the hand

Technology

Spies can send messages hidden in a Google search

Technology

Fighting patent ‘trolls’ 鈥� there’s no app for that

Opinion

DNA and the need to belong

Genetics should be kept out of discussions on race and tribe

The cloud that hangs over cloud computing

Robots show their soft side

Life

The call of the weird: In praise of cryptobiologists

Health

Men’s health expert: Why being male is bad for you

Health

Citizen medicine and why we must try it

Aperture

ALMA casts a cold eye on the sky

One of the grandest ground-based astronomy projects of the coming decade is about to go into action

Features

Earth

13 exotic elements we can’t live without

From indium touchscreens to hafnium-equipped moonships, the nether regions of the periodic table underpin modern technology 鈥� but supplies are getting scarce

Humans

Sex and asymmetry: How the camel got its penis

Technology

Rag-trade robots: From body scan to bespoke suit

A question of science 2011

Culture

The beasties we need near us, for our own sake

In The Wild Life of Our Bodies, biologist Rob Dunn argues that our modern separation from other species causes more harm than good

The untold story of feathers

How did we discover the Earth wasn’t round?

Evolutionary explanation for what ails the west

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Enigma Number 1651

Regulars

Feedback: Night of the sleeping dead

US government plans to worst zombies with tedium, how everything ends up in philosophy, one-dimensional luggage and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Worry lines

Snow mobile

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