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28 September 2013

Issue 2936

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Why space has exactly three dimensions

Space

Why space has exactly three dimensions

Features
Lifeless Earth: What if everything died out tomorrow?

Earth

Lifeless Earth: What if everything died out tomorrow?

Features
Brake away: Rethinking how we land on Mars

Space

Brake away: Rethinking how we land on Mars

Features
Multiple personalities: Takedown of a diagnosis

Health

Multiple personalities: Takedown of a diagnosis

Features

Table of contents

News

Dinosaur in a wind tunnel tests feathered flight

Life

Dinosaur in a wind tunnel tests feathered flight

Getting ready to glide in the wind tunnel Video: Microraptor in wind tunnel reveals flight secrets A life-sized model of a dinosaur has been suspended in a wind tunnel to help test how feathered dinosaurs might have taken to the air roughly 125 million years ago. The results suggest that the small, four-winged creatures of …

News

Health

New imaging shows Alzheimer's unfolding in live brains

News

Space

Mystery deepens as Martian methane eludes Curiosity

News

Health

Mysterious bursts of activity in flatlining brain

News

Physics

Proton sent through looking glass to gauge oddest force

News

Life

Zoologger: The fossil fish that's a serial monogamist

News

Space

Spacecraft army gears up to watch rare sun-diving comet

News

Health

Overcome fears by manipulating memory as you sleep

News

Technology

Leaky microwaves can power your kitchen gadgets

News

Earth

Green energy pays for itself in lives saved from smog

News

Space

Date glitch delays Cygnus's rendezvous with ISS

News

Space

Stars' escape velocity shows how to exit the Milky Way

News

Space

Early humans saw black hole light in the night sky

News

Earth

Vive le carbon tax: France to tax fossil fuels

News

Earth

World won't cool without geoengineering, warns report

News

Life

Real-world Civilisation game shows impact of war

News

Health

HIV infection figures tumbling around the world

News

60 Seconds

News

Technology

First nanotube computer could spark carbon revolution

News

Life

DNA-grabbing bacteria hint at early phase of evolution

News

Life

Fish oils don't boost brain power

News

Life

Reverse ageing by boosting cells' energy factories

News

Technology

Matchstick-sized sensor can record your private chats

News

Technology

Google Glass has its electronic eye on health

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Life

First vaccine for H7N9 may be too little, too late

News

Space

NASA revives Starshade to let Earth-like worlds shine

News

Space

Astrophile: Early Earth was a hot young smoker

News

Opinion

Climate science: Why the world won't listen

Earth

Climate science: Why the world won't listen

When it comes to climate change, facts don't speak for themselves. Communicators need to find better ways to connect

Opinion

Life

It's never too late for a midlife crisis

Opinion

Health

The doctor treating the US gun epidemic

Opinion

Space

Black-hole eruption nearby is a warning for us all

Opinion

Health

Gun control: We need a new conversation

Opinion

Analysis

Hacking firm hints at cybercrime's professional elite

Technology

Hacking firm hints at cybercrime's professional elite

A new report has outed a shadowy organisation called Hidden Lynx – a 100-strong group of expert hackers who are available for hire

News

Aperture

Deadly lake turns animals into statues

Earth

Deadly lake turns animals into statues

(Images: Nick Brandt ) ACCORDING to Dante, the Styx is not just a river but a vast, deathly swamp filling the entire fifth circle of hell. Perhaps the staff of Â鶹´«Ã½ will see it when our time comes but, until then, Lake Natron in northern Tanzania does a pretty good job of illustrating Dante's …

Regulars

Features

Why space has exactly three dimensions

Space

Why space has exactly three dimensions

The explanation of one of reality's greatest mysteries could lie in physics we already know

Features

Earth

Lifeless Earth: What if everything died out tomorrow?

Features

Space

Brake away: Rethinking how we land on Mars

Features

Health

Multiple personalities: Takedown of a diagnosis

Features

Culturelab

Hawking: all we need to know

Physics

Hawking: all we need to know

It may be impossible to ever really know Stephen Hawking, but what we do know is enough

CultureLab

Life

Books and apps make animal-spotting easier than ever

CultureLab

Life

No need for gods any more

CultureLab

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Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Enigma Number 1768

Die hard I wanted a cube-shaped dice with each of three of its faces having a perfect square number of spots and each of the remaining faces having a prime number of spots. To follow convention I wanted each face to have a different number of spots and I also wanted opposite pairs of faces …

Regulars

Should universities favor ethnic minorities?

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: Amazing miracle water

Feedback: Amazing miracle water

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Amazing miracle water SEVERAL readers have written to us about astonishing claims in an article in the Irish Independent on 25 August. Headlined "Wave goodbye to global warming, GM and pesticides", it extols the alleged virtues of a horticultural water-treatment …

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Letters

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