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27 July 2013

Issue 2927

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Fixing broken brains: a new understanding of depression

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Wacky spaces: The odd orbits that boost rocket trips

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Wacky spaces: The odd orbits that boost rocket trips

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Biosphere 2: Saving the world within a world

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Biosphere 2: Saving the world within a world

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Super-supernovae spell trouble for dark energy

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Super-supernovae spell trouble for dark energy

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Black hole feasting may help crack four cosmic puzzles

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Black hole feasting may help crack four cosmic puzzles

Gas cloud encounters supermassive black hole. The cloud's positions in 2006, 2010 and 2013 are indicated in blue, green and red respectively It's a meal the size of a solar system. The supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy has started chowing down on a passing cloud of gas three times as massive …

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Cosmic collisions spin stellar corpses into gold

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Vendettas, not war? Unpicking why our ancestors killed

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Pitch drop caught on camera after 69-year wait

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CIA spooks investigate geoengineering to fix climate

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Gut bacteria vital in evolution of new animal species

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My so-called viral life: is discovery new life form?

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Astrophile: Rhythmic dance helps star lovers mature

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Gimme swelter: we explain the UK and US heatwaves

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Why UK's net porn filter will be tricky to enforce

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Forget RoboCop - Detroit to turn green to regenerate

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It's official: we're seduced by cigarette packaging

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Huge methane belch in Arctic could cost $60 trillion

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Light completely stopped for a record-breaking minute

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DNA finally nails the notorious Boston Strangler

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60 Seconds

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Super-organs: building body parts better than nature

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Wormhole entanglement gives space-time the bends

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Quantum romance: Wormhole unites star-crossed lovers

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Eye receptor transplant promises therapy for blindness

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Flatworm given power to regrow its head

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Men's sperm quality decreases at age 35

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Kindergarten coders can program before they can read

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A phone, or an all-seeing sentry at your command?

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One Per Cent

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Sensor knows when you're lying through your teeth

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Zoologger: The pint-sized sabre-toothed opossum

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Google searches mined to uncover our true opinions

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Alive! Mammals survived Toba's super-volcanic winter

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Outbreak of global warming optimism is naive

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Outbreak of global warming optimism is naive

Hopes that we have extra time to rein in emissions and avoid severe climate change are missing the bigger picture, says an energy industry watcher

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'Parasitism is the most popular lifestyle on Earth'

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Medicine hunter of the Brazilian Amazon

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New thinking means new hope on depression

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Reality bites: the lessons of Biosphere 2

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We can't afford to wait on climate change

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A garden of my own amid a sea of garbage

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A garden of my own amid a sea of garbage

Island of green (Image: Timothy Allen) YOU can grow food in the unlikeliest of places, it seems. Here in Djenné, Mali, a green-fingered local takes some time to look after his garden. Photographer Timothy Allen took the picture while in Mali to photograph the annual restoration of the Great Mosque of Djenné. "By chance I …

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Fixing broken brains: a new understanding of depression

Untreatable depression is on the rise, hinting at fundamental flaws in our understanding of the illness. But new treatments offer hope for everyone

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Wacky spaces: The odd orbits that boost rocket trips

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Biosphere 2: Saving the world within a world

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Super-supernovae spell trouble for dark energy

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DNA fails to take off

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DNA fails to take off

For every dollar invested in the Human Genome Project, $141 was returned to the US economy (Image: Donald E. Hurlbert and James di Loreto/Smithsonian) Even crucial science doesn't necessarily translate into an exciting exhibition, to judge by Genome: Unlocking life's code , an exhibition in Washington DC Genome : Unlocking life's code, National Museum of …

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Emmy equals Einstein squared

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Rare particle decay is bad news for exotic physics

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Rare particle decay is bad news for exotic physics

(Image: CERN) The two red lines seen emerging from the smoosh of particles above may look like the highly sensitive antenna of a strange organism, but they are actually the distinctive calling card of an incredibly rare particle transformation. Physicists who work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, today confirmed that …

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Enigma Number 1759

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Feedback: How to unwind your DNA

Feedback: How to unwind your DNA

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more How to unwind your DNA A PERSON called Sara from an organisation called the Institute of HeartMath seems to know something that the rest of the scientific world doesn't. Geraldine Goon directs us to an article in the online publication …

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